Photo: Pixabay/naturfreund_pics If global temperatures rise beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the planet will begin to undergo as many as 16 tipping points. Worse: many of those tipping points are already a risk, whose likelihoods will increase with each tenth of a degree of further warming. This is according to […]

There is a growing need for alternative sources of capital for businesses that either cannot obtain, or do not want, traditional loans or private equity investments. Traditionally, there were essentially two financing options—debt, for which some entrepreneurs and some smaller business could not qualify, or the sale of equity, which […]

New York – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has advised Yoshiharu Global Co. (Nasdaq: YOSH), a California-based restaurant operator, on the closing of its initial public offering of 2.94 million shares of its Class A common stock at a public offering price of $4.00 per share. The shares began […]

Countries: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, World, Yemen, Zimbabwe Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Food Programme Without a massively scaled up humanitarian response that […]

A man was arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of sedition after playing the harmonica at a vigil for Queen Elizabeth II, under a colonial-era law that once outlawed insulting the Queen — and has now been revived by authorities amid an ongoing crackdown.

What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less While the mass arbitration tactic has caused much consternation for defendants, the development of new rules and procedures to blunt the force of this tactic has frustrated plaintiffs’ attorneys. Both sides have turned to the courts for relief. However, to […]

Climate interventions known as geoengineering typically conjure up images of the skies, with sophisticated approaches to deflecting the sun’s rays, or of machines that scour carbon emissions from the air. But some ideas, like ‘enhanced weathering,’ are more earthbound and they, too, are fraught with challenges. New research from Universität […]