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The Inequity of Wildfire Rescue Resources in California

A detailed analysis of more than 500 California wildfire incidents from 2015 to 2022 by University at Buffalo scientists shows that disaster recovery resources in California favor people living in wealthy communities over disadvantaged residents who...
6-Dec-2024 11:45 AM EST Add to Favorites

Nationwide Study Looks at When and Where EV Owners Use Public Charging Stations

Researchers at the University of Maryland are using supercomputers and machine learning methods to analyze a full year of real-time data collected from individual EV charging ports at more than 50,000 publicly available stations throughout the...
6-Dec-2024 11:40 AM EST Add to Favorites

EPA Study Finds That U.S. Public Schools with the Highest Potential Exposure Risk to Air Toxics Have Higher Proportions of Disabled Latino, Hispanic, and Asian Children

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed a nationwide study to assess the estimated non-cancer exposure risks of public school students to ambient air respiratory toxicants. The analysis also examined how disability status, race, and...
6-Dec-2024 11:20 AM EST Add to Favorites

Employee Visits to Adult or Gambling Sites Doubles Risk of Infection by Malware

Cybersecurity researchers from the University of Trento and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the global cybersecurity firm Trend Micro wondered what behaviors bring the greatest risk of malware infection: working at night, browsing adult content,...
6-Dec-2024 11:35 AM EST Add to Favorites

Lower-Quality Public Housing Is at High Risk of Flood Damage

Preliminary findings suggest that lower-quality public housing structures (with lower inspection scores) are more likely to be located in a FEMA flood zone and in areas with higher flood risk as defined by FEMA鈥檚 National Risk Index. They are also...
6-Dec-2024 11:35 AM EST Add to Favorites

What Motivates Americans to Eat Less Red Meat?

Researchers at Baruch College and the University of Southern California (USC) surveyed more than 7,500 adults as part of the Understanding America Study 鈥� a probability-based Internet panel of individuals 18 and older. They will present their...
6-Dec-2024 11:30 AM EST Add to Favorites

Toxic Air in Texas High Schools

A recent study of the indoor air in central Texas high schools revealed that two groups of SVOCs, phthalates and PBDEs, are prevalent in high school environments. The research will be presented in early December at the annual meeting of the Society...
6-Dec-2024 11:25 AM EST Add to Favorites

Students Are Less Likely to Feel Safe at Their Schools, Compared to Staff and Parents

Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) conducted a nationwide study of K-12 parents, K-12 teachers, and recently graduated high school students to test their responses to three hypothetical 鈥渢hreat scenarios.鈥� The goal was to...
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How do we address the risk associated with pathogens?

In order to assess the risk associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for COVID-19, we follow the quantitative microbial risk assessment process.
8-May-2020 10:35 AM EDT

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Systemic Risks of Pandemics

What is so special about systemic risks? Risks are systemic when a society鈥檚 essential systems, such as telecommunications, infrastructure or health systems are threatened.
8-May-2020 10:35 AM EDT

Addressing Real and Perceived Risks Associated with COVID-19

There are two major drivers of perceived risks. The first one is dreadfulness. Seeing images of coffins in Italy, Spain and the U.S., overwhelmed hospital wards, people we know and famous people with severe health issues all send messages of...
8-May-2020 9:45 AM EDT

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Food Security During COVID-19: How do we avoid green eggs and ham?

During the last month, I have heard several comments along the lines of, 鈥淚 went to the grocery store to buy chicken and there wasn鈥檛 any.
8-May-2020 9:35 AM EDT

Security Threat at Manchester United, Wildfires in Alberta, and How the Public Responds to Authorities in a Crisis

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