by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Heads of government will pledge “building a more climate-friendly, neutral, green, fair and inclusive future” in a strategic agenda for the next five years to be agreed at the summit in Brussels on June 21 and June 22. It’s their first regular gathe...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The Zoom Video Communications Inc. founder has jumped into the ranks of the world’s richest people as shares of the company soared 180% since their market debut in April. “We’re just getting started,” Yuan, 49, said in a phone interview. Shares of...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Lexus is really taking transportation concepts to new heights with its latest announcement: A spacecraft designed for the 'Men in Black' franchise.
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing is "essential" to stem global warming - his clearest statement yet in support of penalising polluters - and appealed to climate change deniers to listen to science. In an address to energy executives a...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Key developments of the week include Merck's (MRK) deal to buy Tilos Therapeutics and FDA approval for Roche's (RHHBY) polatuzumab vedotin and Merck's Keytruda.
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
A woman with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), sometimes called "the suicide disease," describe what it feels like to live with.
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The hunt for nearby exoplanets has just heated up considerably.A new instrument designed to find potentially habitable alien worlds in Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own sun, began operations on May 23, project team members announced...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The more the climate debate changes, the more it stays the same.Polls show that the public is worried about climate change, but that doesn’t mean that it is any more ready to bear any burden or pay any price to combat it.If President Donald Trump cla...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Almost 40 years after Congress decided the U.S., and not private companies, would be responsible for storing radioactive waste, the cost of that effort has grown to $7.5 billion, and it’s about to get even pricier. With no place of its own to keep t...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The World Health Organization (WHO) should and is likely to declare an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has now spread to Uganda, experts said as a WHO advisory panel met on Friday. Congo's epi...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
A Trump administration national security official has sought help from advisers to a think tank that disavows climate change to challenge widely accepted scientific findings on global warming, according to his emails. The request from William Happer...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan has built one of the world’s biggest chipmakers through a series of acquisitions that give the company one of the broadest reaches in the industry. About half of the company’s revenue last year went through China and...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
A first intact head of a gigantic adult wolf which died about 32,000 years ago and was preserved in permafrost has been found in the Russian Arctic, scientists have said. Covered with thick fur, the head was found by a local on the banks of the Tire...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Thousands of black-clad demonstrators braved tear gas and rain for 79 days in Hong Kong’s 2014 "Umbrella Movement.” The lessons of that agitation appear to have made the city’s protesters swifter and better prepared in some of thei...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Climate projects won record financing from the world's big development banks last year, with funds committed up 60% since the 2015 Paris climate accord to curb global warming emissions, a report published on Thursday said. The financing from six mul...