Thinking of Southeast Asia today may conjure up images of dense tropical rainforests teeming with iconic jungle animals such as orangutans, tigers and monkeys. Perhaps less well known, but just as important to these ecosystems,…
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While the sport sector’s environmental impact is not fully understood, it has a social platform and reach to influence a significant number of people worldwide to choose more sustainable behaviors. Brian McCullough, associate professor of…
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© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil was down on Friday morning in Asia, ending the week with a breather as a strike in major producer Norway threatens to slash the country’s supply by…
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their work on CRISPR, a method of genome editing. A genome is the full…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Suffering from pain causes consumers to spend more money than they otherwise would – perhaps 20% more – according to new…
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LONDON (Reuters) – A former executive at oil and gas consultancy Unaoil was sentenced in London to three years and four months in jail on Thursday for paying multi-million dollar bribes to clinch $1.7 billion…
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Facebook has announced a ban on groups and pages identified with the rapidly growing QAnon conspiracy movement, which will cover both Facebook itself and the Facebook-owned Instagram. QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory that alleges,…
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© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil was mixed on Thursday morning, with the approach of Hurricane Delta prompting oil works to evacuate rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. But gains were capped by…
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South Asia accounted for nearly two-fifths of the world’s poor, nearly half of the world’s malnourished children and was home to the largest number of stunted children in 2015. Despite this, the region had made…
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© Bloomberg. Sonny Perdue (Bloomberg) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue warned that the European Union’s “Farm to Fork” environmental initiative will stoke trade tensions as European producers face higher costs and seek protectionist measures.…
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