The start of a movement or a moment? AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez
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April 1, 2022, may go down as a pivotal day in the history of American unions.
International Committee of the Red Cross workers prepare bags with bodies of government soldiers to be handed over in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, in 2015.
Building solar panels over water sources is one way to both provide power and reduce evaporation in drought-troubled regions. Robin Raj, Citizen Group & Solar AquagridTo 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.
Vorsprung durch technik has been in short supply. drsergIntel’s proposed US$30 billion (£23 billion) investment in semiconductor manufacturing capacity across Europe has the potential to significantly boost the continent’s struggling chip industry.
Several sites, such as this one near Freeport, Texas, store the hundreds of million of barrels in the United States' Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The war in Ukraine has resulted in many of the world’s biggest companies deciding to stop doing business with Russia. McDonald’s, IKEA, Apple are just some of the well known corporations making a stand.
Famines should be relegated to the history books, leading expert Cormac Ó Gráda argued in 2007, since “given good will on all sides, famine prevention should be ‘easy’”. Unfortunately, the current Russia-Ukraine war has revealed that good will is no longer on all sides.
Fuel has been hard to come by in Sri Lanka lately. AP Photo/Eranga JayawardenaAn unprecedented economic crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka.
For some, promoting cryptocurrencies is political activism. Vasil Dimitrov/E+ via Getty ImagesAds for blockchain, NFTs and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin seem to be everywhere.
Shutterstock/Jane RixThe 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 that traditionally accompanies the arrival of spring.
