UN: COVID-19 restrictions bring brief air-quality gains in 2020
Pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions caused dramatic but short-lived improvements in air quality and drops in pollution, the United Nations has said, but warned the blip was no substitute for…
Madagascar on the brink of first climate-induced famine, UN warns
A four-year drought has pushed at least 30,000 people in southern Madagascar to level five of famine, the UN warned. The island nation of Madagascar has endured four years of…
An historic number of jobs are going begging in the US. What gives?
The US economy had a record 10.9 million job openings on the last day of July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday. Jobs, jobs, everywhere. That’s what the…
Ida aftermath: New Orleans lifts curfew as more power restored
New Orleans has lifted a nightly curfew as the US city moves closer to regaining full power 10 days after Hurricane Ida, but hundreds of thousands of people outside the…
