What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words
Oct 31, 2021 23:40 pm UTC| Economy
Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies...
S. Korean researchers turn CO2 into industrial gas
Oct 31, 2021 23:35 pm UTC| Science Nature Economy
A South Korean research team has developed a catalyst and processing technology that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide (CO), an industrial gas. Carbon monoxide is used in metal fabrication, electronics,...
Japan promoting stronger tasting 'mother cow' wagyu for exports
Oct 31, 2021 23:34 pm UTC| Economy Life
Japan is looking to export more wagyu from refattened mother cows, aged 90 to 100 months and previously considered to be of low value, individually fed to produce meat with moderate fat. Wagyu from young cows aged 27 to...
The EU's Green Deal: opportunities, threats and risks for South African agriculture
Oct 31, 2021 23:34 pm UTC| Politics Economy
The European Union among a host of other countries is seeking to implement urgent policy measures to combat the effects of climate change. In its 2030 climate target plan, the EU aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
Climate change: how economists underestimated benefits of action for decades
Oct 31, 2021 23:33 pm UTC| Economy
The costs of doing nothing vastly outweigh the costs of decarbonising a global economy which, since the Industrial Revolution, has been powered by fossil fuels. That may seem self-evident today, when catastrophic fires and...
Why taxing US billionaires’ wealth – as Biden tried to do – will never work
Oct 31, 2021 23:29 pm UTC| Economy
The speed with which a tax on billionaires came and went as a means to pay for President Joe Bidens economic agenda shows why its so hard to tax wealth in the U.S. Democrats unveiled their proposal on Oct. 27, 2021, and...
Johnson & Johnson spends $800 million to settle most gynecomastia lawsuits
Oct 31, 2021 19:18 pm UTC| Law Economy
Johnson Johnson disclosed that it spent $800 million in settling substantially all of the roughly 9,000 cases by men who claimed having developed excessive breast tissue in using the companys antipsychotic drug...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects