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Trickle-down climate risk regulation

In the US, the primary regulators of national and community banks are narrowly zeroing in on risks posed to the largest banks—those with over $100 billion in total consolidated…

September 1, 2022

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Georgetown Team Shores Up Conservation Center in Coastal Kenya

This summer, a group of Georgetown undergraduates and professors traveled to the Diani Beach region of Kenya to bring their coursework to life by building out educational assets…

August 30, 2022

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Is it time to end cats’ right to roam?

Pet cats kill songbirds by the million, as well as rodents and other wildlife. But how much of a threat do they really pose, and should they be kept indoors? Expert opinion is…

August 14, 2022

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Can the U.S. fight climate change — and shift industrial policy?

On Friday, the House will vote to approve the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), clearing the way for President Biden to sign the bill into.…

August 12, 2022

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NSF Awards Georgetown University $12.5M to Establish Institute for Emerging Virus Research

The National Science Foundation has awarded Georgetown University $12.5 million to lead a global team of scientists in establishing a collaborative institute designed to advance…

August 10, 2022

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China to push on with emissions reduction even as Taiwan spat widens rift with US, renews concerns about global warming

The suspension of US-China climate talks reflects the uneasy cooperation between the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters. That disengagement comes three months before…

August 7, 2022

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EXPLAINER: On China, US and climate, action, not talk is key

The last two agreements the world made to battle climate change came only after the United States and China, by far the two biggest carbon polluters, made deals with each other.…

August 6, 2022

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Beijing cuts U.S. cooperation to protest Pelosi’s Taiwan visit

China has gone ballistic in launching missiles over Taiwan — but the diplomatic bomb it dropped on Washington is mostly. …

August 5, 2022

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As species recover, some threaten others in more dire shape

A troubled species rebounds thanks to restoration efforts, only to make things worse for others in peril by preying on them or outcompeting them for food and living.…

August 1, 2022

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Structure of propagating high-stress fronts in a shear-thickening suspension

These results elucidate the complex structures associated with shear thickening and show that nonaffine flow, concentration fluctuations, and fluid migration are integral to the…

August 1, 2022