India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research Continue Reading
The Arab Spring , which was a series of pro-democracy anti-government uprisings over a decade ago that swept across several largely Islamic states, triggered a substantial regional conflict that ultimately Continue Reading
More than half of Australia’s 25 million population is under lockdown after a third state-imposed movement restriction on Tuesday to contain the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant. Continue Reading
Figures released last week show that China’s crude oil imports in the first half of 2021 declined for the first time in eight years. China has been the world’s largest Continue Reading
Few other governments are able to enforce such mass relocations as climate change is stressing communities with drought, extreme weather, higher temperatures, and desertification. Bloomberg News Children play near the Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil Corp’s (XOM.N) new chief financial officer Kathyrn Mikells is the first woman and external hire to join the oil major’s management committee, as energy firms search to diversify Continue Reading
Erratic winds and parched Oregon forests added to the dangers for firefighters on Monday as they battled the largest wildfire in the U.S., one of dozens burning across several Western Continue Reading
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has begun the first phase of a project to transform a segment of the state’s highway into wireless charging pavement for electric vehicles, according Continue Reading
The Indiana Department of Transportation and Purdue University early in July announced plans to develop the first contactless wireless-charging concrete pavement highway segment. The project will use innovative magnetizable concrete Continue Reading
There’s a debate about how companies should be recognized for buying carbon offsets based on avoiding emissions. Better to call them “carbon responsible” instead. A section of forest in part Continue Reading
