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Government agencies are setting up new websites and phone hotlines to provide information. But those might not be the best ways to engage with people who need help the most.
It will cost tens of billions of dollars to find and remove all the lead service lines that deliver water to US homes and schools. A public health expert explains why he sees it as money well spent.
Southern California is on the front line of climate change, and recent survey data shows that residents are feeling its effects in many ways.
A Western scholar proposes allocating water from the Colorado River based on percentages of its actual flow instead of fixed amounts that exceed what’s there – and including tribes this time.
The change point at which the happiness of most Australians no longer strongly depends on income has almost doubled from A$43,000 to A$74,000.
The Centers for Disease Control has announced a new, stricter standard for lead poisoning in children, which will more than double the number of kids considered to have high blood lead levels.
The number of school librarians in the US has dropped about 20% over the past decade, a recent study found. Here are four ways school librarians prepare students for today’s world.
Climate justice is about both where emissions come from and who suffers the consequences.
When students are allowed to bring personal items for show and tell, it can build their senses of self-worth, belonging and control. But poor kids often don’t get that opportunity.
In 1970, Gil Scott-Heron penned a spoken word song called ‘Whitey on the Moon’ that criticized the 1969 Moon landing. A hip-hop scholar explains why the song still reverberates today.
The Bank of International Settlements says technology and globalisation are the main causes of increasing inequality.
The US environmental justice movement dates back to the early 1980s, but federal support for it has been weak and inconsistent. Here are four things Biden’s EPA can do to improve that record.
Layoffs and pay freezes next year would hurt in-class instruction and student progress when it’s most needed.
Kindergarten enrollment dropped 16% this year, according to an NPR survey of 60 school districts across 20 states.
Canadian governments are failing to treat future citizens fairly by saddling them with huge debt. What policies should Canadian governments enact that offer greater fairness to future generations?
Unfairness alone is upsetting enough to drive people to punish lucky recipients of unfair outcomes.
While the focus has been on containing ‘hot spots’ of COVID-19 outbreaks, understanding why some areas have few or no cases could point the way to a staged reopening that starts with these areas.
Not everyone has a job they can do from home. Mapping the patterns of occupations across Melbourne’s suburbs against COVID-19 cases strongly suggests why some parts of the city are more vulnerable.
If Ontario’s de-streaming of high schools isn’t accompanied with other efforts to address cultural norms and values, streaming in many other forms and guises will continue.
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Associate Professor in Urbanism and Infrastructure, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Assistant professor of public policy, University of Warwick
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Emeritus Professor, Monash University. Professorial Fellow, Melbourne University, Monash University
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Georgia S. Bankard Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
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Professor of Psychological Medicine, BMRI & Disciplne of Psychiatry, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard University
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Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University
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Chair Country Health Research and Innovation, Curtin University
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor of Managerial Economics, University of Zurich
