There’s a frequent warning made in recent years to investors seeking to pressure companies to offload their fossil fuel assets: If listed businesses don’t own those mines, they’ll go over to the dark side. Polluting businesses sold to private equity may continue to “operate under new owners in the shadows,” former US Vice President Al Gore warned in the ...

  At some point after he became chief surgeon in Napoleon’s army, Dominique Jean Larrey started walking across blood-soaked battlefields to pick out those among the wounded who could still be saved, usually by instant amputation of limbs. In time, he developed a system of sorting and separating — trier in French — the casualties. Ignoring rank and nationality, he ...

  A new year’s resolution for billionaire Jack Dorsey: Spend more time on Tidal, the music-streaming platform recently acquired by his fintech firm Block, and less time on Twitter, where he’s no longer in charge but still making himself heard. Block’s $297 million purchase of a majority stake in Tidal was one of many post-Covid music milestones over past year, ...