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US north-east among fastest-warming areas in northern hemisphere, study finds
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The coastal US north-east is one of the fastest warming areas in the northern hemisphere, having heated up rapidly by 2C (3.6F) already over the past century due in part to the soaring temperature of the nearby Atlant...
More microplastics in babies’ faeces than in adults’ – study
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Infants have more microplastics in their faeces than adults, a study has found. Microplastics are plastic particles smaller than 5mm in size that have been released into the environment from the breakage of bigger pla...
Cycling trips made by women in England rose 50% in 2020, study finds
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The number of cycling trips made by women in England rose by more than 50% in 2020, official statistics have shown, as the quieter roads of lockdown seemingly helped to tempt a demographic known to be more wary of tra...
How green is your food? Eco-labels can change the way we eat, study shows
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It’s lunchtime at a workplace cafeteria in Birmingham, and employees returning to work after months away during the coronavirus pandemic are noticing something has changed. Next to the sandwiches and hot and cold dish...
Internet freedom on the decline in US and globally, study finds
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Online freedom is continuing to decline globally, according to a new study, with governments increasingly cracking down on user speech and misinformation on the rise. The report from Freedom House, a Washington DC-bas...
More than 41m dementia cases globally are undiagnosed – study
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More than 41 million people living with dementia worldwide have not yet been diagnosed, according to a report by Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI). Experts say getting diagnosed with the disease is vital, enabli...
Doctor ‘bias’ behind women getting worse treatment for heart attacks, Australian study finds
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Women receive worse medical treatment than men for common heart attacks, according to new research. A study by Sydney researchers has found that women diagnosed with a common type of heart attack or the condition unst...
‘Study Newsom’s playbook’: what Democrats – and Republicans – can learn from California’s recall
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It was anger over Gavin Newsom’s pandemic restrictions that ultimately put a recall vote on the ballot. But the California governor doubled down, placing his coronavirus policies at the heart of his campaign and casti...
Governments falling woefully short of Paris climate pledges, study finds
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Every one of the world’s leading economies, including all the countries that make up the G20, is failing to meet commitments made in the landmark Paris agreement in order to stave off climate catastrophe, a damning ne...
Generational conflict over climate crisis is a myth, UK study finds
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A fake generational war over the climate crisis has distorted public thinking and political strategy, when in fact older generations are just as worried about the issue as younger people, according to new research. Th...
Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds
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The global production of food is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity, with the use of animals for meat causing twice the pollution of producing plant-based foods, a major new ...
Early CT scans deliver huge fall in lung cancer deaths, study shows
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Screening smokers and ex-smokers could dramatically reduce deaths from lung cancer – Britain’s biggest cancer killer – a major new study has found. Low-dose computerised tomography (CT) scans can detect tumours in peo...
Boys more at risk from Pfizer jab side-effect than Covid, suggests study
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Healthy boys may be more likely to be admitted to hospital with a rare side-effect of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine that causes inflammation of the heart than with Covid itself, US researchers claim. Their analysi...
Ending universal credit boost will hit sickest areas the hardest, study shows
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Scrapping the £1,000-a-year boost to universal credit next month will trigger mental illness and poorer health for thousands of people, and hit the sickest areas of the UK hardest, new research suggests. Boris Johnson...
Study links too much free time to lower sense of wellbeing
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The lesson of Goldilocks, that one can have too much of a good thing, even when it comes to the size of a chair, has applied in fields from astrobiology to economics. Now, it seems it may even govern our free time. Re...
International students in UK generate huge economic gains – study
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One year’s intake of international students at British universities generates economic activity worth £390 for each person in the UK each year, rising to more than £700 for every inhabitant of London, according to a s...