risk
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The findings, published in Conservation Letters, suggest that governments risk undermining conservation gains when they fail to address the long-term financial and social costs that wildlife recovery can place on local residents.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
“I had felt like I had taken a risk with that book,” Rowbottom said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
But the risk increases when those higher costs pass through to the broader economy and people begin to expect inflation to remain high.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
The strength of employment conditions will remain an important consideration for the European Central Bank as it balances efforts to contain inflation against the risk of weakening economic activity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
‘Who knows? But maybe -it was another kind of test? Not whether you could find the third piece of the Nanuak. But whether you could risk it for a friend.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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