More of us than ever are trying to make environmentally responsible travel choices. Sustainable travel is now less niche and more mainstream, with 93% of travelers in one survey saying they would consider sustainable choices.
Category: Other Sciences
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Planning your next holiday? Here's how to spot and avoid greenwashing
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Former coal mining communities have lower levels of entrepreneurship
New research from the University of St Andrews, with Oxford Brookes University and the University of Liverpool, has found that business start-up rates are significantly lower in former mining communities.
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Report challenges climate change as sole trigger of Syrian Civil War, exposing governance failures in drought response
The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has been widely framed as a “climate conflict” and a mass migration and uprising triggered by a severe drought. This very well-known and media-popular narrative is now debunked in a new report by the…
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Gentrification hits Spain's medium cities
For the first time, a study analyzes and compares the intensity and expansion of the phenomenon of gentrification (replacement of a population of lower socioeconomic status by another with higher purchasing power) in Spain over a period of 10 years.
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Why you should be pleased we run trials on nudges, even if you don't like nudges (or trials)
Last year, we ran a randomized controlled trial working with frontline workers in the homelessness sector, which aimed to increase their well-being. The project, which began at the What Works Center for Well-being (before it closed down), was…
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Interregional transmission can increase reliability while reducing costs and emissions in the US
The US power system will need significant electricity transmission expansion to meet long-term demand growth, improve reliability during extreme events, and reduce household energy costs. The current practice of primarily building transmission…
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Controlling shareholders’ equity pledges, earnings management and firms’ investment in innovation–evidence from China’s A-share listed companies
Descriptive statistics
Table 2 gives the descriptive statistics of all the variables, and the results show that there are significant gaps in innovation investment RD, capitalization ratio of R&D investment CAPR, innovation output Inv, and…
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U.S. Plans $80 Billion Nuclear Power Expansion
The United States aims to embark on its most active new nuclear construction program since the 1970s. In its most high-dollar nuclear deal yet, the Trump administration in October launched a partnership to build at least $80 billion worth of new,…
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A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S.
When the New World screwworm last spread across the United States, it caused widespread damage to livestock and took decades to eliminate. That history is now driving a new effort by researchers at the University of California Riverside, who are…
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He ate a hamburger and died hours later. Doctors found a shocking cause
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have confirmed the first known death caused by the condition commonly referred to as the meat allergy, which is transmitted by ticks.
The case involved a 47 year old man from New Jersey…
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