Reducing air pollution from cars and light trucks would pay big health dividends for low-income and minority communities. A new survey shows how to get more drivers of color into electric vehicles.
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Framing floods as ‘natural disasters’ deflects from the reality that vulnerability must exist before a crisis can emerge.
Noise pollution is a serious problem, and cars make a lot of it. But roads are also a factor.
The tax exemptions enjoyed by the UK’s charitable private schools are estimated to equate to 6% of England’s annual state school budget
‘Smart’ solutions to urban solid waste are creating serious challenges for low-income women waste workers in India.
For people who struggle to meet their basic needs, it will take a lot more than simple psychological exercises to flourish. It will take systemic change.
The mental health impact of the pandemic has not affected everyone equally. An equitable approach to mental health promotion, prevention and treatment can help ensure equitable access to services.
Governance structures that provide opportunities for people to contribute to decision-making would also enhance people’s abilities to control important factors in their life.
Ottawa’s travel ban against African countries made clear its underlying policy: What matters is not your test result, but where you’ve been. It’s yet another example of anti-Africa discrimation.
People can counter the helplessness felt during the pandemic and build power by creating a sense of purpose and community amid the confusion of COVID-19.
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.
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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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Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications; Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor in Research & Innovation, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard University
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Reader of Public Policy, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology