Fast-fashion giants like Shein and Temu have been doing booming business in the United States in recent years, in part because of a tariff exemption that’s helped to keep prices low on packages shipped from […]
Tag: Antarctic Regions
In Argentina, a Boom in Antarctic Cruises Is Straining the ‘End of the World’
It was summer in the city that proudly calls itself the “end of the world,” and the tourists were flocking like the penguins they had traveled thousands of miles to see. On a late-January afternoon, […]
Trump Imposes Tariffs on Remote Islands
President Trump’s tariffs have spared almost no corner of the Earth. Even tiny, sparsely populated islands that export close to nothing. Among the countries and territories listed on sheets of paper that were distributed to […]
Global Sea Ice Hits a New Low
Earth is missing a lot of sea ice this year. Enough to cover the entire United States east of the Mississippi. That was announced by researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data […]
