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Planting trees is good, but cutting emissions is better

Overall, it’s good news that President Donald Trump has declared he’s in favour of planting trees — it’s perhaps the one thing he has in common with people who care about the long-term future of the planet. Trees not only provide a habitat for wildlife, they can mitigate global warming, to an extent. Promises to plant trees came up at ...

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Yes, coronavirus is more troubling than the flu

Is the world losing its collective mind about coronavirus? So far 1,665 people have died from the infection — all but 45 of them at the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan province, and only two of them outside China. By contrast, some 10,000 people have died this winter from influenza in the US alone, and worldwide between 290,000 and ...

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Tesla stock sale is right but feels so wrong

If it involves a flurry of announcements, filings, subpoena disclosures, a stock with Lebowski levels of insouciance, a surprise equity raise and Larry Ellison backing up the truck, then we must be talking about Tesla. It’s been busy for the electric-vehicle phenomenon. Not long after Tesla Inc. filed its 10-K annual report, the company announced it would sell up to ...

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