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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Extreme weather is having a dire effects on animals. Here’s what’s being done to protect them.  Yahoo! Voices Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Extreme heat hits Texas and Florida early in the season  Yahoo! Voices Source link

As the nation swelters through a summer filled with record-high temperatures, the Biden administration is unveiling a new set of actions intended to help Americans cope with the heat and the soaring electricity costs that accompany it. On Tuesday, the federal government launched Heat.gov, a website that promotes planning and preparedness for the extreme heat waves made more frequent because of climate change. The website is the public portal for the National Integrated Heat Health Information… Source link

That loud sucking sound we hear is the stock market digesting the work of a hawkish Fed that’s trying to fight unexpectedly sticky inflation. “We expect a tumultuous year, and our plan was not to sell into extreme whooshes — I would say we are in an extreme whoosh,” Canaccord Genuity Chief Market Strategist Tony Dwyer said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “I would say if you are looking to cut back exposure because money availability and the outlook isn’t so great, I would love to do it… Source link

After three weeks of holding up traffic on the D.C. Beltway, the so-called “truckers’ convoy” is moving on from Washington D.C., for now. One person who will clearly not miss them is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who oversees the trucking industry and is currently in the middle of an effort to recruit more drivers to the field. He says the rhetoric from right-wing protest group, which originally formed to protest coronavirus mandates, is not representative of truckers overall. Asked… Source link

Google senior vice-president and general counsel Kent Walker appears before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 1, 2017.Aaron Bernstein/Reuters A senior Google executive is urging Canadian lawmakers not to go too far as they prepare to debate a wave of government bills aimed at imposing new rules on web giants. In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail’s editorial board, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer, Kent Walker, said… Source link

The coronavirus crisis saw extreme whipsawing in the market with the fear and chaotic climate of the spring of 2020 providing a challenge to long-term investors, daring them to stay the course. But according to this year’s edition of “How America Saves,” Vanguard’s insights show that many of the new retirement saving measures helped ward off rash – and potentially expensive – decisions. Vanguard said that over the last 15 years the increased adoption of target-date funds has led to a 75%… Source link

Hail, freezing rain and gale-force winds during a high-altitude mountain ultramarathon led to the deaths of 21 experienced runners in northwestern China on Saturday, state media and the Associated Press reported. The 62-mile Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon race began in sunny conditions that morning. By 1 p.m. the weather turned to freezing rain, hail stones and gale winds, the state-run Global Times reported. Rescuers confirmed that 151 of the 172 total runners were safe, via AP, and eight… Source link

The Daily Beast This Belarusian Currency Trader Is Buying Up Tiny Vermont Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyA Belarusian currency speculator named Pavel Boguslavovich Belogour is buying up huge swaths of tiny Vermont—thousands of acres of the Green Mountain State, and even patches of land over the border in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.At first, Belogour, who goes by “Paul,” was received as something of a novelty. An idiosyncratic character with long hair and scant online… Source link

The Crypto Fear and Greed Index, a metric that measures the current sentiment in the bitcoin market, has fallen to “extreme fear” levels not seen since April 2020, a report Tuesday showed. The drop in market sentiment follows the past week’s plunge in the bitcoin (BTC) price to about $43,200, down from last month’s record near $65,000. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index is now at 21, down from a “greedy” level of 73 just last week, according to the report from hosting site Alternative… Source link