This article has been corrected. Less than two years ago, the deaths of bats by White-Nose Syndrome (WNS) was called the number one crisis affecting…
What to watch for today Some ideas for action on guns. US Vice President Joe Biden will present proposals for reducing gun violence, in the…
What to watch for today US earnings season gets underway in earnest. Big banks like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and tech firms such as Intel,…
Surprisingly bad manufacturing and production numbers out today in the UK are sparking fears of a triple-dip recession. Manufacturing output fell 0.3% in November from…
Samin Tan, chairman of Bumi, one of the world’s largest mining companies, has fallen for one of the world’s oldest tricks in the book, reports…
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision today to leave its benchmark rate unchanged at 0.75% was widely expected, but it nonetheless sent soothing signals to…
And the winner is… Despite a relatively joyless holiday season for retailers in Britain, the leaders of two of the biggest supermarket chains are claiming…
A few years ago, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology was seen as the best way to clean up coal and cut carbon emissions. And…
Though still reeling from a financial crisis and the economic fallout, the European Union’s high-tech manufacturing increased 26% from the beginning of 2005 through to…
Fertility rates have been falling across Europe for decades and economists are worried, as political leaders should be, about who exactly will support Europe’s aging…
Bad news on the employment front again in Europe, as joblessness keeps creeping up. November numbers out today from Eurostat show unemployment of 10.7% for…
You might think it’s a club with dubious benefits and onerous duties nowadays, yet Latvian government officials remain gung-ho to be part of the euro…
