Geopolitical Tensions Keep Rising. Oil is Now Hovering Around $110 a Barrel.

Iran continues to escalate attacks against tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, while Russia and Ukraine are targeting energy infrastructure.

Marilyn Cohn’s Vision for a Self-Sufficient Village Could Offer a New Model for Rural Development in Africa

Cohn traces the idea further back to her faith and an early sense of being called to work in Africa. A research trip to Kenya and Uganda in 1997 helped determine where the project would take shape.
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Air Shows Are More Than Spectacle. They’re an Investment in Aviation’s Future

For Claude Spears, founder of AirShows.com, the real air show begins long before the first takeoff. Spears is a specialist air show announcer and sound professional.
Opinion

Climate Risk Has No Standard, and That Costs Everyone

The World Economic Forum identifies geoeconomic confrontation as the top global risk for 2026, with extreme weather ranked as the most severe long-term risk through 2036.
Opinion

Puerto Rico’s Tax Incentive Debate Turns to Long-Term Economic Impact

Bagué, former Puerto Rico secretary of economic development and founder of the Partnership for Modern Puerto Rico (PMPR), the discussion also raises a longer-term question: How can incentives ...

Acupuncture Deserves a Better Explanation

The National Institutes of Health reports that in a controlled trial of chronic back pain with no identifiable physical cause, 66% of participants who received Pain Reprocessing Therapy (a talk ...

Pond Management Consolidates, the Hardest Asset to Buy Is Trust

The pond management industry is consolidating. Private equity is acquiring service companies, rolling them up, and bringing capital to a sector that operated for decades on sweat equity and word of ...

Most Registered Voters Dislike Politicians Who Support Building Data Centers Near Them, Poll Shows

A Pew analysis identified more than 1,500 data centers in development nationwide, with 67% taking place in rural areas.

Scientists Have Found An Unlikely Alternative To Gasoline. It Could Cost About $2.75 A Gallon.

A new study from Worcester Polytechnic Institute tested a process that turns plant material into crude-like oil, but commercial-scale production costs were modeled rather than demonstrated.

Oil Prices Are Already Soaring. Their ‘Real’ Cost Could Be Much Higher, Analyst Says.

Disruptions in the Middle East have driven physical oil prices sharply above futures benchmarks and squeezed refinery margins in Europe and Asia.

U.S. Starlink Restrictions Fuel Russian Aggression, Ukrainian Minister Says. Millions are at Risk.

A Ukrainian official said that Moscow appears to view the limitations on Starlink as an opportunity to escalate its offensive, particularly against infrastructure essential to civilian life.

Zelenskyy Warns That Tens of Millions of Ukrainians Could Flee and Head to Europe if Kyiv Loses the War

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said up to 20 million people could flee the country and head to Europe if Russia wins the war. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Zelenskyy said "Russia ...