As the human and economic costs of climate disasters continue to mount, Canada faces a choice. It can continue to respond to disasters as they unfold — with the attendant economic, social, and health harms — or it can proactively prepare for them, mitigating the worst of the damages or avoiding them altogether. According to a new expert panel report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), bridging disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation practices is crucial to reducing exposure and vulnerability to disasters and bolstering public safety in a changing climate.

Reducing the energy industry’s carbon footprint in the sunshine state is impeding a large carnivore’s paw-print. A study is the first to document the effect of utility-scale solar energy (USSE) facilities in Peninsular Florida on both habitat suitability and connectivity for any large carnivore. The study examined 45 USSE facilities equaling 27,688 acres. The findings suggest a substantial bias in locating USSE facilities within rural and undeveloped lands, which may provide connectivity that is sufficient for Florida panthers to roam, live and breed. Most facilities were installed on grasslands and pastures, impacting panthers’ ability to move through wildlife corridors, which they need for dispersal and survival.

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was successful twice in the latest round of calls for starting grants of the European Research Council (ERC): Johannes Brumm, Professor of Macroeconomics, receives the funding for his project "SOLG for Policy", in which he investigates how long-term fiscal policy measures distribute resources and risks across generations. Matti Schneider, Junior Professor of Computational Micromechanics, simulates properties of industrially relevant materials in his funded project "BeyondRVE."

“Sports Analytics” is an invaluable book which brings together the authors’ ideas and insights on sporting events, players and games. It focuses on both the statistics of the sporting events as well as the betting on the events. With its collection of papers which apply analytic techniques to popular sports, the book is a great resource for coaches, players, and sports bettors.