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SCiFi Foods Ceases Operations Amid Funding Challenges

SCiFi Foods, a startup engaged in developing cultivated meat, has ceased operations and initiated the sale of its intellectual property and assets through an advisory firm.
LaToya Ruby Frazier

What is LaToya Ruby Frazier trying to show us?

The photographer’s fight against environmental injustice and historical erasure, one frame at a time.
Animal welfare

Animal welfare should be a priority for next Commission, Member States say

Animal welfare should be at the core of the European Commission’s next legislative agenda, and priority should be given to publishing the long-due animal welfare legislation, a number of Member States highlighted in the AGRIFISH council meeting today.
commercial waste zone

NYC officials spotlight commercial waste zone selection, pricing and M&A

New York City’s commercial waste market is preparing for a major new zone system that will reset competition for decades. A long-awaited city council hearing this week left council members and industry participants with multiple unresolved questions about what’s next.
End the Cage Age

End the Cage Age: case to be heard in court, Ombudsman complaint closed

The legal action brought against the European Commission (EC) before the General Court on its failure to uphold the commitment to the European Citizens’ Initiative End-the-Cage-Age will now supersede the complaint made to the European Ombudsman on the same matter.
Atlantic hurricane

2024 hurricane season forecasted to be record-breaking year

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season could shape up to be one of the most active on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The agency has released its annual hurricane forecast—and NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a press conference that the number of storms predicted to form this year is “the highest NOAA has ever issued.” 
barrels of crude oil

Korea seeks to extract 14 bil. barrels of oil, gas potentially under East Sea

Korea has identified potential reserves of up to 14 billion barrels of crude oil and natural gas off the coast of the southeastern city of Pohang, and will begin exploratory drilling later this year, the presidential office and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said, Monday.
US heat deaths

AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that...

David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona’s record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave.
Devils Hole pupfish

Endangered Pupfish Found Only in a Death Valley Cave Springs Back to Life in...

Quick: Where is the most unlikely place to find a fish in the USA? Unless your answer was Death Valley, you were probably wrong.
Afghanistan flood-hit areas

Rescuers struggle to reach Afghanistan flood-hit areas

Heavy rains caused flash flooding in several provinces in Afghanistan on Friday. Northern Baghlan was the worst impacted, with efforts to deliver aid hampered by destruction to roads and bridges wrought when the floods ripped through the province.

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