The imagination can be an important tool for preparing for a crisis—and the failure to imagine … [+] worst-case scenarios can hamper responses when a crisis strikes. getty The imagination can be an important tool for preparing for a crisis—and the failure to imagine worst-case scenarios can impact responses when a crisis strikes. A good […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For decades, the corporate makers and users of “forever chemicals” used on carpet produced in Northwest Georgia have hidden the associated dangers, leading to a public health crisis, Murray County alleges in a new lawsuit. In its complaint Monday, the county took aim at chemical producers including 3M, Daikin and DuPont […]
Getty Images On New Year’s Day, Russian gas stopped flowing through Ukraine. Kyiv is calling it a “historic” day as its refusal to extend a transit agreement with Russia’s Gazprom has halted the return flow of cash to fund the full-scale invasion of Ukraine But in neighbouring Moldova, the move threatens to cause a crisis. […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain About 10 years ago, while working at Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in the Swiss town of St Moritz, I was shocked to learn a guest once requested an elephant be brought in to deliver a birthday gift to his wife. And the hotel made it happen, squeezing the elephant into the lobby. […]
Wildfires around the world are overwhelming fire services and becoming humanitarian disasters. Rather than short-term ‘save and rescue’ efforts focusing on just the flames, there should be more widespread recognition that fire is a natural process that is essential and unavoidable. Competing Interests The authors declare no competing interests.
Getty Images India used local currency to buy US grain, later funding book purchases for US universities. In 1996, Ananya Vajpeyi, a history doctoral student, discovered the fabled South Asia collection of books at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library. “I’ve spent time in some of the leading South Asia libraries of the world, at […]
Human rights organizations and residents describe the situation in the enclave as getting more desperate. Here is a closer look.
BBC This has been a miserable year for Boeing. Not only has it struggled to cope with a safety and quality control crisis, it has lost billions of dollars following a strike by workers that paralysed production at two of its biggest factories. Even its space programme has been in trouble. Two astronauts were left […]
Journalists are drawn to covering problems, and when it comes to housing, we know there are plenty. Earlier this month, I published a review essay on three new books about the housing crisis, and it might be easy to conclude, based on all the dizzying statistics and warnings, that little progress is being made. That […]
The MAGA-verse could be on the brink of exploding into an all-encompassing constitutional crisis, with Donald Trump’s own inauguration as possible collateral. The incoming Congress is scheduled to start on Jan. 3, but following a bruising pre-Christmas battle to keep the government open, Republican lawmakers—including president-elect Trump—have turned on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Without […]
