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Hryshchyshen Serhii/ShutterstockAs the world grapples with the intensifying challenges of climate change, businesses are under increasing pressure to take action.

To avert catastrophe, this will have to go beyond merely complying with new regulations and minimum standards. Business must lead the charge in good faith.

Golubovy/ShutterstockEver considered working for yourself? Some of the oft-touted perks make it seem like a dream. You get more control over your time, total freedom over creative and business decisions, and a better work-life balance.

For many self-employed entrepreneurs, however, this promise proves a cruel mirage. Financial insecurity, unforeseen obstacles and having to work lonely late nights can all make the reality very different.

Scharfsinn/ShutterstockWhen we think of a farmer, we still often imagine a man. But in reality, women contribute 49% to real farm income.

This isn’t just by increasingly working as farmers themselves. Keeping a farm business going usually relies on women’s off-farm work as well, particularly in times of drought.

As companies develop satellite constellations as shown in this illustration, they'll need to repair satellites in orbit. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld, CC BY-NDMost space mission systems historically have used one spacecraft designed to complete an entire mission independently.