Whole Foods Market Launches New Seafood Code of Conduct to Advance Human Rights and Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain
Whole Foods Market announced its new� Seafood Code of Conduct, reinforcing the company’s commitment to safeguard the human rights and welfare of workers throughout its global seafood supply chain. Building on the company’s industry-leading Quality Standards, the new policy strengthens protections for fishers and vessel crew and sets a higher bar for ethical labor practices…
Researchers Unveil How Our Brains Decode Space and Time
A study by cognitive neuroscientists at SISSA investigated how the human brain processes space and time, uncovering that these two types of information are only partially connected. Imagine a swarm of fireflies flickering in the night. How does the human brain process and integrate information about both their duration and spatial position to form a…
Blurred posts, banned accounts: Abortion groups decry Meta ‘suppression’
Reproductive rights organizations accuse Meta of leading the latest wave of digital suppression on Instagram and Facebook. The post Blurred posts, banned accounts: Abortion groups decry Meta ‘suppression’ appeared first on Digital Journal…
Ticking toward disaster: Doomsday clock hits 89 seconds to midnight as Trump returns and global tensions, climate chaos, and AI risks escalate
WASHINGTON, Jan 29 — The “doomsday clock” symbolising how close humanity is to destruction ticked one second closer to m…
Humanitarian organisations decry Trump’s aid freeze
US President Donald Trump presents an executive order during the inaugural parade in US January 20, 2025. — ReutersBERLIN/BANGKOK/LONDON: Humanitarian organisations have decried the aid freeze imposed by the world’s largest aid contributor United States on President Donald Trump’s…
Trump, challenging federal law, tries to fire labor board leaders who backed worker rights
Trump fired the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel and one of its Democratic members…
Watch: RFK Jr. confirmation hearing battle to begin
Trump’s pick for the Department of Health and Human Services is going before the Senate. Boston Globe political reporters James Pindell and Sam Brodey have what to expect. The post Watch: RFK Jr. confirmation hearing battle to begin appeared first on Boston.com…
RFK Jr.’s Confirmation Hearings Can’t Leave This Question Unanswered
On this Wednesday and Thursday, two powerful Senate committees will hold confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. RFK Jr. is no stranger to controversy. But his most radical policy position may be one that relatively few people are talking about. Politico recentlyClimate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area
Starting on January 7 2025 two large wildfires (the Palisades and Eaton wildfires) erupted in Los Angeles, California. The fires spread extremely quickly over the following week and are among the most destructive of human property in Southern California’s history…