About 60% of Iowa's power comes from wind. Farmers can earn extra cash by leasing small sections of farms for power production. Bill Clark/Getty ImagesDrive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than rows of corn, wheat and soybeans. You’ll also see towering wind turbines spinning above fields and solar panels shining in the sun on barns and machine sheds.
A mourner pays tribute to the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012. Lisa Wiltse/Corbis via Getty ImagesFatal school shootings don’t just devastate communities emotionally – they also harm their economies, new research shows.
The retirement age keeps creeping up. In the UK, the state pension is currently paid to people at 66, but that’s set to rise to 67 in the next couple of years, and a move to 68 might come sooner than previously planned after the government launched a review.
Gradually increasing the working lifespan is never going to be popular. But one way of making this policy more palatable could be to give people early access to some of the free time that retirement promises.
Me dia/ShutterstockGlobal supply chains account for 70% of world trade. They are the arteries of global capitalism, moving goods and services across borders multiple times before reaching consumers.
As climate change drives rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, Mexico and the US are in the middle of a conflict over water, putting an additional strain on their relationship.
Unfortunately for demographers, birth rates are hard to predict far into the future. gremlin/E+ via Getty ImagesPronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S.
Mexican farmworkers with H-2A visas weed a North Carolina tobacco field in 2016. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesThe U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture.
A groaning inbox by 6am? Nanci Santos Iglesias/ShutterstockIf your first task of the day is triaging a bulging inbox at 6am, you are not alone.
Donald Trump’s campaign against the “fake news” media continues largely unchecked, with a decision that is expected to reduce reporting and close down some local news stations around the US.
Karolis Kavolelis/ShutterstockThe UK government has launched a consultation on driverless cars, ahead of on-the-road trials of the vehicles next year.
