Food insecurity is a pressing issue among U.S. college students and has increased dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic began. In a survey conducted by Healthy CUNY in April 2020, 50% of CUNY students reported worrying ...
Economics & Business
Jul 21, 2022
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Every so often stories of genetic theft, or extreme precautions taken to avoid it, make headline news. So it was with a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting at opposite ...
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2022
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Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm—the ninth since mid-April—hit the country.
Environment
May 23, 2022
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Temperatures in the Middle East and Central Asia have risen 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) since the 1990s, twice the global average, according to an International Monetary Fund report released on Wednesday.
Environment
Mar 30, 2022
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Flooding is common in informal settlements in Bwaise, a neighborhood in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Bwaise's residents are largely excluded from planning and local decision-making processes, and have poor housing and limited ...
Environment
Mar 23, 2022
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Marking two years since the current pandemic spread across the globe, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today released The Vitality of Forests, a new report synthesizing a mounting body of evidence that documents how human health ...
Environment
Mar 11, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most serious public health crisis in a century. It resulted in governments taking unprecedented powers to regulate people's social lives, and undertaking substantial fiscal interventions ...
Social Sciences
Mar 4, 2022
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As the discovery of the new omicron variant illustrates, new COVID-19 variants will continue to regularly emerge. In an effort to make sense of these new variants, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 22, 2021
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Uses of facial images and facial recognition technologies—to unlock a phone or in airport security—are becoming increasingly common in everyday life. But how do people feel about using such data in healthcare and biomedical ...
Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2021
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According to a new report co-written by Illinois Natural History Survey postdoctoral researcher Valeria Trivellone, climate change, poverty, urbanization, land-use change and the exploitation of wildlife all contribute to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 21, 2021
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