Aleph Farms received regulatory approval in the form of a “No Questions” letter from Israel’s Ministry of Health for its cultivated beef manufacturing process. Aleph, an Israel-based cellular agriculture company, says it is the first company to receive this kind of approval for cultivated beef. This process uses animal cells, not a slaughtered animal, often … Read more
Offshore wind turbines at two commercial-scale sites are now sending power to the U.S. grid. Moments before midnight on Tuesday, a single turbine near Martha’s Vineyard delivered 5 megawatts of renewable energy to the New England grid, developers said. The turbine is one out of 62 planned for Vineyard Wind 1, an offshore site owned … Read more
Southern Europe is not so different. Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal never had collective farms, but the inexorable aging of their populations and the exodus of young people to cities is emptying villages and leaving fields and pastures untended. Francesco Cherubini of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology calculates that in the past three … Read more
(Adds statements from peacekeeping mission, UN special coordinator, background, paragraph 10 onwards) Oct 8 (Reuters) – Israel fired barrages of artillery into southern Lebanon on Sunday after Hezbollah targeted three Israeli military positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms. There were no immediate reports of casualties. On Saturday, the most serious attack in years by Palestinian … Read more
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Seashores have change into makeshift necropsy labs alongside the shores of New York and New Jersey. An alarming variety of whales are washing up alongside the east coast of the US. And after they do, a crew of researchers arrives on the scene to hunt for clues pointing to a reason for dying. They begin … Read more