agriculture

Not to Alarm Anyone, but Flesh-Eating Screwworms Have Entered the US

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Not to Alarm Anyone, but Flesh-Eating Screwworms Have Entered the US

A case of New World screwworm has been confirmed in South Texas, the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday night. It marks the first detected breach of the US-Mexico border by the ravenous flesh-eating flies, which have been making their way up through Central America for the past several years. In a social media post … Read more

More Iran war? There goes the neighborhood, and global economy.

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More Iran war? There goes the neighborhood, and global economy.

For all the uncertainty about what will happen next on the military and diplomatic front in the Iran war, there is certainty about what has already happened on the economic front. And it is not good. The world has seen a spike in oil prices that has been moderated so far by large drawdowns in … Read more