Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidized childcare, and parental leave to try to reverse a rapidly declining fertility rate – largely to no avail.
The ‘Future of Egypt’ envisages turning tracts of desert into farmland to grow crops for export. But with sky-high food price inflation and a water deficit, critics doubt it is viable.
Despite climate-friendly plans, the federal government’s controversial decision to take over the Trans Mountain pipeline made it one of world’s biggest promoters of fossil fuel projects.
If we can’t control rising global temperatures by drastically cutting carbon emissions, could something called geo-engineering be a way to cool the planet?
