Record-breaking weather events are becoming more common, costly, and extreme. Not only do these extreme weather events destroy lives and homes. Less talked about is how they can also disrupt the deployment of renewable energy ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2022
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Although most decisions in life are made by individuals themselves, many are influenced by others such as principals, managers, parents or colleagues. New research in the journal Management Science finds that women take part ...
Social Sciences
Jul 27, 2022
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Agriculture, loss of habitat or wastewater effluents—human stressors negatively impact biodiversity in streams and rivers. Very little is known yet about the extent to which their capacity for self-purification and other ...
Environment
May 17, 2022
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Companies in the software industry, where novel ideas are prized, use linguistic tactics to develop new labels for their innovations to stay ahead of competitors. Using language to signal that something is "new and different" ...
Economics & Business
Mar 10, 2022
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Figures released this week suggest Australia's koala populations have plummeted by 30% in three years, and fewer than 58,000 now remain in the wild.
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2021
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Simon Fraser University researchers are playing a key role in guiding conservation efforts to protect a declining butterfly population. The eastern monarch butterfly, an important pollinating species known for its distinct ...
Ecology
May 18, 2021
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A new study, published in Bioscience, considers the future of ecology, where technological advancement towards a multidimensional science will continue to fundamentally shift the way we view, explore, and conceptualize the ...
Ecology
Feb 17, 2021
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Nearly 230,000 tonnes of plastic is dumped into the Mediterranean Sea every year, a figure which could more than double by 2040 unless "ambitious" steps are taken, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature said ...
Environment
Oct 27, 2020
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How do humans affect forest fires? And what can we learn from forest fires in the past for the future of forestry? An international team of researchers led by Elisabeth Dietze, formerly at the German Research Centre for Geosciences ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2019
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Companies with female chief financial officers are less likely to misreport key data in financial statements, according to research from The University of Alabama.
Economics & Business
Jun 13, 2019
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