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Study abstract: The ecology of relatedness: How living around family (or not) matters Many of us will soak in the merriment and drama that family gatherings bring during Thanksgiving.

A new European research project, TIMBERHAUS, aiming at promoting timber construction in Europe, was launched in Copenhagen in early November.

German climate consortium gives recommendations in view of the foreseeable failure to limiting global warming to 1.5°C Although the 1.5°C target is no longer achievable, efforts should continue to be made to limit global warming in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are lending their expertise to a new European Principal investigator Dr Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami and co-investigator Dr Wenjuan Song, of the James Watt School

Camera traps and drones deployed by government authorities to monitor a forest in India are infringing on the privacy and rights of local women. Nobody could have realised that camera traps put in the Indian forest to monitor mammals actually have a profoundly negative impact on the mental health of local women who use these spaces.

The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms. Visualizing the potential impacts of a hurricane on people's homes before it hits can help residents prepare and decide whether to evacuate. MIT scientists have developed a method that generates satellite imagery from the future to depict how a region would look after a potential flooding event.

As Baby Boomers hit retirement, about  1 in 6 Americans is now over the age of 65. The number of Americans living with dementia is projected to skyrocket - but the proportion of older Americans who develop dementia has actually decreased.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.

On 29 October 2024, an episode of torrential rains shook the Valencian Community, leaving behind a trail of devastation and numerous flooded municipalities.

The satellite imagery was frightening: a powerful low-pressure system swirling approximately 300 miles off the coast of Washington.

The Tree-D Fusion system integrates generative AI and genus-conditioned algorithms to create precise simulation-ready models of 600,000 existing urban trees across North America.

According to the fossil record, cetaceans - whales, dolphins and their relatives - evolved from four-legged land mammals that returned to the oceans beginning some 50 million years ago.

A new television, a laptop or a vacuum cleaner' Many people go bargain hunting on Black Friday. HSLU economist Thomas Wozniak knows which psychological tricks retailers use and how we can recognize them.

As a lawyer Luisa Bedoya Taborda worked with rural communities forced off their land by armed groups in Colombia, South America.

New recommendations from an international research project could help reduce the environmental impact of metal mining on rivers in the Philippines and guide the mining industry to become more sustainable at all scales, the project's leaders say.

Study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of "direct air capture" and therefore may not bring about promised reductions.

Findings reveal rich dinosaur fauna on the edge of an ancient sea at a time of rising sea levels and a changing environment about 75 million years ago, researchers say Paleontologists and students from McGill University have documented Saskatchewan's first confirmed fossil specimens of Centrosaurus , a horned dinosaur species closely related to Triceratops .

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The XPRIZE Rainforest competition acknowledged ETH Zurich-led team for its development and deployment of novel, autonomous technologies that enable near real-time insights about biodiversity.

The rover captured a 360-degree panorama before leaving Gediz Vallis channel, a feature it's been exploring for the past year.

Dr Jane Wood has created a fashionable recipe for success; a bit of left over tea and sugar, mixed with kombucha starter culture and she's able to produce vegetable leather. In 2015, Jane Wood was a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. She taught across a variety of fashion related programmes and loved chatting to students as they often came up with novel ways of solving problems encountered in the fashion and textiles industry.

TU Delft jointly wins in the XPRIZE Rainforest competition in the Amazon, Brazil Imagine using rapid and autonomous robot technology for research into the green and humid lungs of our planet; our global rainforests.

TU Delft jointly wins in the XPRIZE Rainforest competition in the Amazon, Brazil Imagine using rapid and autonomous robot technology for research into the green and humid lungs of our planet; our global rainforests.

A new index, based on measures of so-called resilience, is needed to help gauge the success of policies aimed at preserving humanity's ability to live within Earth's resources, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher. In a paper published in the journal One Earth , researchers from UCL, the University of Southampton and the University of East Anglia outlined the case for moving towards an 'holistic' approach to gauging policy success which incorporates environmental and societal wellbeing measures in addition to economic ones.

Curbing new-build construction, renovating existing buildings at pace and rethinking how we use them: according to Philippe Thalmann, an urban and environmental economics professor at EPFL, these are

Whether on forest floors, in bogs, in the joints of pavements or even in inhospitable regions such as Antarctica - mosses grow almost everywhere.