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Soaring heat is killing farm workers in US

On June 26, the temperatures south of Portland, Oregon, approached 105 degrees Fahrenheit (40.6 degrees Celsius). That didn’t stop Sebastian Francisco Perez, a Guatemalan farm worker, from going to work moving irrigation lines at a nursery. At some point, as the scorching afternoon dragged on, he collapsed and died. When Occupational Safety and Health officials turned up to write a ...

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Macron’s European goals need a new plan

In true Jupiterian style, French President Emmanuel Macron said nothing publicly when the Aukus debacle erupted, letting his ministers and European partners do the talking after Australia scrapped a $66 billion submarine deal with Paris in favour of an American-led alliance in the Indo-Pacific. Yet now that there’s a power vacuum opening up in Europe, as Germany’s Angela Merkel bows ...

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Airline industry aims net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

Bloomberg The airline industry’s main lobby group adopted a target of eliminating carbon emissions on a net basis by 2050, a goal that will require balancing the fight against climate change with the need to spur demand in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Current airline targets aren’t ambitious enough, International Air Transport Association (IATA) Director General Willie Walsh said ...

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