Though touted as a model of environmental preservation, the country has recently signalled a shift from phasing out fossil fuels to boosting the economy. Franz Tattenbach on the tension between green credentials and growth“This country is what the world would like to be but is not,” says Franz Tattenbach, Costa Rica’s minister of environment and energy. The 69-year-old economist is keenly aware of his role as guardian of the country’s reputation for forward-looking biodiversity initiatives and...
If you’re the Philadelphia 76ers, Monday night’s Game 2 collapse yielded devastating news, but also one pretty good reason to feel cautiously optimistic about the rest of the first-round series against the New York Knicks. Let’s start with the bad first. Up five with 27 seconds to go, Philly gave up a corner 3 to Jalen Brunson and then, instead of calling timeout to advance the ball, turned it over in chaotic fashion as Madison Square Garden physically shook. “The first thing is obviously they...
Voters from the special Scheduled Castes category do not have access to basic amenities like clean drinking water, irrigation, toilets and roads.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology Hydrogen trains could revolutionize how Americans get around Like a mirage speeding across the dusty desert outside Pueblo, Colorado, the first hydrogen-fuel-cell passenger train in the United States is getting warmed up on…
We're knee deep into the 2024 season of American Idol, which means only one thing: it's time to start voting on who you want to win the entire competition!As the ABC series heats up with performances from the Top 20, it's still hard to tell who will win. While the beginning of the season left Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie to judge who's fit to continue to the next round, the show has now turned it over to the viewers to help choose who will come out on top. With epic talent from...
As Brazil rapidly descends into authoritarianism, courting the favor of the world’s worst dictatorship (Chinese Communists), meanwhile, journalist Michael Shellenberger warns Americans that we, too, are heading down Brazil’s path.
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Behind the collective calamity and the urge to stick together, there are individual tales of heartache. Heavy blows to personal pride that will take a long time to heal. Listening to an emotional Will Fish talk about having “failed” Hibs and let down the supporters who invest so much in backing the team, it was hard not to feel sympathy for a young man – still just 21, remember – at a crossroads in his career. On loan from Manchester United and entering the final guaranteed year of his...
(FOX40.COM) -- California has more damaging earthquakes than anywhere else in America. While there are many predictions that a "big one" is on the way, there's a place in the Golden State where a person is least likely to feel it. • Video Above: Risk of an earthquake in Sacramento Earthquakes, in simple terms, are []
Former Rep. Justin Amash served in Congress for exactly one decade, with his final years in Washington, D.C., featuring him dramatically quitting the GOP, voting to impeach former President Donald Trump, and deciding not to run for reelection. At the time, in 2019, he said Congress’s corruption was worse than in the famous Netflix series […]
Late-night hosts discuss the second day in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, from naps to jury selection to the actual allegations of covering up hush moneyLate-show hosts talked jury selection, courtroom sketches and gag orders from the second day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. Continue reading
I fear we are forgetting lessons from that terrible historyI don’t usually talk about my great-uncle Walter. Gen Walter Warlimont, as my grandfather’s brother was formally known, was head of the national defence department in the high command of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany. Only two people were between him and the Führer in the chain of command. Walter worked so closely with Hitler that the failed assassination attempt in July 1944 injured his arm. The orders he signed...