Why you should care about bumper bank profits

Apr 06, 2023 07:38 am UTC| Business Investing

The Bank of England has raised interest rates 11 times since December 2021 but, while this may boost bank profits, it is less likely to boost many peoples bank balances. Alongside the sharp spike in interest rates over...

Five misused food and farming terms, from natural to intensive – and what they really mean

Apr 06, 2023 07:28 am UTC| Business

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming is bad for these...

How Playboy cut ties with Hugh Hefner to create a post-#MeToo brand

Apr 06, 2023 07:21 am UTC| Business

Hugh Hefner launched Playboy Magazine 70 years ago this year. The first issue included a nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe, which he had purchased and published without her knowledge or consent. Hefner went on to build...

Carmakers are mistaken if they think chip shortages are over – they need to reinvent themselves while there's time

Apr 06, 2023 07:19 am UTC| Business

Finally, carmakers got a break. Those in the UK boosted their output by over 13% in February as supply-chain pressures subsided, especially the persistent global shortage in microchips, also known as semiconductors. This...

How can we make the space sector more sustainable?

Apr 06, 2023 07:18 am UTC| Business

When talking about space, one might think about the stars one sees at night or a good sci-fi film. But space is also crowded with satellites, spacecrafts and astronauts, whose missions can last anywhere from several days...

PepsiCo‘s Frito-Lay, Quaker open greenhouse facility for compostable packaging innovation

Apr 05, 2023 23:57 pm UTC| Economy Business Nature

PepsiCos Frito-Lay and Quaker have opened a new Greenhouse Learning Center at its RD headquarters, for testing, measuring, and analyzing compostable packaging to hasten innovation. The facility allows the RD packaging...

Companies that frack for oil and gas can keep a lot of information secret – but what they disclose shows widespread use of hazardous chemicals

Apr 05, 2023 13:45 pm UTC| Business

From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas wells have been fracked. Fracking, short for hydraulic...