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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today ruled that insufficient action to tackle climate change is a violation of human rights. In a historic judgement, the court ruled that Switzerland’s failure to do enough to cut its greenhouse gas emissions breached the rights to life and respect forContinue Reading

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Under the weather New climate reconstructions show that periods of decreasing temperature and rainfall coincided with three plagues that struck the Roman Empire, Bruce Bower reported in “Did climate drive ancient plagues?” (SN: 2/24/24, p. 13). Bower reported that researchers are uncertain exactly how those climate shifts may have influencedContinue Reading

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The prevalence of remote work since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed urban transportation patterns in the U.S., according to new study led by MIT researchers. The research finds significant variation between the effects of remote work on vehicle miles driven and on mass-transit ridership across theContinue Reading