Nearly 10,000 COVID deaths occurred globally in December, the World Health Organization said this week—this as highly mutated variant “Pirola” JN.1 offspring spawn and begin their upward ascents in the U.S. and elsewhere. The global wave occurs after holiday gatherings, as expected, and comes as JN.1 dominates worldwide, the organization’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, […]
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) – Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) rose 31% in 2023, down from 60% growth in 2022, according to market research firm Rho Motion. “The pace of growth is slowing, but that’s what’s expected in growing markets like this,” Rho Motion data manager Charles Lester told […]
The global unemployment rate will increase slightly in 2024, the United Nations said Wednesday as it raised concerns about stagnant productivity, worsening inequalities and inflation biting into disposable income. The UN’s labour agency said the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has slowed down, with ongoing geopolitical tensions and persistent inflation triggering aggressive moves by […]
In this photo released by the Press Information Department, Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar speaks, during the Global Heath Security Summit, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. Kakar called for unified efforts to tackle global infectious diseases like COVID-19 and emergencies caused by climate change, nearly 1 1/2-year after devastating floods killed 1,700 […]
Ukraine, the Group of Seven (G7) countries, and several states of the Global South held a secret meeting in December to increase support for Kyiv and its conditions for peace talks with Russia. Source: Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter, as reported by European Pravda Details: The previously undisclosed meeting of national security advisers […]
Hobbled by high interest rates, persistent inflation, slumping trade and a diminished China, the global economy will slow for a third consecutive year in 2024, the World Bank is predicting. On Tuesday it said the world economy will expand just 2.4% this year. That would be down from 2.6% growth in 2023, 3% in 2022 […]
Global warming in 2023 hit 1.48 degrees Celsius, data published Tuesday shows, as the hottest year on record propelled the world just hundredths of a degree away from a critical climate threshold. Analyses last year had already confirmed 2023 to be the warmest on record, but Tuesday’s data shows an alarming leap in heating from […]
Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday. In one of the first of several teams of science agencies to calculate how off-the-charts warm 2023 was, the European climate agency Copernicus said the year […]
Jan. 6—Santa Fe, a destination city about an hour’s drive from two national laboratories, has been at the cutting edge of scientific solutions for decades — and it could do more to advance global sustainability. That’s the idea Santa Fe County Commissioner Justin Greene has been peddling in the face of climate change. Last month, […]
Jan. 5—Santa Fe, a destination city nestled about an hour’s drive from two national laboratories, has been at the cutting edge of scientific solutions for decades — and it could do more to advance global sustainability. That’s the idea Santa Fe County Commissioner Justin Greene has been peddling in the face of climate change. Last […]
Technology By Al Root and Adam Clark Updated Jan 04, 2024, 10:22 am EST / Original Jan 04, 2024, 7:56 am EST Share Reprints Mobileye Global stock fell on Thursday after the autonomous-driving systems company said it expects a 50% drop in revenue in the first quarter of this year. Continue reading this article with […]
NEW BEDFORD — While the offshore wind industry has been making local headlines for years, there’s another area of renewable energy that’s begun quietly making waves in Greater New Bedford. In fact, waves are just what the proponents of tidal wave energy look to harness. One of the companies doing this work is Littoral Power […]