The path to global sustainability isn't a one-way street and scientists at Michigan State University and in China use the world's adoration of pandas to show new ways to figure out how not to get lost.
Environment
Sep 4, 2020
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Social protection programs can facilitate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but can also create trade-offs across divergent social and environmental goals that can undermine their effectiveness, say ...
Environment
Aug 10, 2020
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Spiders produce amazingly strong and lightweight threads called draglines that are made from silk proteins. Although they can be used to manufacture a number of useful materials, getting enough of the protein is difficult ...
Biochemistry
Jul 8, 2020
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We humans have unique cooperative systems allowing us to cooperate in large numbers. Furthermore, we provide help to others, even outside the family unit. How we developed these cooperative abilities and helping behavior ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2020
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A vast number of new wastewater treatment plants in developing countries has led to an imbalance between phosphorous and nitrogen in surface waters. The result could be excessive growth of potentially poisonous algae with ...
Environment
Jun 16, 2020
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A team of researchers from the University of Vienna and the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, has found that macaques have lower stress levels when working toward a goal as a bonded dyad. In ...
Growing consumption of energy and fossil fuels over four decades did not play a significant role in increasing life expectancy across 70 countries.
Environment
Mar 26, 2020
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Nations across the world are following a United Nations blueprint to build a more sustainable future—but a new study shows that blueprint leads less to a castle in the sky, and more to a house that needs constant remodeling.
Environment
Jan 1, 2020
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New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests that male migration and poor working conditions for women combine with institutional failure or poverty to hamper women's ability to adapt to climate variability ...
Environment
Nov 25, 2019
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Solar and wind farms are popping up around the country to lower carbon emissions, and these renewables also have another important effect: keeping more water in the ground.
Environment
Nov 6, 2019
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