Insecticide has its uses in controlling harmful pests that could otherwise devastate crops. The trouble, of course, is that oftentimes the use of insecticides comes at grave environmental costs. By spraying harmful insecticides liberally on their crops, farmers can decimate species, including key pollinators like bees, and devastate fragile ecosystems. […]

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee has died at the age of 84, according to a tweet from his son.

As COVID-19 continues to threaten lives and livelihoods across many countries of the Asia-Pacific region, it has led to setbacks in the fight to end hunger and malnutrition, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced today. The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than half of […]

Boston – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP recently secured judgment in favor of Lenovo (United States) Inc., one of the world’s largest data center technology vendors offering expert capability in servers, storage, networking and software defined solutions, in a patent infringement action filed by Intellectual Ventures I [and II] […]

Country: Sudan Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Many of those affected had been previously displaced by conflict and were already facing loss of income due to the economic challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the 1950s a theory championed by two linguists, Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, became popular. The kind of language we use, they argued, influences our worldview and the way we conceptualize reality around us. Adopting this hypothesis, cognitive linguist George Lakoff has presented groundbreaking work, arguing that we […]

The global COVID-19 outbreak has encouraged widespread orders to protect renters and owners of commercial and residential real property. In this 50 state-by-state survey we offer a summary of cities and states that have enacted policies or implemented moratoriums for evictions or foreclosures due to COVID-19. Click here for the full […]