Laura Millan

5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Laura Millan

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6 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Laura Millan

The Trump administration’s gutting of the US Agency for International Development, with 80% of its programs now canceled, is a blow for clean cookstove programs in Africa. That means more Africans will have to rely on burning wood or charcoalin their homes, driving air pollution, deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions across the continent. Clean cookstoves run on electricity, gas or smaller amounts of biomass, and switching households to less polluting cooking methods reduces harmful impacts.

6 days ago | bloomberg.com | Laura Millan

A fuel-efficient BioLite stove, which produces one-quarter of the smoke of a conventional stove, being used in Juja, Kenya. (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration’s gutting of the US Agency for International Development, with 80% of its programs now canceled, is a blow for clean cookstove programs in Africa. That means more Africans will have to rely on burning wood or charcoal in their homes, driving air pollution, deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions across the continent.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Laura Millan |Zahra Hirji |Eric Roston

Members of a research team in Marseille, France. (Bloomberg) -- Europe sees the string of funding freezes, canceled programs and general hostility toward science in the US under President Donald Trump as an opportunity to become the world’s top destination for research — but attracting top talent won’t be easy.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Laura Millan

The Disaster Relief Military Unit respond to flooding in Benetusser, Valencia, on Nov. 2. (Bloomberg) -- As Europe races to ramp up defense spending in support of Ukraine, one country is showing how newly beefed up military budgets could help fight the growing climate crisis at home. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced last month that 17% of this year's €23 billion ($26.2 billion) military spending would go toward natural disaster relief.