Climate change takes a chronic psychological toll
Heat waves, stretches of wet weather, long-term climate warming, and hurricanes all take a toll on mental health, researchers reported yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. All of these phenomena are expected to become more frequent and...
For greener corporations, try lady bosses
Each woman appointed to a corporate board reduces the firm’s risk of being hit with an environmental lawsuit by 1.5%, according to a new analysis published in the Journal of Corporate Finance. In fact, board gender diversity is among the top three factors predicting a...
The health care industry is failing to take its own pulse on sustainability
The health care industry has a lot in common with environmental protection efforts: both seek to improve health and well-being, the one by treating individual patients, the other by ensuring the environmental systems that nurture humans and other life are intact. The...
