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Here are some of the places investors are looking:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Some scientists have warned that this El Niño could be especially strong, partly because the water beneath the surface of the Pacific is unusually warm at the moment - 6C above average in places.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

"We'll have the entire system to include a secondary barrier in places we need it -- the water barrier and the Rio Grande River -- and the technology," Scott said.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

Then he began to wrap the sinew around the places where the sled was broken.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell