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24 JUN 2023 People in the US are dying at higher rates than in other similar high-income countries, and that difference is only growing. That’s the key finding of a new study that I published in the journal PLOS ONE. In 2021, more than 892,000 of the 3,456,000 deaths the US experienced, or …

23 JUN 2023 President Vladimir Putin said this month that Russia was considering withdrawing from the Black Sea grain deal as he accused the West of cheating Moscow because it still faced obstacles getting its own agricultural goods to world markets. Putin said he would discuss the future of the grain deal …

22 JUN 2023 Media reports of abuse of fishers and illegal fishing are making consumers wonder whether the seafood on their plate is associated with these unsustainable practices. Our research suggests that there is reason to be concerned. We find that risks of labour abuses and IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing are prevalent worldwide, …

21 JUN 2023  A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its capital productivity and increase its energy efficiency. In the interest of its citizens, it must innovate to do more with less and transform to a lower cost …

20 JUN 2023  The energy ties between Russia and India have been booming for the last year, and container traffic between the two countries is also forecast to grow. With some of the Russian shipping companies facing sanctions from the West, the Indian market presents a new growth opportunity. One …

19 JUN 2023  On Sunday, four activists from Greenpeace Nordic briefly delayed a tanker carrying wastewater from the Norwegian oil industry to Denmark. The activists used divers and magnets to attach a small sailboat to the hull of the tanker Bothnia, which was transporting about 9,000 tonnes of contaminated wastewater from …