How the world might look if animals had legal rights
Oct 27, 2023 14:58 pm UTC| Life Law
Lets picture what our societies might look like if animals were granted rights against being killed, made to suffer or exploited for human gain. When activists argue for animal rights, they ask us to imagine a different...
Energy bills: how households could feel the cold this winter
Oct 27, 2023 14:57 pm UTC| Life
As winter starts to bite, you may be starting to worry again about how much you will have to pay for your gas and electricity over the coming months. Of course, energy isnt the only rising cost in the current inflation-led...
Growing your own food and foraging can help tackle your ballooning grocery bill. Here's how
Oct 27, 2023 14:54 pm UTC| Life
Up to 3.7 million Australian households have been hit by food insecurity this year many for the first time. Of these households, four in five say the reason is the rising cost of living, as interest rate rises and many...
How organizations can address toxic workplace cultures to tackle sexual harassment
Oct 27, 2023 14:52 pm UTC| Life
Sexual harassment continues to be a problem in Canadian workplaces, and organizations are not doing enough to address it. A 2022 report by the Canadian Labour Congress indicates nearly one in two workers have experienced...
Bringing a shark to a knife fight: 7,000-year-old shark-tooth knives discovered in Indonesia
Oct 27, 2023 14:48 pm UTC| Life
Excavations on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have uncovered two unique and deadly artefacts dating back some 7,000 years tiger shark teeth that were used as blades. These finds, reported in the journal Antiquity,...
Jollibee-Food Collective Venture Introduces Common Man Coffee Roasters to Manila
Oct 27, 2023 11:11 am UTC| Life Business
Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC) is set to introduce Common Man Coffee Roasters to the Philippines through a joint venture with Food Collective Pte. Ltd. (FCPL). The collaboration aims to enhance the local coffee...
Doing laundry by hand sheds just as many microfibres as machine washing – new research
Oct 25, 2023 05:35 am UTC| Life
Between 6,500 and 87,000 tonnes of microfibres are shed during domestic laundering every year in the UK. Many of these minuscule fibres end up in rivers and oceans, with devastating consequences for aquatic animals and...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects