A London Scheme to Cut Car Pollution Restored Lung Growth in Children
A scheme to slash car pollution in London was a boon to children, whose lungs grew faster after the program was launched, researchers found.Read more...
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A descriptive analysis for the markets for counterfeit products
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. Product counterfeiting is a pervasive crime that involves the unauthorized use of...
A budding science of illegal markets
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceIllegal markets present important challenges to society and have distinctive features, but...
Medieval Europe was battered with 16 catastrophic floods in just 2 years
The intense deluges, never before documented, represent the highest number of back-to-back extreme weather events in the past 700 years
As Seas Rise, Scientists Race to Save Coastal Marshes From Drowning
A majority of coastal wetlands are on track to shift inland or disappear in the coming decades without intervention. That will have major consequences.By Madeline...
All aboard Amtrak's sleeker, cleaner new trains
On Charlie Hamilton’s regular Amtrak rides from Seattle to Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia, he passes some of the country’s most spectacular vistas: the...
US Army Corps approves a pipeline project it knows harms Indigenous lands
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a key permit for a plan to update an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline crossing the...
Why Egyptian farmers are growing crops under solar panels
Ancient Egyptian civilization blossomed in the scorching desert thanks to the Nile River, which delivered fresh water and annual dumps of nutrient-rich sediment. Clever engineering...
The money laundering market: An economic analysis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. Criminals launder their proceeds from crime, either themselves or by paying a...
How illegal wildlife trade adheres to and defies conventional market behavior
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceIllegal wildlife markets threaten biodiversity conservation, ecosystem stability, and local livelihoods, and...
NIH lifts ban on funding research in South Africa
Researchers who study HIV, tuberculosis, and other infectious disease in the country welcome policy change
The policy construction of illegal markets: Exploring variation, success, failure, and unintended consequences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. Illegal markets, broadly defined to include markets where only specific transactions are...
The illegal market for sex in the United States: Insights from economic research
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. The illegal market for sex in the United States generates significant economic...
The market for human smuggling: Structure, mechanisms, and paradoxes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. Human smuggling is the facilitation of unlawful cross-border movement. It is primarily...
Illegal markets for cigarettes and e-cigarettes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. This paper discusses the long-standing illegal markets for cigarettes and the more...
UV photodamage pathways and the evolutionary selection of thymine over uracil in early genetic systems
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceWhy DNA uses thymine instead of uracil remains photochemically unresolved, since thymine...
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UK relies on heat-stressed countries for fruit and veg it could grow itself – report
Food Foundation sounds alarm over supply risks and price shocks as about 40% of Britain’s food is importedThe UK is vulnerable to food price shocks...
Elephant Butte Reservoir Runs Low
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Carbon pollution has fuelled 'massive expansion' of marine heatwaves in Europe, study finds
Hottest periods this year in most sea regions would have been ‘virtually impossible’ in a preindustrial climateCarbon pollution has fuelled a ‘massive expansion’ of marine...
Landscape context constrains climate regulation recovery in Amazonian secondary forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 32, August 2026. SignificanceForest regeneration is widely promoted as a strategy to restore ecosystem services...
Could indigo light prevent nearsightedness in children?
Study of tree shrews points to specific wavelengths of light that might help stave off myopia
'Prepare early': bushfire authorities sound alarm for NT, NSW and Queensland
Effects of global heating in NT worsened by ‘dangerous and fire-promoting buffel grass’, expert saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFire...
Social network structure and climate change adaptation information diffusion among dairy farmers: evidence from northern Tunisia
Climate change poses major challenges to Mediterranean dairy farming, where adaptation depends largely on peer-to-peer information exchange among farmers. Yet the structural conditions governing climate...
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