Far from being mere entertainment, multiplayer online games (MOGs) have the power to create meaningful change—not just for players but for companies and society at large. A recent study by Wu and Chang (2025) reveals how these digital spaces can cultivate self-awareness, brand loyalty, and even social connection.

A study by Bondy, Roth, and Sager (2020) uncovers a significant link between air pollution and crime rates in London. Drawing on more than 1.8 million crime records from 2004–2005 and high-resolution pollution data from 96 monitoring stations, the authors demonstrate that short-term increases in air pollution correspond to measurable rises in criminal activity—even at levels considered safe by existing regulatory standards.

Rice is a staple food for more than half of the world’s population, yet its production is increasingly under threat due to climate change, soil degradation, and stagnating yields. As global food security becomes more precarious, researchers are actively seeking sustainable solutions to meet the growing demand while protecting the environment. A recent global study by Yao et al. (2025) offers a compelling strategy: integrating legumes into rice cropping systems.

Soil carbon sequestration has long been championed as a promising strategy for mitigating climate change. By drawing carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere and storing it in soils through plants and organic matter, this process is often seen as a natural solution to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations. However, a recent comprehensive review by Don et al. (2023) reveals that the role of soil carbon sequestration is frequently misunderstood, miscommunicated, and, at times, overstated in its potential to counter climate change.

Climate change is not solely a technological or policy challenge—it is fundamentally a human one. As Chatterjee et al. (2024) emphasize, transforming how people think, feel, and act is just as crucial as cutting emissions or advancing renewable energy. Their comprehensive review underscores the pivotal role of communication, particularly through modern digital media, in fostering climate-friendly behaviors among individuals and communities.

For decades, economists and environmental scientists have grappled with a fundamental question: Can economic growth ultimately lead to environmental improvement? This question lies at the heart of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, which posits that pollution initially rises with income but eventually declines after reaching a certain income threshold. In a recent study, Wu et al. (2025) offer a novel contribution to this ongoing debate by examining how the spatial distribution of economic activity—specifically, the trade-off between firm agglomeration and (...) dispersion—shapes the long-term relationship between economic development and environmental quality. (shrink)

Botanic gardens and arboreta are more than just beautiful green spaces—they are living repositories of plant diversity. A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution offers the most comprehensive global analysis to date of these “ex situ” (outside of its natural environment) living plant collections, drawing on a century of data from 50 institutions across five continents.

Theo số liệu nghiên cứu, Việt Nam thường xuyên đứng trong nhóm 10 nước có các thành phố có chỉ số ô nhiễm không khí (AQI) cao nhất châu Á. Ô nhiễm không khí gây ra nhiều rất nhiều hệ lụy, nó tác động xấu đến sức khỏe con người và được xem là tác nhân thúc đẩy sự di cư và chảy máu chất xám.

Việc các khu vực thiên nhiên bị xâm lăng bởi các giống loài thực vật, động vật lạ khá phổ biến. Ở Việt Nam đã từng có nạn ốc bươu vàng gây điêu đứng, tới nay vẫn còn nhiều di chứng. Chẳng hạn, ngay hiện giờ nếu quan sát các ruộng đồng, đầm nước... vẫn bắt gặp rất nhiều trứng và cả ốc bươu lớn bé, đã lai tạp qua thời gian. Chúng tàn phá ruộng đồng, cả lúa, rau, lẫn (...) cỏ do rất phàm ăn. Tuy vậy, để có kết luận về mức tàn phá của nạn xâm nhập sinh học, trên phương diện kinh tế, nghiên cứu của Turbelin et al. [1] có giá trị thông tin quan trọng. (shrink)

Tốc độ tăng của tổn thất kinh tế gây ra bởi nạn xâm nhập sinh học cao hơn gấp 2 lần so với các loại tổn thất khác do thiên nhiên gây ra.

Previous Responsible Innovation (RI) research has provided valuable insights on the value conflicts inherent to societally desirable innovation. By observing the responses of firms to these conflicts, Value-sensitive Absorptive Capacity (VAC) captures the organizational capabilities to become sensitive to these value conflicts and thus, innovate more responsibly. In this article, we construct a survey instrument to assess VAC, based on previous work by CSR and RI scholars. The construct and concurrent validity of the instrument were tested in an empirical study, (...) including 109 employees of 30 food manufacturing firms. The results from the survey were then compared with the conceptual VAC dimensions. With this comparison, we do not only contribute to the substantiation of the VAC construct, but we also show how inductive and deductive approaches can be combined to build theory regarding RI in a transdisciplinary manner. (shrink)

MacKay and Robinson (2016) claim that some legal procedures that regulate organ donations (VAC, opt-in, opt-out) bypass people's rational capacities and thus are “potentially morally worse than MAC”, which only employs a very mild form of coercion. We provide a critique of their argumentation and defend the opposite thesis: MAC is potentially morally worse than the three other options.

Thông tin sai lệch gây ra mối đe dọa đáng kể cho nền dân chủ, sức khỏe cộng đồng và sự bền vững môi trường. Những tuyên bố sai sự thật về vắc-xin, biến đổi khí hậu và tính toàn vẹn của bầu cử có thể tồn tại lâu sau khi bị vạch trần, tiếp tục định hình dư luận và hành vi. Để chống lại ảnh hưởng dai dẳng này, các nhà nghiên cứu đã chuyển sang tiêm chủng tâm (...) lý (psychological inoculation), một phương pháp lấy cảm hứng từ việc tiêm chủng trong y học. (shrink)