According to a report by insurer Euler Hermes, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt most severely in 2021 when it comes to business insolvencies. The number of insolvencies will rise sharpest in the USA (up 57 percent compared with 2019), …
Fire seasons play out differently every year. Yet, a look at the five-year rolling averages of acres burned by wildfires in California shows that, despite a quiet 2019, the average area destroyed annually is growing.After fires have caused much harm an…
As highlighted by the latest edition of the European Drug Report, Sweden is the country with the most drug-induced deaths per million of the population in Europe. In 2018, 81 people died per million inhabitants, ahead of the United Kingdom’s 76 drug-in…
When Microsoft announced its acquisition of ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion on Monday, many people likely had to look the company up to find out that it’s is a video game holding company, most famous as the parent company of Bethesda. Bethesda? Glad you…
Student loan debt is at an all-time high in the U.S., growing at an unprecedented rate over the past two decades. New data shows just how student debt has outpaced other household debt like home, auto and credit card. In data from the New York Fed Cons…
The U.S. and Europe have steadily reduced harmful greenhouse gas emissions over the last two decades, as a boost in renewable energy and a decline in dirty fossil fuel production have contributed to a sustainable downward trend. However, another major …
The coronavirus pandemic has caused economic devastation of historic proportions across the United States with unemployment swiftly rising to nearly 15 percent after it erupted, a fifth of households becoming food insecure and tens of millions of tenan…
61 percent of countries in Asia have not opened up their borders to travelers, making it the most closed-off region for tourists in the world together with the Middle East, where 62 percent of countries are sticking to the closures. This is according t…
The vast majority of Americans want to keep current Covid-19 restrictions in place moving forward according to a Hill-HarrisX poll published on Thursday. The poll of 3,758 registered U.S. voters found that 45 percent of respondents want to keep current…
A new survey has uncovered shocking levels of unawareness among young U.S. adults about the Holocaust. The research was carried out by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and it focused on millennial and Gen Z adults aged between 1…
