Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?
licymakers are funding techno-fixes like carbon capture, when studies indicate nature-based solutions are all-around more effective.
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Links 5/25/2023
Ice Melt In the Pipeline
The IPCC has been soft-pedaling realistic, as in alarming, prospects for rapid ice melt and near-term ocean rises.
Read more...Big Pharma Uses Fuzzy Math to Discredit Discount Drug Program
r 340B, a program granting cheaper medicines to nonprofit healthcare patients, drug industry innumeracy is only rivaled by its greed.
Read more...Subjective Well-Being During Spain’s Decline: Evidence from Crusade Bulls
Sales of Crusade Bulls, a form of indulgence that Spain preserved after they were in decline elsehwere, may shed light on other social issues
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2023
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Read more...As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Poisoning Rises
Dangerous levels of arsenic in well water is another symptom of falling water tables and depleted aquifers.
Read more...Links 5/24/2023
An mRNA Vaccine that Works
regarding pancreatic cancer, an mRNA vaccine has shown great promise
Read more...Cleaning Up After the North Sea Oil Industry Will Cost Billions – But Nobody Wants to Pay
The North Sea joins a long list of extraction industry unpunished negligence.
Read more...City’s Newest Migrants Head Underground Looking to Survive
Migrants are finding it harder to get by in already difficult roles like illegal street vendor work in the subways.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/23/2023
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Read more...Strange, Unpredictable, and Energizing: Dark Comedy as Climate Solution
Can comedy defeat climate inertia?
Read more...Links 5/23/2023
Could Argentina Be the Next Latin American Country to Dollarise Its Economy?
Against a backdrop of triple-digit inflation, severe drought and ever-rising economic uncertainty, the idea of abolishing the peso and adopting the US dollar gains ground.
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