The global COVID-19 quarantine has meant less air pollution in cities and clearer skies. Animals are strolling through public spaces, and sound pollution has diminished, allowing us to hear the birds sing.
Environment
May 21, 2020
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Supply chains collapse, companies are facing bankruptcy, and mass unemployment ensues. Covid-19 has triggered a global financial crisis and is forcing states to develop rescue packages on a scale not seen before. In addition, ...
Economics & Business
May 11, 2020
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As droughts become more frequent and intense, the fragmentation of water service in the U.S. among tens of thousands of community systems, most of which are small and rely on local funding, leaves many households vulnerable ...
Environment
Apr 20, 2020
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As the coronavirus continues to spread around the world, it is abundantly clear that the global economy is entering a recession – the first we've seen since 2008.
Economics & Business
Mar 20, 2020
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Forty years ago, Craig Haney was a young professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz when a question about the real causes of crime began to form in his mind: What if most violent criminal behavior is rooted in early childhood ...
Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2020
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We react less negatively to extreme manifestations of economic disparity, such as homelessness, if we think the economic system is fair and legitimate, and these differences in reactivity are even detectable at the physiological ...
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2020
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The stability of democracies worldwide could be vulnerable if certain cultural values continue to decline, according to a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour.
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2019
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In the United States, annual average levels of fine particulate matter—PM2.5, a measure of solid particles and liquid droplets that are 2.5 micrometers or smaller found in the air—declined 24 percent from 2009 to 2016, ...
Environment
Nov 27, 2019
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Human diets exacerbate climate change while failing to properly nourish more than 800 million people, making intensified study of food systems a global priority. Global sustainability initiatives now call for the transformation ...
Environment
Nov 25, 2019
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Canada is on the cusp of some major disruptions to its transportation systems.
Social Sciences
Nov 11, 2019
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