This City Has 63 Vacant Schools
Detroit is the most battered large city in America. It has lost half of its population, down to 670,000, since 1950, as car manufacturing facilities and headquarters have moved elsewhere. The city declared Chapter…
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By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights With climate change impact bearing down hard around the world this month and G20 leaders failing to agree to reduce coal consumption over the weekend, or anything for…
It Is 118 Degrees in This National Park
The National Park Service calls Death Valley National Park the "hottest, driest and lowest" national park.
Chariots of Fire: The Olympics confront a warming world
By Justin Sharon (Justin Sharon is a longtime freelance writer. After working at Merrill Lynch for many years, he transitioned to financial journalism. Among other subjects, he also authors a monthly column about British…
This Is America’s Least Trusted Institution
Congress was the least trusted institution in 2020, according to a Gallup poll.
This Is How Much Time Americans Watch TV
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found that watching TV was the leisure activity that occupied the most time in 2020.
BlackRock’s next target; plus how climate – not Covid – threatens the Olympics
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights The way to get rich in a gold rush is to sell shovels, they say. The same appears to be holding true for climate change investments. So far this…
This Is How Much Time Americans Spend Sleeping
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found that sleeping was the activity in which the largest percentage of Americans spent time.
Chariots of Fire: The Olympics confront a warming world
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights By Justin Sharon (Justin Sharon is a longtime freelance writer. After working at Merrill Lynch for many years, he transitioned to financial journalism. Among other subjects, he also…
This Is the Newest Country in the World
South Sudan, which was part of Sudan, was declared independent in July of 2011.
Climate spending only 2% vs. Covid; plus, the facts about those Amazon Basin emissions
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights The deadly combination of Covid and climate change has pummeled the world especially hard this month, from heat and fire on the West Coast of North America to…
The facts behind the shock headlines about the Amazon’s net carbon emissions
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Recent research looking at deforestation in the Amazon has taken Brazil – and the world – by surprise. Michael Molinski This column is for Callaway Climate Insights subscribers…
This State Has the Most Pets
In the United States, pet ownership rates are highest in the heartland and in mountain states.
Dems debut carbon tax proposal on same day as Europe, targeting China
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights At least 44 people have died and scores are missing after devastating flooding in Germany, Belgium and nearby regions. Read more below in our editor’s picks section. It…
Who Actually Is Buried in Grant’s Tomb?
Among the most well-known resting places of U.S. presidents is a highly visible mausoleum on the upper west side of Manhattan.