In 2016, the Miami Beach City Commission voted to proceed with a major resiliency project on First Street, a low-lying area in a city deeply vulnerable to the effects of sea-level rise. But eight years later, and four years after officials approved a roadway redesign, construction has yet to begin. At a City Commission meeting […]
After months of stalling, the US House of Representatives finally approved more than $61bn worth of military assistance to help Ukraine in its desperate defense against Russia. The bipartisan vote saw 210 Democrats and 101 Republicans join to support Ukraine, with 112 Republicans voting against. It came after the Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, forced a […]
The US is risking the West’s security by holding up aid to Ukraine, David Cameron is to warn in a visit to Washington DC. The UK foreign secretary will tell Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, to stop his colleagues from continuing to block a $95 billion package in a face-to-face […]
(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi – an insider’s guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise, delivered weekly. Most Read from Bloomberg India’s Supreme Court ordered the government-controlled State Bank of India to disclose data related to political funding made through the […]
Trees provide innumerable benefits to the world, from food to shelter to oxygen, but researchers have now found their dramatic rebound in the eastern US has delivered a further, stunning feat – the curtailing of the soaring temperatures caused by the climate crisis. While the US, like the rest of the world, has heated up […]
(Bloomberg) — A meltdown in some of the most-hyped energy-transition metals is wreaking havoc across the mining world, stalling projects, scuppering deals and triggering a scramble for cash that promises to reverberate through the industry for years. Most Read from Bloomberg Lithium — the ultra-light metal used in electric-vehicle batteries — has plunged more than […]
Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. is in no rush to put a stadium sales tax issue on the ballot, even if some of his colleagues in county government are getting antsy. DaRon McGee, this year’s chairman of the county legislature, tried to light a fire under White on Thursday by proposing an ordinance to […]