Tag: Decline

Migratory fish species are in drastic decline, a new UN report details

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Migratory species don’t travel with a passport, but they cross borders all the time. This makes the animals’ conservation a uniquely challenging, international effort.

That effort needs a lot of work, researchers argue in the first-ever “State of the World’s Migratory Species” report published February 12 by the United Nations Environment Programme.

The report is the most comprehensive tally of the over 1,000 species protected under an international treaty called the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of

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The Moral Decline of Elite Universities

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In the spring of 1994, the top executives of the seven largest tobacco companies testified under oath before Congress that nicotine is not addictive. Nearly 30 years later, Americans remember their laughable claims, their callous indifference, their lawyerly inability to speak plainly, and the general sense that they did not regard themselves as part of a shared American community. Those pampered executives, behaving with such Olympian detachment, put the pejorative big in Big Tobacco.

Last week, something similar happened. Thirty

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Used car prices have been in decline since April – is your model among the biggest fallers?

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After months of accelerating used car prices sending the average cost of a second-hand motor spiralling to £18,000, vehicle values have officially hit the brakes and gone into reverse, experts say.

In fact, industry insiders claim used motor prices have been in gradual decline since April, having risen to record-highs following unrelenting growth over consecutive months dating back to the pandemic and an extended short supply of new cars. 

We exclusively reveal which models have seen the biggest declines in

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Tracing the Decline of Trust in America

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Plus: A case for a new veep

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Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.

Question of the Week

Do you trust America’s institutions more than, less than, or as much as you did a decade ago? Why? Feel free to respond generally or to

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Brazil Reports a Big Decline in Amazon Deforestation Last Month – Mother Jones

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Birds eye view of the Amazon River.Alexander Gerst/Flickr

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by at least 60 percent in July compared to the same month last year, the environment minister, Marina Silva, has told the Guardian.

The good news comes ahead of a regional summit that aims to prevent South America’s largest biome from hitting a calamitous tipping

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Mothers with three daughters can develop a significant decline in wellbeing, study suggests

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Mothers with three daughters can develop a significant decline in wellbeing, study suggests

  • Third same sex child led to parents experiencing significant decline in wellbeing
  • Parents with two same sex children were also more likely to try for another child

By Xantha Leatham Deputy Science Editor

Updated:

It is said that women are more likely to want a daughter than a son.

But mothers with multiple children, beware: a study suggests

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Are we REALLY at a ‘turning point in the fight against Alzheimer’s’? Breakthrough new drugs halt cruel disease’s decline… but experts warn crippling side effects (and cost) may outweigh any benefits

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It has already been heralded as the ‘turning point’ in the decades-long war against Alzheimer’s.

But questions about whether donanemab — and two similar drugs — are really the answer to combating the devastating disease remain unanswered.

Landmark trial findings published today revealed that donanemab, given as a once-monthly infusion, slowed the decline of Alzheimer’s by up to 60 per cent.

Patients in the earliest stages of the memory-robbing disease were spared from the inevitable worsening of their symptoms.

Pharmaceutical

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How the Indictment Reversed Trump’s Decline

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It’s a measure of Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party that his unprecedented criminal indictment is strengthening, not loosening, his grip.

Trump was on the defensive after November’s midterm election because many in the GOP blamed voter resistance to him for the party’s disappointing results. But five months later he has reestablished himself as a commanding front-runner in the Republican presidential primary, even as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has delivered the first of what could be several criminal

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Demokraten arbeiten seit 100 Jahren am amerikanischen „Decline by Design“: Baumwolle

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Die Demokraten haben Amerikas Ansehen seit 100 Jahren absichtlich untergraben und haben in letzter Zeit begonnen, entsprechende Ergebnisse zu sehen, sagte Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., in einem Interview, das am Sonntag auf „Life, Liberty & Levin“ ausgestrahlt wurde.

Der Republikaner aus Arkansas, Autor von „Only the Strong“, sagte gegenüber Fox News, als er sein Buch schrieb, Präsident Bidens katastrophaler Rückzug aus Afghanistan ließ ihn analysieren, wie weit Amerika in so kurzer Zeit im Inland und im globalen Ansehen gefallen ist.

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