By Nichola Groom (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday finalized a range of reforms designed to boost returns and address environmental harms from drilling on public lands, a move that will increase fees for…
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Just ten days before the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, Japan opened its Tōkaidō Shinkansen, a high-speed rail line connecting Tokyo with Osaka. Shinkansen bullet trains showcased the high quality of Japanese railway technology to the…
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As artificial intelligence creeps further into people’s daily lives, so do worries about it. At the most alarmist are concerns about AI going rogue and terminating its human masters. But behind the calls for a…
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Morgan Stanley is out with its latest price outlook in which the firm’s strategists said they expect a return of more sustained upside and are targeting $120/t in Q3. They said that iron-ore is seeing…
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The 0.4% rise in US consumer prices in March didn’t look like headline news. It was the same as the February increase, and the year-on-year rise of 3.5% is still sharply down from 5% a…
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe has introduced a new currency which will be backed by the country’s gold reserves, its newly appointed central bank governor announced on April 5. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor…
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Pottery was largely unknown in Australia before the recent past, despite well-known pottery traditions in nearby Papua New Guinea and the islands of the western Pacific. The absence of ancient Indigenous pottery in Australia has…
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By Daphne Psaledakis, Polina Devitt and Paul Sandle WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Washington and London on Friday prohibited metal-trading exchanges from accepting new aluminum, and nickel produced by Russia and barred the import of the metals into…
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What factors must a court consider when the National Labor Relations Board requests an order requiring an employer to rehire terminated workers before the completion of unfair labor practice proceedings? That’s the central question that…
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We all know about the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere, and probably about the carbon contained in plants and the bodies of animals. But a substantial fraction of the carbon in the planet’s land-based ecosystems is…
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