New York Times, Investigative reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, lift the lid of the “culture of secrecy” and shatter the luminous image of McKinsey & Co. the consulting giant, by unearthing conflicts of interest, corruption, hypocrisy, and strategic blunders that read like a prosecutor’s indictment. Vault.com, an employment site asserts that McKinsey with annual…
Before 1870, most people lived in dire poverty, the benefits of the slow crawl of invention continually offset by a growing population. Then invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation, and creatively destroying the economy again and again. In Slouching Towards Utopia, Bradford DeLong, one of the world’s leading economists, economics professor, former…
A climate Catastrophe has led to at least 1, 136 deaths according to the UN and has affected more than 30 million people which equates to one in seven Pakistanis. On 28 August, Pakistan’s military rescued a boy who was stranded in the middle of a heavily-flooded stream. Antonio-Guterres urged the world to come to…
Pearson, a British industrialist, had done a deal with the anti-American government of Mexico for a 50-year oil concession that covered much of the state of Veracruz, a 1839 feet ( 558 meters ) Dos Bocas well exploded into a broiling fountain of oil that rose 1000 feet into the air. Keith Fisher’s new book…
Cornwall Wildlife Trust is doing the sea search driving project, a partnership between the Marine Conservation Society and other organisations, which collets species and habitat information from all around the UK and sees seagrass for the first time. And their critical importance to human health and wellbeing. Seagrasses are marine flowering plants, located in shallow,…
A total ban on trade of ivory has come into effect in an “important conservation victory” for the world’s elephants. The export and import and dealing of elephant ivory items of all ages not only those produced after a certain date – is now illegal, unless they have been registered or have an exemption certificate.…
Amazon Deforestation in Brazil has reached record levels for the month of April according to preliminary government data revealed on Friday. In April deforestation in the region totaled 1, 012.5 Km²(390Miles²) according to the National space research agency Inpe. Destruction of the Brazilian Amazon in the first four months hit a record of 1, 954…
Anil Aneeshwar Kunchala, a seven-year-old environmentalist impressed the judges by reciting his own poem about his passion for wildlife conservation and saving the planter, as his friends dressed in animal and nature costumes joined him on the stage of the ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent. Dogs and their human companions also featured as Doctor Louise Geller…
The International Women’s Day on 8th March, join UN women and the world in coming together under the theme Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. We now understand the vital link between gender, social equity, and climate change and recognize that without gender equality today, a sustainable future, an equal future, remains out of…
Czech-born professor and Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, a world-leading expert on energy and an astonishing polymath, in a thought provoking book “How the World Works”, encounters the influential thinking, crushes complex data, with fundamental importance of energy in human affairs. We never had so much information or disinformation at our…