Todd Woody
@toddwoody.bsky.social
Environmental journalist covering climate and ocean issues at Bloomberg News in San Francisco. Formerly at Participant Media, Fortune, Forbes, San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bee and other publications. www.toddwoody.com twoody4@bloomberg.net
Breaking: As the US moves to license deep sea mining, new research finds that extracting critical metals from the seabed generates waste that endangers tiny marine organisms that form the basis of a vast food web, threatening fisheries people depend on. Free link.
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Seabed Mining Disrupts Fisheries, Researchers Find
Scientists analyzed data from a test mining operation to document threats to small marine organisms key to the health of commercially valuable seafood like tuna.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Breaking: As the US moves to license deep sea mining, new research finds that extracting critical metals from the seabed generates waste that endangers tiny marine organisms that form the basis of a vast food web, threatening fisheries people depend on. Free link.
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What will the impact of the US's green retreat under President Donald Trump be — for the economy and for the world? A fascinating new Bloomberg Economics analysis gives us some hints.
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Read more @bloomberg.com (gift link!).
US Economy Wins From Green Exit, Unless the World Follows Suit
If the world collectively retreated from green policies, the global economy would shrink, Bloomberg Economics researchers write.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
What will the impact of the US's green retreat under President Donald Trump be — for the economy and for the world? A fascinating new Bloomberg Economics analysis gives us some hints.
Read more @bloomberg.com (gift link!).
Read more @bloomberg.com (gift link!).
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What's all the COP fuss about? Two months ago I set out to find what COPs achieved. The answer was in the data: a $10 trillion wave of green investment that's starting to change things.
As Laurence Tubiana told me: "The train has left the station"
FREE read:
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As Laurence Tubiana told me: "The train has left the station"
FREE read:
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There’s a $10 Trillion Antidote to Trump’s Climate Backlash
The landmark Paris Agreement triggered a wave of climate commitments. A decade later, Bloomberg examined seven key categories to chart progress amid a new era of attacks on global warming science and ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
What's all the COP fuss about? Two months ago I set out to find what COPs achieved. The answer was in the data: a $10 trillion wave of green investment that's starting to change things.
As Laurence Tubiana told me: "The train has left the station"
FREE read:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
As Laurence Tubiana told me: "The train has left the station"
FREE read:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Why have green stocks become one of this year’s most lucrative bets despite political headwinds? And is this rally a real comeback or a flash in the pan? Natasha White, Alastair Marsh, and I spoke with experts to find out www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
For @bloomberg.com #greenstocks
For @bloomberg.com #greenstocks
Green Investors Enjoy Huge Returns as Stock Market Powers Through Trump’s Attacks
A dramatic rebound in clean-tech stocks has investors in the green economy hoping they can finally turn the page on years of punishing underperformance.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Why have green stocks become one of this year’s most lucrative bets despite political headwinds? And is this rally a real comeback or a flash in the pan? Natasha White, Alastair Marsh, and I spoke with experts to find out www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
For @bloomberg.com #greenstocks
For @bloomberg.com #greenstocks
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I recently went to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska w/US scientists to study the effect of saltwater on fast-thawing permafrost. 1st in a series by @bloomberg.com on the world's natural carbon sinks with @hayleywarren.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social
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A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Biggest Arctic Carbon Sink Is Increasingly Unstable
Scientists at the top of the world are racing to uncover how rapidly the Arctic’s permafrost is thawing.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I recently went to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska w/US scientists to study the effect of saltwater on fast-thawing permafrost. 1st in a series by @bloomberg.com on the world's natural carbon sinks with @hayleywarren.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social
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A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company’s initiatives were only in the planning + early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hit.
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Jamaica’s Grid Was Not Ready for Hurricane Melissa
The massive storm underscores the challenges in keeping up with the quickening pace of climate change.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company’s initiatives were only in the planning + early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hit.
Story @bloomberg.com, gift link:
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Story @bloomberg.com, gift link:
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Extreme heat now kills roughly one person every minute, and about 550,000 a year, finds @lancetcountdown.bsky.social's new report. And scientists warn parts of the world may soon hit limits where it’s too hot and humid for people to survive.
