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Climate change hits indebted businesses hardest, new research suggests

  • Written by Huan Kuang, Assistant Professor of Finance, Bryant University
imageClimate change leads to investment droughts, too. mgstudyo/E+/Getty Images

Climate change poses the biggest risks to the most vulnerable people, and the same is true for businesses: Highly leveraged companies – those that have accumulated too much debt – are uniquely susceptible to climate shocks. That’s what we found in a...

Read more: Climate change hits indebted businesses hardest, new research suggests

Climate change hits indebted businesses hardest, new research suggests

  • Written by Huan Kuang, Assistant Professor of Finance, Bryant University
imageClimate change leads to investment droughts, too. mgstudyo/E+/Getty Images

Climate change poses the biggest risks to the most vulnerable people, and the same is true for businesses: Highly leveraged companies – those that have accumulated too much debt – are uniquely susceptible to climate shocks. That’s what we found in a...

Read more: Climate change hits indebted businesses hardest, new research suggests

As Ohio and other states decide on abortion, anti-abortion activists look to rebrand themselves as not religious

  • Written by Anne Whitesell, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Miami University
imageRoman Catholic nuns pray with anti-abortion activists across the street from a Planned Parenthood clinic in New York in September 2023.Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Abortion has become an increasingly polarized, political issue in the United States since 2022, when the Supreme Court overturnedRoe v. Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right...

Read more: As Ohio and other states decide on abortion, anti-abortion activists look to rebrand themselves as...

As Ohio and other states decide on abortion, anti-abortion activists look to rebrand themselves as not religious

  • Written by Anne Whitesell, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Miami University
imageRoman Catholic nuns pray with anti-abortion activists across the street from a Planned Parenthood clinic in New York in September 2023.Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Abortion has become an increasingly polarized, political issue in the United States since 2022, when the Supreme Court overturnedRoe v. Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right...

Read more: As Ohio and other states decide on abortion, anti-abortion activists look to rebrand themselves as...

Why are US politicians so old? And why do they want to stay in office?

  • Written by Mary Kate Cary, Adjunct Professor of Politics and Director of Think Again, University of Virginia
imageDonald Trump, left, and Joe Biden, both photographed on Nov. 2, 2023, are two of the three oldest men ever to serve as president.Trump: Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Biden: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

When former President Bill Clinton showed up at the White House in early 2023, he was there to join President Joe Biden to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the...

Read more: Why are US politicians so old? And why do they want to stay in office?

Why are US politicians so old? And why do they want to stay in office?

  • Written by Mary Kate Cary, Adjunct Professor of Politics and Director of Think Again, University of Virginia
imageDonald Trump, left, and Joe Biden, both photographed on Nov. 2, 2023, are two of the three oldest men ever to serve as president.Trump: Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Biden: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

When former President Bill Clinton showed up at the White House in early 2023, he was there to join President Joe Biden to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the...

Read more: Why are US politicians so old? And why do they want to stay in office?

Higher education can be elusive for asylum-seekers and immigrants

  • Written by Kerri Evans, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageA study found that refugees want more guidance on how to navigate higher education in the U.S.FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

Pursuing higher education is often a pathway to higher income and overall better well-being. College graduates are less likely to rely on public benefits. Therefore, it’s beneficial for education leaders and policymakers...

Read more: Higher education can be elusive for asylum-seekers and immigrants

Why do our noses get snotty when we are sick? A school nurse explains the powers of mucus

  • Written by Kristin Ahrens, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Adjunct Instructor of Nursing at Purdue Global, Purdue University
imageUse a tissue and wash your hands after a booger explosion.Joshua Wachs/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDimage

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Why do our noses get snotty when we are sick? – Veronica P., age 5, Panama City, Florida

Not many...

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How global warming shakes the Earth: Seismic data show ocean waves gaining strength as the planet warms

  • Written by Richard Aster, Professor of Geophysics and Department Head, Colorado State University
imageStorm Ciarán pounded England's Newhaven Lighthouse and harbor wall on Nov. 4, 2023.AP Photo/Kin Cheung

As oceans waves rise and fall, they apply forces to the sea floor below and generate seismic waves. These seismic waves are so powerful and widespread that they show up as a steady thrum on seismographs, the same instruments used to...

Read more: How global warming shakes the Earth: Seismic data show ocean waves gaining strength as the planet...

How global warming shakes the Earth: Seismic data show ocean waves gaining strength as the planet warms

  • Written by Richard Aster, Professor of Geophysics and Department Head, Colorado State University
imageStorm Ciarán pounded England's Newhaven Lighthouse and harbor wall on Nov. 4, 2023.AP Photo/Kin Cheung

As oceans waves rise and fall, they apply forces to the sea floor below and generate seismic waves. These seismic waves are so powerful and widespread that they show up as a steady thrum on seismographs, the same instruments used to...

Read more: How global warming shakes the Earth: Seismic data show ocean waves gaining strength as the planet...

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  5. Israel-Hamas war puts China's strategy of 'balanced diplomacy' in the Middle East at risk
  6. When science showed in the 1970s that gas stoves produced harmful indoor air pollution, the industry reached for tobacco's PR playbook
  7. Defending space for free discussion, empathy and tolerance on campus is a challenge during Israel-Hamas war
  8. Biden's executive order puts civil rights in the middle of the AI regulation discussion
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  10. We analyzed over 3.5 million written teacher comments about students and found racial bias
  11. The world's boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward
  12. Understanding that chronic back pain originates from within the brain could lead to quicker recovery, a new study finds
  13. What is intersectionality? A scholar of organizational behavior explains
  14. NASA's robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand what asteroids are made of – setting the stage for miners to follow someday
  15. Modern medicine has its scientific roots in the Middle Ages − how the logic of vulture brain remedies and bloodletting lives on today
  16. Biden administration executive order tackles AI risks, but lack of privacy laws limits reach
  17. Kristallnacht, 85 years ago, marks the point Hitler moved from an emotional antisemitism to a systematic antisemitism of laws and government violence
  18. Texas tried to fix its teacher shortage by lowering requirements − the result was more new teachers, but at lower salaries
  19. Secure attachment to both parents − not just mothers − boosts children’s healthy development
  20. How Houthi attacks affect both the Israel-Hamas conflict and Yemen's own civil war – and could put pressure on US, Saudi Arabia
  21. Gaza bombing adds to the generations of Palestinians displaced from their homes
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  26. Rupert Murdoch's empire was built on a shrewd understanding of how media and power work
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