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A creator published a collection of custom icons representing 544 cities across the US, Canada, and Mexico, built for a project called TrainGame. The set covers every city above 100,000 people in each country, plus five smaller exceptions in states lacking a city of that size, and uses population data from 2024 (US), 2025 (Canada), and 2020 (Mexico).
A study reports that increasing air and marine traffic along western North America is contributing to measurable degradation of regional air quality. Researchers tied emissions from growing plane and ship activity to elevated pollutant levels affecting the area.
Forecasters are tracking three separate tropical cyclones expected to make landfall along North American coastlines within a two-day span. The systems are projected to affect areas of the United States and Mexico nearly simultaneously, prompting heightened monitoring by weather agencies.
Starbucks confirmed last week it is closing about 250 stores across North America, roughly 1% of its 18,000 locations in the region. As of Monday, the affected locations are showing as closed on Google and in the company's own store locator tool.
Starbucks Coffee Company announced it will close about 250 stores across North America this week. The company said the closures target locations where financial performance or the in-store customer experience fell short of expectations.
At a Fast Company event moderated by Stephanie Mehta, Supergoop CEO Melis Del Rey, Bel North America CEO Peter McGuinness, and BBC Studios direct-to-consumer chief Robert Schildhouse discussed the challenges of stepping into top leadership roles. The three executives compared notes on managing employee expectations and public skepticism toward corporate leaders in the early stages of their tenures.
Fast Company has released its Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 rankings, naming 22 companies in the North America category as standouts judged for fostering innovation. The winners span a wide size range, from small operations like Not Impossible Labs to established brands such as Radio Flyer.
Long-range forecasters say early data point to a Super El Niño forming ahead of winter 2026/2027, which is expected to produce a pronounced split-flow jet stream pattern across North America and Europe. The outlook combines ocean temperature trends, historical Super El Niño analogs, and early signs of a weakening polar vortex to project month-by-month temperature and snowfall trends across the US, Canada and Europe.
The Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) confirmed it moved gold worth more than 10 billion euros away from vaults in New York and Ottawa between March and August, sending most of it to the Bank of England in London while some was also routed through its Zeist facility. The move reduced New York's share of Dutch reserves from 31.3 percent to about 18.5 percent, with a similar cut in Ottawa's holdings.