By Eric B. Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
Containing and extinguishing mega blazes like the one that reached Jasper is an all-hands-on-deck affair that draws upon expertise from around the world.
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By James Dawes, Professor of English, Macalester College
Some of the most essential but least protected workers in a $200 billion industry want to ensure that AI won’t do away with their jobs.
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By Lianne Foti, Associate Professor, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph
Kathleen Rodenburg, Associate Dean Academic, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph, University of Guelph
This incident potentially impacts the nation’s international reputation and trust in Canadian athletes and raises questions about Canada’s commitment to ethical standards in sports.
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Friday, July 26, 2024
The World Heritage Committee of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced on Friday that the Monastery of Saint Hilarion/Tell Umm Amer in Palestine has been added to its list of global heritage sites and another for sites in danger.
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By Cathryn Knight, Senior Lecturer in Psychology in Education, University of Bristol
Emily Lowthian, Lecturer in Education, Swansea University
Our research has found key common factors that increase the likelihood of children being identified as having additional learning needs
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By Gemma Dale, Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Law, Liverpool John Moores University
Professor Matthew Tucker, Professor of Workplace and Facility Management, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University
Since the COVID pandemic working from home has become common in many industries, and there are tensions between workers and employers.
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By Stéphane Berneau, Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire
A growing number of people are waiting longer to have kids. While there are many reasons people may want to hold back on that decision, about one-third of couples will have difficulties getting pregnant if the female partner is over 35. This is because women’s fertility begins declining…
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By Jonathan D. Gordon, Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Palaeoecology, University of York
Brennen Fagan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York
You don’t need to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to stumble across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species that has gone extinct. Since AD1500, at least 705 vertebrate species and 571 plant species have died out.
Humans have now appropriated over half of the Earth’s surface for farms and urban areas, and this is primarily to blame for these recent declines in global biodiversity.
But humans…
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By Claire Isabella Gilmour, PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
The artist says he chose an English civil war-era coin because ‘it is one of the few British things in the British Museum’.
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By Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Practice, University of Southampton
Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce is reviewed by Professor Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Southampton.
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