Life isn't easy for the approximately 1 million women working as takeaway delivery riders in China. Though their numbers appear to be rising as delivering food is convenient for fitting around childcare or retraining for ...
Social Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
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Newly published research from UNC Greensboro's Dr. Kevin Wilcox and colleagues will help scientists better predict how global changes—such as droughts, fires, and heat waves—will impact the health and sustainability of ...
Ecology
Oct 13, 2023
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Indonesia has nearly halved output at a major coal-fired power plant near the capital Jakarta after the city faced major pollution spikes in recent weeks, its operator told AFP Wednesday.
Environment
Sep 6, 2023
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Large trees offer major solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis that are needed now. As President Biden calls for protecting mature and old growth trees on Federal lands, the study describes synergies between protecting ...
Ecology
Apr 24, 2023
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Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl, U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday as they struck down a rule that ...
Ecology
Nov 9, 2021
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Politicians around the world must be held to account for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic, argues a senior editor at The BMJ today.
Political science
Feb 4, 2021
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The Ferguson Effect is the idea that increased public criticism and distrust of police following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, lowered police morale, which caused officers to withdraw from proactive ...
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2020
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Gale-force winds in Australia merged two enormous fires into a megablaze spanning an area four times the size of Greater London on Friday, while tens of thousands rallied to again demand action on climate change.
Environment
Jan 10, 2020
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Hospital ventilators shut down, football matches with obligatory water breaks and food spoiling in fridges without power: Iraq's notorious summer has arrived.
Environment
Jun 16, 2019
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Facebook paid £4.17 million ($5.18 million, 4.63 million euros) in British corporation tax last year, up from just £4,327 in 2014, accounts showed Sunday.
Business
Oct 9, 2016
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