“We're not sitting here waiting for a bunch of things to come back to normal and rebound. We're looking at a major pivot, a major
Just in case you were wondering … this is why the topography of Taiwan makes an amphibious landing difficult and where China might find possible
Uptick in “full recall” unemployment rate spells bad news for US labour market. @PIIE @jasonfurman piie.com/blogs/realtime… https://t.co/w0IYpffNQm
Interesting update on WHO reform proposals from EU and the US. @carmenpaun @Politico politico.com/news/2020/10/0… https://t.co/GKtN4TVYiQ
RT @olgatuleninova: George GROSZ Near Wellfleet, Cape Cod 1940 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover (Massachusetts) https://t.co/uN9KTI…
COVID is crushing college hopes of lower income young people in the US. 100,000 fewer high school seniors completed financial aid applications to attend college
Past, present and future ice loss for the Greenland ice sheet. Latest research in @nature By Briner et al, suggests were are about to go
SMIC’s Hong Kong-traded shares fell more than 5 per cent on Monday after the group confirmed that the US Department of Commerce now requires American
Flournoy, tipped as Def Sec for Biden, worries that “new uncertainty about US ability to check various Chinese moves could invite risk-taking by Chinese leaders”. Solution?
In most of Western Europe traveling by train is far quicker than traveling by car. europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-… https://t.co/7TjPw3Ewls
More than 3,500 companies including Coca-Cola, Disney & Ford have filed lawsuits against the US government over its tariffs on China in recent weeks. So
Ms Bingham said UK gov aims to vaccinate about 30m people out of UK pop of 67 m, if a successful vaccine against Covid-19 was
Ankara, which is not a part of UNCLOS of 1982 due to its dispute with Greece over the extent of its EEZ, signed an agreement
A big global renewable energy push to hold a 1.5 degree scenario -> cumulative demand could substantially exceed current reserves for cobalt, lithium and nickel
The corona shock to global trade was devastating. But the bounce back in merchandise trade has been V-shaped and far more rapid than after 2008-9.
The US service sector plotted in employment v. Hourly wage space. bloomberg.com/graphics/jobs-… https://t.co/vjnd06uUBc
The support for financial markets by central banks and equity updraft -> capital raising by IPOs running at record levels. @AllyInvest via @SoberLook https://t.co/TuFE6zS0Ah
Charting primary energy consumption across countries 1969-2018. Nice set of graphs from @VisualCap via @SoberLook https://t.co/dIkcjnH5fW
Exxon Mobil Corp. has been planning to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions by as much as the output of the entire nation of Greece, an analysis
RT @MaxCRoser: In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly. But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these
“Just as it is possible to go from any place to any other, so also, starting from a defined and specialized field, can one arrive
“This blows a soul into your digital infrastructure” How fears of EU falling behind supercomputers in US and Asia led it to revive Extreme Earth
RT @airandspace: Sometimes, history comes in small packages. This is the original arming key of Sputnik, all that remains of the milestone…
RT @william_whyte: I initially thought the @FT was running a series on avant-garde theology https://t.co/kwVk2YVV1x
RT @Brad_Setser: I want to reinforce a point made by both @michaelxpettis and @andrewbatson in response to Mansoor Hohi-Uddin's FT article,…
RT @AntonJaegermm: Those two faces of the 1960s: Ali and Redgrave at the 1968 London anti-Vietnam demo, with Richard Branson (!) standing b…
RT @jvtklooster: Monday 12 October 2pm official launch of the Green TLTRO report with presentation and response from ECB @isabelsabine and…
RT @joesmith323: @adam_tooze The earth has about 500 Million square kilometers. They will probably need ten vertical slices and then ten (a…
Destination Earth (sic): EU is finalizing plans for 1 km resolution “digital twin” of planet Earth to simulate the atmosphere, ocean, ice, and land with
Fire seasons are getting worse: "Is this a “wicked” problem so entangled with complexities that solutions are impossible? We think not. We need to unbundle
"China overinvested in coal power: Here’s why.” Important paper emphasizing effect of decentralizing power station approval in Nov 2014 -> provinces the size of European
BP and Shell both notionally declare Scope 3 emissions. BP counts its 20% holding in Rosneft on its accounts but not its emissions & Rosneft’s
Gongshan New Village: showcase for “village consolidation” in Shandong where 20% of 70k villages are to disappear by end of 2020. The rationale is efficiency,
For five years the Safer, a tanker built in 1976, has been slowly corroding in the ultra-salty Red Sea, off coast of Yemen. A time-bomb
Coal companies are responsible for a lot of CO2 emissions, but those producing iron ore for steel production are ultimately responsible for more emissions. @davidfickling
RT @StuartHumphryes: France during The Great War, 105 years ago. I've restored this autochrome taken in 1915 by Léon Gimpel of a boy named…
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