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Irma stirs fear of setback to $16 billion Everglades restoration

Bloomberg For two decades Steve Davis has made it his life’s work to save the Florida Everglades. Davis, a wetland ecologist with the Everglades Foundation, has been part of a push to restore millions of acres of marsh grasses and mangroves to their natural state. The effort, comprised nearly six-dozen projects carrying an estimated price tag of $16 billion, is ...

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UN ‘club’ Trump derided forges fresh alliance on vital issues

Bloomberg President Donald Trump, who derided the United Nations as a “club for people to get together, talk and have a good time” after his election, is surprising veterans of the global body by leaning on it to help carry out his foreign policy agenda. From pushing the Security Council to tighten sanctions on North Korea to forging a partnership ...

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Hurricane Jose could graze Massachusetts on Wednesday

Bloomberg A weakened Hurricane Jose could graze the Northeast as Hurricane Maria tears through the Caribbean, gaining strength and possibly heading toward the US in a week. Jose will probably be downgraded to a tropical storm as it comes close to Massachusetts on Wednesday—threatening shipping and real estate along the East Coast—before veering farther out into the Atlantic, the US ...

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