As urban areas continue to expand, they often experience the urban heat island effect, where cities become significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas. Urban trees have long been proposed as a solution to mitigate this ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2024
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The murder of George Floyd in 2020 revived the Black Lives Matter movement, a large scale social movement that aims to highlight and reduce structural racism and inequality in the United States. The movement—and its coverage—strongly ...
Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2024
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Evidence-based decision making (EBDM)—using the best available evidence from multiple sources to make informed decisions—is critical to the success of any organization. In a new study, researchers have explored what makes ...
Economics & Business
Aug 26, 2024
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In 2002, after a Pentagon news briefing, the then US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld was widely ridiculed for his thoughts about knowledge. Discussing the issue of whether Iraq was supplying weapons of mass destruction ...
Economics & Business
Aug 15, 2024
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A quarter of people in Wales have experienced stigma associated with poverty "always," "often" or "sometimes" in the past year, a report from Cardiff University has found.
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2024
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Nearly 90% of North America's lakes are located in Canada. That's why they make up such an enormous part of our landscape. Among their many vital functions, lakes are essential to the biodiversity of our territory and constitute ...
Environment
Aug 2, 2024
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A new publication authored by scientists from the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and IIASA with a large European consortium provides vital insights into the current status of biodiversity monitoring ...
Ecology
Jul 2, 2024
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Researchers from the Universities of Zurich, Vienna and Utrecht have uncovered significant flaws in current climate risk assessment techniques that could lead to a severe underestimation of climate-related financial losses ...
Environment
Jul 2, 2024
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This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA is flying aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.
Earth Sciences
Jun 25, 2024
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Planes are circling over power plants, landfills and airports around Baltimore collecting data for NASA on air pollutants and greenhouse gases.
Environment
Jun 18, 2024
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