Policy/Ethics

UC Riverside researchers are helping the US Environmental Protection Agency eliminate animal testing Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, are part of an ambitious plan at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA,…

Current scenarios used to inform climate policy have a weakness in that they typically focus on reaching specific climate goals in 2100 - an approach which may encourage risky pathways that could have long-term negative effects. A new…

Credit: Mark Priest/ ARC CoE for Coral Reef Studies. Scientists say bolder actions to protect coral reefs from the effects of global warming will benefit all ecosystems, including those on land. In an article published…

Strategies to limit climate change that focus on warming in the next couple of decades would leave less of a burden for future generations. Research led by Imperial College London and the International Institute for Applied Systems…

On the eve of the Sept. 20 youth-led climate strike, author says the wave of activism has been building for decadesCredit: Carolyn Lagattuta Greta and Malala get the headlines, but for every young leader pictured on a magazine cover,…

A University of Queensland-led study has revealed that future demand for ethanol biofuel could potentially expand sugarcane farming land in Brazil by five million hectares by 2030. UQ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences…

Team of scholars explores how environmental statutes that are already on the books can circumnavigate need for major policy reforms as new global environmental challenges continue to emerge Do you think that major statutory reform is…

American Journal of Roentgenology researchers studying more than two decades of Medicare claims discover nurse practitioners and physician assistants rarely render diagnostic imaging studies, other than radiography and fluoroscopyCredit:…

Deforestation and Amazon fires grab headlines but 150-plus restoration projects in Latin America show where considerable advances at tackling climate change are happeningCredit: Erika Romijn et al. Land restoration in Latin America and the…

Disabled people face being marginalised by the very programmes that are designed to help them. Rather than taking their differences and particular preferences into account, projects and welfare systems established to provide support are…