What’s Next for Climate Change The good news is, the global community is pretty united on the risks of climate change. The science is getting good enough to link specific extreme events–anomalous hurricanes, extreme flooding events–directly to human-caused climate change, and that’s making it easier to build a case for […]
We Can’t Tackle Climate Change Without You
Especially now, at this critical stage, we have to accept we’re all going to have to buckle down for the long haul. Responding to this crisis is going to have to become part of who we are. All the time. Once you understand that, you understand that this isn’t about […]
Solar Power Is Sustainable for the Economy, Too
Good news has been rare this past decade, so here’s some: Since 2010, the cost of generating solar electric power has dropped by 80 percent, and gigantic photovoltaic plants, some spanning thousands of acres, are transforming the economics of green energy. “Even from five years ago, it’s a really different […]
Energy-Saving AI Is Coming for Your Office Thermostat
The founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, once credited his nation’s phenomenal economic growth to two factors: multiethnic tolerance and AC. “Air-conditioning was a most important invention for us,” he told an interviewer in 2009. “It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.” See […]
Major Japan department stores book worst-ever sales slump in March
Economic Indicators12 hours ago (Apr 01, 2020 05:30AM ET) (C) Reuters. TOKYO (Reuters) – Some of Japan’s biggest department store owners on Wednesday reported an unprecedented slump in March sales as the coronavirus outbreak hit tourism and forced stores to shorten their operating hours. Retail group J.Front Retailing Co Ltd […]
Euro zone jobless rate hits 12-year low on eve of virus measures
Economic Indicators12 hours ago (Apr 01, 2020 05:10AM ET) (C) Reuters. BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Unemployment in the euro zone fell to a 12-year low in February, the month before coronavirus containment measures began to be introduced widely across Europe. The jobless rate was 7.3% in the 19 countries sharing the […]
UK factories suffer biggest hit since 2012 at onset of coronavirus crisis: PMI
Coronavirus59 minutes ago (Apr 01, 2020 04:40AM ET) (C) Reuters. Skyscrapers and buildings are seen at dawn looking across central London towards the Canary Wharf district, London LONDON (Reuters) – Output from Britain’s manufacturing sector shrank at the fastest pace since the euro zone debt crisis in March as the […]
French manufacturing plunges into deepest slump in seven years: PMI
Economic Indicators1 hour ago (Apr 01, 2020 04:10AM ET) (C) Reuters. PARIS (Reuters) – French manufacturing activity fell in March at the fastest pace in more than seven years as a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus outbreak hits companies and their clients, a monthly survey showed on Wednesday. Data […]
Coronavirus sinks German manufacturing output in March: PMI
Coronavirus1 hour ago (Apr 01, 2020 04:10AM ET) (C) Reuters. BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s export-dependent manufacturing sector saw the steepest decrease in output in almost 11 years in March, a survey showed on Wednesday, as the coronavirus pandemic forced plant closures in Europe’s biggest economy. IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index […]