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People often resist congestion pricing because they favor the status quo. But seeing benefits firsthand has led residents in cities around the world to embrace it. New York City’s plan to charge most vehicles $15 to enter downtown Manhattan would have eased traffic, cut pollution, and raised billions for mass transit.

In an excerpt from his new book, Rob Jackson explores what it will take to decarbonize one of the world’s dirtiest industries. Diamonds are forever, except when they’re drill bits. The giant drill—20 feet long and mirroring a device in a Bond villain’s lair—griiinds amid a flood of sparks, flames, and molten iron gushing from the bottom of the newly punctured blast furnace into the torpedo-shaped rail cars a story below us.

The Paris Games are the first Olympics with full gender parity in participation, and prove that audiences are clamoring for more coverage of world-class female athletes. The Olympic Games are more than just a global celebration of athletic prowess—they’ve long been a powerful platform for championing equality in sports. Women first competed in the Olympic Games in 1900, coincidentally held in Paris.

Set to accommodate 80,000 fans, the megastadium raises serious sustainability concerns, but organizers say many of the materials will be reused. Pop superstar Adele can have it all—at least when it comes to a bespoke stadium assembled in Munich for an upcoming series of concerts. 

Despite being one of the most common jobs in the U. S., home care work is often physically taxing and poorly paid. But many care workers still find purpose—and a viable career path—in the field. It might come as little surprise that working in retail or fast food ranks as one of the most common jobs in the U.

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) There are no wild ligers. Indeed, hybrids were once thought to be rare in nature—and of little consequence in an evolutionary sense. But now we know they can play an important role in speciation—the creation of new, genetically distinct populations. As it turns out, hybridization in nature is quite common.