Economía

Meat has multiple nutritional benefits and is consumed as the primary source of protein by an increasing segment of the world’s population. However, there have been significant environmental costs associated with the growing demand for meat. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported in 2013 that livestock production accounts for 14.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity.

An unseasonable warm front opened the year, raising temperatures about 15 degrees higher than normal.

A wave of protests coupled with urgent pleas from many corners of the government finally prodded the leader to scrap the strict lockdown system he had touted throughout the pandemic. China now faces a flood of infections.

The death of Pope Benedict XVI ended an extraordinary arrangement that helped define the current pontificate. Pope Francis had already taken a markedly different tack than his predecessor but he may feel even more able to do so now.

The leader of the far-right Religious Zionism party said he plans to spend billions of dollars building infrastructure and investing in Jewish settlements in the territory.

France’s unions have pledged to dig in for a prolonged fight against French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to overhaul the country’s pension system, a new threat to his pro-business agenda.

Frontline managers’ pay does not reflect their personal contribution to a firm’s profits. They capture only 0.5% of the value created, as opposed to 25–60% for more visible occupations such as CEOs, salespeople and realtors, according to a recent study by Arnaldo Camuffo from the Bocconi Department of Management and Technology and Federica De Stefano of HEC Paris and Matthew Bidwell from Wharton.

We know very little about the inequalities experienced by disabled people in the UK today. My research finds that disabled young people lag behind in employment compared to young people who are not disabled. Not only that, but it’s also likely that disabled young people will end up in jobs with worse pay and conditions than their parents: they have downward social mobility.

One thing that’s become clear in the past few tumultuous—and for many, traumatic—years is that it’s easy to feel like there is no control in our lives. Control is a basic psychological need that helps people feel like they have agency, from how they live to where they work. One area where people have tried to wrestle back control is around work.

Russia blamed the use of banned mobile phones for a deadly strike by Ukrainian forces on a facility that housed newly mobilized Russian soldiers, shifting responsibility for the incident to the victims and raising the death toll to 89.