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The future for Paramount remains uncertain as it considers multiple merger offers. Here’s how each of those possibilities could play out for the entertainment giant. Paramount Global is used to producing gripping dramas, but it likely didn’t expect to end up starring in one. Yet, the road to a potential Paramount merger has taken several twists and turns.

At stake is the growth of the still nascent market for voluntary carbon offsets. Staff at an influential corporate climate action group whose board announced a plan to allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chain with carbon credits has now found such offsets are largely ineffective, a confidential preliminary draft reviewed by Reuters shows.

The famous designer brought her lively ‘supergraphics’ to the built environment. She died Tuesday at 95 years old. “I wanted to mix life and design and art,” said the iconic graphic designer Barbara “Bobbie” Stauffacher Solomon in a 2018 short documentary film about her work. And for most of her life, that’s exactly what Stauffacher Solomon did.

Many lawsuits have challenged unequal insurance benefits for LGBTQ+ people, including for fertility treatments. New York City was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday claiming it discriminates against gay male city employees by only covering the costs of in vitro fertilization (IVF) for women and heterosexual couples.

Altogether, projects that had been canceled by the end of 2023 were expected to total more than 12 gigawatts of power, representing more than half the capacity in the project pipeline. America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations and rising costs have left many people with doubts about the industry’s future in the U.

Forecasters are already warning that this year’s Atlantic storm season could rival 2021, due in large part to La Niña. One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year – El Niño – is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Niña, is on the way.