The San Francisco skyline, orange mist is obscured Wednesday. AFP / Getty Images JPMorgan Chase & Co. entered the green-bond world on Wednesday, dropping the first set of bank bonds specifically to fund sustainability curve projects. While the banking company has arranged debt for its customers and other companies for …
Read More »Greenland’s ice sheet has lost a record half a trillion tonnes in one year
Greenland’s major ice block saw a record net loss of 532 billion tonnes last year, raising red flags over accelerating sea level rise, according to findings released Thursday. That equates to an additional 3 million tons of water flowing into global oceans every day, like six Olympic-sized swimming pools every …
Read More »Scientists say Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet ‘It Point of No Return’ has been passed on
Greenland’s ice sheet may have hit a tipping point that puts it on an irreversible path to disappear completely. Snowfall that normally fills the glaciers of Greenland every year can no longer keep up with the rate of ice melting, according to researchers from Ohio State University. This means that …
Read More »In Portland, some black activists frustrated with white protesters
PORTLAND (Reuters) – A small group of black teens with megaphones stood in front of federal court in downtown Portland around midnight Thursday in front of a largely white gang of protesters. A protester wearing a makeshift mask observes during a protest against racial inequality and police violence in Portland, …
Read More »The three key obstacles to eliminating a coronavirus vaccine
Vaccines have transformed the world, saving hundreds of millions of lives. They are also by far our best hope for stopping the Covid-19 pandemic. Our other options to stop the disease are to stay apart, which hurts our economy and society, or to build a “collective immunity” through natural infection, …
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