Anthropogenic factors on the West African coast are contributing more than global climate change to the rapid increase in vulnerability and flood risks in the region. This was demonstrated by an interdisciplinary IRD team, ...
Earth Sciences
May 15, 2023
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In a broad-based study covering all 27 EU Member States, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland lead an evaluation of the risks posed to transport by extreme weather phenomena. This recent study demonstrates that the level ...
Other
Nov 1, 2012
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The pandemic left a visible imprint on car, bus and bicycle use—and at its height brought about cleaner city air—but it also disrupted another, less obvious but highly polluting sector: freight transport. Coronavirus ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2020
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Despite a population of 40 million, Canada has 100,000 fewer entrepreneurs than it did 20 years ago, according to a BDC study conducted in collaboration with the Université de Montréal Innovation Center and Millénium Québecor ...
Economics & Business
Oct 17, 2023
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With Canada moving to welcome more immigrants, and communities hoping to retain these new workers rather than see them move on, a Western University study reports that the age of a family's eldest child is a key factor.
Social Sciences
Dec 10, 2020
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Personalizing outreach to legislators to include the local economic impact of an issue can increase engagement with research among Democratic, but not Republican, legislators.
Economics & Business
Jun 22, 2022
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On the night of 13 January 1963, Togo's President Sylvanus Olympio was shot dead by rebels in the first military coup staged in Africa. A long list, as shown below, was to come. From the 1960s to the end of the millennium, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 21, 2023
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Trust, a cornerstone of human interaction, has a significant genetic component, with around 33% of the variation between individuals attributed to our genes, according to new Australian research using data from twins and ...
Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2024
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Researchers at universities in Freiburg, Kiel and Berlin have discovered that the economic value of nature for a society is determined by, among other things, income inequality within the society. "Social justice and nature ...
Environment
May 31, 2017
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Putting policies in place that are designed to protect biodiversity but are based on only one key species 'value' could inadvertently put some of our best loved wildlife in jeopardy, new research has shown.
Ecology
May 3, 2018
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