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Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, and Caroline George Policymakers, practitioners, and the general public increasingly agree that our infrastructure systems are under pressure. Storm surges and coastal...

Peter Conti-Brown and Kaleb Nygaard A growing chorus has called on the Fed to diversify its ranks at all levels to reflect better the heterogeneity of the...

Marcus Casey and Ember Smith The specter of labor market disruption driven by advanced automation technologies raises concern that the US workforce will be both underprepared and...

Ayesha Tandon Arctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year, peaking on 21 March https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/arctic-sea-ice-winter-peak-in-2021-is-joint-seventh-lowest-on-record/

Douglas Broom If online deliveries continue with fossil-fuel trucks, emissions will increase by a third https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/zero-emission-deliveries-netherlands-cities/

Suchi Kedia, Kadambari Shah, Harshita Agrawal The pandemic revealed how Indian cities dependent on those working in the informal economy https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/3-urban-problems-indian-cities-must-solve/

French lawmakers voted to ban domestic flights on routes that can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/french-lawmakers-vote-to-ban-short-domestic-flights-to-reduce-co2-emissions/

Jen Judson The U.S. Army’s Requirements Oversight Council has approved the requirements for its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, a service spokesman confirmed to Defense News. https://www.defensenews.com/land/2021/04/13/us-army-approves-plan-to-acquire-a-future-attack-reconnaissance-aircraft/

Nathan Strout The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked three companies to design a nuclear thermal propulsion system that will operate above low Earth...