2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Suncor tar sands processing plant near the Athabasca River at their mining operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta, September 17, 2014. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo 2/2 By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta…
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An unprecedented economic crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka. And while the country’s problems have been brewing for years, spillovers from the crisis in Ukraine have sent the island nation over the edge. The Sri…
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The Bank of England has announced that all its electricity and natural gas will come from renewable sources from this month onwards. In a statement on Twitter, the BoE said the decision was part of…
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Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs have their roots 2,900km below the surface, almost halfway to…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Russian state flag flies on the top of a diesel plant in the Yarakta Oil Field, owned by Irkutsk Oil Company (INK), in Irkutsk Region, Russia March 10, 2019. Picture…
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The poet TS Eliot famously proclaimed April to be the “cruellest month”. Writing after surviving a pandemic – the Spanish flu of 1918 – he was referring to the familiar (often misguided) sense of hope…
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© Reuters. By Sam Boughedda Investing.com — U.S. oil stockpiles declined by more than expected in the latest week, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. dropped by 3.449 million barrels last week, compared with…
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Every government needs money to fund its political, social and economic duties. Much of what they spend is generated from taxes, fines and sales of public goods and services. The exchange of these revenues for…
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When large animals like elephants, giraffes and crocodiles roamed what is today South Africa’s Cape south coast hundreds of thousands of years ago, they were not alone. Far below their sight lines, tiny creatures like…
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Norges Bank increased policy rates today (March 24), as Ida Wolden Bache was appointed governor after Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg announced he would not take the role. The Norwegian central bank’s executive board increased the…
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