The magnitude to which retail stores recover when consumers fully adjust to post-pandemic routines may well hinge on the shopping experiences they offer. A new study of consumers in the U.S. and UK shows that the majority of shoppers today view customer experience as one of the most important factors when making purchasing decisions.http://dlvr.it/S3sDv3 Continue reading How Consumers Now Define a Good Customer Experience

Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 China’s first meteorological satellite launched in 1988. It was named Fengyun, which roughly translates to “wind and cloud”. Since then, 17 more Fengyun meteorological satellites were launched, with seven still in operation, to monitor Earth’s wind, clouds and, more recently, extreme weather events such as hurricanes and wildfires. With more than 30 years of Earth observational data freelyhttp://dlvr.it/S3nYsm Continue reading 30 years of China’s meteorological satellite data

Singapore (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 Big hydropower plants are an important source of clean and cheap electricity for many countries in Southeast Asia. However, dams harm the environment and have dire consequences on local communities. Building more dams would therefore pose major trade-offs between electricity supply and environmental protection. A team of scientists based in Singapore showed that these two challenges can behttp://dlvr.it/S3nYpC Continue reading Rethinking southeast Asia’s energy plans

Baghdad (AFP) July 12, 2021 War-scarred Iraq is seeing thousands of new Covid cases a day but few people wear face masks and even fewer are vaccinated, sparking fears of an “epidemiological catastrophe”. Healthcare workers say they are battling not just the pandemic but also a widespread scepticism over vaccines, borne of misinformation and public mistrust in the state. “I don’t like the vaccine or … Continue reading Iraqis remain sceptical of vaccines as Covid cases rise

Hong Kong (AFP) July 9, 2021 With their heads in the clouds and their hands in the soil, a group of office workers are busy harvesting the fruits of their labour on the roof of a Hong Kong skyscraper. Invisible to those below, a sprawling garden of radishes, carrots and rhubarb is flourishing at the top of the 150-metre tall Bank of America tower, a … Continue reading Hong Kong’s urban farms sprout gardens in the sky

Banjul, Gambia (AFP) July 8, 2021 Ten people were killed and over 1,500 people were displaced in a storm that hit The Gambia on Wednesday night, the tiny West African state’s disaster agency said on Thursday. National Disaster Management Agency Chief Executive Officer Sana Dahaba told AFP that the government had housed 1,531 people displaced by the severe weather in mosques and other community buildings. … Continue reading 10 killed, hundreds displaced in Gambia storm

For both tuned-in sellers and aggressive aggregates, business on Amazon is booming. Aggregators acquired more Amazon marketplace sellers in the last three months than the last two years, noted Ryan Gnesin, CEO of Elevate Brands, one of the most active Amazon seller aggregate organizations.http://dlvr.it/S3jpwl Continue reading Amazon Seller Acquisition Market Seeing Unprecedented Activity

Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jul 08, 2021 NASA’s 2021 Tech Flights solicitation is now open! Tech Flights offers funding opportunities to researchers from U.S.-based industry, academia, and private research institutions to rapidly test technologies on commercial suborbital vehicles with awards up to $650,000 per awardee. Through NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, awardees receive a grant or cooperative agreement allowing them tohttp://dlvr.it/S3f5ld Continue reading Attention Researchers: Space, Suborbital, and Climate-Focused Technologies Wanted

Los Angeles (AFP) July 8, 2021 California’s governor called on residents to reduce their water consumption by 15 percent as he extended a state of drought emergency to nearly half the parched US state’s population Thursday. Governor Gavin Newsom deemed the western state’s unusually dry year a “mega drought” and urged Californians to save scarce water resources by reducing activities such as irrigating lawns and … Continue reading Drought-hit California asks residents to cut water use by 15 percent

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 7, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of many of the global economy’s supply chains, both industrial and agricultural. But even after the global pandemic subsides, researchers expect climate change to continue to cause problems for food supply chains. To cope, the authors of a new paper – published Wednesday in the journal Nature – recommend cities diversify thehttp://dlvr.it/S3f5gr Continue reading Supply chain diversification can help cities avoid food shocks