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Monsanto

Bayer faces second investor reckoning over glyphosate litigation

By Ludwig Burger and Patricia WeissFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer on Tuesday faces its second annual investor reckoning over its handling of a wave of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weedkillers cause cancer.Criticism from investors at this year's annual shareholders' meeting - held in a virtual format with gatherings banned due…

bubmagApril 28, 2020

Monsanto

Bayer faces second investor reckoning over glyphosate litigation

The historic headquarters of German pharmaceutical and chemical maker Bayer AG is pictured in LeverkusenFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer on Tuesday faces its second annual investor reckoning over its handling of a wave of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weedkillers cause cancer.Criticism from investors at this year's annual shareholders' meeting -…

bubmagApril 28, 2020

Pandemic

BIGO LIVE: Building and Nurturing the Community through Virtual Fitness Classes for Free

As people shelter at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, the “Get Fit with BIGO LIVE” initiative aims to engage its users with online fitness sessions for free New Delhi, Delhi, India The coronavirus pandemic prompted a nation-wide stay-at-home order forcing adjustments to all our routines. Being confined to our houses…

bubmagApril 28, 2020

Unwelcome Refugees

[Investigation] EU agencies tested monitoring data on refugees

Governments across the EU are pushing for high-tech solutions to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Contact tracing and tracking the movements of infected people is just one example. As debate around this issue grows, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals that the new science of predicting and monitoring…

bubmagApril 28, 2020

Alibaba

This is how coronavirus will upend the economy over the next year

Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Walk through the City of London, and know what it feels like to be the only person alive. There is no traffic. Gleaming steel and glass skyscrapers are deserted. The streets from Farringdon to Billingsgate are so quiet, you can hear birds chirping. The centre of the…

bubmagApril 28, 2020

Virtual Reality

Office drinks held via virtual reality

With this virtual reality platform, work drinks can still go ahead during the pandemic | Photo source Antenna on Unsplash Innovation Work & Lifestyle Office drinks held via virtual reality Work & Lifestyle A creative agency has designed a virtual office so employees can be better connected while working from…

bubmagApril 28, 2020

Sleeping Pods

Sir Elton John ‘proud’ of Watford sanctuary for NHS staff combating coronavirus

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bubmagApril 28, 2020

Economic Bubble

Tulip Mania

"Tulip fever" redirects here. For the film set during the period of tulip mania, see Tulip Fever. A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" (viseroij), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalog Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen. Its bulb cost between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins) depending on size (aase). A skilled…

bubmagApril 28, 2020

Orangutan

How the Corporate Food System Is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse

COVID-19 is so dangerous to food security because the global supply chain was insecure to begin with. Could we remake it? By Walden Bello | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course,…

bubmagApril 28, 2020

Plastic Pollution

Plastic pollution reaching the Antarctic

Food wrapping, fishing gear and plastic waste continue to reach the Antarctic. Two new studies into how plastic debris is reaching sub-Antarctic islands are published this month (April 2020) in the journal Environment International. New findings include analyses of some of the longest continuous datasets in the world on plastics…

bubmagApril 28, 2020

Bayer faces second investor reckoning over glyphosate litigation

Bayer faces second investor reckoning over glyphosate litigation

BIGO LIVE: Building and Nurturing the Community through Virtual Fitness Classes for Free

[Investigation] EU agencies tested monitoring data on refugees

This is how coronavirus will upend the economy over the next year

Office drinks held via virtual reality

Sir Elton John ‘proud’ of Watford sanctuary for NHS staff combating coronavirus

Tulip Mania

How the Corporate Food System Is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse

Plastic pollution reaching the Antarctic

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