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- Faculty reflect on two decades of rapid expansion https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-part-of-its-leadership-to-lead-yales-administration-increases-by-nearly-50-percent/ 48 comments
- White House makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘setting us back decades’ | Administration’s slashes to prevention and access expansion likely to erode progress on eliminating epidemic https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-hiv-research-grant-cuts 187 comments futurology
- Trump makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘setting us back decades’ | Trump administration’s slashes to prevention and access expansion likely to erode progress on eliminating epidemic https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-hiv-research-grant-cuts 5 comments health
- Natural gas on pace for lowest level of new generation build and expansion in decades https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/natural-gas-on-pace-for-lowest-level-of-new-generation-build-and-expansion-in-decades/2-1-1681828 6 comments technology
- Allies of Donald Trump are pushing for the first nuclear tests in three decades | Trump advisers and Project 2025 are calling for a dramatic expansion of the nation’s nuclear stockpile https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-nuclear-weapons-testing-b2574839.html 202 comments politics
- Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/anti-settlement-group-israel-made-largest-west-bank-111636577 2 comments geopolitics
- Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-07-03-2024-033deab379a16efdf9989de8d6eaf0f8 20 comments worldnews
- Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-07-03-2024-033deab379a16efdf9989de8d6eaf0f8 51 comments worldnews
- Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-07-03-2024-033deab379a16efdf9989de8d6eaf0f8 20 comments politics
- Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades https://www.thestar.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-turbocharges-west-bank-settlement-expansion-with-largest-land-grab-in-decades/article_c294a669-0d50-59c7-880c-eb4f2ee0c248.html?source=newsletter 562 comments worldnews
- Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-07-03-2024-033deab379a16efdf9989de8d6eaf0f8?taid=6685324f30fb670001894c1a 72 comments worldnews
- Study Finds Alaskan Ice Field Melting at an ‘Incredibly Worrying’ Pace | The speed of decline in the Juneau Ice Field, an expanse of 1,050 interconnected glaciers, has doubled in recent decades, scientists discovered. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/climate/alaska-juneau-icefield-melting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E0.UUMJ.ZYLFDdPr7BcP 4 comments climate
- An analysis of decades of satellite imagery has revealed that glaciers across the Indian Himalayas—often called the ‘Third Pole’ because of extensive glaciers and snow cover—are melting at an unprecedented rate resulting in significant expansion of the glacial lakes https://www.news9live.com/india/glaciers-in-indian-himalayas-melting-at-unprecedented-rate-reveals-isro-research-2508169 5 comments environment
- Researchers have found that a projected urban expansion of up to 1.53 million square kilometers over the next three decades threatens the survival of more than 800 species — but also that a focus on urban planning that protects habitats can mitigate the impact. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/946039 16 comments science
- Scientists have found over recent decades the Himalayan glaciers have lost ice ten times more quickly over the last few decades than on average since the last major glacier expansion 400-700 years ago, a period known as the Little Ice Age. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/938235 8 comments science
- A “proliferation of administrators”: faculty reflect on two decades of rapid expansion https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-part-of-its-leadership-to-lead-yales-administration-increases-by-nearly-50-percent/ 5 comments economics
- After A Decade Of Refusing Medicaid Expansion, Texas Lawmakers Might Be Forced To Reconsider https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2021/01/04/388595/after-a-decade-of-refusing-medicaid-expansion-texas-lawmakers-might-be-forced-to-reconsider/ 6 comments politics
- Urban expansion is creating the conditions for infectious diseases to emerge and spread around the world by blurring the classical boundaries between suburb, and countryside. Urbanisation has contributed to the rise in the total number of disease outbreaks per decade since the 1980s. https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2020/04/1601.asp 7 comments science
- Decade of Job Growth Comes to an End, Undone by a Pandemic - After an expansion that added 22 million to U.S. payrolls, March registered a loss, and worse is yet to come https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/business/economy/coronavirus-jobs-report.html 7 comments politics
