Photo: Pixabay/mrslorettarsmith0 As temperatures rise on the savannas of East Africa, large herbivores like giraffes need to adapt. This they have done fairly well in the Tarangire region of Tanzania, according to a decades-long study by scientists from the University of Zurich and Pennsylvania State University. The researchers observed nearly […]

The Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC), has concluded its 37th Session with reviews and recommendations on aquaculture and capture fisheries regarding the world’s largest regional fishing industry, which feeds hundreds of millions of people and provides sustainable livelihoods for hundreds of millions of others. The 37th APFIC, was hosted by the […]

Introduction On 13 June 2023, the National Labor Relations Board held, in The Atlanta Opera, Inc.,1 that it would return to a prior, employee-friendly standard for determining whether workers are employees or independent contractors under the National Labor Relations Act. In doing so, the NLRB reversed another Trump-era precedent, which […]

The business of carbon capture can be controversial among those who place priority on ending carbon emissions rather than relying on technologies that seem to prolong fossil fuel use. But it promises to be a necessary US$259 billion industry by 2050, and a new report from the National Oceanic and […]

Country: Haiti Source: UN Children’s Fund Children are facing staggering levels of violence that have exacerbated hunger and malnutrition in a country already mired in poverty and a resurgence of cholera.

In November 2022, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a memo regarding the management of discarded hand sanitizer under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which was discussed in a prior alert. In this memo, EPA stated that an industrial ethyl alcohol-based product must be “spent” in order […]