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 E-Mail SPOKANE, Wash.-- Breast cancer screening took a sizeable hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests new research that showed that the number of screening mammograms completed in a large group of women living in Washington State plummeted by nearly half. Published today in JAMA Network Open, the study found the steepest drop-offs among women of color and those living in rural communities. "Detecting breast cancer at an early stage dramatically increases the chances that treatment will ...

 E-Mail ATLANTA--Absentee property ownership in many small college football towns has a negative impact on permanent residents of those communities, according to a study by a Georgia State University geosciences researcher. The research is the first known attempt to quantify and map local geographies of gameday home investments. Each weekend in the fall tens of thousands of football fans flood into college towns to watch their favorite teams kick off against rival schools. Many of them stay in...

SIXTH TONE SIXTH TONE Chinese Abroad Caught Faking COVID-19 Tests to Return Home Three men and the companies they work for in Nigeria have been temporarily barred from applying for health codes needed for passage to China. The Chinese Consulate in Lagos has announced punishments for two domestic companies based in Nigeria after their employees committed COVID-19 test fraud in order to return to China. According to the consulate’s notice on Thursday, the three men had fraudulently obtained neg...

Credit: SMART FM E-scooters as a new micro-mobility service: SMART researchers explore the potential of e-scooter sharing as a replacement for short-distance transit in Singapore SMART researchers found that e-scooters are not only a last-mile solution to complement transit services, but also provide a mobility service for short-distance transit trips - Through a stated preference survey and mixed logit models, SMART researchers found that fare, transit transfer, and transit walking distance ar...

Race to Carbon Neutrality: Electric Vehicles in China and the United States The year of the Ox came riding in on an electric vehicle (EV) with news that both the United States and Chinese governments were accelerating efforts to expand EV markets. In 2020, China sold 41 percent of the world’s EVs and now, the United States wants to be in the race too. On January 1 of this year, China’s Ministry of Finance slashed subsidies on electric, plug-in hybrids, and fuel cell automobiles by 20 percen...

Already facing water stress, much of Latin America (such as the western slopes of the Andes and the dry corridor of Central America) is projected to experience intensified periods of drought in the coming decades, further complicating development efforts in the region. At the same time, heavy floods are the most common natural disaster in the region, disrupting life for countless people. According to the World Bank, in Latin America and the Caribbean alone roughly $14 billion per year is requir...

Already facing water stress, much of Latin America (such as the western slopes of the Andes and the dry corridor of Central America) is projected to

Climate Change, Armed Conflict and Humanitarian Organizations: Defining Their Role, Greening Their Response Humanitarian actors play a critical role in responding to climate-related crises, armed conflict, or a combination of both. Their response comes with an environmental cost. Humanitarian staff air travel, for instance, represents a significant source of carbon emissions and humanitarian logistics remain heavily dependent on fossil fuels. As the demand for humanitarian response climbs and c...

SIXTH TONE SIXTH TONE ‘Cool-Off Period’ Greatly Lowers Divorce Rate, China Says Thanks to a controversial new deterrent, 72% fewer divorces were granted between January and March compared with the previous quarter. A historically low number of divorces were granted in China after a controversial law to discourage couples from legally separating came into effect this year. In the first quarter of 2021, only 296,000 couples received divorces, a 72% drop compared with the fourth quarter of las...

At night in southern Africa, primates called bushbabies emit spooky vocalizations that sound a like crying children. What may be even spookier is the possible future facing these adorable creatures.