- New global catch database exposes dangerous fishing trends. Scientists found that global tuna catches have increased over 1,000 per cent in the past six decades, fueled by a massive expansion of industrial fisheries. http://www.seaaroundus.org/how-sustainable-is-tuna-new-global-catch-database-exposes-dangerous-fishing-trends/ 2 comments science
- The Fed is in worse shape than the economy as post-crisis expansion reaches a decade https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/fed-is-in-worse-shape-than-economy-as-economic-expansion-hits-a-decade.html 8 comments politics
- Astronomers have spent decades looking for something that sounds like it would be hard to miss: about a third of the "normal" matter in the Universe. New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may have helped them locate this elusive expanse of missing matter. https://phys.org/news/2019-02-universe-mass.html 7 comments space
- Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has provoked outrage in Mexico by saying that the murder of more than 100 journalists in Mexico over the past decade was due to an expansion of press freedom. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/20/mario-vargas-llosa-mexico-journalists-press-freedom-murder 4 comments worldnews
- Russia's Military Expansion Makes It Greatest Threat to Europe and NATO Must Defend It, Says U.S. General: Russia has upgraded every aspect of its military in the last decade and is now becoming Europe’s greatest security threat, a top U.S. Marine Corps general told NATO officials. http://www.newsweek.com/russias-military-expansion-makes-it-greatest-threat-europe-nato-782114 3 comments worldnews
- Euro Area Poised for Fastest Economic Expansion in a Decade https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-05/euro-area-poised-for-fastest-economic-expansion-in-a-decade 36 comments europe
- House reaches deal on biggest expansion of GI Bill in decade https://www.apnews.com/9b60eff1459c4dd89528f86797efe3e9 4 comments politics
- "Donald Trump proposed hiring 5,000 additional Border Patrol agents & tripling the number of 'deportation officers.' But that would continue an already decade-long expansion of the agencies responsible for those tasks — even as the number of illegal border crossers has shrunk dramatically." http://www.npr.org/2016/09/01/492270569/6-things-you-might-not-have-known-about-trump-s-border-enforcement-plan 9 comments politics
- Antarctic sea-ice expansion between 2000 and 2014 driven by tropical Pacific decadal climate variability https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/07/05/this-new-antarctica-study-is-bad-news-for-climate-change-doubters/ 3 comments science
- Germany plans military expansion after decades of downsizing http://www.politico.eu/article/germany-plans-military-expansion-after-decades-of-downsizing-defence-army/ 24 comments europe
- Knives Are the New Guns in Lawmakers’ Second-Amendment Expansion U.S. legislatures that relaxed laws after the gun lobby’s decades-long push are now loosening restrictions on switchblades, dirks, daggers and poignards. http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-06/knives-are-the-new-guns-in-lawmakers-second-amendment-expansion 6 comments politics
- With talk of team(s) and stadiums in Los Angeles It is worth note that the city had a team approved for expansion over a decade ago but due to disagreements between LA and the Owners it fell through... That expansion eventually went to the City of Houston. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/history_of_the_houston_texans#1999 16 comments nfl
- Japan and the United States are revising their mutual defense guidelines for the first time in nearly two decades to respond to China's military expansion and increase Japan's role in regional defense. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0d8f60fc685c4967b4d5e1a258bdcfff/japan-us-revising-defense-plans-eye-china 1117 comments worldnews
- Megacities - Over the next two decades, the world will see a burst of urban expansion at a speed and on a scale never before witnessed in human history. But not all the world will take part. When you hear about the coming urban age, it's really a story about rising Asia http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/16/prime_numbers_megacities?page=full 12 comments worldnews
- CEO and richest man in Japan plans massive international expansion of of clothing retailer UNIQLO over next decade including US expansion http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/uniqlo_of_japan_100813/ 23 comments business
- Dark energy, a mysterious force proposed more than a decade ago to explain why the universe is flying apart at an increasingly faster clip, is no longer necessary. That's the conclusion of a controversial new theory that shows how the accelerated expansion of the universe could be just an illusion. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090818-dark-energy-einstein.html 53 comments science