Since the start of December, more than 30 whales have washed up along the East Coast. The increase in mortality has been a worrying pattern since 2016. Being rammed by these ships can cause injury and death. Slower boat speeds is the most effective way to protect them.
Conflict in Ukraine has cut short the “peace dividend” the world was reaping. We count the economic costs of a widespread return to a war footing. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of two economic realists should, at last, overturn Turkey’s upside-down monetary policy—if they are free to act. And why so many whales are washing up dead on America’s East Coast.
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