An international scientific team says that management of fisheries at the community level can help curb overfishing and the ‘tragedy of the commons’ which is driving humans to decimate the planet’s dwindling fish stocks. The positive finding comes from the world’s largest field investigation of 42 co-managed coral reef fisheries in five countries spread across […] … learn more→

Mothers who financially struggle to provide food for their families tend to put themselves at risk for obesity while trying to feed their children, according to Penn State sociologists. Mothers who do not have enough money to provide adequate food for their families — food-insecure — are more likely to be obese or overweight than […] … learn more→

Dr Julian Allwood, Leader of the Low Carbon Materials Processing Group at the University of Cambridge, and David Leal-Ayala, PhD student at this group, tested toner-print removal from paper by employing a variety of lasers. The results showed that toner-print can be removed effectively without causing significant paper damage, allowing the paper to be reused, […] … learn more→

Researchers at the University of Cambridge believe connections developed in the brain between the ‘drug high’ of alcohol and the situations in which it’s used create loaded memories that unconsciously trigger cravings – often leading to relapse in alcoholics. New research using rodent models reveals that drug treatment administered when a memory is forcibly surfaced […] … learn more→

In response to population growth, many \”new towns\” or planned cities were built around the world in the 1950s. But according to Dr. Tali Hatuka, head of Tel Aviv University\’s Laboratory for Contemporary Urban Design (LCUD) at the Department of Geography and the Human Environment, these cities are a poor fit for modern lifestyles — […] … learn more→

A recent spike in worldwide carbon emissions growth was caused by the rebound from the global financial crisis (GFC) and is likely to be a one-off, according to a new study from The Australian National University. The study found that global carbon emissions remain on a relentless upward trend, though efforts to shift to low-carbon […] … learn more→

Oxford University researchers have helped create a new index designed to help empower women working in agriculture in developing countries. The \’Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index\’ (WEAI) is the first measure to directly capture women’s empowerment and inclusion in the agricultural sector. Empowering women in agriculture means helping them produce food, bring their produce to […] … learn more→

When it comes to the nation’s growing obesity and diabetes epidemics, the more we know, the more the evidence points to one conclusion: We’ve been set up. Important findings about humanity’s past, about how we live and eat today, and even about how we typically treat type 2 diabetes — with medications that themselves induce […] … learn more→

Dr Gareth Rees, Researcher at the University’s Scott Polar Research Institute talks about the Arctic tree line – and questions the reliability of vegetation predictions. He suggests that the relationship between climate warming and tree growth is not as simple as initially thought. Over the last century, the Earth’s surface temperature increased by about 0.7ºC […] … learn more→

Being a great dad can mean starving to protect the kids, putting up with a jealous spouse – and often, dying young. At least, if you’re a cardinalfish. A survival strategy that has been a triumphant success for cardinalfishes for going on 50 million years could come unstuck under rapid global warming, scientists from the […] … learn more→