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My latest for @bloomberg.com (free 🎁 link):
Hot Weather is Killing More than Half a Million People a Year
Authors of a new Lancet report warn that parts of the world could become unlivable, as climate change drives a surge in heat deaths.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Extreme heat now kills roughly one person every minute, and about 550,000 a year, finds @lancetcountdown.bsky.social's new report. And scientists warn parts of the world may soon hit limits where it’s too hot and humid for people to survive.
My latest for @bloomberg.com (free 🎁 link):
My latest for @bloomberg.com (free 🎁 link):
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New: China is emerging as a fierce competitor to the US in the race to build small modular nuclear reactors and nuclear fusion that can help power data centers, according to Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. Via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #nuclearfusion #datacenter
Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power
China is emerging as a fierce competitor to the US in the race to build small modular reactors and fusion that can help power data centers.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New: China is emerging as a fierce competitor to the US in the race to build small modular nuclear reactors and nuclear fusion that can help power data centers, according to Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. Via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #nuclearfusion #datacenter
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I finally watched the Danish series Families Like Ours on Netflix.
It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic.
And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.
It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic.
And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I finally watched the Danish series Families Like Ours on Netflix.
It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic.
And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.
It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic.
And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.
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Yesterday, Trump was sending federal forces to San Francisco. Today, he's not.
The reason? Some rich tech bros talked him down.
As I write for @opinion.bloomberg.com, back-channel begging shouldn't be required for cities to avoid an unwanted federal intervention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The reason? Some rich tech bros talked him down.
As I write for @opinion.bloomberg.com, back-channel begging shouldn't be required for cities to avoid an unwanted federal intervention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
A San Francisco Crackdown Would Carry Enormous Economic Risk
In less than two weeks, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has gone from San Francisco’s most beloved philanthropist to its most famous turncoat to its most unlikely hero.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Yesterday, Trump was sending federal forces to San Francisco. Today, he's not.
The reason? Some rich tech bros talked him down.
As I write for @opinion.bloomberg.com, back-channel begging shouldn't be required for cities to avoid an unwanted federal intervention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The reason? Some rich tech bros talked him down.
As I write for @opinion.bloomberg.com, back-channel begging shouldn't be required for cities to avoid an unwanted federal intervention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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SCOOP from me:
I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.
Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵
I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.
Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵
Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the…
The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
SCOOP from me:
I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.
Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵
I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.
Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵
Breaking: Extreme ocean heat has eradicated key coral species in Florida from a 350-mile-long reef that protects coastal cities from storms, provides fisheries habitat. Scientists say reef-building elkhorn & staghorn corals are now "functionally extinct." Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Heat Shock Tips Florida Corals to Extinction
Extreme ocean temperatures triggered the demise of coral species key to the health of a reef that protects the state’s cities from climate-driven storms.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Breaking: Extreme ocean heat has eradicated key coral species in Florida from a 350-mile-long reef that protects coastal cities from storms, provides fisheries habitat. Scientists say reef-building elkhorn & staghorn corals are now "functionally extinct." Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump's EPA says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas companies up to $256 million a year. Some of them are countering that it could hurt their business instead.
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Why Big Oil Is Asking EPA Not to Cut its Polluter Reporting Program
The oil and gas industry says it needs the program’s data to conduct business.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Trump's EPA says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas companies up to $256 million a year. Some of them are countering that it could hurt their business instead.
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Beef is notoriously bad for the environment. Just how bad depends a lot on where in the US you eat it.
See how your city stacks up in my latest for @bloomberg.com:
See how your city stacks up in my latest for @bloomberg.com:
Why Eating a Burger in Houston Is Less Climate-Friendly Than in Chicago
Where cows come from plays a big role in their carbon footprint, a new study found.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Beef is notoriously bad for the environment. Just how bad depends a lot on where in the US you eat it.
See how your city stacks up in my latest for @bloomberg.com:
See how your city stacks up in my latest for @bloomberg.com:
Wow! California condors, which were nearly extinct by the 1980s, are now expanding their range into Alameda and Contra Costa counties, one even flying to Mount Diablo. www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...
For a century, they were gone. But California Condors are making a comeback in these parts of the Bay Area
“These movements into Alameda County, and even Contra Costa County, are the first to be documented in over 100 years.”
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October 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Wow! California condors, which were nearly extinct by the 1980s, are now expanding their range into Alameda and Contra Costa counties, one even flying to Mount Diablo. www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...
