U.S. Wheat Futs Hit Two-Year High As Wall Street Sounds Alarm Over Drought Shock

Visualizing Europe's Birth-Rate Collapse Europe’s population is no longer replacing itself. Across the continent, fertility rates have fallen below the 2.1 births per woman needed to maintain stable population levels, with no country meeting that threshold as of 2024. The map below, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, shows the number of live births per woman across Europe using the most recent data from Eurostat, FRED, and the UK’s Office for National Statistics. From Ukraine (0.99) to Spain (1.1), some of Europe’s largest countries now rank among those with the lowest birth rates, highlighting how widespread the decline has...

Watch Live: Artemis II Astronauts Begin Historic Lunar Flyby Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Astronauts are back in lunar space for the first time in more than 50 years. Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, crossed into the Moon’s gravitational influence at approximately 12:41 a.m. ET on April 6, officially making NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, the first astronauts to enter lunar space in more than half a century. While they are not parking in lunar orbit or attempting a...

Russia's Key Novorossiysk Export Hub Again Pounded In Large Ukrainian Drone Wave Iran is understandably dominating global headlines, but major events are still happening in oh yeah that other war which has been raging for four plus years in eastern Europe. Like with the Iran conflict theatre, major geopolitical repercussions impacting energy oil prices are coming out of the Ukraine war. An overnight Monday large-scale drone wave from Ukraine has severely damaged Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Image: stock.adobe Ukraine's General Staff has described that the facility supplies Russian forces engaged in the war, after reports have...