As the rate of food price inflation eases in the United States and Europe, analysts are warning of a new era of volatility in global food prices, ushered in by […]
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Back to news homeChina’s Addiction to Coal Deepens in the Heat
China has an answer to the heat waves now affecting much of the Northern Hemisphere: burn more coal to maintain a stable electricity supply for air-conditioning.Even before this year, China […]
Backup Power: A Growing Need, if You Can Afford It
When frigid weather caused rolling blackouts on Christmas Eve across North Carolina, Eliana and David Mundula quickly grew worried about their 2½-week-old daughter, whom they had brought home days earlier […]
China’s Record Drought is Drying Rivers and Feeding Its Coal Habit
HONG KONG — Car assembly plants and electronics factories in southwestern China have closed for lack of power. Owners of electric cars are waiting overnight at charging stations to recharge […]
When Heat Waves, Wildfires and Drought Grip Oregon and Washington
In early summer, a day laborer laying irrigation lines at a plant nursery just south of Portland, Ore., collapsed to the ground and died. His official cause of death was […]