© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – Oil prices settled higher Friday, but slipped to another weakly defeat after countries agreed to release millions of barrels from their emergency reserves offsetting signs of falling Russia…
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Measures adopted to control the spread of the COVID pandemic resulted in a worldwide reduction in economic activities. This benefited the environment by reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. That said, we should not lose…
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How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own Solar System. However, the discovery of planets around distant stars in…
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Only two women applied to replace Mark Carney as governor of the Bank of England (BoE), despite the involvement of a recruitment firm that prides itself on attracting female applicants. A letter from the chancellor…
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© Bloomberg. Lithium chloride powder is weighed in the Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd. laboratory at the ZEISS Innovation Hub in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. A new mining process aims to produce battery-grade…
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To most people, a solar farm or a geothermal plant is an important source of clean energy. Scientists and engineers see that plus far more potential. They envision offshore wind turbines capturing and storing carbon…
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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — which one of us (Arunima) contributed to — has emphasised the need for enormous change if we are to keep within the 1.5℃…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pump Jacks are seen at sunrise near Bakersfield, California, October 14, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/ 2/2 By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil prices were stable on Friday in choppy trading…
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Women have been entering academic medicine at nearly the same rate as men for decades, but very few women reach the top levels of leadership. For example, as of April 2022, of the 71 U.S.…
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Central Bank of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s president has appointed an official previously accused of negligence by a judicial inquiry to lead the central bank, after the ex-governor resigned amid worsening crisis. Gotabaya Rajapaksa asked…
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