Safeguarding people's living standards, re-evaluating the role of key workers in society, and reducing racial and social inequality are crucial for the UK's economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Economics & Business
Sep 30, 2020
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Air pollution is currently the largest environmental risk factor for human health globally and can be linked to several million cases of premature deaths every year. A new study however shows that it is possible to achieve ...
Environment
Sep 29, 2020
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Despite facing a global health crisis and economic recession, more than half of all U.S. households—56% – expressed some form of generosity during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, my colleagues at the Women's ...
Economics & Business
Sep 29, 2020
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From loaning pandas to welcoming tourists to hike to sacred monuments, to regulating the sale of wild animals for meat, policies across the world seek to forge clear paths to sustainability.
Environment
Sep 17, 2020
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Inevitably, the rapid spread of an emergent and potentially lethal virus around the world has led to huge disruption of normal life. With talk of a new-normal in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we do not yet have any way ...
Economics & Business
Sep 14, 2020
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A new paper, co-authored by a University of Sussex scientist, has revealed major holes in an international treaty designed to help repair the ozone layer, putting human health at risk and increasing the speed of climate change.
Environment
Aug 26, 2020
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A UCLA study published today found the exclusion of undocumented residents and their families from the $1,200 stimulus payments given to taxpayers a result of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a loss of $10 billion in potential ...
Economics & Business
Aug 11, 2020
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Air pollution contributes to as many as 9 million premature deaths worldwide each year—twice as many as war, other violence, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Fine particulate matter air pollution is especially ...
Environment
Jul 31, 2020
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Blanket restrictions on economic activity should be lifted and replaced with measures targeted specifically at groups most at risk, say economists.
Economics & Business
Jul 29, 2020
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A new 42-country study has found that the more gender egalitarian the country, the less likely men are to support women's causes.
Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2020
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