Asia’s cities are growing at such a fast pace that nearly 55 percent of the region’s enormous population is expected to reside in urban areas by 2030, and that will have equally enormous consequences for urban food security and nutrition, according to the main findings of a new report […]

Building incentives to foster more effective teaching and learning.

Photo: Pixabay/selenee51  We need plenty of agriculture to feed the 8 billion people around the planet, but the cultivation of crops can come at terrible costs to the environment, including continued biodiversity loss. Insects have especially been hard hit with pesticides and insecticides taking their toll on them. Worse still […]

BACKGROUND As we noted in prior health care alerts in 2020 (available here and here), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) significantly overhauled the federal law that governs the confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) records at 42 U.S.C. § 290dd-2 (Part 2). Part 2 currently […]

Pittsburgh – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added a team of seven corporate and private equity partners in the firm’s Pittsburgh office. The group joins K&L Gates from Dentons Cohen & Grigsby and consists of partners Chris Thel, Ron Aulbach, Curt Anderson, John Wingerter, Lauren Crossett, Andrea Steiner, and Jeff […]

Uncertainties include lingering high domestic food prices in many countries.

Countries: Cameroon, Chad, Niger Source: International Rescue Committee The conflict in the Lake Chad region is fueled by the effects of climate change; droughts, flooding and a shrinking Lake Chad are furthering displacement in the area.