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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Farming is a notoriously hard profession with long hours spent operating dangerous equipment and performing other arduous tasks. New Rice University research finds that Indigenous farm employees—many of whom have legal status in the U.S. after moving from Latin America—may experience more physical pain on the job than undocumented workers. Researchers … Read more

Acceptability of rationing and taxation of fossil fuels and high climate-impact foods across countries. Credit: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-03823-7 Rationing of goods such as meat and fuel can both effectively and fairly reduce consumption with high climate impact. Almost 40% of the public say they could accept such measures. These are … Read more

Our cameras captured many images of brushtail possums at kangaroo carcasses. Image A) a sole brushtail possum, B) a group of possums feeding on a carcass, C) a confrontation between two brushtail possums at a carcass, D) vigilance at a carcass, E) shows a confrontation between a feral cat and a brushtail possum at a … Read more

Graphical representation of methodology employed to measure microplastic contamination in the North Sea. Credit: Frontiers in Marine Science (2024). DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1430307 Microplastic pollution in the world’s oceans is often illustrated through evocative images of wildlife caught within large items floating on the surface, or microplastics blending in among the sand on otherwise pristine beaches. The … Read more

Credit: Pietro Battistoni from Pexels Europe’s physics lab CERN said Sunday that some 500 scientists linked to Russian institutes will be affected when it stops cooperation with Russia in late November as planned. CERN’s decision-making body agreed in June 2022 to terminate cooperation agreements with Russia and its ally Belarus over the war in Ukraine. … Read more