Age is the most significant predictor of housing stress, study finds
While everyone is feeling the pinch from the rising cost of living and inflation, a new study says younger people are experiencing the pressure most when it comes to housing.
While everyone is feeling the pinch from the rising cost of living and inflation, a new study says younger people are experiencing the pressure most when it comes to housing.
Social Sciences
Feb 13, 2023
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A team of animal behaviorists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, in Australia, has found that sheep who go through shared stressful events tend to huddle together afterward, compared to sheep ...
More than 40% of all land vertebrates may be subjected to extreme heat events by 2099 under current maximum estimates of future global temperatures, according to a study published in Nature. Prolonged exposure to high temperatures ...
Environment
Jan 19, 2023
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Agricultural producers around the world must adapt to changing weather patterns. Much research has focused on mitigation strategies for crop production, but livestock producers face unique challenges.
Agriculture
Oct 7, 2022
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Blistering crop-withering temperatures that also risk the health of agricultural workers could threaten swathes of global food production by 2045 as the world warms, an industry analysis warned Thursday.
Environment
Sep 8, 2022
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Rising temperatures pose major challenges to the dairy industry—a Holstein's milk production can decline 30 to 70% in warm weather—but a new Cornell-led study has found a nutrition-based solution to restore milk production ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 3, 2022
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A plant scientist from the University of Missouri has discovered a new way of measuring stress in plants, which comes at a time when plants are experiencing multiple stressors from heat, drought and flooding because of extreme ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 1, 2022
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As much of Europe and the United States continue to deal with extreme heat, and cities like London break all-time high temperature records, an economist at the University of Missouri predicts Londoners in particular are at ...
Social Sciences
Jul 27, 2022
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The capacity of soil to hold water will be critical to determine how well farms in some regions of the United States manage the problem of prolonged heat stress due to climate change, a new study suggests. The journal Frontiers ...
Ecology
Jul 12, 2022
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Rice is one of the most important staple crops, on which more than half of the world's population depends. But as temperatures rise and extreme weather events increase, rice is becoming more vulnerable. Genetically modified ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 16, 2022
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