LAWRENCE, May 30, 2023 — Any parent can tell you that work doesn’t stop when you leave the office and go home. Yet national and international economic statistics only consider the work that happens “at the market,” or outside the home — not caring for children, cooking, cleaning or caring for elders, tasks largely handled […]
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Book details how Native Americans of the Pacific Coast sustainably managed resources
January 10, 2023 – For at least 10,000 years before contact with European settlers, Native American societies from Alaska to California conserved and interacted with natural resources using a more sustainable and spiritual approach than anything seen in the modern industrial world. A new book, “Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations: The World Raven […]
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Study Examines How Media Around the World Frame Climate Change News
LAWRENCE, Aug. 14, 2019 – Climate change is a problem facing countries around the world, but media coverage of the topic differs from one nation to the next. A new study from the University of Kansas shows the way media frame climate change coverage can be predicted by several national factors, yet none tend to […]
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Surprising new study redraws family tree of domesticated and ‘wild’ horses
Lawrence, KS, Feb. 26, 2018 – There are no such things as “wild” horses anymore. Research published in Science overturns a long-held assumption that Przewalski’s horses, native to the Eurasian steppes, are the last wild horse species on Earth. Instead, phylogenetic analysis shows Przewalski’s horses are feral, descended from the earliest-known instance of horse domestication […]
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‘Weather whiplash’ triggered by changing climate will degrade Midwest’s drinking water
LAWRENCE, KS, March 29, 2017 – One consequence of global climate change is the likelihood of more extreme seesawing between drought and flood, a phenomenon dubbed “weather whiplash.” Now, researchers at the University of Kansas have published findings in the journal Biogeochemistry showing weather whiplash in the American Midwest’s agricultural regions will drive the deterioration […]
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Authoritarian regimes use rhetoric to legitimize their power, despite no progress with democracy
LAWRENCE, Nov. 30, 2016 – Leaders of authoritarian regimes in Central Asia have been able to use rhetoric to define their power as legitimate to the public despite practices of human rights violations and clamping down on dissent, according to a new study by a University of Kansas expert on international relations. “Those governments have […]
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New map details threat of Zika across Europe, US
LAWRENCE, KS, Aug. 10, 2016 – With Zika sparking anxiety at the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil, and now being transmitted in Florida through contact with mosquitoes, accurately mapping the distribution of the virus is increasingly urgent. Accounting for a host of often-overlooked drivers of transmission, a team of University of Kansas researchers has mapped […]