By Victoria Rochard, Thought Leadership, SAP Scrolling through Facebook recently, there was one picture that grabbed my attention. Not a Zoom Happy Hour or people expressing their thanks for our key workers, but a beautiful photo of the Himalayas. According to CNN, people in some regions of India can see the Himalayas for the first…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth.As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily.Smog stopped choking New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the…
Energy analysts have long assumed that, given time, growing international concern over climate change would result in a vast restructuring of the global energy enterprise. The result: a greener, less climate-degrading system. In this future, fossil fuels would be overtaken by renewables, while oil, gas, and coal would be relegated to an increasingly marginal role…
Sixteen-year old Catherine Enangue is getting used to having schoolwork every day. Sitting in her parents’ living room, she takes notes intently as her teacher gives a chemistry lesson that is being broadcast on television to homes across the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. It is unusual for Catherine, because she lives in a region where…
Many threatened Australian mammals suffered significant population decline between 1995 and 2016, according to a new mammal database launched today.Key points:The most comprehensive mammal database to date shows significant declines in the majority of threatened Australian mammalsBig recoveries were seen in areas with targeted conservation measuresBushfire toll yet to show up in dataAnimals such as…
When CNN started 40 years ago this June, we were at the height of the Cold War, and Ted Turner wanted to create an international news organization to bring people together during one of the world’s scariest times. We could have had nuclear war, and of course that was what all leaders were preparing for.…
By: AP | Washington | Published: April 22, 2020 6:01:05 pm The Yamuna has looked significantly cleaner ever since the Covid-19 lockdown.As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. Smog stopped choking New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in…
Absent any sort of end in sight to the COVID-19 pandemic — or even the hint of an exit strategy from U.S. leaders, aside from a willingness to sacrifice lives on the altar of capitalism — a lot of people are, understandably, looking for a silver lining. Searching for something, anything, to feel optimistic about,…
This article about the impact of natural disasters was produced by CalMatters, a nonprofit, nonpartisan California policy news site, and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. OROVILLE, Calif. — Officials at Butte College gathered one fall Wednesday in 2018 for a tabletop exercise in disaster planning.As…
Guest “the gas tank is half-full” by David Middleton. May 11, 2020 10:03 AM UPDATED 2 HOURS AGOCommuters choose cars over public transport to avoid exposure to coronavirusJavier Blas, Vanessa Dezem and Sarah ChenBloombergLONDON, BEIJING, FRANKFURT — James Li, a public relations account director, would rather spend an hour sitting in Beijing traffic than risk…
