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Inside Amazon's Giant Spheres, Where Workers Chill in a Mini Rainforest Bloomberg Management will make sure no one hogs the tree fort. Finishing touches are made inside the Amazon Spheres in downtown Seattle on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. The giant orbs open on Monday. Three years ago, Amazon.com Inc.'s horticulturalist was giving Jeff Bezos a preview of what the company's three plant-filled spheres—the centerpiece of its $4 billion downtown Seattle office project—would look like on opening day. One rendering showed the view from a 30-foot-high suspension bridge looking down Read the full story

World's Oceans Were Hottest On Record In 2017, Study Finds HuffPost The world's oceans in 2017 were the hottest ever recorded, scientists revealed in a new study published on Friday. ... Read the full story

The Dark Side of America's Rise to Oil Superpower Bloomberg Businessweek ■ January 25, 2018, 5:00 AM EST ● It sounds good, but be careful what you wish for. ▲ ILLUSTRATION: 731 The last time U.S. drillers pumped 10 million barrels of crude a day, Richard Nixon was in the White House. The first oil crisis hadn't yet scared Americans into buying Toyotas, and fracking was an experimental technique a handful of engineers were trying, with meager success, to popularize. It was 1970, and oil sold for $1.80 a barrel. Almost five decades later, with oil hovering near $65 a Read the full story

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