More than 50,000 have escaped the pandemic by moving back, offering the country a rare chance to regain talented citizens. But they are confronting entrenched housing and employment challenges. Cat Moody, a New Zealander, and her American husband, Eric Mills, returned from the United States.Credit…Cornell Tukiri for The New York Times WELLINGTON, New Zealand — […]
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Here Is Who’s Behind the Global Surge in Single-Use Plastic
A new report shows that a surprisingly small number of big companies and banks are behind the manufacturing and financing of much of the world’s single-use plastic. By Michael Corkery and Somini Sengupta @ 2021 The New York Times Company The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely […]
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Mice in Australia Overruns Farms, Shops and Bedrooms
For half a year, the rodents have been chewing their way around the country’s eastern grain belt, leaving economic and psychological scars. By Yan Zhuang Photographs by Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario @2021 The New York Times TOTTENHAM, Australia — The stench hits you first, pungent, musty and rotting. Then you hear them: a sound like ocean waves, […]
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Working Less Is a Matter of Life and Death
By The Editorial Board @2021 The New York Times Company The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. Search online “work too much” and you’ll get screenfuls of information about the harmful medical, mental and social consequences of […]
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A Desperate India Falls Prey to Covid Scammers
As the health care system fails, clandestine markets have emerged for drugs, oxygen, hospital beds and funeral services. Fake goods may be putting lives at risk. By Hari Kumar and Jeffrey Gettleman@2021 The New York Times Company NEW DELHI — Within the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak, few treasures are more coveted than an empty oxygen […]
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After ‘Green Rush,’ Canada’s Legal Pot Suppliers Are Stumbling
Most marijuana producers in Canada are still reporting staggering losses two and a half years after legalization. By Ian Austen @ 2021 The New York Times CompanyEXETER, Ontario — The mayor of the largely rural community of South Huron, Ontario, was looking forward to an employment boom when a marijuana producer used its soaring stock […]