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The cost of climate change on economic growth
New study Examines Impact of Rising Global Temperatures on GDP. From crop damage to cooling failures at cloud-based data centers, climate change affects a wide variety of economic sectors. It’s unclear whether a country’s economy can bounce back each year from these impacts or if global temperature increases cause permanent and cumulative impacts on the […]
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IOP Publishing honoured for its contribution to the literature of physics, astronomy, and mathematics
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has been honoured with the 2022 Physics-Astronomy-Math (PAM) Division Award. Granted by the Special Libraries Association, the award recognises individuals or organisations that provide a significant contribution to the literature of physics, astronomy, or mathematics, and acknowledges work that demonstrably improves the exchange of information in one or more of these areas. […]
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Dry lightning sparks some of the most destructive and costly wildfires in California, study finds
A new study has found dry lightning outbreaks are the leading cause of some of the largest wildfire outbreaks in modern California history. Despite this, dry lightning has remained largely understudied across this region – until now. Researchers from the School of the Environment at Washington State University, Vancouver, have developed the first long-term climatology […]
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IOP Publishing announce Nuclear Fusion will become fully Open Access
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has announced that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) journal Nuclear Fusion (NF) will become fully open access to reflect the increasing demand for more accessible and open science and funders’ mandates requiring authors to publish their work in open access (OA) journals. From January 2023, all articles published in NF, the […]
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IOP Publishing extends open access publishing with its first three Transformative Agreements in the US
Trio of agreements will support greater access to high quality US research worldwide IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed three new Transformative Agreements (TAs) that will accelerate open access (OA) publishing and extend access to high quality research in the United States (US). The three-year read and publish (R&P) agreements with Princeton University, the University of […]
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New study finds global forest area per capita has decreased by over 60%
Over the past 60 years, the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million hectares, a loss that contributed to the more than 60% decline in global forest area per capita. This loss threatens the future of biodiversity and impacts the lives of 1.6 billion people worldwide, according to a new study published today by […]
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82% of European physics researchers are unaware of Plan S
Findings are from a new global study ‘OA in physics: researcher perspectives’ commissioned by leading learned society physics publishers. A new global study from AIP Publishing, the American Physical Society (APS), IOP Publishing (IOPP) and Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) has found that 82% of physics researchers based in Europe are unaware of Plan S. […]
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IOP Publishing offers authors discounted OA publishing across all its journals
The new policy is part of society publisher’s commitment to increase global equity and inclusion in open access publishing Researchers from countries with lower-middle income economies, as categorised by the World Bank, can now choose open access (OA) publishing in any of IOP Publishing’s (IOPP) journals for a flat charge of £500. The policy builds […]
