Companies are delaying investments and cutting jobs, as strict travel limits, especially in Asia, weigh on sectors from manufacturing to education.
Year: 2021
Apple Judge’s Warning Suggests Fight Far From Over
A ruling regarded as a partial victory for the iPhone maker in the App Store dispute describes the company as being on the brink of having monopoly power.
SNP members call for creation of state-run energy company
Motion will be seen as rebuke to party leader Nicola Sturgeon, who pledged to create national firm four years ago
Music Break: Molly Tuttle and Billy Strings – Sitting on Top of the World
In a sane world this weekend I’d be at the Wheatland Music Festival in Central Michigan – but (thanks anti-vaxxers) it was not to be. (will we ever have nice things again?) Billy Strings came out of the Michigan roots music scene of which the Wheatland fest is the annually beating heart, now missing for […]
AMOC Time?: Study Suggests Ocean Shift Could be Close
AMOC is the Atlantic Meriodonal Overturning Circulation – a key driver of global oceanic currents that is known to have flipped direction suddenly a number of times in the not so distant past – leading to global changes that would have powerful consequences should they happen in today’s world. The idea was the inspiration for […]
New Thames tunnel will make London pollution worse, warn climate activists
Campaigners say Sadiq Khan’s support for a four-lane road under the river is at odds with his environmental aims
OECD boss: Carbon pricing should come through us
Ministers ‘to ditch overhaul of planning laws’ after criticism
According to reports, plans will be abandoned in light of backlash from southern voters and MPs
‘Momentous’ Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining Adopted at Global Biodiversity Summit
By Julia ConleyA vote overwhelmingly in favor of placing a moratorium on deep-sea mineral mining at a global biodiversity summit this week has put urgent pressure on the International Seabed Authority to strictly regulate the practice.The vast majority of governments, NGOs, and civil society groups …
