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Hurricane Michael made landfall as a Category 5 storm in October 2018. Credit: Florida State University Years after Hurricane Michael devastated Florida's Gulf Coast, residents of that area are still struggling to overcome the trauma of the Category 5 storm. In a recent study, FSU researchers found that trauma and a host of…

Boeing commercial-airplanes chief Stan Deal said the company worked hard last year to stabilize production of the MAX, its best selling model, which was grounded for almost two years before resuming flights in the U.S. in 2020. Last year, Boeing also resumed deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner, which had faced a series of production and regulatory setbacks.Boeing boosted deliveries by 41% in 2022 over the previous year. “As the airline industry expands its recovery, we are seeing strong demand…

SAN FRANCISCO —  Reyna De La Cruz had looked at 15 apartments, at least.About half of the landlords rejected her. The other half never responded at all.De La Cruz and three of her kids were living in a camper parked on a corner in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. They’d been there since De La Cruz was laid off from her job at Wingstop in 2020. But their little family needed a real home. De La Cruz kept a wish list: enough bedrooms and bathrooms for her and her kids, a kitchen big enough to cook in regularly and, if…

Binance (BNB) and Polkadot (DOT) Upticks But Still Lags Behind Bitgert Price Growth by IndustryTrends November 29, 2022 The crypto market started the day with a breather, where most of the coins, including Binance (BNB), Polkadot (DOT), Centcex (CENX), and Bitgert (BRISE), have posted good recovery from yesterday’s plunge. However, the recovery rate for these coins has varied for the last few hours.Though Binance (BNB) had increased 3% in the past 24 hours, while Polkadot (DOT) has increased 2% during the same period,…

Photo: Bruce Bennett (Getty Images)This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.Last week, REI Co-op stores around the country closed for Black Friday. It’s a company tradition dating back to 2015, where the outdoor retailer asks customers to “opt outside” rather than participate in a post-Thanksgiving shopping spree.But there’s one thing that REI hasn’t yet opted out of: a class of compounds known as “forever chemicals.” By using these chemicals in its water-resistant…

A man wheels a trolley past a screen displaying Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt being interviewed by the BBC the morning after his autumn statement, outside the BBC studios in central London.Aaron Chown - Pa Images | Pa Images | Getty ImagesLONDON — U.K. growth has lagged the world's biggest economies since the Covid-19 pandemic and is substantially below the OECD average, according to a new report from the influential Paris-based group.U.K. gross domestic product has contracted by 0.4% between the fourth quarter…

Almost 20% of children’s books now feature characters of colour, according to a new survey, but many still put forward “poorly represented characters” and contain “difficult and damaging portrayals”.The Reflecting Realities survey, conducted by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), is now in its fifth year and monitors the diversity within children’s books in the UK.Of the 5,383 children’s picture books, fiction and non-fiction from 2021 assessed for the latest report, 1,059 (or 20%) featured a character of…

Airbus EADSY -0.15% SE plans to ramp up production over the course of next year, despite persistent supply-chain disruption, as the European plane maker extends its lead over rival Boeing Co. BA 4.46% in the crucial market for smaller jets.The Toulouse, France-based company on Friday confirmed plans to lift production of its A320 aircraft to 65 a month by early 2024 from about 50 a month at the end of this year, one of…

NEW DELHI: Mobile internet speeds rose 6Mbps year-on-year in India in April. According to data published by Ookla, the company that runs public internet speed testing website, SpeedTest, median internet speeds on mobile phones in India have been rising steadily since June last year, and increased by nearly 6 Mbps last month when compared with April 2021. That said, the data showed that mobile internet speeds in India improved only slightly month-on-month in April. At the same time,…

International air travel has been making a strong recovery this year, with the exception of the Asia-Pacific region, which is "lagging significantly behind," according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA)."Last year, international travel was at about 25% of where it was in 2019. First quarter of this year across the globe, it's up 42%," Willie Walsh, the director general of the industry body, told "Squawk Box Asia" on Tuesday."In fact, what we're seeing is very strong growth rate in some markets, from the…