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Environment
Team up to coordinate climate education in Indigenous communities
Credit: Pexel, public domain Research shows that communities can mitigate the impact of climate change when they can work with scientists on adaptation planning. B. Hanson and colleagues recently extended the finding to indigenous communities on the Colorado Plateau, including members of the Navajo, Hopi and Uto Mountain Ute tribes. Their research has been published in Community Science. To learn…
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Other Sciences
Most young people in black and racial minority communities see racist online content at least once a week: Report
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most young people in black and racial minoritized communities who investigated their use of social media said they saw racist content at least once a week, the new report says. More than half said this reduced safety and 42% had hurt mental health, reports, adolescents, race and social media said. A team of four researchers at…
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Environment
Research has shown that vulnerable communities are facing the dangers of complex environments.
Serious danger accumulation in a very social vulnerable census. Credit: Environmental survey letter (2024). Doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/AD9EC7 Environmental disasters have confused the life of the entire region and are on the same burden of communities that are already facing social and economic difficulties. Extreme events, such as floods caused by Tennessee and Hurricane Helen in North Carolina, indicate this phenomenon in…
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Other Sciences
Study reveals complex impact of state-led urban transformation on South Korean housing communities
(Left) Aerial view of Sangwangsimni. (Right) Chanshin Seungin. Credits: (Left) Križnik/Fakulteta za družbene vede; (Right) Kim et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105433 In East Asia, a quiet change is occurring: gentrification. Urban neighborhoods are undergoing a major transformation, with once-affordable areas now becoming hot spots for upscale living. The process, aimed at making neighborhoods more attractive to wealthy residents, is forcing longtime residents…
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Earth
Slow-moving landslides are a growing but ignored threat to mountain communities
As mountain urban centers expand, more people live on steeper slopes, increasing the risk of landslides and making them slower-moving, according to a new study from Earth Future magazine. Increased flooding in valley floors pushes people onto steeper, more dangerous slopes. Photo by Jyoti Singh/unsplash As urban centers in mountainous regions expand, people are increasingly building on steep slopes that…
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