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It’s unimaginable. It’s unthinkable. It could never happen.It’s nine innings from happening.A Dodger team that spent the summer full of 111-win life is suddenly on its last breath.After six months of complete baseball domination, the Dodgers are on the verge of losing it all in four nights.The best team in Dodger history could soon become the most disappointing team in Dodger history.On a night when constant chants of, “Beat L.A.” rang in .their ears and thousands of flapping yellow towels filled their eyes, the stunned…

Without urgent and major interventions, America's Great Salt Lake could experience ecosystem collapse in the next few years.In a worst-case scenario, according findings presented at the Geological Society of America's 2022 Connects Conference in Colorado this past weekend, the world-famous body of salt-water has just a few months before ecological recovery is significantly impeded by rising salinity levels.Water from the rivers feeding into Utah's vast lake has been diverted for human consumption for more than a century.…

FRANKFURT—Germany on Thursday unveiled a wide-ranging price cap on energy in response to growing concerns among German businesses that a wave of insolvencies could wash over the country and disrupt the supply chains serving Germany’s largest industrial sectors.The government said it would cap the prices of electricity and natural gas as part of a fourth package of measures aimed at shielding businesses and consumers from soaring energy prices following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The move comes after German businesses,…

IN EARLY MAY 2020, the American journalist Luke Mogelson left Paris – for years the base from which he covered strife and pestilence around the world – and went home to report on the accelerated unravelling of the US.The idea of bringing a foreign correspondent back to write about their own country as if on assignment is not a new one. There is a whole subgenre of returning English reporters producing wry travelogues of the British Isles and their encounters with its quirky countryfolk. Mogelson’s account of his return to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Of the world's 7,000 languages, it is estimated 50% to 90% will no longer be spoken in the next 50 to 100 years. The majority under threat are languages spoken by Indigenous peoples around the world: one is lost every two weeks. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The U.S. is on pace to recover all 22 million jobs wiped out in the COVID-19 recession as early as July, but the milestone will obscure sharp differences among industries and an economy transformed by the crisis. …

It seemed like everyone was in a buying mood on Friday, except Elon Musk. The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke a six-day losing streak, the Nasdaq Composite turned in its second positive session in a row, and the S&P 500 was up over 2%, a small step back from the brink of a bear market, ending the week 16.50% off its 52-week high. But any single-day stock gains in this market are tenuous. The Dow was down for its seventh-consecutive week for the first time since 2001. "We saw the exact same thing in 2000 and 2001,"…