Health Insight: How small acts of kindness can make you happier and healthier
Social scientist MEENA ANDIAPAN reports on what research shows about the impact of acts of kindness on one’s health…
Essay: Disabled people are being left out of COVID recovery. Here are five ways to change that
UK-based researcher VERA KUBENZ, in an article first published on The Conversation, outlines how people with disabilities can be helped to participate in the post-COVID recovery…
“Drastic” fall in bumblebee populations shocks scientists
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation When scientist Peter Soroye first saw the figures showing estimated bumblebee populations in North America had fallen by nearly 50 per cent in a single generation, he thought it must be a typo. He checked the numbers – the result of a long-term analysis of bumblebee populations published in the journal […]
Women and men found to respond differently in disasters
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Women and men caught up in disasters respond differently, with women quick to take shelter or prepare to evacuate, but often struggling to persuade the men in their families to do so, research suggests. Traditional gender roles also emerge after a disaster with women becoming the homemaker while men take charge of finances and […]
WOW! MAKING WAVES – FEMALE AROUND-THE-WORLD CREW TO FIGHT OCEAN PLASTIC
EMMA BATHA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a new initiative to raise awareness of the impact of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans…
Cities are sucking our countryside dry, scientists say
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation Expanding cities are sucking up ever more water, exacerbating the effect of climate change and threatening to create a “dusty and deserted” rural hinterland, scientists said on Thursday. An international team of researchers calculated that globally at least 16 billion cubic meters of water – almost the annual flow of the […]
Public mistrust thwarts Congo’s Ebola response as cases climb
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation A quarter of people surveyed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola hotspots believed the virus was not real, a study said on Wednesday, as the world’s second-biggest outbreak spreads. Health workers said public mistrust is now the biggest obstacle to stopping the epidemic, which has infected more than 1,000 people in […]
US lapsed and non-Christians open to talking about faith with the non-judgemental but don’t see such a trait in Christians they know, research finds
Most lapsed and non-Christians say they would be open to talking about faith matters with someone who listens without judgement – but only 34 per cent say they see this trait in Christians they know personally, according to Barna Group research. The research, contained in a recent report, Reviving Evangelism, which the US-based organisation produced in […]
ESSAY: THIS IS WHAT THE LIVES OF ‘BIG ISSUE’ SELLERS TELL US ABOUT WORKING AND BEING HOMELESS
In an article first published on The Conversation, JESSICA GERRARD, of the University of Melbourne, reports on the findings of her research looking at those who sell The Big Issue…
CLERGY FAMILIES: NEW AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH SHOWS BETTER SEPARATION NEEDED BETWEEN CHURCH AND FAMILY LIFE
DAVID ADAMS reports on the findings of a new study by Australian Clergy Families…