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The Looming International Shipping Crisis  The National Interest How Shipping Is on the Cusp of a Global Carbon Charge  Bloomberg.com Global Shipping Industry Set to Adopt World’s First International Carbon Pricing Scheme  gCaptain Industry splits ahead of historic IMO vote on Net Zero Framework  Splash247 The United States Is Trying to Sink Global Shipping’s Climate Pact  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source link

Nabarun Dasgupta, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is an expert on the U.S. street drug supply. He’s been recognized by the MacArthur Foundation with a “genius” grant for his work to understand the nation’s overdose crisis and to help reduce deaths. Pearson Ripley/Photo provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hide caption …

Cocaine use appears to be on the up among the elderly (Picture: Getty Images) The number of old age ‘silver snorters’ who have ended up in hospital for cocaine use has skyrocketed by a third in just two years. As many as 723 pensioners sought medical help for the Class A drug in the year until March 2025, with eight …

‘Menorexia’ Is The Midlife Crisis We Don’t Talk About Enough  HuffPost Source link

Phage therapy, where viruses are used to kill bacteria, became common in the 1920s, before antibiotics arrived to offer easier and more effective ways of treating infections. However, with antibiotic resistance now a growing problem, phage therapy might be set for a dramatic comeback. We know that bacteria are continually evolving to put up better defenses against the drugs we’re …

Housing in the US has become so unaffordable that a coffee company has based a viral marketing campaign on the idea that almost nobody can afford to buy a house. Maxwell House coffee, a 133-year-old brand, recently launched a marketing campaign rebranding themselves as “Maxwell Apartment Coffee”. “Maxwell House? In this economy?” a narrator asks in a video ad, promising …

Housing in America is about to get more expensive, thanks to new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump that will take effect this Wednesday, October 1. The new tariffs include a 50 percent tax on imported kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30 percent on upholstered furniture, and 25 percent on heavy trucks used in construction. These will join existing tariffs …

Housing in America is about to get more expensive, thanks to new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump that will take effect this Wednesday, October 1. The new tariffs include a 50 percent tax on imported kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30 percent on upholstered furniture, and 25 percent on heavy trucks used in construction. These will join existing tariffs …

Jobs crisis in plain sight  Axios Top CEOs warn about white-collar job crisis from AI revolution, predict up to 50% entry-level job losses i  The Economic Times ‘What if they’re right?’ CEOs sound alarm on jobs crisis ‘unfolding in plain sight’  MSN Prepare for a potential AI catastrophe  Windows Central Anthropic CEO Estimates 25% Chance of Catastrophic AI Risks  WebProNews Source link

Inside the Crisis at Tylenol  The Wall Street Journal As Trump Takes Aim at Tylenol, Should You Buy, Sell, or Hold Parent Company Kenvue Stock’s Here?  Yahoo Finance Kenvue, the Company Behind Tylenol, Tries to Navigate Its Latest Crisis  The New York Times Trump gave medical advice about Tylenol. Here’s what medical experts say.  The Washington Post Anatomy of a full-blown crisis for company …