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Leave notes, play games, go shopping: How to boost your child’s multilingual skills these holidays

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About 5.7 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. Most multilingual children spend their school days speaking English and during term-time, home languages often take a back seat. So holidays—particularly the long […]

Earth Sciences

Overlooked hydrogen emissions are heating Earth and supercharging methane, research finds

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Rising global emissions of hydrogen over the past three decades have added to the planet’s warming temperatures and amplified the impact of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases, according to new research published […]

Education

School holidays privilege Christmas, and classroom strategies are needed to foster inclusion

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What some school boards now call the “winter break,” over the days leading up to and after Christmas, is approaching.This post was originally published on this site

Earth Sciences

Warmer ocean currents significantly destabilize ice sheets, driving their retreat

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New research reveals how ocean warming triggered the large-scale retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS)—offering vital clues for understanding its modern-day vulnerability.This post was originally published on this site

Earth Sciences

13 years of detailed US CO₂ emissions data released

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New research from Northern Arizona University shows detailed CO2 emissions for the United States from 2010 to 2022.This post was originally published on this site

Earth Sciences

Exposing the most dangerous dams in the US

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Dams in the United States may be in worse condition than previously understood. More than 16,700 dams across the country are classified as high hazard potential as of 2024, according to the Association of State […]

Education

Book prepares K-12 leaders for the next public health crisis

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In a new book, a team of experts in educational policy, epidemiology and public health chronicles the challenges faced by educators, public health authorities and school officials during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers a guide […]

Earth Sciences

‘Extreme melting’ episodes are accelerating ice loss in the Arctic

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The Arctic landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate. In addition to rising temperatures, climate change is causing episodes of extreme melting, which occurs when ice losses that previously took weeks or months occur over […]

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Fossil fuel industry’s ‘climate false solutions’ reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests

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Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting—operate as false solutions that not only fail to effectively reduce emissions, but also prolong the […]

Education

Living in substandard housing linked to kids’ missed schooling and poor grades

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Children living in substandard housing in England miss 15 more school days and achieve worse test scores in English and math than their peers living in better quality housing, suggests research published online in the […]

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Top Stories

  • ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: How the ancients invested in precious metals

    “All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments,” proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st–2nd century CE), the Roman poet.This post was originally published on this site
  • Treasure the emotional connections to the clothes you have and style could be a whole lot more sustainable

    With January sales around the corner, another flood of unwanted clothes risks drowning our wardrobes and the planet.This post was originally published on this site
  • Can you ‘live long and prosper’ by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that ‘highly illogical?’

    It might seem worlds away from the Earth we know. But can “Star Trek” teach us anything about the economics of our own society?This post was originally published on this site

Highlights

  • Why central bankers look to the ‘stars’ when setting interest rates
  • AI model uses social media posts to predict unemployment rates ahead of official data
  • ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: How the ancients invested in precious metals
WHAT’S NEW
  • Why shoppers buy fast fashion even if they disagree with it
  • The ‘pawprint economy’ is booming—and it offers huge opportunities for tourism
  • ‘Lifting and shifting’ workers is not always the best answer
  • Early motherhood carries wage penalty, while delaying pays off
WHAT’S INTERESTING
  • Citizens have greater trust in parliaments with higher female representation, new research finds
  • There’s little evidence tech is much help stopping school shootings
  • Hidden bias gives ‘swing state’ voters more influence over US trade policy
  • Report challenges climate change as sole trigger of Syrian Civil War, exposing governance failures in drought response
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  • New analytics show US schools can adopt later start times without raising costs

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