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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
The wild beehives on the large kapok trees in the northwest Amazon have been declining for years, somewhere along the rivers that cut through Kofan and Waorani territory. If the bees are present at all, the honey harvests that once filled buckets now fill spoons. Recently, two guests showed up…
The ground has been rising for decades in the port town of Pozzuoli, just west of Naples. Not drastically, not in a way that would cause people to flee into the streets on any given Tuesday, but consistently, quantifiably, and with an accumulation that is now hard to ignore. The…
Imagine a woman in Lagos browsing through an Android wallet app while seated in a tiny store selling airtime and phone accessories. In the last year, the value of the local currency has dropped by a third. The price of cooking oil and the cost of late school fees are…