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OK, here we go...
I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.
Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.
Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
OK, here we go...
I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.
Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.
Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
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New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
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Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
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October 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
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New: Last year when I wrote about a startup, Atoco, with a game-changing technology to extract water from air, founder and UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi was mentioned as a future Nobel winner. Now he's a 2025 laureate in chemistry, a boon for Atoco. Free link.
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Nobel Prize Win Buoys Business Case for Creating Water From Air
A startup founded by a Nobel laureate is targeting data centers in water-stressed regions as customers for its technology.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New: Last year when I wrote about a startup, Atoco, with a game-changing technology to extract water from air, founder and UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi was mentioned as a future Nobel winner. Now he's a 2025 laureate in chemistry, a boon for Atoco. Free link.
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How Trump’s green hydrogen cuts are opening the door for China? Here's the latest analysis by @lilipike.bsky.social and me for @bloomberg.com (read on for free until Oct. 15)
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#greenhydrogen
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#greenhydrogen
Trump’s Hydrogen Cuts Put the US Further Behind China on Key Green Tech
China already produces 60% of the world’s electrolyzers, and it continues to provide policy support to bring down the costs of the clean fuel.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
How Trump’s green hydrogen cuts are opening the door for China? Here's the latest analysis by @lilipike.bsky.social and me for @bloomberg.com (read on for free until Oct. 15)
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#greenhydrogen
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#greenhydrogen
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Exclusive: FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs
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FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs
Investigators are looking for staffers who anonymously endorsed an open letter criticizing the Trump administration’s cuts to disaster funding.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Exclusive: FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs
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New: A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing Boston to quickly decarbonize a public housing complex for the elderly and provide air conditioning as climate change-driven heat waves intensify. The window heat pump is made by SF startup Gradient.
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Boston Public Housing Upgrades Units With Window Heat Pumps
A pilot project aims to cut heating costs and provide air conditioning while reducing emissions.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
New: A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing Boston to quickly decarbonize a public housing complex for the elderly and provide air conditioning as climate change-driven heat waves intensify. The window heat pump is made by SF startup Gradient.
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One of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi. Last year I wrote about Yaghi and Atoco, the startup he founded to commercialize his scientific breakthrough with a device that extracts water from air using just sunlight.
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Startups Are Racing to Make Water Out of Thin Air
Materials that are bigger on the inside than the outside provide a futuristic solution to supply water to an increasingly arid planet.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
One of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi. Last year I wrote about Yaghi and Atoco, the startup he founded to commercialize his scientific breakthrough with a device that extracts water from air using just sunlight.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Why did a space startup's plan to accelerate the energy transition get astronomers worked up? My latest for @bloomberg.com
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Plan to Reflect Sunlight to Power Solar Panels at Night Upsets Astronomers
Reflect Orbital aims to launch its first of a planned 4,000 satellites into orbit next year. Scientists worry that it would be “ruinous” for research.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Why did a space startup's plan to accelerate the energy transition get astronomers worked up? My latest for @bloomberg.com
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Dr. Jane Goodall came to California in April to help launch the Sea Otter Fund, a campaign to restore the furry climate warriors to their West Coast range. My story on that was published today. In today's newsletter I wrote about Goodall's support of sea otters. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Private Funding Is Set to Help California’s Sea Otters Recover
Happy Friday! We’ve got your weekly debrief of what went on in Washington, DC, amid the government shutdown. But first, sea otters.
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October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Dr. Jane Goodall came to California in April to help launch the Sea Otter Fund, a campaign to restore the furry climate warriors to their West Coast range. My story on that was published today. In today's newsletter I wrote about Goodall's support of sea otters. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
New: An ambitious plan aims to restore imperiled sea otters to their historic range on the US West Coast. The playful predators are climate warriors, reviving coastal ecosystems and keeping healthy carbon-sequestering kelp forests that nurture fisheries. Free link.
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As Federal Government Retreats, A Private Fund to Save Sea Otters Steps in
The initiative aims to restore the imperiled animals to the US West Coast to make marine ecosystems more resilient to climate change.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New: An ambitious plan aims to restore imperiled sea otters to their historic range on the US West Coast. The playful predators are climate warriors, reviving coastal ecosystems and keeping healthy carbon-sequestering kelp forests that nurture fisheries. Free link.
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