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Current Conservation Policies Risk Damaging Global Biodiversity, Researchers Argue

‘Green’ farming policies may accelerate global biodiversity loss, two leading academics have warned.

Failings of California’s Cap and Trade Programme Revealed in New Analysis

California’s Cap and Trade Programme does not achieve its twin goal of reducing carbon emissions while allowing for economic growth, according to a pioneering new study.

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Philosophy Aligns with Economics on How to Value Future Generations in Climate Policy

A survey of philosophers finds they broadly agree with economists on the best way of valuing the environment of the future in policy decisions made now – although for different reasons.

Decriminalising Homosexual Sex Cut Crime and Improved LGBTQ+ Mental Health

Repealing laws that criminalised sexual intercourse between same-sex partners brought down crime and improved LGBTQ+ mental health in the US, a new study finds.

Bigger Companies Are Failing to Reduce Unconscious Bias Against Disabled People

Working for a big company or in an HR role does not lower the likelihood of showing unconscious bias against disabled people at work, a new study finds.

People Respond More Intuitively to Spoken Language and More Analytically When Reading

A study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General on ‘language modality’ – the written or spoken form in which language is presented – finds that people think more intuitively when responding to spoken information and more analytically when the information is written down.

Economic Behaviour Not Influenced by Gender or Biological Sex, Study Finds

A new study published in Nature: Scientific Reports is the first analysis of transgender and cisgender economic behaviour, and the first to consider whether sex assigned at birth plays a significant part in economic decisions.