Women's ability to work as entrepreneurs can help alleviate poverty and malnutrition in developing countries. As local governments and development organizations aim to encourage business opportunities, it's important to identify ...
Economics & Business
May 19, 2021
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Buried in last week's budget was money for rehabilitating the Rum Jungle uranium mine near Darwin. The exact sum was not disclosed.
Environment
May 18, 2021
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The federal government is providing $7.4 billion to hire more school nurses to vaccinate children, to create a service corps for health care, and to boost disease detection efforts, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
Social Sciences
May 14, 2021
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The impacts of a closed border and recent floods have highlighted the challenges facing older Australians who live permanently in caravan parks and manufactured home estates. These properties have long provided affordable ...
Economics & Business
May 13, 2021
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In an alternate reality playing out at this year's international Planetary Defense Conference, a fictional asteroid crashes over Europe, 'destroying' a region about 100 km wide near the Czech Republic and German border. The ...
Space Exploration
May 3, 2021
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Standing in the dry, cracked bottom of Lake Mendocino, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency Wednesday in two Northern California counties where grape growers and wineries are major users, an order that came in response ...
Environment
Apr 22, 2021
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A new analysis of air pollution data from five large Chinese cities has found statistically significant differences between data from monitoring stations run by local governments and data from stations run by U.S. embassies ...
Environment
Apr 21, 2021
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When Canada shut its borders to stem the flow of COVID-19 last year, people continued to cross freely into Indigenous communities in Ontario and B.C. by water—mingling with residents who had scarce access to masks or even ...
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2021
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States with politically conservative leadership have productive workers, but anti-union state laws tamp down employee earnings without promoting local economic growth, according to new Cornell research published in the Cambridge ...
Economics & Business
Mar 23, 2021
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In the document, published on the first anniversary of Britain's first lockdown, the British Academy has warned society will continue to feel the impacts of COVID-19 for a decade or more without an urgent public policy overhaul.
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2021
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