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LONDON—Heathrow Airport said businesses operating at the international hub need to train and recruit about 12,500 additional staff to meet demand during peak-travel periods and to avoid the travel chaos seen in recent months. The airport, Europe’s biggest before the Covid-19 pandemic, said it is establishing a recruitment task force to fill the vacancies and avoid the delays and long lines that disrupted passengers during the summer. One of the biggest challenges in that recruitment…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For the past few months, religion has never been far from U.S. headlines. The Supreme Court has overturned constitutional abortion rights. Congress is…

Credit: Shutterstock Imagine you have years-worth of research and it is dismissed by a 15-word rejection letter from a journal editor. That has happened to us. Or peer reviewers write…

Marvel fans may have been disappointed with the D23 Expo, but the resulting memes have been glorious. That sad, weeping sound you heard last night? No, that wasn’t the overworked and underappreciated Marvel Studios VFX department. Rather, it was the combined sound of all the fans who were waiting on some major D23 news. Unfortunately, Kevin Feige shot his biggest guns at San Diego Comic-Con, and we’re still reeling from those announcements. That set the bar quite high for D23, and fans could not hold back their…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain All along West Africa's coastline, women play a vital role in the fisheries sector as processors, traders and distributors. But they face many…

A long, brutal heatwave is expected to grip California at least through the holiday weekend, stressing the power grid. Officials are begging residents to conserve electricity in an effort to prevent outages. The state is now in its second day of a “Flex Alert” issued by the state’s power grid operator, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Under the Flex Alert, Californians are urged to voluntarily curb their electricity use between 4PM and 9PM. That’s the time of day when the grid is under the most…

Remaining sensitivity of forest productivity after accounting for contemporary climate variability, leaf shape and habit, and biome. Credit: Environmental Research: Ecology (2022). DOI: 10.1088/2752-664X/ac6e4a A new study out today in the first issue of Environmental Research: Ecology assessed effects of past and current climate variability on global forest productivity. The work highlights sensitive regions where forests…

Children living with grandmothers benefited more than children living solely with their grandfathers. Credit: Ekaterina Shakharova/Unsplash Over the past 20 years, housing prices in Canada have increased at double the rate of income growth. As a result, a growing number of Canadian households are grappling with housing affordability.…

Can Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal and half a dozen other historical monuments, that annually attract millions of visitors, cope with the exploding human and automobile population? This question is baffling the town planners and the ruling party politicians who look for answers to sort out the great urban predicament. Agra district’s population has crossed five million. Keeping pace is the phenomenal increase in the number of vehicles on the roads. In addition to more than two million registered vehicles, Agra also sees…

President Biden's administration is backing up its funding for heat disaster prevention with a website to keep people informed. Fast Company notes the White House has launched a Heat.gov website to help the public and authorities understand the dangers of extreme heat and reduce the health risks. The 11-agency collaboration offers maps for current and expected temperature spikes across the US, prevention guidance and data-driven tools. Among the resources are a CDC-made Heat & Health Tracker that shows both historic…