The Brazilian government has opened up an area for mining that it had recently dismantled – an Amazonian national reserve that is seemingly bigger than the size of Norway. The National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca) is split between the Northern Brazilian states of Amapa and Para and a decree from President Michel Temer…
Other nations may be affected due to China installing more robots than any other nation. The International Federation of Robotics estimates that shipments of robots to the second largest economy in the world will nearly double to 160,000 in 2019 even as it has already jumped 27 percent to about 90,000 units last year, marking a single-country record and…
According to Harvard University researchers writing in a peer-reviewed journal, even as Exxon Mobil Corp.’s own scientists determined man-made global warming was real and a serious threat, it spent the last 40 years undermining public concern over climate change. “Exxon Mobil contributed to advancing climate science — by way of its scientists’ academic publications —…
In an effort to reduce food contamination by using blockchain, IBM has been joined by a group of global food giants including the likes of Nestle, Unilever and Walmart. In order to trace the source of contaminated produce IBM would enable global food businesses to use its blockchain network, the corporation announced on Tuesday. According to…
A tiny glass company you’ve never heard of is one of China’s best-performing stocks this month. Spiking 34 percent, so far this month state-owned Luoyang Glass is the second-best performer in the Shanghai Composite. For the last three days, the stock has also hit the 10 percent daily trading limit. At a measly 0.03 percent of the Shanghai Composite’s…
Announcement about working on a new way for mobile phones to transfer large amounts of data without using wires or WiFi connections is expected to be made by a startup backed by Tony Fadell, one of the fathers of the Apple iPod. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Foxconn parent Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd and…
The globe’s two biggest emerging economies are squaring off over their shared border while the world has focused on North Korea. A hot spot for increasing military tension in recent months has been China and India’s borderlands, though geographically desolate and inhospitable. Given that both are equipped with nuclear weapons, the situation could escalate even as the two…
According to report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit on Wednesday, global livability is finally showing some telltale signs of an improvement after 10 years of back-to-back slumps. But, continuing to threaten world living standards is the continued threat of terrorism that includes several high-profile attacks in Europe, said a EIU statement on the report. The…
It was expected that the strategy to clear a global oil glut struck between the OPEC and Russia to succeed within six months. But now it could be years that the battle could last for. Already nine months later than originally expected, next spring, tBottom of Form he Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its…
In a proposal cheered by British businesses but which is likely to raise eyebrows on the continent, U.K. wants to maintain tariff-free, bureaucracy-light trade with the European Union for a period after Brexit and perhaps permanently, the U.K. government said. After it leaves in March 2019, it will seek to negotiate a “close association” with the…
