Linen scarves, cotton aprons and dishtowels adorn the entrances to souvenir shops, many of which are run by Bangladeshis whose home country shares Portugal's rich tradition of textile manufacturing.
In years past, the U.S. was referred to as "King Cotton" for its prodigious output of the fiber wanted by the rest of the world. The "Plant Not Plastic" initiative may see a rebirth of that sentiment.
The water-usage argument against artificial intelligence has become the climate left’s favorite scold. The pitch runs as follows: every time you ask ChatGPT a question, somewhere a data centre guzzles a bottle of water to keep itself cool, and the planet pays the price. Stop using AI, the lecture concludes, or you are complicit in […]
The water-usage argument against artificial intelligence has become the climate left’s favorite scold. The pitch runs as follows: every time you ask ChatGPT a question, somewhere a data centre guzzles a bottle of water to keep itself cool, and the planet pays the price. Stop using AI, the lecture concludes, or you are complicit in environmental ruin. The numbers, however, tell a different story (if anybody bothered to check them). A single pair of cotton jeans takes roughly 1,800 gallons of water to manufacture, the equivalent of somewhere between 136,000 and 681,000 ChatGPT queries, depending on what you’re asking. A single almond, the smug snack of the wellness influencer class, requires a full gallon of water to produce, and…Open
A test verified by The New York Times found that clothes for some of the viral dolls contained cotton from the Xinjiang region of China, which is banned in the United States.
The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran is likely to impact people around the world as tensions escalate around the Strait of Hormuz , a waterway on Iran's southern coast, where traffic has ground to a halt . Why it matters: Trade disruptions along this key waterway on Iran's southern coast that handles 25% of the world's maritime oil trade and 20% of liquefied natural gas shipments will likely produce a domino effect across the global economy. - About 33% of the world's fertilizers, including sulfur and ammonia, travel through the strait, according to the trade analysis firm Kpler . • It's a key route for alumimum and sugar as well. - Blocked access to the strait will likely impact the price of some products, including clothing,…