Delta Bet Two Billion Dollars on a War That Ended Eight Trading Days Later
An entire airline sector committed on April 8 to a high-fuel, low-capacity 2026 — and the strait reopened nine trading days later.
Dara Osei
Bureau: London
The Emperor Penguin Joins the Endangered List — and the Antarctic Sea Ice Now Reads Like the Arctic
Both poles are losing sea ice in measurable quantity; a single bird's uplisting is the clearest living instrument either pole has produced.
Brent Falls Nine Percent and WTI Slips Below Eighty-Four on Relief Friday
Brent fell 9.07% and WTI settled below $84 on Friday — the single largest one-day drop of the Iran war, as the market read an open strait even as flags stayed blocked.
City Methane Is Three Times the Inventory, and a Tenth of the Human Total
Satellite data finds cities emit roughly ten percent of global human methane, three times official inventories; livestock and sewer systems are the underreported sources.
IUCN Red-Lists the Soil, and Finds One in Five Species At Risk
The world's first global red-list of soil organisms, released April 15, finds 20 percent of 1,758 assessed species at extinction risk; another 20 percent are data-deficient.