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We can’t engineer our way out of climate change

Could the problem of global warming become so desperate that humans would be willing to take the vast risk of re-engineering our environment? It’s far from a desirable or lasting solution. Yet some scientists have thought deeply about it and concluded that’s what we’ll probably do. The human response to global warming has been so slow that it may be ...

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Trump Jr. may be too much for scandal-weary India

If you lived in one of India’s largest cities, a startling sight would’ve greeted you when you picked up your morning newspaper last Monday: Whole front pages had been replaced by an artists’ impression of a skyscraper. There was to be a Trump tower in your town, the ads declared—something you might have already gleaned from the photograph of Donald ...

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Europe to wind down Latvian bank hit by US over sanctions

Bloomberg European authorities moved to liquidate Latvia’s ABLV Bank AS after clients pulled assets from the lender following US accusations that it laundered money. The European Central Bank, which had already placed a freeze on payments by the lender, said that ABLV was failing or likely to fail, handing it over to Europe’s Single Resolution Board. That authority said a ...

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