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You might not want to bank on remote work sticking around. Where there are vaccines, tourists will follow. The myths about the interstate highway system that won’t go away. Remote work is overrated and cities will be back: Jerusalem Demsas interviews Enico Moretti, a labor and urban economics researcher at UC Berkeley, about his assertion that people won’t be working fully remotely in the long run. Moretti says that remote work won’t gut urban centers because the economy creates dense clusters of high productivity workers, and this agglomeration trend will bounce back after the pandemic...

Close Authorship Transportation network company (TNC) fleets, such as Uber and Lyft in America, Didi in China and Ola in India, may account for a relatively small share of the number of total automobiles on the road globally. But don’t let that fool you. Electrifying ridehailing has outsized potential to reduce emissions and catalyze electrification in other transportation sectors. To stay on target for limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius — something RMI believes will take the electrification of well over 50 million EVs in the United States by 2030 — we must exploit ...

Climate change gets less news coverage during pandemic, social protests Written By: Steve Gardiner | × Heavy spring rains are bringing flood waters to many parts of the country, including this scene in Colvill Park in Red Wing on March 31, 2019. Steve Gardiner / RiverTown Multimedia In a year when a global pandemic and social unrest grab most of the headlines, another crisis is growing. However, the wildfires, hurricanes, and severe weather patterns created by the intricate web of atmospheric and oceanic conditions caused by climate change have drawn less attention. Meehan Cr...