A couple of weeks before her short stint as prime minister ended, Liz Truss delivered on a pledge to tackle what some—including Truss—saw as red tape holding back "thousands of growing businesses" in the UK. The move ...
Economics & Business
Nov 16, 2022
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Burning the world's remaining fossil fuel reserves would unleash 3.5 trillion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions—seven times the remaining carbon budget to cap global heating at 1.5C—according to the first public inventory ...
Environment
Sep 20, 2022
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In August 2022, a statewide referendum in Kansas saw citizens overwhelmingly reject a plan to insert anti-abortion language into the state's constitution. It comes as a slew of similar votes on abortion rights are planned ...
Political science
Sep 16, 2022
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While Pakistan has managed to confine an outbreak of lumpy skin disease that affects cattle and buffaloes there are fears that cattle fairs ahead of the religious festival Eid-ul-Azha might trigger a second wave.
Veterinary medicine
May 27, 2022
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New in-depth analysis of UK job market data reveals women, disabled people, ethnic minorities and young workers have been consistently trapped in insecure employment over the last twenty years.
Economics & Business
May 26, 2022
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Londoners are generally pessimistic about life in the capital, according to new research from Queen Mary University of London's Mile End Institute ahead of local elections in May. Polling revealed serious trust issues around ...
Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2022
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A senior German official predicted Tuesday that the war in Ukraine and its impact on fossil fuel prices worldwide will provide a "massive boost" for the means and measures needed to curb climate change.
Environment
Mar 15, 2022
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The British Prime Minister has pledged to protect 30% of land to support the recovery of nature, but a new study finds that much of the new land that has been allocated to meet this aspiration is not in the highest priority ...
Ecology
Sep 7, 2021
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has made clear there's little time left to reach net zero emissions and hold the global temperature rise to 1.5C.
Environment
Aug 23, 2021
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Greece's raging fires claimed their first victim on Friday after a punishing week-long heatwave, while neighbouring Turkey came under rising pressure over its handling of its own devastating wildfires.
Environment
Aug 6, 2021
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