Learn about the EU’s plan to shift to a circular economic model to make Europe cleaner and more competitive. Subscribe to this topic See all explainers on this topic The Earth’s resources are limited.

Extreme heat in Japan and Australia. Flash floods in Texas and across Europe. Billion-dollar-damaging storms in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Weslynne Ashton is a professor of environmental ...

Across the country, companies are bringing production closer to home to strengthen supply chains, reduce dependency on imports and create jobs. Notably, this process — known as “reshoring” or ...

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, says that technological revolutions are driven by more than just technology. They are also driven, he argues, by new ways of paying for them. “There is ...

The AI boom has triggered a historic spending spree. By 2028, investment in chips, servers and data centers could reach nearly $3 trillion, according to Morgan Stanley. On this episode of Bold Names, ...

We’re watching a new trend in semiconductor stocks concerning circular deals. Here’s why we think investors should be keeping an eye on it, though they shouldn’t be particularly worried at this point.

Let’s explore five examples of the circular economy that showcase the innovation happening around the world right now. The circular economy is an economic model that focuses on minimising waste and ...

Having a circular rash can spark fears that you’ve picked up ringworm. After all, the fungal infection is notorious for causing a ring-shaped rash. But there are a lot of other circular rashes that ...

Volatility in commodity markets is making it harder to rely on linear supply chains. Lithium prices, for example, rose by more than 1,000 percent between 2020 and late 2022, before dropping 86 percent ...