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.

Photo: Pixabay/Andhoj  A changing climate is posing threats to birds across Europe and North America by altering their habitats such as through changes in seasonal patterns that result in losses of their food sources. Yet not all avian communities have been equally affected: bird communities with more diverse species in […]

Country: Ukraine Source: UN News Service More convoys are expected in the days ahead and OCHA Spokesperson Laerke said that the UN and its partners are striving to increase inter-agency relief operations to areas close to the frontlines.

In 2023, federal agencies are poised to deliver rapid advancements in the development of offshore wind projects in the United States. In particular, the Biden administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)—the federal agency with critical authority over offshore wind assets developed and built in federal waters—is the fulcrum of […]

Economic growth and inflation will slow in the coming months, but commodity prices are likely to be volatile as the world’s farmers try to catch up with the global appetite for food, said two leading agricultural economists on Wednesday.  “I think that 2023 still looks pretty strong” for U.S. farm income, […]