Ever since it started, the pandemic has exacerbated the inequality that already existed between households in the UK. Those with secure incomes, savings and assets have been able to deal with the financial shocks of COVID, ...
Economics & Business
Jan 7, 2022
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Many states have enacted polices to prohibit employers from discriminating against people with criminal records. Yet fathers living in states with more of these policy protections in place were less likely to be working than ...
Economics & Business
Dec 7, 2021
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What happens when a city increases the size of its police force?
Other
Nov 24, 2021
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Earth's atmosphere reacted in surprising ways to the lowering of emissions during the pandemic, showing how closely climate warming and air pollution are linked.
Environment
Nov 10, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in New Zealand and Australia has created a model to forecast coastal hardening around the world in the coming years. In their paper published in the journal Nature ...
Hyenas are frequently vilified and often feared. Hemingway once described the hyena as a stinking, foul devourer of the dead, with jaws that crack the bones the lion leaves.
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2021
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In the freshwater swamp forest of Hlanzoun in southern Benin, majestic trees hum with chirping birds and playful monkeys.
Ecology
Aug 30, 2021
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To help smallholder farmers in India—farmers who own farms less than five acres in size—simply planting more crops is not enough, on its own, to provide year-round nutrition and the necessary food security.
Agriculture
Aug 5, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has altered energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally and continues to influence emissions as the response to COVID-19 evolves. Reliable data that can provide a real-time update of emissions ...
Earth Sciences
May 5, 2021
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A new study suggests that clearing the invasive woody weed Prosopis julifora and grassland restoration in Baringo County, Kenya, may have significant financial benefits for local stakeholders and contribute to climate change ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2021
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