Author: Bryan Gottlieb

Ethiopia inaugurates the $5B Grand Renaissance Dam, Africa’s largest hydropower project, delivering 5,150 MW capacity while sparking regional disputes over Blue Nile water flows.Read More

The UN says the number of obese teenagers has nearly tripled globally in the last two decades.Read More

/PRNewswire/ — Terra Madre, the global gathering created by Slow Food and known for its biennial Terra Madre Salone del Gusto event in Turin, Italy, will hold…Read More

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Southeast Asia is positioned to export biofuels to other markets such as Europe as production capacity exceeds demand in the region, a senior executive with Malaysian state oil and gas company Petronas said on Wednesday. Annual sustainable aviation fuel capacity in Asia is projected to reach 4 million metric tons by 2030, Ahmad Adly Alias, vice president, refining, marketing and trading told the APPEC conference in Singapore. “This surplus positions ASEAN as a viable net exporter to markets like Europe,” he said.Read More

The Conference Board has folded the Singapore council network into its China-based Asia Sustainability Leadership Council amid a slowdown in support from members. A sustainability council for Australia and New Zealand is set to launch.Read More

Polish authorities have closed Warsaw International Airport and Polish and NATO aircraft have been scrambled as reports have surfaced of Russian drones over the country.Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the European Union to hit China and India with tariffs of up to 100% over the countries’ Russia oil purchases.Read More

Did the UK government begin enforcing a daily bank withdrawal limit of £3,000 on individual accounts on September 1, 2025? No, that’s not true: No such policy has been announced by either of the UK’s banking and banker regulatory authorities….Read More

MSCI’s global equity index rose on Tuesday while the dollar firmed and Treasury yields climbed ahead of key inflation reports following a sharp downward revision in March U.S. employment levels.Read More

The clinical evidence is solid, but so far polypills have not gained traction. Experts want that to change.Read More