As many Australians grapple with how to save their Great Barrier Reef from global warming, others are preoccupied with building one of the world's biggest coal mines nearby.
India's ban on the trade of cattle for slaughter threatens $4bn in annual beef exports and millions of jobs if the government does not revoke the stoppage decreed last month, according to two industry officials.
Hospitals around the country are scrambling to stockpile vials of a critical drug - even postponing operations or putting off chemotherapy treatments - because the country's only two suppliers have run out. The medicine? Sodium bicarbonate solution. Yes, baking soda.
Members of the U.S. seafood industry are fearful that Canada's approval of a new trade deal with the European Union will cause big problems for the American lobster business, just as the catch is hitting historic highs.
At a General Electric Co factory in this rural town, Keith Spahn, 60, used to take measurements of parts from railroad locomotives that are in for repair by hand.
In 2000, a company called Pegasus Apparel Group was founded with private equity money and a big idea: Buy a group of fashion brands based in the United States and create a homegrown version of the major European luxury conglomerates.
A confluence of political and economic forces has prompted Europe's largest airplane manufacturer to place a factory in Alabama - and to create one of the world's most gargantuan supply chains.
The chickens in one pen were, for the most part, doing what they usually do toward the end of their lives on a factory farm: resting on the floor, attacking the feeding pan, getting big fast.