What is Biodiversity Worth? And to Whom?

Deep-Sea Mining? Exploring Key Trade-Offs for the Energy Transition

This paper assesses the economic, environmental, social, and governance trade-offs between deep-sea mining and terrestrial mining.

Growth in Economic Losses Due to Forest Disturbances in the Eastern United States

This paper estimates the economic impacts of forest disturbance and mortality across major ecoregions of the eastern United States.

Argentina Needs a Better Strategy to Benefit from Its Mineral Resources

What value Argentina captures from its lithium reserves—and who benefits from that wealth—will ultimately be determined by the clarity and coherence of the country’s strategic vision.

AI-Assisted Teams Outperform AI-Led Teams but Not Human-Only Teams in Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science

With Large Language Models (LLMs) becoming widespread, this study tests whether artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT could help social scientists check if published research findings can be reproduced.