Category: 9. Environment

The Trump administration is “reconsidering” more than 30 air pollution regulations, and it offered industries a brief window to apply for exemptions that would allow them to stop following many air quality regulations immediately if…

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or…

Ukraine’s mineral wealth has been a key factor in its negotiations with the U.S. as the two countries work out details for a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine’s war with Russia.

After a rocky start to those negotiations, officials from…

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or…

Strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP suits, are civil claims brought against people or organizations who voice opinions publicly. These lawsuits are intended to intimidate opponents and suppress advocacy efforts by…

ConvNeXt employs a ResNet-inspired architecture that exclusively utilizes standard convolutional operations while omitting attention-based mechanisms. The framework is organized into four hierarchical stages, each progressively performing spatial…

Descriptive statistics

Table 1 provides a comprehensive overview of the demographic characteristics of the study participants. The respondents exhibit a varied age distribution: 2.3% are under 25 years old, 48.5% are between 25 and 40 years old,…

Study population characteristics

Table 2 shows the demographic characteristics of the control and case groups. The average age is 40.53 years in the case group and 40.4 years in the control group. The independent t-test showed no significant…