The modern insurance industry has operated under the same model for centuries: taking on other people’s risks for a fee, covering their losses if things go wrong. Rob Wesseling, however, thinks that ...

Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. 90% of climate change impacts are related to water Extreme droughts are 233% more frequent than 50 years ago 2.5 billion ...

Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy ...

Most of aviation’s climate impact does not come from fuel but from contrails that trap heat high in the atmosphere. New research shows that slightly changing the altitude of a small number of flights ...

Solar panels became cheap not because one nation mastered the technology, but because governments and corporations created a global market that rewarded scale and innovation. Prices for solar fell 90 ...

“Dry January” is changing how some people start the new year, and local bar owners say it can also affect business during an already slow month. Utility companies ordered to provide ...

A tiny protein tweak may unlock nitrogen-fixing super-crops that slash global fertilizer demand. Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome ...

Strictly Come Dancing fans were left gobsmacked on Sunday evening as Tess Daly read out the results, sending Lewis Cope and Katya Jones packing. The professional dancer and her celebrity partner Lewis ...