Emissões de metano estão atingindo novos picos no mundo, e complicam ainda mais cenário de emergência climática
As atividades humanas são responsáveis por dois terços de toda a liberação de metano para a atmosfera, e esforços ...
Pesquisas mostram que parques nacionais e outras mecanismos muitas vezes não conseguem conservar as florestas que tentam proteger
Precisamos tornar as áreas protegidas mais eficazes, para conservar o que resta das plantas e dos animais da Terra ...
Divulgação científica precisa fazer parte da própria atividade do pesquisador e da rotina das instituições
Fundamental para o combate ao negacionismo crescente desde a pandemia, a divulgação científica brasileira ainda é pouco ...
Agência Bori
A Agência Bori é um serviço único no Brasil que apoia a cobertura da imprensa de todo o país à luz de evidências científicas. Jornalistas encontram na Bori pesquisas inéditas de instituições brasileir ...
Trump and Harris vocabularies signal their different frames of mind
Harris had nine “future” statements, all of which were about what she intends to do. For example, she said, “And when I am ...
Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood
A case study of a mainly Latino neighborhood in Houston shows that when residents value a neighborhood as it is, they can ...
Men are carrying the brunt of the ‘loneliness epidemic’ amid potent societal pressures
There is an epidemic of isolation gripping the United States, health experts say, with the resulting loneliness ...
Half of Black gay men will be diagnosed with HIV, despite highly effective preventive treatments − why?
PrEP can reduce the risk of sexually transmitted HIV infection by 99%. Discrimination and distrust are two barriers Black gay ...
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things ...
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Self-forgiveness is more than self-comfort − a philosopher explains
Quinnipiac University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As the Jewish High Holidays approach, which begin with Rosh Hashanah and continue with Yom Kippur, the theme of forgiveness ...
Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims
A newly amended law may push the country beyond what has been a drawn-out and sluggish process to account for the country’s ...
Rare Florida fossil finally ends debate about how porcupine jaws and tails evolved
Modern North American porcupines are at least twice the size of their southern cousins and have stronger jaws. But how long ...