The 27 legal principles on the Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts (PERAC) were passed by the UN General Assembly on 7 December. This marked the end of a decade of work by the International Law Commission to better protect the environment during war and occupations. Experts do notContinue Reading
Neelivethil Rajeev, Managing Director (ME and SAARC), ESPA Spain The country is future-ready and is taking giant strides as it sets its sight on ambitious goals By Neelivethil Rajeev Published: Thu 26 Jan 2023, 9:00 AM Enjoying the perks of not only being the world’s largest democracy but a countryContinue Reading
A wish list presented to the governor by a group of housing advocates includes prohibiting local governments from maintaining “growth caps,” embracing a regional approach and preferring denser neighborhoods around transit hubs. Growth caps are measures that seek to limit new housing developments. Proponents often argue such caps are keyContinue Reading
Communities in north-central Pennsylvania are taking action to limit outdoor artificial lighting that is encroaching on what has become a crucial resource in the region: darkness. Satellite data show the Pennsylvania Wilds, a rural region comprising millions of acres of mountains and forestland that feature sterling views of the nightContinue Reading
The first Roboday event, which was organised at the Dubai Silicon Oasis, was an endeavour in that direction By Joydeep Sen Gupta Published: Mon 23 Jan 2023, 8:19 PM Last updated: Mon 23 Jan 2023, 8:24 PM The UAE is set to become one of the key players in theContinue Reading
Courtesy Photo by NOAA/NickZachar This is from the Great Lakes film, “Stories from the Blue: Educators at Sea.” Russ Green, superintendent of the newly-designated Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary, prepares for a dive in Lake Michigan. ALPENA — Leave your scuba gear at home, but get ready to immerseContinue Reading
“Is it really all about straws, and is replacing plastic with something else the right solution for Singapore? Singapore has virtually no plastic marine pollution,” she added. Rheaume hails from Canada and has lived in Singapore for about 30 years. She runs a local Facebook group ‘Journey to Zero WasteContinue Reading
Polk County is experiencing a growing population of unwanted guests detrimental to agriculture and hazardous to residents and motorists – elk. At the Jan. 10 Polk County Commissioners meeting, Todd Whitaker, director of public works, shared the growing concern his office has been hearing. “We’ve had some recent complaints aboutContinue Reading
Barada Sahu, Co-Founder, Mason 1) What has been the major learning from the pandemic from a customer-centric perspective?If there’s one thing to take away from the pandemic, it’s this — humans are adaptive. We quickly adopt to adapt…adopting new behavior to adapt to a new reality. In a very shortContinue Reading
Cloud-native distributed, CDC-based data replication platform supplier Arcion announced a real-time integration connector for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE). It claims this enables high-volume database migration and real-time data replication with guaranteed delivery, 100 percent transactional integrity, and sub-second latency, with zero downtime. With the addition of this newContinue Reading
