The gray rhino theory is a metaphor that describes risks that are obvious, highly probable and impactful, but often downplayed or outright ignored. The theory was developed by Michele Wucker.
Fitch cut the US’s sovereign credit grade one level from AAA to AA+. The move comes just two months after it warned the rating was […]
Temperatures in the world’s oceans have broken fresh records, testing new highs for more than a month in an “unprecedented” run that has led to […]
More than 171 trillion pieces of plastic are now estimated to be floating in the world’s oceans, according to scientists. Plastic kills fish and sea […]
China’s population has fallen for the first time in 60 years, with the national birth rate hitting a record low – 6.77 births per 1,000 […]
For the first time in history, human development has started going backwards. The Development Index (HDI), a measure of wellbeing across health, education and economic […]
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, visited Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) on 2 August 2022. She is the highest-ranking […]
Energy giant Gazprom stopped gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria last week after those countries refused to comply with Russian demands to switch to payment […]
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine last month, he has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear war to deter the U.S. and the NATO […]
In 2020 and 2021, the G20 group of the 20 largest economies spent at least US$14 trillion to escape the recession caused by the COVID-19 […]
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, marking a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. Russian military vehicles had crossed the […]
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