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Water Pollution

Dolapo Fasawe: Project ‘noiseless Lagos’

Her enthusiasm, intelligence and energy could leave you lost in admiration. The General Manager, Lagos Sate Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, Dr Dolapo Fasawe, is one fascinating woman truly fit for the herculean job of …

bubmagDecember 15, 2019

Hiroshima

Scientists Reveal Large Meteorites ‘Like Nuclear Bomb’ Hit Earth Every 180 Years

A team studying Australia's Wolfe Creek Crater calculated how often meteorites hit Earth with the force of massive nuclear explosions every 180 years to be precise.Professor Tim Barrows from the University of Wollongong led an international team that used two…

bubmagDecember 15, 2019

Animal Protection

This little piggy went to court: German piglets ‘sue over castration’

Berlin (AFP) - Little piggies go to market, but in Germany they also go to court. In a legal first, animal rights activists have asked Germany's top court to ban the practice of castrating young male pigs without anaesthetic -- with the piglets themselves li…

bubmagDecember 15, 2019

Little Italy

Local Business Notes: MVP Law opens Springfield office – The State Journal-Register

MCANANY, VAN CLEAVE & PHILLIPS (MVP) has opened a Springfield office. The Kansas City-based law firm, founded in 1901, has eight offices across five states. They specialize in workers’ compensation, general liability and employment and education law. It…

bubmagDecember 15, 2019

Climate Change

Negotiators work through the night to salvage U.N. climate summit

MADRID (Reuters) - Negotiators worked into the early hours of Sunday to try to salvage a strong global commitment to fight climate change after some of the most vulnerable nations said they were being sidelined at a marathon U.N. summit in Madrid. Talks wer…

bubmagDecember 15, 2019

Global Warming

Major states snub calls for climate action as U.N. summit wraps up

By Matthew Green and Jake Spring MADRID (Reuters) - A handful of major states resisted pressure on Sunday to ramp up efforts to combat global warming as a U.N. climate summit ground to a close, angering smaller countries and a growing protest movement that i…

bubmagDecember 15, 2019

New York City

Thousands of Santa Clauses flood the streets of New York City. Welcome to SantaCon

There have been times, over the years, that I've wondered about our family's move out of NYC to New Jersey, what we've lost and what we're missing. Then SantaCon comes to town, and, you know what? I'm good. — John Schwartz (@jswatz) December 14, 2019

bubmagDecember 15, 2019

Food Industry

Vegan sneakers set to be next plant-based craze in 2020 – CNN Philippines

(CNN) Eco-friendly meatless food products shook up the fast food industry in 2019. Experts say next year's game-changing trend in sustainable consumer goods may be plant-based or "vegan" athletic shoes. Last week, Reebok, owned by Adidas since 2005, unveil…

bubmagDecember 15, 2019

Google

House panel asks Apple, Google if app makers must reveal foreign ties

Lynch speculated that these countries could use the data to blackmail and recruit American government workers, or obtain "undue foreign influence" on US policy. He also imagined a scenario where hostile countries could use the data to profile everyday US citi…

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Protectionism

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Tweet Kevin Williamson is brilliant. Here he eviscerates progressives, as well as conservatives such as Marco Rubio and Michael Brendan Dougherty, whose advocacy of industrial policy and other forms of protectionism reveal both their economic ignorance and t…

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Dolapo Fasawe: Project ‘noiseless Lagos’

Scientists Reveal Large Meteorites ‘Like Nuclear Bomb’ Hit Earth Every 180 Years

This little piggy went to court: German piglets ‘sue over castration’

Local Business Notes: MVP Law opens Springfield office – The State Journal-Register

Negotiators work through the night to salvage U.N. climate summit

Major states snub calls for climate action as U.N. summit wraps up

Thousands of Santa Clauses flood the streets of New York City. Welcome to SantaCon

Vegan sneakers set to be next plant-based craze in 2020 – CNN Philippines

House panel asks Apple, Google if app makers must reveal foreign ties

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