Piped water boosts women’s health, happiness and income in rural Zambia
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation From growing vegetables to spending more time with their children, women’s quality of life improved drastically after piped water was installed near their homes in rural Zambia, Stanford University researchers said on Thursday. In a study involving 434 households in four Zambian villages, they found not having to walk to […]
Climate change blamed for a third of US flood losses in past three decades
Thomson Reuters Foundation Climate change has boosted the cost of flood damage caused by heavy rainfall in the United States by $7US5 billion over the last three decades, accounting for about a third of total losses, Stanford University researchers said this week. With planet-heating emissions still going up, both extreme rainfall and related losses will […]
Medicine not chainsaws: Indonesian clinic keeps villagers and forests healthy
Thomson Reuters Foundation Offering affordable healthcare to villagers and Indigenous communities living near forests could help reduce illegal logging and fight climate change, researchers said on Monday. A new study led by Stanford University analysed a clinic providing such a service, set up by two non-profits adjacent to Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan […]
Coronavirus could trigger biggest fall in carbon emissions since World War II
London, UK/Washington DC, USReuters Carbon dioxide emissions could fall by the largest amount since World War II this year as the coronavirus outbreak brings economies to a virtual standstill, according to the chair of a network of scientists providing benchmark emissions data. Rob Jackson, who chairs the Global Carbon Project, which produces widely-watched annual emissions […]
US experts invent formula that doubles refugees’ job chances
Thomson Reuters Foundation Refugees arriving in the United States could double their chances of finding work with a mathematical formula that decides the best place for them to settle, researchers said last week. Stanford University’s Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) developed an algorithm that uses historical data on refugee resettlement to send new arrivals to locations where they […]