El Niño looks to reach an intensity unprecedented in recorded history. Characterized by warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, El Niño occurs every few years. Meteorological agencies and researchers around the world are on high alert because when the heat stored in the ocean is released into the atmosphere, it triggers a chain
In the hills of Emilia-Romagna, a bank vault holds more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, worth well over 300 million euros. The vault belongs to the bank Credito Emiliano, known colloquially as Credem, which has long accepted young wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano as collateral for loans to local dairy farms since 1953.
As part of a planned data center in Pecos County, Texas, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States, according to The New York Times. The NYT says the plant would burn natural gas and is permitted to release 33 million tons
When Robinhood agreed to buy WonderFi, the company I founded, some of Canada’s loudest voices argued that federal regulators should block the deal. WonderFi, they said, had become a strategic national asset, the crypto equivalent of one of Canada’s Big Five banks, and that it could not be allowed to fall into American hands. I
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five days before landfall, it predicted with
MIAMI– MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Genevieve raged in the Pacific Ocean far from land Tuesday morning, just as weakened Tropical Storm Fausto brought big waves to Hawaii. Genevieve is a Category 4 hurricane, after briefly reaching Category 5 status early Monday, the first in the Eastern Pacific region in two years, the National Hurricane Center