One hundred meters underground inside a pit in northern China, miners extract lumps of coal with the flick of a finger on a smartphone, as the country tries to drag the traditionally dangerous and dirty work into the digital ...
Environment
Apr 28, 2023
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Cambodian leader Hun Sen on Thursday cancelled a law he created just two months ago to protect critically endangered Mekong dolphins as the mammals continue to die from illegal fishing activities.
Ecology
Apr 27, 2023
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Read successive progress reports by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK government's statutory advisor on climate change, and you sense the growing frustration. Over the years, the CCC's assessments of the government's ...
Environment
Mar 30, 2023
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At least 910 dolphins have washed up on France's Atlantic coast since the start of the winter, an oceanographic institute reported Friday.
Ecology
Mar 17, 2023
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Bulging grey heads break the turbid waters of the Mekong River in Cambodia as a pod of rare Irrawaddy dolphins surfaces to breathe, drawing excited murmurs from tourists watching from nearby boats.
Ecology
Mar 15, 2023
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States could take steps now to soften the impact of a recession by protecting residents with unsecured debt, according to a new study that reveals an inequitable patchwork of protections for Americans who are behind on their ...
Social Sciences
Feb 13, 2023
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Without regulations for their use, the condition of freely accessible resources such as fish stocks, water or air can deteriorate dramatically. In economics, this is referred to as the "Tragedy of the Commons." In 2009, Elinor ...
Mathematics
Feb 8, 2023
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A new study confounds conceptions about the origins of the Saimaa ringed seal. In addition, scientists have observed that the genetic diversity of the Saimaa ringed seal decreased in the 20th century as a result of human ...
Evolution
Jan 30, 2023
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A new study on the use of insecticides on anti-mosquito bed-netting has proven that thousands of people needlessly contracted malaria due to policy failure, according to an expert at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland.
Evolution
Jan 24, 2023
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During the pandemic, many people became amateur mathematicians. How quickly would the number of hospitalized patients rise, and when would herd immunity be achieved? Professional mathematicians were challenged as well, and ...
Mathematics
Jan 16, 2023
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