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One in three parasitic species is in danger. Here’s why humans may need to power through the ‘ick’ to save them

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‘I suppose it’s better the devil you know,’ says Michael,* a food production worker from Spalding, Lincolnshire. He has worked for the food manufacturing company Bakkavor, which provides fresh food products to supermarkets like Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s, and Waitrose, for around two and a half decades. ‘We used to get double time or time and […]

Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions

- by Francesca Mezzenzana & Gabriel Scheidecker

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After U.S. Forest Service layoffs, will for-profit contractors protect you from wildfires?

What it takes to fight the country’s worst wildfires — and what could be lost amid Trump’s Forest Service cuts.

There is a concerted global effort to undermine the very concept of evidence-based policy and scientific progress, argues Kit Yates

Carlos Cañón Salazar, John Thanassoulis and Misa Tanaka Several global financial centres, including London, Hong Kong and Singapore, are overseen by financial regulators with an objective on competitiveness and growth. In a recent staff working paper, we develop a theoretical model to show that some competitive deregulation can arise when several regulators are focused on … Continue reading Global financial centre and its regulators: what’s the strategy when everyone wants to be the top dog? →

In the meantime, Democratic members of Congress also hold town halls and meetings. Here is @RepPaulTonko from New York. His constituents aren't happy, as they want him to do more to stop the destruction of government.#DemsUnited #DemVoice1 pic.twitter.com/aPKF0V9Of4 — Izzy Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ 🇺🇸🦅 (@1zzyzyx1) February 22, 2025 I feel pretty confident that it’s going to come to that, unfortunately. It’s hard to imagine how it can go any other way.

Media Matters is documenting comments from callers on right wing radio. Here are some of them: Fox host and loyal Trump ally Sean Hannity told a listener who was pleading for the jobs of military vets in the federal government that “there will be other opportunities.” The caller elaborated on their experience: “One of our tenants just recently got laid off from the USDA, and he’s a stable vet, multiple deployments overseas.

“Fiscal support can manage the direct economic fallout from extreme weather events.” That quote came from an interesting new research paper published in the 98th edition of the Bank of International Settlements Bulletin (February 10, 2025) – Macroeconomic impact of extreme weather events. The paper seeks to tease out what the economic impacts and policy…

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