FIFA, the LA Clippers and Boston Red Sox all failed to deliver on their promises of carbon offsets to reduce their climate impact. Sports management researchers explore commitments teams have been making to see whether they translate into measurable environmental outcomes.
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From FIFA to the LA Clippers, carbon offset scandals are exposing the gap between sports teams’ green promises and reality
There are better ways for teams to cut their climate impact.
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NASA just launched a low-cost mission to Mars called ESCAPADE. It could reveal how the planet’s atmosphere was stripped away, but cheaper missions like this come with bigger risks (and haven’t always worked in the past) Will this one pay off?
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Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs
What’s better – many small space missions, or a few large, sweeping ones? Space scientists are asking this question as they face budget uncerta...
Rural America isn’t vanishing, isn’t mostly white and isn’t made up of farmers alone. We break down 6 major myths about the places where 1 in 5 Americans live, in charts.
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6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong
Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, complicating the conventi...
Trump is pushing hard for more oil drilling, but energy companies aren’t biting. Given the high costs and difficult terrain in places like Alaska, oil companies don’t see a clear path to profit – and that matters to them more than climate change.
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US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s ‘pro-petroleum’ moves
Industry leaders have objected to reversals of long-standing policies, and market forces are moving against the Trump administration’s hopes.
Undocumented teens already live with deportation fears, but now getting into college is a whole new challenge. States like South Carolina are blocking them from public universities or taking away in-state tuition, making college unaffordable for many who have spent nearly their whole lives in the U.S.
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Young, undocumented immigrants are finding it increasingly hard to attend college as South Carolina and other states restrict in-state tuition or ban them altogether
Not letting undocumented students pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities can make the cost of a college education prohibitive.
Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia, which contains 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may become the newest U.S. national park. But here's the catch: the redesignation won't actually offer additional legal protection or funding for the site.
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What does it mean to be a new national park? Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia may soon find out
Ocmulgee Mounds may soon be redesignated by Congress as America’s 64th national park. But what does this actually mean, and why does it matter?
Hanukkah’s story of the heroism of Judah Maccabee and his brothers ignores two inspiring women who were prominent in the earliest tellings of the story.
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This Hanukkah, learn about the holiday’s forgotten heroes: Women
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which in 2022 begins on the evening of Dec. 18, focuses on the story of the male Maccabees. But women are also her...
The new film “Nuremberg” highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whether humanity can ever truly judge its worst crimes.
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The law meets its limits – what ‘Nuremberg’ reveals about guilt, evil and the quest for global justice
The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whe...
The NIH paused funding for growing human organs inside pigs in 2015 over fears that human cells might make pigs too human. Yet regulators now approve putting pig organs in humans. A bioethicist examines the inconsistent logic.
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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?
How many human cells does a pig need before it’s considered too human?