This week, the PsychENCODE Consortium published a collection of 10 research papers in Science, Science Advances, and Science Translational Medicine presenting 3 years of work aimed at understanding the complex
Archive for December 2018
For the 24th time now, a global UN climate conference is being hosted, this time in Katowice, in Poland. As countries around the globe are dealing with this policy challenge,
On November 23, London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced that, as of February, all advertisements for food high in fat, sugar and salt will be banned from the London tube and
Climate-smart agriculture is a promising approach to addressing the threat of climate change and can effectively increase yields, benefit the environment, and increase farmer income. Such strategies―including diversification or rotation
As part of the UN climate summit, COP24, in Katowice, Poland from 2–14 December, the world’s top investors came together on 10 December calling for urgent reductions in carbon emissions and
A report presented on 8 December at a side event to the UN Intergovernmental Conference to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Marrakech, Morrocco has
A report published in Science on 6 December has revealed the extent to which private research funders are stowing away cash in offshore havens. The exposé entitled “Private research funders
Last week I’ve been invited to the preview showing of Oscar-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s Food Evolution, which has been released in US and will come soon to Europe’s theaters.
Germany already knows that it will fail to achieve the CO2 emission reduction targets set for 2020, and the gap will be quite significant. That’s why it is postponing the
On 5 December, NASA launched the first-of-its-kind Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) instrument designed to create a 3D map of the world’s forests. The so-called Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)