Researchers say one reason for the recent spike is the possible onset of an El Niño climate pattern. But, one scientist adds, ‘The real issue is the rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, which are going up and up and up.’ A rapid surge in global ocean temperatures in recent months is raising the […]
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Kaiser Permanente to Acquire Geisinger
Kaiser Permanente, a large California-based health care group with 39 hospitals and 24,000 doctors, said on Wednesday that it expected to acquire Geisinger Health, a smaller East Coast group, in an effort to develop a new company that would operate nonprofit community health systems. “If we can take much of what is in our value-based […]
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Angry Farmers Pierce Europe’s United Front on Ukraine
A grain deal that got Ukrainian exports moving and eased a global food crisis is now fueling protests in Romania and among other staunch supporters of Kyiv. After more than a year of surprisingly solid European unity in support of Ukraine, grains of discord are piling up in the barn of Robert Vieru, a Romanian […]
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Pentagon Aid Package to Ukraine Includes Decades-Old Anti-Tank Land Mines
The M21 mines do not run afoul of international treaties. But unlike other mines the United States has given to Kyiv, they can be lethal indefinitely. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s most recent package of weapons for Ukraine includes relics from the Cold War to help blunt Russian advances and limit their ability to maneuver during […]
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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Is this the UK’s most abused traffic bollard?
You have probably never felt sympathy for a bollard before, but spare a thought for the one installed on Howard Street in east Oxford last year. It is probably the most abused bollard in the UK. It is blocking the road as part of a Low Traffic Neighbourhood – an LTN – and has been […]