To counter accusations of greenwashing and vague sustainability targets, a clear set of guidelines, has today been published at COP27, establishing standards for the pathway to net zero, by the International Standards Organization.
Environment
Nov 14, 2022
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Countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa have experienced severe droughts and unprecedented floods in the last year. New research from Northwestern University is the first to provide a more nuanced and global view of the ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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The environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions will be the same irrespective of where the emissions take place. Carbon emitted in one part of the world can be canceled out if the same amount is removed elsewhere.
Environment
Nov 8, 2022
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Factory workers in apparel supply chains are more likely to quit due to wage and benefit violations, relative to violations of other code provisions, such as environment protection and safety standards, according to new ILR ...
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2022
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Researchers from York University's Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Lassonde School of Engineering have revamped their Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) with multiple innovations that will help aid workers ...
Environment
Nov 3, 2022
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The weak nuclear force is currently not entirely understood, despite being one of the four fundamental forces of nature. In a pair of Physical Review Letters articles, a multi-institutional team, including theorists and experimentalists ...
General Physics
Nov 1, 2022
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A new result from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory probes the Standard Model—scientists' best theory of how the universe works. The model assumes there are ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 1, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused historic learning setbacks for America's children, sparing no state or region as it erased decades of academic progress and widened racial disparities, according to results of a national test ...
Education
Oct 24, 2022
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Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year's high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years—the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic.
Education
Oct 12, 2022
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A novel single-grain composition analysis technology has recently been developed to help evaluate the eating quality of hybrid rice, according to a research team led by Prof. Wu Yuejin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 10, 2022
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