Many Americans adopted pets during the early months of the pandemic. getty Seventy percent of all American households have a pet, with 38% having dogs and 25% having cats. The $4.54 billion pet products market has grown along with the popularity of pet ownership. So it’s not surprising that ‘pet […]
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On an unusually cold day in May, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are trampling across a large, man-made clearing in the forests of southern Finland, near the Baltic city of Turku. This stark landscape is the result of clear-cutting: swathes of woodland sliced down for timber production, decimating the habitats […]
In Kenya, the right to housing is embedded in the constitution, which provides that “Every person has the right to accessible and adequate housing, and to reasonable standards of sanitation.” At the start of his second term in 2018, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta launched an affordable housing programme as one […]
This week, the High Point Market Authority announced that longtime CEO Tom Conley would be retiring at the end of the year. Conley’s 11 years in the top spot has coincided with an unprecedented period of change for the 113-year-old market, spanning the aftermath of a recession, the rise of […]
Visit central Berkeley and there are sights you expect to see: the Campanile rising serenely from the heart of campus. Students on the sidewalks, even after commencement. Aging men and women dressed as if it’s still 1974. And then there’s the unexpected — like a downtown housing boom that shows […]
The last time audiences saw the Byers family on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” they were leaving town. After a lengthy hiatus, the highly anticipated fourth season returns to Netflix on May 27. This time, the family has been relocated for their safety to Southern California, where they moved from fictional Hawkins, Ind. […]