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On March 9, oil prices crossed US$ 100 a barrel for the first time in almost four years as the war in the Middle East between the US and Israel on one side and Iran on the other continued to escalate with no immediate end in sight. Oil price shocks triggered by conflict in the Middle East
India, a key player in this fight, is currently battling a confluence of climate-driven disasters. Last year’s punishing extreme heatwave, one of the earliest and most severe on record, scorched vast swathes of the subcontinent. Simultaneously, the recent, unprecedented floods in Punjab, India’s essential “food bowl,” have submerged huge tracts of farmland, destroying crops and jeopardizing
Ten years ago, I embedded in the war on coal. I spent a month inside the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, watching an organization renowned for tree-hugging, grassroots activism use boring legal and economic strategies to shut down coal-fired power plants in red and blue states. In the Politico Magazine article I subsequently wrote, I called the effort “the most extensive, expensive and effective
Is hope just a futile human feeling, or can it be harnessed to catalyse change? In the context of climate change, the answer to this question is pivotal; it could mean the difference between letting despondence render us paralysed or taking action in an attempt to avail. Only one of these two approaches keeps the
Be friends or family, with so many people to purchase for, it’s crucial to create a Christmas budget. Remember that if you’re participating in a Secret Santa gift exchange, the organizer has most likely already put on a price limit. We want to help you shop in that same spirit so Christmas is merry and
Editor’s Note: Building on previous publications, George Lueddeke PhD, independent Global Lead of the international One Health for One Planet Education initiative, focuses on several key themes in this new article, including Democracy vs Autocracy, the Russia-Ukraine War, climate change and environmental degradation along with the global challenge to shift our priorities from human-centrism to
Electric vehicles weren’t much to write home about at the beginning of the 2010s. They were kooky, abstract and far from viable. Inexplicably, the market then boomed, in supply, choice and demand, to where it is today: Most known manufacturers are committing to an all-electric lineup of vehicles on sale by as early as 2025.
In the late 1970s, two school friends from New York opened up their own “scoop shop” in a renovated gas station in downtown Vermont. All they had at the time was a $5 qualification in ice-cream making and $12,000 in capital. Fast-forward a few decades, and Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have turned it into
On Monday, NASA’s first planetary defense technology demonstration proved successful when it hit the asteroid Dimorphos. The mission known as DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) made impact at 7:15 p.m. ET after 10 months of navigating through outer space for a target that lies some 11 million kilometers (7 million miles) from Earth. The asteroid
The 2001 Oscars had the unique distinction of being the first to award the Best Animated Feature Film Award, with the inaugural honour being given to the generation-defining “Shrek.” Shrek opens to the irreverent song “All Star” by Smash Mouth, which contains the lyrics: “the meteor men beg to differ Judging by the hole in
Editor’s Note: The ominous decline in biodiversity is further confirmed by a new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published today on the state of sturgeon and paddlefish, species that, as WWF pointed out, have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. What follows is WWF’s analysis of what this news
According to the United Nations’ latest estimates, announced on this year’s World Population Day, the eight billionth person on this planet is expected to be born on November 15 while India is set to overtake China as the world’s most populous count in 2023. The first World Population Day was celebrated back on July 11,