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Environment
We live in multiple intertwined crisis, but our policy has not been maintained.
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Existing policies for working on environmental issues do not take into account that biodiversity, climate change, and pollution are involved in crisis, causing compound interest and strengthening. Policy measures taken alone can have unintended results. These are important surveys of two major evaluation reports on the Inter -Agency Science Policy Platforms on Biodiversity and Economy Service…
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Other Sciences
How war and the climate crisis are reshaping the global fertilizer industry
Fertilizers and their interactions with climate change, food security, environmental security, energy and resources. Fertilizers impact climate change, food security and environmental security, while energy and resources impact fertilizers. Climate change, in turn, affects environmental security and food security. Credit: One Earth (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.12.009 Fertilizers are essential to global food production, but they also contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.…
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Environment
Georgia County Says 3M, Mohawk Hidden Risks of Chemicals That Caused Health Crisis
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a new lawsuit, Murray County alleges that for decades, corporate manufacturers and users of “forever chemicals” used in carpets produced in northwestern Georgia have concealed the risks associated with them and compromised public health. He argued that this had led to the above-mentioned crisis. In Monday’s complaint, the county targets carpet manufacturers such as Mohawk…
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Other Sciences
What is the cost of living crisis? Luxury travel is booming, with further growth expected
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain About 10 years ago, while working at the Badrutts Palace Hotel in the Swiss town of St. Moritz, he was shocked to learn that a customer had requested that an elephant be brought in to deliver a birthday present to his wife. And the hotel made it happen and pushed the elephant into the lobby. This…
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Other Sciences
Surviving the crisis: NGOs’ financial adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr. Å viÄ›sa Leitniene, researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Credit: Kaunas University of Technology Demand for NGO services typically increases during crises. However, a new study led by Lithuania’s Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) finds that the coronavirus pandemic has had a different impact on NGOs working in Lithuania, Croatia, Poland and the…
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Biology
Ancient mud reveals 130,000 years of Australia’s fire history and future solutions to the current fire crisis
The Conversation by Michela Mariani, Anna Florin, Heidi Cudd, Matthew Adley and Simon Connor Flowchart describing the approach used in this study to quantify historical changes in fuels within the shrub layer (ladder fuels). Credit: Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adn8668 Intensified land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia about 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to…
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