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Biden Fast-Tracked a Green Energy Mine in One of Earth’s Rarest Ecosystems. Arizona Locals Took It to Court.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

Carolyn Shafer spread the maps out on her patio table. Another sun-dappled Saturday morning under her backyard trees in the picturesque border town of Patagonia, Arizona. Shafer wasn’t relaxing though. She was getting to work.Birds chirped as the 76-year-old traced the 75,000 acres of mining claims on the edge of her community with her finger. She wore a black T-shirt emblazoned with a fearsome wolf hovering above a rugged mountain range. The wolf is the calling card of the Patagonia Area Resource Alliance, or PARA. The local group monitors industrialized mining in the Patagonia Mountains, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Schafer is president of the board.“This is our new logo,” she said, picking up a pamphlet with the wolf on the front. The old mascot — a cute cartoon dog — no longer matched the moment. A vigilant pack animal sent a more appropriate message.“We think of ourselves as local watchdogs,” Schafer told me. “We pay attention to what’s going on with the companie...

Where did all the Sriracha go? Bottles are being sold for $70 a pop

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

Watch Video: Sriracha shortage heads into second yearFans may turn red in the face when they see the steep prices for bottles of Sriracha hot sauce.Amid ongoing shortages, sellers on e-commerce sites have started selling bottles of the Huy Fong sauce for jacked up prices. While Huy Fong is not the only maker of this style of sauce, it is the most popular. Huy Fong Sriracha is the top hot sauce in 31 states based on Instacart purchase data.On Amazon, a pack of two, 17-oz Huy Fong Sriracha bottles is retailing for $114. 59. A four-pack of 28-oz bottles is selling for $200. Huy Fong’s chili garlic sauce is also selling for inflated prices; a three-pack of 8-oz bottles is being sold for $129.97. A bottle at a store normally retails for about $4, depending on the size.Over on eBay, a search shows prices for various sized bottles ranging from $39.98 for 17-ounce bottles to a 28-ounce bottle for nearly $70. It remains unclear if anyone is actually purchasing these pricey bottles of ...

Asteroid Day 2023: A reminder that the clock is ticking

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

View of an asteroid. (Courtesy NASA) View of an asteroid. (Courtesy NASA) Eight years ago Friday was the first Asteroid Day, a “global awareness movement where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet” from asteroid and comet impacts.This year’s Asteroid Day has events planned worldwide and online. An excellent Asteroid Day 2023 webpage has been created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, filled with teachable moments, student activities and educator guides on asteroids and comets.June 30 is a significant date in the history of Earth impacts.On that date in 1908, according to a 2019 NASA update, “a stony (not icy) body, between ...

Europe inflation slips to 5.5% — but that won’t stop central bank rate hikes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in Europe slid again in June but fell too slowly to offer much relief to shoppers grumbling over price tags or to stop more interest rate hikes that will raise the cost of borrowing across the economy. The annual rate of 5.5% was down from 6.1% in May in the 20 countries that use the euro currency, the European Union statistics agency Eurostat said Friday.While that is a big drop from the peak of 10.6% in October, persistently high prices in the U.S., Europe and the United Kingdom pushed some of the world’s top central bankers to make clear they are going to keep raising rates and leave them there until inflation drops to their 2% goal considered best for the economy. Consumers saw relief on energy prices, which dropped 5.6% after last year’s crisis, while food price inflation was up 11.7%, easing from 12.5% in May. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and fuel and offers a clearer picture of longer-term price pressures, rose s...

Hasta $70 por una botella: se dispara el precio de esta popular salsa picante

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

¿Pagarías $70 por un frasco de tu salsa picante favorita? Si eres amante de la salsa Sriracha quizás tengas que rendirte de buscarla en los supermercados y pagar una astronómica cifra. Por ahora, atrás quedaron esos días en los que la podrías conseguir por $4 en los estantes. La razón es que los suministros para fabricarla siguen siendo limitados, advirtió uno de los fabricantes de Sriracha más populares de Estados Unidos ante la nueva escasez del popular producto. Anuncian que habrá escasez de la salsa Sriracha NBC: fabricante de salsa picante Sriracha advierte de escasez durante el verano Debido a la continua escasez, se han comenzado a vender en Internet botellas de la salsa de Huy Fong a precios astronómicos e incluso, hay quienes se están llevando las botellas de los restaurantes. Aunque Huy Fong no es el único fabricante de la Sriracha, sí es el más popular.En Amazon, los vendedores están aprovechando para venderla a precio...

HIVE Blockchain: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (HIVE) on Thursday reported a loss of $7 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company said it had a loss of 8 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 5 cents per share.The crypto currency mining company posted revenue of $18.2 million in the period.For the year, the company reported a loss of $236.4 million, or $2.85 per share. Revenue was reported as $106.3 million._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on HIVE at https://www.zacks.com/ap/HIVESource

Inflation in the 20 countries using the euro falls to 5.5% in June but that won’t stop more interest rate hikes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in the 20 countries using the euro falls to 5.5% in June but that won’t stop more interest rate hikes.Source

Image captured by Mars rover shows a mysterious ‘doughnut’ on the planet’s surface

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

(CNN) — An image captured by the Mars rover Perseverance shows a mysterious doughnut-shaped rock on the red planet’s surface.Launched in July 2020, the Mars Perseverance rover continues to explore the planet’s 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer-wide) Jezero Crater for signs of ancient microbial life, according to NASA. The rover collects samples of rock and broken rock and soil (called regolith) for possible return to Earth by a future Mars mission.The Mars “doughnut” is one of the latest objects captured about 100 meters (roughly 328 feet) away in the delta of the Jezero Crater by the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager — one of the rover’s cameras helping scientists see what’s on the planet’s surface.The Perseverance team hasn’t made the rover go closer to the doughnut-shaped rock to examine or sample it, so its exact makeup and origins are unknown, said Jim Rice, an assistant research scientist in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. Rice, who is on the rover’s...

Strong service sector means no relief over eurozone inflation in June

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

Underlying inflation in the eurozone accelerated in June, with fresh evidence that labor-intensive services are now the biggest headache for the European Central Bank.While monthly headline inflation dropped to 5.5 percent from 6.1 percent in May, core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose to 5.4 percent from 5.3 percent. Prices for services, which form the largest part of the economy, rose 0.6 percent on the month. According to figures released on Friday by Eurostat, they were the only major component of the index that accelerated, but they did so by enough to completely offset slowing food inflation and absolute falls in energy prices. Falling energy prices, which were down 5.6 percent on the year in June, have brought headline inflation down from a peak of 10.6 percent in November. Food price inflation, which peaked at over 15 percent in March, also remains a problem. Prices for food, alcohol and tobacco rose 0.4 percent and were up 11.7 percent from a y...

Dutch slap new restrictions on chips exports to China

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 GMT

The Netherlands imposed new export controls on microchips technology on Friday, restricting the sales of Dutch manufacturer ASML’s advanced chips machinery to China.ASML will have to seek export licenses for some of its more advanced microchip printing machines from September onward, new rules published Friday said. The firm is one of the few suppliers globally that manufactures these advanced printers. The Dutch industry giant has been a target of Washington’s campaign to stop cutting-edge microchip technology from ending up in China. The Netherlands agreed in January to curb the sale of some of ASML’s gear to China, in a political deal with the U.S. and Japan.The Hague’s move to curb tech exports comes as the European Union is rolling out a strategy to stop other blocs from weaponizing global supply chains against Europe’s interests. EU leaders are meeting in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to discuss the bloc’s economic reliance on China. The E...