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“#Space agencies unveil site showing lockdown changes to Earth” This image captured on Thursday, June 25, 2020 shows part of the website created by the space agencies of the U.S., Europe and Japan to show changes to Earth because of coronavirus lockdowns. Using data from 17 satellites, it that serves as a global dashboard for…
“#Climate extremes will cause forest changes” Premature leaf senescence of a beech tree during the 2018 event, followed by lacking leaf flushing and canopy dieback in the following year. Credit: Ansgar Kahmen / Universität Basel No year has been as hot and dry as 2018 since climate records began. Central European forests showed severe signs…
“#’Poverty alleviation’ and ‘needy?’ Why words can do more harm than good when offering help” Catherine Thomas, a PhD student in psychology, co-led a paper that looked at the impact of narratives in international aid. Credit: Justyna Staresnick Non-profits often pull at donors’ heartstrings by casting aid recipients as “poor,” “needy” or “vulnerable.” But new…
“#Simple process for ‘two-faced’ nanomaterials may aid energy, information tech” A Janus monolayer has different atoms on top and bottom, like the sandwich cookie at right held by materials scientist Yu-Chuan Lin. Credit: Christopher Rouleau/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used…
“#Control over work-life boundaries creates crucial buffer to manage after-hours work stress” Workers with greater boundary control over their work and personal lives were better at creating a stress buffer to prevent them from falling into a negative rumination trap, says a new study co-written by a trio of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign experts…
“#Human interactions with wild and farmed animals must change dramatically to reduce risk of another deadly pandemic” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Compiled by a team of international wildlife and veterinary experts, a new study has identified seven routes by which pandemics could occur and 161 options for reducing the risk. It concludes that widespread changes…
“#Space agencies join forces to produce global view of COVID-19 impacts” ESA, NASA and JAXA have worked closely together to combine a wealth of data from Earth-observing satellites from the three space agencies to monitor the worldwide impacts of COVID-19. This new online platform is now available to the public. Credit: European Space Agency In…
“#Politics driving personal economic decisions amid COVID-19” Tony Cookson, associate professor at CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder In a normal election year, politics are often driven by economics. But as COVID-19 spurred record job losses and stock market sell-offs, Tony Cookson—an associate professor at CU Boulder’s Leeds School…
“#New briefing paper on Arctic change” The Arctic is changing rapidly affecting sea-level rise and local communities. Credit: British Antarctic Survey BAS researchers have contributed to a new briefing paper about the Arctic published this week (25 June 2020). Working with a team at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, the paper provides a…
“#Another short-sighted attack on planning?” Credit: University of Liverpool As regular as clockwork, recent weeks have seen the latest promises to reform the English planning system. The language on this occasion, as befitting the Prime Minister’s short-sighted chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, may be colorful, but the sentiment is anything but new. Since the 1980s the…