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| Mangrove and reef restoration yield positive returns on investment for flood protection, study shows Posted: 17 Jun 2022 09:23 AM PDT Restoration of mangroves and coral reefs can be a cost-effective solution for coastal flood reduction in more than 20 countries across the Caribbean. Researchers used methods from the risk and insurance industry to provide rigorous valuations of these natural defenses and show that they can deliver a positive return on investment, with the benefits from reduced flood damage exceeding the costs of restoration. The results point toward new opportunities to support restoration efforts with funds from sources that support hazard mitigation, climate adaptation, and disaster recovery, including FEMA. |
| E-Scooters in Tucson, AZ: Modeling placement, charging, and rebalancing Posted: 16 Jun 2022 04:47 PM PDT Are e-scooters just the first sign of a shared-mobility revolution? If they are, then researchers at the University of Arizona intend to make sure that the emerging transportation system has functional models on par with other modes of transportation. |
| Humans responsible for over 90% of world's oil slicks Posted: 16 Jun 2022 11:27 AM PDT Scientists mapping oil pollution across the Earth's oceans have found that more than 90% of chronic oil slicks come from human sources, a much higher proportion than previously estimated. |
| Shedding light on linguistic diversity and its evolution Posted: 16 Jun 2022 09:16 AM PDT Scholars have created a new global repository of linguistic data. The project is designed to facilitate new insights into the evolution of words and sounds of the languages spoken across the world today. The Lexibank database contains standardized lexical data for more than 2000 languages. It is the most extensive publicly available collection compiled so far. |
| Tight budgeters beware: Skip the coffee before shopping Posted: 16 Jun 2022 09:16 AM PDT The study found that shoppers who drank a cup of complimentary caffeinated coffee prior to roaming the stores spent about 50 percent more money and bought nearly 30 percent more items than shoppers who drank decaf or water. |
| 30-year study links childhood obesity and fitness to midlife cognition Posted: 16 Jun 2022 09:15 AM PDT A new study of the impact of childhood fitness and obesity on cognition in middle age, followed over 1200 people who were children in 1985 for over 30 years, has found that better performance on physical tests is related to better cognition later in life and may protect against dementia in later years. Importantly these findings are not impacted by academic ability and socioeconomic status at childhood, or by smoking and alcohol consumption at midlife. |
| Who wants to be a billionaire? Most don't -- which is good news for the planet Posted: 16 Jun 2022 09:15 AM PDT A new study busts the long-held economic belief that humans are all motivated to want more and more, which could have important implications for sustainability policies. |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2022 09:15 AM PDT During recent decades, the rate of infertility among women in the United States has remained largely the same, according to researchers. Their new analysis of data collected from 1995 and 2019 found that infertility is more common among women who are older, who are non-Hispanic Black and who have less income or education, and women without access to sexual and reproductive health services. |
| Polio outbreak risk increases in western Ukraine as war ensues Posted: 15 Jun 2022 06:13 PM PDT The reintroduction of the wild-type poliovirus or circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) is a sizeable threat in Ukraine, which is considered a high-risk country for vaccine-preventable infections, including poliomyelitis, an extremely dangerous disease that causes paralysis in children. The situation has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in eastern Ukraine, and ongoing healthcare reforms, scientists say. |
| Inadequate charging networks could thwart EV adoption goals Posted: 15 Jun 2022 07:28 AM PDT Encouraging the large-scale adoption of EVs is seen by many governments as a key pillar of efforts to build a carbon-neutral economy. But failing to properly plan a resilient network of charging stations could be an Achilles' heel that undermines efforts to encourage car owners to switch to electric vehicles. |
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