Tag: crisis
Denmark scraps book tax to combat “reading crisis”
The Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis".The tax...
How Plastics Went from a Sustainability Solution to an Environmental Crisis
August 19, 20254 min readPlastics Started as a Sustainability Solution. What Went Wrong?Synthetic polymers were supposed to free us from the limitations of...
Why the EPA’s Latest Move Could Worsen the Climate Crisis
Why the EPA’s Latest Move Could Worsen the Climate CrisisIf the EPA abdicates its responsibility to address climate change, it will harm health...
Gaza’s Hunger Crisis: ‘If We Don’t Fight, We Don’t Get Anything.’
new video loaded: Gaza’s Hunger Crisis: ‘If We Don’t Fight, We Don’t Get Anything.’By Meg Felling•August 5, 2025After facing international criticism for its...
Young Ukrainians get their way as Zelensky overturns law to defuse...
Zhanna BezpiatchukBBC News Ukrainian in KyivTETIANA DZHAFAROVA/AFPMany Ukrainians see the hand of Zelensky's right-hand man, Andriy Yermak, behind the president's recent choices.Yermak's position...
How the economy evades every crisis
After Adolf Hitler’s troops rolled into France in 1940, many feared the imminent destruction of Europe and its economy. British investors did not....
New martial law rules after political crisis
South Korean lawmakers have voted to revise the rules around martial law, now barring any attempt to obstruct lawmakers from entering the National...
Trump-Musk row fuels ‘biggest crisis ever’ at Nasa
Pallab GhoshScience correspondentNASA/Johns HopkinsIn its recently published strategy ESA stated it "will be seeking to build a more autonomous space capability, and to...
How We Solve the Climate Crisis
Human Intelligence Created the Climate Crisis—But It’s Also the SolutionScience communicator Hank Green explains how our species’ unique intelligence got us into this...
South Korea’s new president has a Trump-shaped crisis to avert
Jean MackenzieSeoul correspondentOne Ace card South Korea is hoping to play is its shipbuilding prowess. It builds more vessels than any other country...
