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A terrorist attack in 2015 that left her city angry and heartbroken persuaded Paris’ mayor, Anne Hidalgo, to campaign for the Olympic Games. &

PARIS: Billionaire Patrick Drahi has made approaches through a banker to sound out French telecom competitors Bouygues and Free about a possible deal with his SFR operator that would consolidate the nation’s mobile phone sector, according to La Tribune.

Efforts to green the planet are in full swing, promising everything from mitigating climate change to stalling land degradation. But how well do these actually work? Often, they sprout up as small-scale tree-planting or agroforestry schemes in far-flung areas. Pinpointing gains isn’t always easy. Visiting each site and verifying vegetal growth over time is a […]

There’s a tree-planting frenzy everywhere you look. In August 2019, the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India announced that more than a million Indians had planted 220 million trees on a single day. A month earlier, Ethiopia had made a similar declaration: more than 350 million trees had been planted in one day. “Always […]