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Policy & Ethics

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15-Jan-2025

New policy significantly enhances water quality in the Yangtze river basin

Eurasia Academic Publishing Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study has demonstrated the effectiveness of an innovative environmental policy—referred to as the Resident Work (RW) policy—in significantly improving water quality in the Yangtze River Basin.

Journal: Environmental Science and Ecotechnology

15-Jan-2025

Pesticide impacts on bees more complex than expected

Queen Mary University of London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London shows distinct effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure in different bumble bee body parts, explaining why pesticides have diverse harmful effects and highlighting the need for more sensitive safety testing. The study shows pervasive effects 'akin to ageing or cancer',

Journal: Science of The Total Environment
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council, European Commission, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

15-Jan-2025

A ‘smoke-free generation’ in Canada? New analysis says it would result in vast health gains, healthcare cost savings

University of Ottawa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A highly compelling analysis by a University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine's health economist explores the long-term impacts of one bold smoking restriction proposal: a lifetime ban on tobacco products to individuals born after a specific date.

Journal: Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada

15-Jan-2025

Political commitment is discouraged by digital violence

Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Reports and Proceedings

The majority of politically active Germans experience digital violence. The results of a study conducted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in cooperation with the human rights organization HateAid show that around two thirds of affected women have experienced sexualized online attacks. Around one third of the respondents who experienced online aggression were also physically attacked. More than half changed their behavior – from self-restrictions on communications to the intention of abandoning their political involvement.

Funder: Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW)

15-Jan-2025

Small-scale fisheries essential to global nutrition, livelihoods

Duke University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Small-scale fisheries play a significant but overlooked role in global fisheries production and are key to addressing hunger and malnutrition while supporting livelihoods around the world, according to research featured in Nature. Published by an international team of scientists, the study is the first to rigorously quantify how marine and inland small-scale fisheries contribute to aquatic harvests and nutritional and socioeconomic security on a global scale.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Oak Foundation, Resilient Aquatic Food Systems Initiative

15-Jan-2025

Calls to curb invasive species spread via untreated water transfer

Newcastle University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Experts are warning of the risks of spreading invasive and non-native species when moving large volumes of untreated lake, reservoir and river water.

Journal: Management of Biological Invasions

15-Jan-2025

What a magic school bus taught us about science education

Virginia Tech
Grant and Award Announcement

Matthew Wisnioski, associate professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Science, Technology, and Society, received a National Science Foundation grant to explore the history of “The Magic School Bus,” and to better understand how multimedia, educational entertainment experiments transformed science education.