When one thinks of Venice in the 17th century, images of a prosperous trading republic often come to mind: a city of merchants, bankers and flourishing commerce. Yet, as a forthcoming study by Donato Masciandaro and…
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About one-third of U.S. nonprofit service providers experienced a disruption in their government funding in the first half of 2025. That’s what we found when we teamed up with Urban Institute researchers to collect nationally…
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Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals once shaped entire landscapes. They even determined where early life on Earth could thrive.…
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Trump calls for cheaper cattle, more grazing lands in effort to trim beef prices by : Reuters Source link
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The River Wye used to be full of wild salmon. Today it is full of algae. And the meandering waterway which has long attracted anglers, hikers and poets is now the subject of a major…
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Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna – large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as sthenurines. Then they gradually went…
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Oil gains 4% after settlement on possible new sanctions on Russia by : Reuters Source link
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ECB and BoJ officials reject explicit forward guidance – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Central bankers promote ‘meeting-by-meeting’ approach to rates setting Senior officials from the European Central Bank…
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The youth-led protests that eventually brought down Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina were sparked, in part, by his attempt to use large-scale urban infrastructure projects as a means of consolidating power. Rajoelina’s government placed urban mega-projects…
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Ukraine says Russian overnight strikes kill six; Putin–Trump summit shelved by : Reuters Source link
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