The Lehigh University College of Health Institute for Indigenous Studies has been awarded nearly $1.8 million from the American Cancer Society. The grant will support the researchers as they test the efficacy of a culturally tailored program aimed at reducing American Indian smokeless tobacco use.

For the first time an autonomously flying quadrotor has outperformed two human pilots in a drone race. The success is based on a novel algorithm that was developed by researchers of the University of Zurich. It calculates time-optimal trajectories that fully consider the drones' limitations.

A new CABI-led worldwide programme - PlantwisePlus - has been launched to help support low and lower-middle income countries to predict, prepare themselves for and prevent plant health threats in a changing climate reducing crop losses and empowering farmers to increase income, food security and food safety by producing more and higher quality food.

A new analysis of global datasets shows low-income countries are significantly more likely to be impacted by both toxic pollution and climate change--and provides a list of at-risk countries most (and least) able to immediately begin direct efforts toward pollution risk reduction, according to a study published July 7, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Richard Marcantonio from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, and colleagues.