Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of energy and the environment
2016 report from researchers at Colorado State and Harvard universities that provides the first overall assessment of the economic value of America’s national parks and programs offered by the National Park Service.
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2016 study in Public Finance Review that tries to gauge the public’s interest in new sources of revenue to fund road construction and maintenance.
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A 2016 roundup of studies and papers that provide perspective on the ongoing debate over a proposed U.S. carbon tax.
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2016 study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology that looks at how new tracking technology could help prevent animal poaching and international trade involving illegal wildlife parts.
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2005 report in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine that looks at the prevalence and characteristics of alligator attacks on humans in the U.S. from 1948 to 2004.
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2016 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that provides one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the many fluid dimensions of population movement across societies.
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2016 tip sheet offering a list of weather-related resources to aid journalists in covering hurricanes and tropical storms.
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2016 study in Health Affairs that looks at the effectiveness of Medicaid programs in getting enrollees, who are twice as likely to smoke as the general population, to stop using tobacco.
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2016 study published in PNAS that looks at the benefits and drawbacks of alternative approaches to recovering depleted fisheries worldwide.
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2016 tip sheet that offers journalists several tools and sources they can use to localize the larger, national story of emissions reductions.
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