News & Stories Breadcrumb Home All News Research Newsmakers SPIA Reacts Community Profiles May 25, 2021 Keeping More Ammonium in Soil Could Decrease Pollution, Boost Crops Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing human population and how to minimize environmental… Apr 15, 2021 COVID-19 Reduces Access to Opioid Dependency Treatment for New Patients COVID-19 has been associated with increases in opioid overdose deaths, which may be in part because the pandemic limited access to buprenorphine, a… Apr 12, 2021 Common Approach to Diversity in Higher Education Reflects Preferences of White Americans Increasing diversity remains a key priority at universities, especially in the wake of mass demonstrations in support of racial equality in 2020… Apr 01, 2021 East Asian Development Banks are Now Largest Public Financiers of Global Power Sector, Particularly Coal While the World Bank and other multilateral development banks are increasingly investing in renewable technologies and phasing out coal power… Mar 10, 2021 Outbreak of a Rare, Polio-like Syndrome Likely Prevented or Postponed by Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions Social distancing not only helped slow the spread of COVID-19 — it also may have prevented the transmission of an outbreak of a rare polio-like… Mar 08, 2021 Life Expectancy Falling for Adults Without a Bachelor’s Degree Life expectancy in the United States dropped in 2020 due to COVID-19, but, for American adults without a college degree, an increase in mortality… Mar 02, 2021 Climate Change “Winners” May Owe Financial Compensation to Polluters Climate change is generally portrayed as an environmental and societal threat with entirely negative consequences. However, some sectors of the… Feb 16, 2021 Despite Sea-Level Rise Risks, Migration to Some Threatened Coastal Areas May Increase In coming decades as coastal communities around the world are expected to encounter sea-level rise, the general expectation has been that people’s… Feb 11, 2021 Diversity in Policing Can Improve Police-Civilian Interactions The recent killings of Black Americans have reignited calls for policing reform, including proposals to diversify police departments, which have… Jan 14, 2021 Covid-19 Reduced U.S. life Expectancy, Especially Among Black and Latino Populations The Covid-19 pandemic, which claimed more than 336,000 lives in the United States in 2020, has significantly affected… Jan 04, 2021 Data-Driven Model Provides Projections of a 21st Century Urban Climate Cities only occupy about 3% of the Earth’s total land surface, but they bear the burden of the human-perceived effects of global climate change. Yet,… Dec 11, 2020 Polarization Increases with Economic Decline, Becoming Cripplingly Contagious The rise of populist movements is changing political systems around the world. As support for these “anti-elite” movements intensifies, many are… Nov 30, 2020 Covid-19 Shutdowns Disproportionately Affected Low-Income Black Households The alarming rate at which Covid-19 has killed Black Americans has highlighted the deeply embedded racial disparities in the U.S. health care system… Nov 16, 2020 Implementing Carbon Pricing during the Pandemic Could Help Countries Recover Greener, Smarter Countries across the globe have been struggling to deal with the impact of Covid-19 and its accompanying economic slowdown. As economies “build back… Nov 16, 2020 People in Developing Countries Eat Less Bushmeat as They Migrate from Rural to Urban Areas People around the world, especially in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America, consume wild game, or bushmeat, whether out of… Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 2 Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 Page 6 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
