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High water, high rents: Poorest residents pay the most for climate adaptation
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As cities worldwide adapt to extreme weather, climate adaptation must prevent people from wading through flooded streets in the future. But the costs are not equally shared. A study from the University of Copenhagen shows that climate adaptation policies may even make social ineq
As cities worldwide adapt to extreme weather, climate adaptation must prevent people from wading through flooded streets in the future. But the costs are not equally shared. A study from the University of Copenhagen shows that climate adaptation policies may even make social inequality worse.
In Copenhagen, stormwater costs fall disproportionately on not-for-profit housing residents, as these neighborhoods are often located near climate adaptation projects.
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Transparency in earnings calls does not guarantee equal access to information
The specialized language used by analysts and management in listed companies' Q&A sessions can be challenging for individual investors to follow. However, Kaisa Penttinen's doctoral dissertation in accounting at the University of Vaasa, Finland, shows these sessions still deliver
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Sea pigs from the abyss host unusual bacteria
In the deep ocean, translucent sea pigs trundle across the seafloor. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered an unusual bacterium beneath the sea pig's "skin." Through fluorescent imaging, they determined the location of the bacterium, which they named Candidatus A
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AI grading means university assessments could theoretically never be read by a human
There's a doomsday scenario where university students hand in work generated by artificial intelligence (AI), which is then graded by AI and university assessment no longer involves any humans at all.
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Burnham says climate consensus 'gone' but pledges 'new era of leadership'
PM Andy Burnham was addressing delegates at the COP31 UN climate summit in Antalya, Turkey.
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A radical theory says the universe is twice as old as we thought
A provocative new cosmological model suggests the Universe could be 26.7 billion years old and might not need dark matter or dark energy to explain its behavior. University of Ottawa researchers tested the theory against several major astronomical observations, finding that it co
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