Editor's note

Breast cancer in China is increasing at a rate of 3.5%, and is expected to continue that way for the next 20 years. So what’s driving this frightening new trend? Jin-Li Luo gives her expert analysis.

And, as you read this newsletter, you might be savouring a steaming cup of coffee to start your day. Enjoy it – for climate change is about to threaten the coffee industry, writes Dalhousie University’s Sylvain Charlebois. By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee won’t be arable, and the quality of coffee is expected to start declining soon.grow coffee won’t be arable, and the quality of coffee is expected to start declining soon.

Clint Witchalls

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What's behind the huge increase in breast cancer rates in China?

Jin-Li Luo, University of Leicester

Breast cancer rates in China are rising, and are expected to continue rising for the next three decades.

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  • How the coffee industry is about to get roasted by climate change

    Sylvain Charlebois, Dalhousie University

    By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no longer be arable. Climate change is changing the game to such an extent that Canada could one day become a coffee producer.

  • Explainer: how our understanding of risk is changing

    Robert Hoffmann, RMIT University; Adrian R. Camilleri, RMIT University

    People aren't the perfectly rational, number-crunching risk-takers that traditional theory suggests. Research shows a whole variety of factors feed into risk-taking.

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