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Commerce knits the modern world together in a way that nothing else quite does. Almost anything you own these days is the result of a complicated web of global interactions. And there’s no better way to depict those interactions than some maps.

Climate change.

At a time when storms are becoming more frequent and severe, relying on levees for flood control can create as many problems as it solves.

They can be very valuable tools for managing flood risk—but we learned a century ago that relying on them exclusively won’t work

At stake is whether places like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Salt Lake City, San Francisco or Los Angeles might be forced to shut down after a direct hit.

The city’s building code does not protect its people from earthquakes nearly as much as you might think.

Kathryn Schulz writes about the Pacific Northwest’s Cascadia fault line, and the region’s inadequate disaster-preparedness plans.

China’s chemicals industry appears occasionally in the news, but we tend to only hear about it in extreme cases, when footage of enormous explosions circulate around the world, or hundreds of children fall sick. These incidents are shocking, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg. Beyond the headli…

Why the housing bubble caused a crisis—and what’s different now

California contains the largest homeless population in the United states and has second most expensive housing. A careful look finds regulations are a likely culprit behind these related problems.

By a 62%-28% margin, Americans view the demonstrations happening around the country as mostly legitimate protests rather than mostly people acting unlawfully, according to a new NPR Marist poll.

The situation at the U.S.-Mexico border has been called an “invasion,” a “national emergency” and a “humanitarian crisis.” But what’s really happening?

Dr Paul J. Christo stated in an interview that the pandemic has disrupted care provision for patients with pain disorders, and those with opioid use disorder.

The crisis facing the EU as migrants from the Middle East and Africa try to reach new homes in Europe, explained with charts and maps.

The global refugee population is at the highest ever recorded, and has nearly doubled since 2012. Here are 10 of the largest refugee crises to watch in 2021

Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia will introduce a child abuse prevention bill in the House on Monday, his office told CNN, setting up deliberations for a considerable child welfare investment as experts warn of an increasingly dire situation for at-risk kids.

If nothing is done, the Amazon might completely disappear before the end of the century

It doesn’t matter where I am, or what passport I hold. [Chinese authorities] will terrorize me anywhere, and I have no way to fight that. —Uyghur Muslim with European citizenship, Washington, September 2019 China’s government sees human rights as an existential threat. Its reaction could pose an…

Seven months on from a factory explosion that killed 78 people, China’s chemicals industry faces an unprecedented safety clampdown.

In recent years, Chinese-made products from toothpaste to drywall have been recalled for containing toxic — even radioactive — chemicals

The global hunger crisis caused by conflict – and now compounded by COVID-19 – is moving into a dangerous phase, the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday, stressing that without resources, a wave of famine could sweep the globe, overwhelming nations already weakened by years of…

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Drought Research. Read where droughts are predicted, and what can be done about them.

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In practice, though, it may not affect trading partners much

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