Photo: Pixabay/PublicDomainPictures Microplastics make for an insidious form of pollution with vast quantities of tiny particles, invisible to the naked eye, permeating the environment from mountaintops to the bottom of the seas. On the seafloor alone the amount of microplastics has tripled in the past two decades, says a team […]

Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt Dec 29, 2022 jmcquaid Thu, 12/29/2022 – 08:48 Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt Kibrom Abay Naureen Karachiwalla Sikandra Kurdi Yousra Salama High inflation threatens nutrition and livelihoods. IFPRI Blog : Research Post Open Access | […]

Countries: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, World, Yemen Source: Save the Children According to a new Save the Children analysis, some 25.3 million people are facing severe levels of hunger up from 16.1 million in 2019 in eight worst-affected countries.

Photo: Pixabay/congerdesign Climate change is a subject that students should be intimately familiar with as it will continue to impact their lives in a myriad of ways. Yet college textbooks on biology published between 1970 and 2019 in the United States fell well short of sufficient content when it comes […]

Photo: Pixabay/FelixMittermeier A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide the “fate of the entire living world”. All well then that the meeting closed with what has been hailed as a “historic” breakthrough: a deal to protect 30% of all land and water […]

Pittsburgh – The Pittsburgh office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes former United States Congressman Mike Doyle as a government affairs counselor in the Public Policy and Law practice. Doyle retired at the conclusion of the latest term of the House of Representatives after 14 terms of service […]

The Make Sunsets startup says it has begun small-scale geoengineering, with sulfate particles injected into the stratosphere to deflect solar rays and reduce global warming from the sun. That’s sparked new conversations on when and whether such interventions should be deployed to fight climate change. Luke Iseman and Andrew Song, […]