Care for vulnerable older people has been suffering - both in quality and quantity - because of funding cuts, a survey of 200 social workers suggests.

BBC: Adult social care suffering under cuts, survey suggests

As well as concerns about the dignity of older clients, some 70% of respondents to the survey "expressed a lack of confidence that local authority-funded older clients always received the right quantity and quality of social care".

BBC: Adult social care suffering under cuts, survey suggests

This precipitous decline in the quantity of Earth science and applications observations from space undertaken by the United States reinforces the conclusion in the decadal survey and its predecessor, the 2005 interim report (NRC, 2005), which declared that the U.S. system of environmental satellites is at risk of collapse.

FORBES: Losing NASA's Eyes in the Sky