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New labourer cards issued by the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) will only be valid for two years from tomorrow (1 February). Extensions beyond the period will also require people to send in proof they are actually working in the role, amid concerns labourer cards are issued to those who should be on other schemes.

Robot teacher and students work together at blackboard at university classroom. Digital assistant ... [+] and people brainstorm at board in college class. Artificial intelligence. Flat vector illustration. getty AI raises hard questions of our teaching model. I suggest a few solutions. A colleague said to me the following at a conference, “90% of what

Clinical visits by patients suffering ocular surface eye conditions more than doubled during times when ambient particulate matter from air pollution was in the atmosphere, signaling a possible association between climate change and ocular health, according to a new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study, published Wednesday in the journal

Science & Nature The big news in Earth science this year was all about climate change, with extreme weather, flooding and drought attributed to...

El Salvador would also receive $1 billion in lending from the World Bank and $1 billion from the Inter-American Development Bank Under the IMF agreement, El Salvador would change a legal requirement making businesses accept Bitcoin as payment Since 2021, the IMF has been against El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law, asking the government to “narrow its

Science & Nature Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and...

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN —  Anger and frustration from developing nations vulnerable to climate impacts are likely to linger following the conclusion of the climate change summit in Azerbaijan, COP29, as nations adopted a $300 billion global finance target to help poorer nations cope with climate change, a deal that many recipient nations slammed as severely insufficient.

Science & Nature As climate change accelerates, scientists are sounding the alarm about its potentially devastating impact on the world's food supply. In a...