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What a Dying Lake Says About the Future
A few days ago The Times published a report on the drying up of the Great Salt Lake, a story I’m ashamed to admit had flown under my personal ...
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Subsidized Ocean Fishing Threatens the Sea’s Bounty
The World Trade Organization has been struggling for over two decades to reach an agreement among its members to restrict global subsidies to the ...
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How Bad Is the Global Food Crisis Going to Get?
They were calling it a crisis even before the war began: more than 800 million people in a state of chronic hunger. But, as you may have heard ...
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What Vaccine Apartheid Portends for the Climate Future
The pandemic has been furnishing new and distressing episodes almost weekly for more than two years now. But what is in retrospect perhaps the ...
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Yellen Looks to Get Global Tax Deal Back on Track During Europe Trip
WARSAW — Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen arrived in Europe this week to join American allies in confronting multiple threats to the world ...
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Food, Fertilizer and the Future
As anyone who drives is aware, gasoline prices are up a lot from their 2020 low. First, global economic recovery drove up oil demand, then ...
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Ukraine War and Pandemic Force Nations to Retreat From Globalization
WASHINGTON — When the Cold War ended, governments and companies believed that stronger global economic ties would lead to greater stability. But ...
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Dear China: Whose Side Are You on in Ukraine?
With every passing day, the war in Ukraine becomes a bigger tragedy for the Ukrainian people but also a bigger threat to the future of Europe and ...
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Switzerland joined in sanctions, but Russia’s oil, metals and grains still trade there.
ZURICH — Swiss officials were applauded last week when they broke with the country’s tradition of neutrality by joining the United States, the ...
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Russian Oil Finds Few Buyers Even at Deep Discounts
HOUSTON — The United States and the European Union have been unwilling to put sanctions on Russian energy exports in response to the country’s ...
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