New research shows that Australia is lagging well behind Europe when it comes to digitised border control, adopting a “staggering” level of secrecy that is threatening individual democratic rights.

New research from Simon Fraser University (SFU) Biological Sciences researchers finds that Pacific salmon are facing escalating threats due to a lack of coordinated conservation policy and oversight.

Their study, published this week in FACETS outlines how the existing suite of environmental regulations across multiple jurisdictions in British Columbia is failing to manage the cumulative impacts of industrial development and climate change on salmon and watersheds, and suggests opportunities for reform.

In a new study, researchers examined the relative contributions of siting decisions (i.e., where to locate infrastructure projects) and demographic shifts after projects are built to current disparities in exposure to polluting U.S. fossil fuel plants. The study found little evidence that plants were disproportionately located in counties with higher Black populations, on average. But it also found that the share of the Black population grew in the decades after the first fossil fuel plant was built in a county.

In a new study, researchers sought to gain a more thorough understanding of how participants of interorganizational collaborations can identify expertise that could be leveraged toward their organizations’ independent goals. Their findings, highlighting the importance of stability of the people involved (not just stability of the participating organizations), can inform the work of interorganizational health care alliances.

Contingency management, which offers people small rewards for progress in recovering from drug addiction, was linked to fewer deaths in veterans with methamphetamine, cocaine or prescription drug issues.

A new study led by the International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP) has investigated how corporate industries influence individuals, organisations or governments to not act in the best interest of the environment and human health.