World Development News
May 14, 2024
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May 3, 2024 Anthropologists suggest in a new study that establishing networks of 'sister cities' dedicated to addressing the impact of natural disasters can mitigate the devastation wrought by climate ...
Apr. 18, 2024 Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to new research. Scientists used satellite data that accurately and consistently maps land movement across ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries increasingly prone to climate ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Connecting the study of infectious disease spread, biodiversity loss and climate change could offer win-win-win solutions for planetary health, but a new analysis has uncovered almost no research ...
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Apr. 16, 2024 New research has found that perceptions of globally shared life experiences and globally shared biology can strengthen psychological bonding with humanity at large, which can motivate prosocial ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Around 32 per cent of the world's population live in countries that do not adhere to the World Health Organization's recommendations on safe limits of arsenic in drinking ...
Feb. 26, 2024 The average researcher thinks they are better than their colleagues at following good research practice. They also think that their own research field is better than other research fields at ...
Feb. 26, 2024 World hunger is growing at an alarming rate, with prolonged conflicts, climate change, and COVID-19 exacerbating the problem. In 2022, the World Food Programme helped a record 158 million people. On ...
Feb. 22, 2024 Remember the 2022 baby formula crisis? The historic shortage of infant formula that year highlighted the precarious balance between regulation, competition and safety, according to a new study. The ...
Jan. 10, 2024 An international group of researchers finds that conserving about half of global land area could maintain nearly all of nature's contributions to ...
Jan. 2, 2024 Human culture has evolved to allow humans to extract resources and helped us expand to dominate the biosphere. But the same evolutionary processes may counteract efforts to solve new global ...
Oct. 24, 2023 An international coalition of climate scientists says that the Earth's vital signs have worsened beyond anything humans have yet seen, to the point that life on the planet is ...
Oct. 12, 2023 Food shortages caused by extreme weather could lead to civil unrest in the UK, according to a new study which has surveyed some of the country’s leading food ...
Sep. 27, 2023 Protecting large swaths of Earth's land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss -- especially when those protected areas are in less disturbed landscapes and in countries with effective national ...
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Feb. 21, 2024 There exists a narrative about climate change that says there are winners and losers -- with Russia being one of the countries that stand to benefit from its effects. In a new study, researchers ...
Dec. 14, 2023 Two new studies based on data from 2009 to 2018 show that renters living along the East and Gulf coasts of the United States face rent increases, higher eviction rates, and a lack of affordable ...
Sep. 21, 2023 As renewable energy sources like wind and solar ramp up, they can be used to sustainably generate hydrogen fuel. But implementing such a strategy on a large scale requires land and water dedicated to ...
Sep. 14, 2023 When people feel that their resources are scarce -- that they don't have enough money or time to meet their needs -- they often make decisions that favor short-term gains over long-term ...
Sep. 11, 2023 New results reveal that many of Africa's remaining lions live within small, fragmented populations at risk of disappearing. The researchers developed a new framework which integrates ecological ...
Aug. 30, 2023 Emphasising the need for energy independence and environmental stewardship could help to change people’s minds about the climate crisis, a new study ...
Aug. 1, 2023 Nature-based solutions (NBS) can help grand challenges, such as climate change and food security, but, as things stand, communities outside of Europe do not stand to benefit from these innovations. ...
July 21, 2023 In Africa, climate change impacts are experienced as extreme events like drought and floods. It has now been possible to predict and monitor these climatic events, providing early warning of their ...
July 17, 2023 A new study found that more than one million US deaths per year -- including many young and working-age adults -- could be avoided if the US had mortality rates similar to its peer nations. In 2021, ...
July 12, 2023 Researchers have found that providing access to advice about housing, debt and benefits within food banks could help lift people out of poverty. The initiative meant that people forced to use a food ...
June 29, 2023 In light of climate change and the impending transition to clean energy, many long-standing programs to address energy insecurity need to be refreshed. A new paper provides growing documentation of ...
June 23, 2023 The global economy will grow slower in the 21st century than economists have expected, a finding that has implications for our ability to adapt to climate change in the coming decades, according to ...
May 18, 2023 Researchers report that the financial toll of the climate pattern known as El Niño can persist for several years and cost trillions in lost income worldwide. The study, which is among the first to ...
Apr. 19, 2023 CLIMATE According to the climate plans submitted to the UN by 50 countries, 12 gigatons of CO2 per year will continue to be emitted by 2050 -- and need to be removed from the atmosphere. Among other ...
Mar. 30, 2023 A new analysis shows that, compared to similarly high-income European countries, the United States continues to have substantially higher death rates at all but the oldest ages, resulting in more ...
Mar. 23, 2023 At least 80% of sites identified as being internationally important for biodiversity on land currently contain infrastructure -- of which more than 75% contain roads. In the future, more sites that ...
Mar. 3, 2023 A team of researchers has developed a machine learning model that draws from the contents of news articles to effectively predict locations that face risks of food insecurity. The model, which could ...
Feb. 24, 2023 A team of researchers has highlighted human-wildlife conflict as one of the globe's most pressing human development and conservation dilemmas. New research looked at 133 countries where 18 large ...
Feb. 22, 2023 Blue foods -- those that come from the ocean or freshwater environments -- have tremendous potential to help address several global challenges. With careful implementation of policies that leverage ...
Feb. 20, 2023 World War II-style rationing could be an effective way to reduce carbon emissions, according to new ...
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- Professors Call for More Research Into Climate-Change Related Threats to Civilization
- Why Some Countries Are Leading the Shift to Green Energy
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- How Nuclear War Would Affect Earth Today
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- Heat Stress for Cattle May Cost Billions by Century's End, Study Finds
- Relocating Farmland Could Turn Back Clock Twenty Years on Carbon Emissions, Say Scientists
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- Air Pollution Caused 1.1 Million Deaths Across Africa in 2019
- Climate Change Literacy Lessons from Africa
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- Over 260,000 Kilometers of Rivers at Risk Due to Proposed Hydro Dams
- Warfare, Not Climate, Is Driving Resurgent Hunger in Africa, Says Study