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A new study of women in lower socioeconomic circumstances in British Columbia found midwifery care to be an effective model of prenatal care, significantly lowering the likelihood of preterm births, and small and low birth-weight babies.
The thousands of women who volunteer in low-income countries’ healthcare systems deserve proper training, appropriate remuneration and the chance to be heard in decision-making, argue Maisam Najafizada and Jill Allison of Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Amid concern about groundwater contamination, a ballot measure would force new fracking wells to keep their distance from homes. Another, sponsored by the oil industry, would force local government to compensate property owners for any lost value that results.
Los Angeles is proposing to build a 20-mile pipeline to transform Hoover Dam into a pumped storage hydropower project. It’s certainly feasible – except for the ongoing political and legal conflict over the Colorado River.
Jennifer McHenry PhD Student, Florida State University
Heather Welch Researcher in Ecosystem Dynamics, University of California
Marine mammals, sea turtles and other species don’t always stay within the boundaries of ocean reserves. Two scientists say marine preserves should be designed with enough flexibility to extend protections to where animals migrate.
Kimberley Davies Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dalhousie University
The need for new protections for North Atlantic right whales in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence underscore these animals’ dire situation – and how little we still know about them.
Joanne Porter Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University Orkney Campus
Clara Mackenzie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
The scuttling of 52 German warships off Scotland nearly a century ago during World War I spawned a habitat for a diverse array of crab, lobster, starfish, sea urchin and fish. Now bottom trawling and climate change is imperiling that refuge, say two researchers.
Jefferson Keith Moore Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
Over the next two centuries, warming oceans could trap nutrients at the poles and starve out many of the world’s fisheries, according to a recent study.
Rapidly advancing technology allows scientists to find elusive sharks by detecting their DNA signature in the water. That could help devise more effective protections for predators decimated by overfishing and other threats.
Tropical coastal mangroves are increasingly found in the world’s temperate zones. Samantha Chapman, a biologist at Villanova University, explains how her research has documented their dramatic growth into Florida’s salt marsh turf and why that raises questions about the future of coastlines.
Suwar Magazine spoke to Suleiman Yousef, an Assyrian Christian and researcher who specializes in Syria’s minorities, about the local Assyrian community and the challenges it faces as hard-line Islamist groups gain more traction in the country.
Syria Deeply spoke to residents of Aleppo, the besieged rebel-controlled community that recently abandoned Syrian currency in favor of the Turkish lira. While some were supportive of the measure, others worried that it may open Syria up to “economic occupation.”.
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