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The Central American nation of Costa Rica has announced its intention to become the world’s first country to ban single-use plastics. The ban, to take effect in 2021, would include everything from beverage bottles and plastic grocery bags to plastic razors and McDonald’s salad forks. The ban’s backers, including nonprofit groups and civic and business...

Global trend forecaster Gerald Celente was the first to forecast that China’s crackdown on digital-currency exchanges was part of a larger strategy to devalue the yuan and, as a result, drive up the country’s exports. “China has placed restrictions on Bitcoin and other digital currencies because the yuan has been growing very rapidly,” Celente said....

A study by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health has found that more than 80 percent of tap-water samples collected on five continents contain plastic microbits. The rate is highest in the US, at 94.4 percent. India’s rate is 82.4 percent; across Europe, the average is 72.2 percent. Plastic micro-waste also has been...

A team of Swiss medical researchers has developed a bandage that tells you how well a wound is healing. In the normal process of healing, a wound’s pH – the measure of its acidity or alkalinity – rises to about 8, then settles back to a more acidic 5 or 6. In wounds not healing,...

Gerald Celente’s “Trends This Week,” a weekly show on the Progressive Radio Network, PRN.fm, airs live online each Wednesday at 11 a.m. EST. Trends This Week breaks down essential trends in economics, geopolitics, health and well-being, pop culture and more in classic Celente style. And, if you can’t catch the show live, you can listen...

Across rural America during the last 30 years, agri-business monopolies put small farmers out of business, factories closed and once-valuable natural resources were all but replaced with alternatives. And then the Great Recession of 2008 hit, dealing another crushing blow. Just a generation ago, many urban areas, not rural communities, were cauldrons of poverty, crime...

If researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have their way, your next cellphone will never run out of power. Instead of having a battery that depletes, your future cellphone will gather bits of energy from radio waves that surround us. We live in a storm of radio-frequency waves – from radios, computers, televisions,...

As we have been forecasting, centralized nuclear power plants are fast becoming relics of history, left behind by the combination of ever-cheaper renewable energy and in-house storage batteries. Now, according to the US Energy Information Administration, renewable sources of energy accounted for as much electricity generation as nuclear power plants during the first five months...

German start-up Sono Motors has crowd-funded $200,000 to build prototypes of its snub-nose four-door Sion, a car sporting solar panels on its body, roof and rear bumper. It’s capable of going 18 miles a day on sun power alone. This is the latest in a worldwide gaggle of high-tech investments and experiments promising to power...

Rolls-Royce isn’t the only company building autonomous ocean ships. Japan’s Nippon Yusen reportedly will begin testing a remote-controlled cargo vessel in 2019. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. also are crafting their own versions of self-driving boats. The effort is backed by Japan’s government, which has stated plans to float 250 autonomous...