Compared to “regular” recessions, which affect men’s employment more severely than women’s employment, the employment drop related to social distancing measures has a large impact on sectors with high female employment shares.
Read MoreWhen Pew Research Center began systematically tracking Americans’ internet usage in early 2000, about half of all adults were already online. Today, nine-in-ten American adults use the internet.
Read MorePaul Reville says COVID-19 school closures have turned a spotlight on inequities and other shortcomings.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic provides a number of examples of ways in which diversity and inclusion can help companies before, during and after the pandemic.
Read MoreGiven the increased focus on this particular preventive measure, it is important for employers to ensure that when they take employees’ temperatures, they do so safely.
Read MoreEntrepreneurs and academic gene jockeys are hatching schemes for population-level coronavirus testing.
Read MoreAs the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads, what we know and don’t know about the pandemic changes almost daily.
Read MoreThere is a saying that is rather common among the critics of the military profession that “soldiers are always preparing to fight the last war.”
Read MoreAn animal model of human isolation must be taken more seriously if we want to advance our understanding of the mechanisms for the effects of objective and perceived isolation in humans.
Read MoreThe normal state of the human condition is to be social animals. There are exceptions where isolation can lead to positive outcomes, but these are rare.
Read MoreNow, healthcare professionals are seeing the real risk of failure to use PPE, rather than discussing risk as a hypothetical worst-case scenario. Healthcare workers are now the most at-risk population for coronavirus simply because they see so many infected patients.
Read MoreThis year we could see a 7 percent drop overall in global emissions, more than double the 3 percent drop following the 2008 financial crisis.
Read MoreThe choices that governments make to restart their economic engine, including the long-term social, economic, and environmental co-benefits they seek to achieve through their stimulus investments, will be extraordinarily consequential in ensuring that they can build back stronger and better.
Read MoreFrom shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has put the wildlife trade and particularly wild meat consumption under the spotlight. Could regulating the different uses of wild animal species be a more effective response than a total ban?
Read MoreDramatic changes taking place locally, regionally, globally, demand that we rethink strategies to improve public health, especially in disadvantaged communities where the cumulative impacts of toxicant exposure and other environmental and social stressors are most damaging.
Read MoreThe conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity is essential to maintain ecosystem services, agricultural production and ultimately human nutrition and quality of life.
Read MoreThis concept of “Livestock Farming with Care” is founded on care ethics with an integrated approach based on four principles.
Read MoreLong-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth's climate warms.
Read MoreThe overuse and misuse of antibiotics in the meat industry is contributing to the rise of antibiotic-resistance in the U.S. and across the world.
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