Coasts and estuaries are highly valued and provide important resources for communities. These environments provide ecosystem services including food, recreational space, protection from storms, and ...

Newswise — A recent publication in the renowned journal Science, authored by prominent researchers hailing from the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, Yale University, and the University ...

“Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project”: that’s the headline from reports on the latest mass replication project sponsored by the Center for Open Science (COS).

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

Environmental social science is the application of social science – broadly the study of the relationship between individuals in their context within society – and its application to our understanding ...

Penn researchers found that overstating cause-and-effect relationships is a growing problem in the social sciences. In an August study that analyzed nearly 200,000 papers, researchers at Penn’s ...

Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...