A California law that mandates paid family leave has led to adults in their 50s, 60s and 70s spending more time taking care of their parents and less time being their grandkids' caregivers.
Social Sciences
Aug 9, 2023
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In a new study, led by Imperial College London and published in Science, researchers ranked 90% of global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions pledges as providing low confidence in their full implementation.
Earth Sciences
Jun 8, 2023
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Children living with long-term poverty and whose families rely on food banks are more likely to achieve lower GCSE grades, finds a report co-authored by UCL researchers.
Social Sciences
May 25, 2023
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Women refugees tend to be seen as vulnerable, but a new collaborative report shows their resilience in the face of unequal resources.
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2023
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Even though Brown v. Board of Education outlawed school segregation in 1954, racially segregated schools have persisted in practice. In recent years, the decades-long trend of white flight to suburbs has reversed in some ...
Education
Apr 10, 2023
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Is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) an important tool for slowing climate change, or merely a way to justify the continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels? I'm a social scientist who studies the politics of ...
Environment
Mar 31, 2023
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On Jan. 20, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first American, laboratory-confirmed case of what would eventually be called COVID-19. Two days later, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2023
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In a paper published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, an international research team composed of scientists affiliated with more than a dozen institutions, including the California Academy of Sciences, ...
Environment
Mar 28, 2023
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The death toll from the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has reached over 50,000 people. Over 23 million people have been affected and millions have been displaced from their homes. In Syria alone, an estimated 5.3 ...
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2023
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Climate change and worsening severe weather events pose increasing threats to global water safety, with limited access to safe water projected to impact approximately 5 billion people worldwide by the year 2050, according ...
Environment
Feb 15, 2023
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