Stock markets around the world had some of their worst performance in decades this past week, well surpassing that of the global financial crisis in 2008. Restrictions in the free movement of people is disrupting economic ...
Environment
Mar 17, 2020
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Nuha Siddiqui was browsing a World Economic Forum report on the future of the plastics industry when she came across an ominous prediction. "It stated that by 2050, there would be more plastic than fish in the ocean," Siddiqui ...
Biochemistry
Mar 12, 2020
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Perennial grasses can be converted into everything from ethanol to bioplastics, but it's unclear which bioproducts hold the greatest potential.
Materials Science
Feb 20, 2020
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Climate change is being felt in a corner of the world different from where one might expect: Wall Street, where some of the biggest investors are starting to take action.
Economics & Business
Feb 18, 2020
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Scientists will begin a two-year survey of microplastics in the coastal waters off Japan from April, a research group announced on Wednesday, with concern growing about the impact of plastics on the oceans.
Environment
Jan 29, 2020
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Over her lifetime, the average female scientific researcher at a New Zealand university earns about NZ$400,000 less than her male counterparts, and less than half of this disparity can be explained by research performance ...
Social Sciences
Jan 22, 2020
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A new study shows that there is a huge disparity in the level of funding for social science research into the greatest challenge in combatting global warming—how to get individuals and societies to overcome ingrained human ...
Environment
Jan 16, 2020
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Going green can be a costly business, as the EU's executive body made clear on Tuesday when it launched a one-trillion-euro ($1.1-trillion) plan to finance its goal of making the bloc carbon neutral by 2050.
Environment
Jan 14, 2020
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According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are only an estimated 1,500 Bornean elephants in the wild, with populations mostly concentrated in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo—a region that has historically experienced unprecedentedly ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2020
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There's always one on the list—the person who has everything and is notoriously hard to please. That person has likely also received some terrible gimmicky gift, just so that they have something to unwrap.
Environment
Dec 17, 2019
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