The Mekong Delta is home to 17 million people and is Vietnam’s most productive agricultural region. An international group of scientists warn this week that almost all of the low lying delta will have sunk beneath the sea within 80 years without international action. Its disappearance is the result of both sea level rise and developments such as dams and sand mining.
Also in the programme: using the rumbling of traffic in Mexico City to monitor earthquake hazard, record-breaking quakes on Mars and a record-breaking high jumping robot.
Photo: Mekong River in Kampong Cham, Cambodia
Credit: Muaz Jaffar/EyeEm/Getty Images
Presenter: Roland Pease
Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at this week’s FOMC meeting. The Fed increased the Federal Funds Rate target by the anticipated 50 basis points, but most of the discussion was about comments from Jerome Powell that the Fed wasn’t even considering a 75bps hike. So was this meeting dovish or hawkish?
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsors is “Catnip” by Famous Cats and “I Don't Know How To Explain It” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
First Lady Jill Biden is departing on a trip to Eastern Europe to visit Ukrainian refugees, as well as U.S. personnel in the region. It's her most high-profile endeavor since her husband took office.
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Christopher Bedford, Federalist Senior Editor and co-founder of RightForge, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his article "J.D. Vance And The New Right Are Racking Up Wins, While The Establishment Stabs At Their Backs."
On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, we'll hear a book panel discussion of Chandran Kukathas's book, Immigration and Freedom. Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and national self-determination. In this book, however, Chandran Kukathas argues that the greater threat comes not from immigration but from immigration control. The discussion is moderated by Stefanie Haeffele, and Kukathas is joined by panelists:
Ryan Muldoon — Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Liza Schuster — Reader in Sociology, City Univeristy of London
Bas van der Vossen — Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director, Law and the Liberal Arts Minor, Chapman University
Will voters become as consumed with the issue of abortion rights in the same way the political class has, even to the detriment of more urgent issues like inflation and crime? We discuss and debate. Also, the perpetual Covid mitigation regime in Democrat-dominated locales, the New York Times’ failed hit on Elon Musk, and why we know what we shouldn’t know about Russia’s war on Ukraine. Source
