Deadlines set by some of the world’s top polluters to end greenhouse gas emissions have boosted hopes of meeting the Paris accord’s ambitious goals, says Patricia Espinosa, head of the U.N. climate office.
Erica Nitschke
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Posted inBusiness
Microsoft-led housing effort cuts rents in Seattle suburbs
Microsoft says its affordable-housing initiative has hit upon a model for quickly converting market-rate apartments to ones middle-income workers such as teachers and nurses can afford.
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Posted inBusiness
General Motors: New batteries cut electric car costs, increase range
The automaker says a breakthrough in battery chemistry will cut the price of its electric vehicles so they equal those powered by gasoline within five years.
Posted inBusiness
Stocks rise amid investors’ tug of war between hope, fear
Stocks ended higher, shaking off a weak start and nearly erasing the S&P 500’s losses for the week.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Carol Burnett puts variety, and music, back in her show
Episodes from the show’s 11 seasons have been revived and expanded, most to their original hour length, and can be seen streaming for the first time on services including Tubi and The Roku Channel.
Posted inNew England, News
Vermont restricts bars, social gatherings amid case surge
The recent surge in cases has come 12 days after Halloween.
Posted inNew England
New Hampshire theater complex, town hall named to national register
A theater complex in Laconia and a town hall in Rye have been named to the National Register of Historic Places.
Posted inNew England
Explosion kills 2 steam pipe workers at Connecticut veterans hospital
The explosion occurred in a building that houses the hospital’s labor shops, such as carpentry and plumbing.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Trump, stewing over election loss, silent as virus surges
Public health experts worry that the president’s refusal to take action on the pandemic or to coordinate with the Biden team will only worsen the effects of the virus.
Posted inNation & World
In ruins, Syria marks 50 years of Assad family rule
The country is in ruins from a decade of civil war that killed a half million people, displaced half the population and wiped out the economy.