Most U.S. families with children will get six monthly payments from the government in 2021, starting July 15. Parents and guardians may spend this money – $300 per child under 6 and $250 for every…
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Hundreds of thousands of years ago, South Africa’s Cape south coast looked very different. Some of the species that roamed this area are now extinct; others evolved over the millennia and their modern descendants inhabit…
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© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil was down Thursday morning in Asia, with a recent rally fizzling, as a build in U.S. gasoline inventories and a potential Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries…
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Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making building traditional wind turbines…
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More than 100 countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, have committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The world is going to need a lot of metal, particularly copper. Recently,…
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A group of international financial organisations has launched the Climate Training Alliance (CTA) to provide climate risk education to central banks and financial supervisors. In a statement on July 9, the Bank for International Settlements announced…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a House resolution on the approval of the creation of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as…
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CC BY-ND Nearly 10% of everyone on Earth – an estimated 768 million of us – were undernourished in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies, job markets and supply chains and inflated food prices.…
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Over the past few weeks, the Chinese government’s crackdown on big tech companies has intensified. The giants have all felt the brunt of heightened regulatory scrutiny. At the end of last year, Ant Group (which…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A coal-burning power plant can be seen behind a factory in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, October 31, 2010. REUTERS/David Gray By Muyu Xu and David Stanway BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s long-awaited…
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