During a stifling heat wave in August 2021, 80 volunteers from Massachusetts communities along the Mystic River fixed sensors to their car windows and bicycles, traveling along 19 predetermined routes recording ambient temperature ...
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Jul 3, 2024
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From declining attendance to dwindling donations, many museums are still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. As these cultural institutions look for alternative revenue sources, researchers at the University ...
Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2023
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Going green can be a costly business, as the EU's executive body made clear on Tuesday when it launched a one-trillion-euro ($1.1-trillion) plan to finance its goal of making the bloc carbon neutral by 2050.
Environment
Jan 14, 2020
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With the federal government calling for major cuts in water use to address the historic shortage on the Colorado River, the leaders of 30 agencies that supply cities from the Rocky Mountains to Southern California have signed ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2022
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American office space-sharing company WeWork has obtained $3 billion in funding from Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp.
Business
Nov 15, 2018
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COVID-19 is going to have a devastating impact on economies. Africa has a particular vulnerability because so many people work in the informal sector. In an interview with Moina Spooner from The Conversation Africa, Njeri ...
Economics & Business
Mar 23, 2020
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Food regulatory institutions in the U.K. should have robust mechanisms for addressing commercial conflicts of interest, argues a new article published in the journal Nature Food.
Economics & Business
Jan 18, 2023
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Early in the Cold War era, "social sciences were criticized for not being really scientific—for being ideological and political in ways that may seem to have been disguised as science," says Mark Solovey, a professor in ...
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2022
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"Robust" amendments to insurance law and international environmental law are needed to allow carbon capture, utilization and storage to take place legally so the technology can be used in the fight against global warming, ...
Environment
Dec 20, 2022
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People are significantly more supportive of public funding for artists when they see artists as collaborators who are working to bring attention to and help solve problems in their communities, according to a new study.
Social Sciences
Dec 6, 2021
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