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NYTIMES | Biden's decision to end America’s longest war was driven by his determination not to sacrifice a single additional member of the military on behalf of an effort he had long believed was no longer in the interests of the United States. But on Thursday morning, the withdrawal he set in motion claimed the lives of 13 U.S. troops, along with scores of Afghan civilians — the first American casualties in Afghanistan in 18 months and the deadliest day there for the U.S. military since 2011.
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🇸🇪 SVD | Northvolt faces tough competition, not least from Tesla’s Berlin-based ”gigafactory”. In November last year, Elon Musk announced that their factory will be able to produce 250 GWh worth of batteries. Northvolt’s factory will in comparison have a capacity for 60 GWh. Still, regardless of how Northvolt does in the future, the company has indeed staked out a road for the emerging European battery industry.
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USNEWS | President Joe Biden urges private companies to implement coronavirus vaccine requirements following the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the Pfizer shot. "Do what I did: Require your employees to get vaccinated or face strict requirements," Joe Biden said, referencing his announcement in July that federal workers will have to attest to their vaccination against the coronavirus or undergo several mitigation measures, including masking and regular testing.
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🇸🇪 SVD | The Swedish national horse jumping team won Olympic gold after a dramatic re-jumping against the U.S. Peder Fredricson and All In secured the victory during the final round. “Finally a gold!” said Fredricson afterward. During the 2018 World Championships in Tyron, Sweden and the U.S. also met in a re-jumping final for the gold medal which the U.S. won. “We said that - not again! But everything can happen and we had to go all in” team captain Henrik Ankarcrona said in an interview on Discovery.
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NYTIMES | | In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, researchers at Harvard University estimated that there were nearly 20,000 extra coronavirus infections and 750 Covid-19 deaths associated with exposure to wildfire smoke between March and December 2020 in the American West. The findings build on the well-established connection between air pollution and respiratory-tract infections and conditions such as asthma. But the study is the first to show a statistical link between wildfire smoke and Covid-19 caseloads and deaths.
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REUTERS | Citigroup is considering offering bitcoin futures trading for some institutional clients, a spokesperson for the bank said recently, citing increased demand in the cryptocurrency space. Bitcoin prices rose past $50,000 after having weathered a crackdown by Chinese authorities on domestic cryptocurrency mining companies earlier this year, as mainstream adoption by corporations and the wider public gathers pace.
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APNEWS | 'Code red': UN scientists warn of worsening global warming
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.” Report co-author, Linda Mearns, said “It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get worse,” and that there will be "nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.” The authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which calls climate change clearly human-caused and “unequivocal” and “an established fact,” makes more precise and warmer forecasts for the 21st century than it did last time it was issued in 2013.
NYTIMES | Greta Thunberg writes Opinion Piece for the NYTimes: This Is the World Being Left to Us by Adults
"For children and young people, climate change is the single greatest threat to our futures. We are the ones who will have to clean up the mess you adults have made, and we are the ones who are more likely to suffer now. Children are more vulnerable than adults to the dangerous weather events, diseases and other harms caused by climate change, which is why a new analysis released Friday by UNICEF is so important."
NYTIMES | Court Blocks a Vast Alaskan Drilling Project, Citing Climate Dangers
A federal judge in Alaska on Wednesday blocked construction permits for an expansive oil drilling project on the state’s North Slope that was designed to produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years. The multibillion-dollar plan, known as Willow, by the oil giant ConocoPhillips had been approved by the Trump administration and legally backed by the Biden administration. Environmental groups sued, arguing that the federal government had failed to take into account the effects that drilling would have on wildlife and that the burning of the oil would have on global warming.
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