Governments from around the world have agreed to draw up a global agreement by the end of 2024 to put an end to plastic pollution. As the following chart shows, a majority of polled consumers believe it is important to create such rules. Across all 34 …
Online Black Friday spending in the U.S. rose to a new record in 2022, hitting $9.1 billion, according to estimates from Adobe Analytics. Despite consumers battling with high inflation and a cost of living squeeze in the run up to the Christmas period….
Twitter has descended into absolute chaos since Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion last month. It all started when the new CEO fired around 50 percent of the company’s workforce in the first week of November. Then, just one week on, the company announ…
The list of countries with the biggest share of the native-born population living in the diaspora reveals stories of war and displacement but also of economic stagnation and a lack of perspectives. In regions where small countries are common and remote…
In most countries around the world, wealth inequality decreased from the beginning of the 21st century, but that trend was reversed in some places. The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 had a negative effect on the attempt to close wealth gaps. Afte…
After the Russian military withdrew to the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson, the residents of the region that had been under Russian rule for eight months celebrated their liberation by Ukrainian troops. According to the Institute for the St…
With the announcement of Katie Hobbs’ win in the gubernatorial race in Arizona, the Democratic Party has officially picked up three governor seats in the 2022 midterms, while the Republicans took over one governorship from Democrats. New Democratic gov…
Despite crypto evangelists describing the current situation in the cryptocurrency market as just another dip, the phenomenon known as crypto winter has real and possibly lasting consequences for one of the more volatile finance sectors. Since May 2022,…
Tropical forest loss remained high last year, despite commitments from various companies and governments to curb deforestation. According to data from the University of Maryland, available on the Global Forest Watch platform, in 2021 the tropics lost 1…
The bicycle as we know it today, with two similarly sized wheels and a chain drive system, was originally commercialized by John Starley and William Sutton in 1885. And since then, nothing better has been invented in terms of energy efficient travel.Wh…
