Wildfires destroyed the Hawaiian tourist town of Lahaina on Aug. 8 and 9, 2023, leaving many of its roughly 13,000 residents homeless. Fires also burned in other areas on Maui, Hawaii’s second-largest island, and its…
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Acknowledgment: I’d like to thank my colleague Tony Yeates, who originated the view of the Deniliquin multi-ring structure as an impact structure – and who was instrumental to this work. In recent research published by…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Employees work at a copper smelter in Yantai, Shandong province, China April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Siyi Liu/File Photo By Julian Luk LONDON (Reuters) – China’s largest private producer Nanfang Nonferrous is due…
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The specter of downtown decline is again haunting American cities. After many decades of reinvestment and repopulation, some American downtowns are now showing signs of hollowing out again. The COVID-19 pandemic certainly bears some of…
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Chronic or persistent pain is the main reason people seek medical care in Australia. Yet, most chronic pain is incurable and relies on education, exercise and other interventions for management, making it a complex, common…
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In April, the Bank of England’s chief economist and member of the monetary policy committee (MPC) Huw Pill provoked anger when he said workers needed to accept reductions in real income. More recently, the central…
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© Reuters. Investing.com– Gold prices hovered at one-month lows on Thursday, while copper prices steadied after steep losses as markets hunkered down ahead of key U.S. inflation data due later in the day. The yellow…
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Many African tax authorities have weak capacity to raise revenue. From 1990 to 2020, sub-Saharan African countries on average collected only about 12%-15% of GDP as taxes, a much lower share than the 33.5% in…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Chevron fracking site near Midland, Texas, U.S. August 22, 2019. REUTERS/Jessica Lutz/File Photo By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. shale oil producers are raising output by pulling more from…
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Imagine you’ve found yourself in a difficult financial situation and needed to raise R40,000 (more than US$2,000) on the spot. Where and how would you raise these funds? Or what if a financial emergency has…
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