China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories in the southwest waited Sunday to see whether they would be shut down for another week due to shortages of water to generate hydropower. The hottest, driest summer since the government…
Immense energy consumption in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan has been attributed to cryptocurrency mining operations, especially in massive computer farms. Kazakhstan is now experiencing power shortages with cryptocurrency winning partly to blame. According to reports the local Kazak electrical grid operator…
Reliance Industries Ltd., the conglomerate helmed by Asia’s richest man, is among large Indian companies that have given at least one Covid-19 shot to almost all of its employees, a sign the country’s corporate sector is proving more efficient at procuring shots than the government, which has struggled with…