Bitcoin mining alone creates more CO2 emissions than the whole of Argentina every year. How can regulators stem the tide of cryptocurrency emissions?
Karen L. Jones
August 10, 2022
Kenya is suffering one of its worst droughts in decades and young people are volunteering to translate and broadcast weather alerts to their communities.
Kagondu Njagi
August 10, 2022
Many banks in rural India have faced long and frequent power cuts in the past, but solar panels are now providing them with steady electricity supplies.
Moushumi Basu
August 10, 2022
Women in the US are more skeptical than men about uses of artificial intelligence, particularly the widespread use of driverless cars, new research shows.
Risa Gelles-Watnick
August 10, 2022
New research shows how mixed reality can quantify relatively mature trees in the wild - one measure of forest health - as a low-cost alternative to traditional methods.
Mike Williams
August 10, 2022
Central banks need to note a key lesson from the high inflation of the 1960s and 1970s – acting too slowly leads to much more painful adjustments later.
Tobias Adrian, Christopher Erceg and Fabio M. Natalucci
August 10, 2022
With the two vaccines previously approved for the virus in the US, an expert answers 6 questions about how they work, who can get them and how well they prevent infection.
Maureen Ferran
August 10, 2022
COVID-19 has impacted discipline in children with the impacts of isolation and home-schooling presenting new challenges for teachers as students return.
Conrad Hughes
August 10, 2022
Around 45 countries are devising or have published hydrogen strategies, but there are still significant blockers to widespread adoption of green hydrogen.
Emanuele Bianco, Manuel Albaladejo, Smeeta Fokeer, Nele Wenck and Petra Schwager
August 10, 2022
E-commerce in Africa increased by 57% between 2019 and 2020, but lack of access to credit is holding back the retail sector and consumers' purchasing power.
Fehintolu Olaogun
August 10, 2022
The ‘resignation equation’ is made up of 5 factors that explain why workers quit, PwC says. A fifth of workers round the world are likely to quit in 2022.
Helen Nugent
August 10, 2022
Automated detection and manual moderation of online abuse and threats to internet users are limited in their ability to adapt to complex threats at scale.
Inbal Goldberger
August 10, 2022
OECD labour market data for May 2022 shows unemployment stabilizing across the 38-country grouping, with 90% of OECD nations seeing a rise in employment.
Victoria Masterson
August 10, 2022
As fears of a global recession grow, what is the situation in the Eurozone economies? These charts by Eurostat provide a snapshot of the economic outlook.
Kate Whiting
August 10, 2022