The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds. These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of people, coerced into defrauding innocent people through bogus investment and romance baiting scams. The operators of the compounds earn billions of dollars each year … Read more
Press Release by Western Pennsylvania Conservancy on 31 January 2025 WPC land protected for Bear Run Nature Reserve Western Pennsylvania Conservancy announced the purchase of two properties, totaling 97 acres, in Stewart Township, Fayette County that will be added to popular outdoor recreation and natural areas in the Laurel Highlands. A 44-acre forested property located … Read more
Many rural areas across Europe have experienced a decline in their populations over recent decades. Drawing on new research from Spain, Fernando Merino, María A. Prats and Carlos-Javier Prieto-Sánchez show that the provision of digital communication infrastructure should be viewed as an important priority in efforts to prevent the depopulation of small and medium-sized municipalities. … Read more
¿Recuerda aquello de que las empresas están “repatriando sus datos de cloud”, es decir, ubicando de nuevo en sus centros locales los datos que habían llevado a la nube, al ver que el coste y la complejidad de ejecutar cargas de trabajo en un entorno multicloud son mayores de lo que esperaban? Pues bien: la … Read more
(Photo by Jonathan Sloane/Getty Images) By Lewis Nibbelin, Contributing Writer, Triple-I Withdrawing federal subsidies in climate-vulnerable areas can deter development and promote disaster resilience, according to a recent Nature Climate Change study. The study found that these benefits extend beyond the targeted areas. These findings underscore the utility of land conservation as hazard protection, as … Read more
