Without climate action, a study by the ILR school shows that 35% of apparel-producing areas in Bangladesh could be flooded.

Roger Gilbert, professor of English says, “I plan to use her on almost all my correspondence from now on. I do have stamps with other people I admire and I don’t want to neglect them, but for now at least, she will be my go-to stamp.”

“Efforts to reduce Beijing’s sense of urgency over Taiwan could help limit the degree of China-Russia alignment, strengthening the overall U.S. strategic position,” says A&S and Brooks School Professor Jessica Chen Weiss. “And Taiwan needs more time to muster the resources and political will to develop an asymmetric, whole-of-society defense.”

 This article discusses how the pandemic lockdown led to the growth of birdwatching. It notes that the Merlin app by the Lab of Ornithology saw a significant increase in downloads, and the lab's bird cams doubled in April and May 2020.

“There may be some small role in truly green hydrogen in a decarbonised future, but this is largely a marketing creation by the oil and gas industry that has been hugely overhyped,” says Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology.

Vitaly Shmatikov, professor of computer science, advises on password security.

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, associate professor of information science, discusses an AI tool created to alert a user when conversations through text messages become tense.

“Managers are under so much pressure to deliver earnings that they’re using a lot more accounting than they have in the past to make their earnings look good,” says Sanjeev Bhojraj, professor of asset management and accounting. “If my dollar of earnings has no cash or negative cash, that’s poor quality because all the earnings that I have are just accounting.” 

Jurors in the Murdaugh trial visited the crime scene, a rare occurrence. “It’s a gamble,” says Valerie Hans, professor of law. “It’s another way to humanize the individual to show this is the environment they lived in. But also, he was a wealthy man, so there’s a question mark.”

“This is a neat approach to queen banking,” says Scott McArt, assistant professor of entomology. “Poor queens are one of the biggest problems in beekeeping today, so novel tactics like this could greatly help improve the country's beekeeping industry.” 

“There’s no free lunch,” Sarah Kreps, professor of government and public policy, says of the requirements the Biden administration is imposing on semiconductor companies that accept government funds.   

“The fact that the U.S. clearly has so much power to take action against a geopolitical rival is a significant concern,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy “There’s clearly been a splintering of the G20.”