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The government finally released the long-awaited information about its plan for subsidizing farms in the wake of Brexit. Landowners in England will receive compensation for both food production and environmental stewardship. Elms, or environmental land management schemes, provide financial incentives to farmers who take environmentally responsible measures, such as eliminating pesticide use in their fields. Farmers and environmentalists alike applaud the new measures. The government claims that with this funding, farms will be able to produce food in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. According to Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey, farmers are indispensable to the economy because they not only…

Bill Gates has backed a climate technology company in Australia that is working to lessen the environmental impact of cow flatulence. The Microsoft co-creator has been vocal about the adverse effects of the meat industry on the environment. Beyond carbon dioxide, methane is the most abundant naturally occurring greenhouse gas (CO2). The digestion process of tough fibers like grass produces methane in livestock such as cows, goats, and deer. Methane gas is produced during the fermentation process and expulsed primarily through burping. University research indicates that seaweed fed to cattle can significantly reduce methane emissions. Perth-based newcomer Rumin8 is developing…

Tesla has reduced the price of some of its most popular electric vehicles by thousands of pounds in Europe and the United States in an effort to increase customer demand. The company is facing a difficult global economic outlook as well as increased competition from other automakers. Price reductions range from 10% to 13% in the UK but can reach 20% on some US models. New UK customers will save £5,500 on the base Model 3 and £7,000 on the base Model Y. However, over 16,000 customers purchased those best-selling models last year, and some were upset because they had…

Jack Ma, the founder of Ant Group and a billionaire in his own right, will step down as CEO due to pressure from Chinese regulators. According to Ant Group, every person or group will only control the company once the transition is made. In 2020, Mr. Ma made headlines by publicly criticizing China’s financial sector. Since then, he has been rarely seen in public. After hearing such feedback, Ant Group’s planned IPO on the stock market was shelved. Alipay, operated by Ant Group, is China’s preferred method of making online payments, surpassing those made via cash, checks, or credit cards.…

ZeniMax Studios employees at Microsoft have voted to form the first labor union at the tech company in the United States. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union claimed that Microsoft recognized the group after a “supermajority” of the video game production company employees expressed their approval of the initiative. Several well-known franchises, such as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, are owned by ZeniMax as it comes after increased union organizing in the United States. There have been labor disputes at Apple, Amazon, and Google in recent years, among other US corporations, as workers demand higher wages in response to…

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has agreed to pay $725m (£600m) to settle legal action over a data breach linked to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Over the course of the lengthy legal battle, the British company claimed that Facebook had given it access to the private information of millions of its users. The attorneys claim that the proposed amount is the largest ever in a US data privacy class action. While it did not admit any wrongdoing, Meta stated that it had “revamped” its approach to privacy over the preceding three years. Settlement was “in the best interest of our community…

In the United States and Canada, at least 38 people have lost their lives due to the extreme Arctic freeze that has persisted for weeks. According to reports, 34 people perished as a result of this disaster across the United States, with Buffalo, New York, being the hardest devastated. A Canadian bus flipped on an ice road in the town of Merritt in the province of British Columbia, killing four people. Never before has a winter storm reached that far south, all the way to the Rio Grande, from Canada. Even if the storm is expected to lessen in the…

To prepare for their new endeavour of representing Ukraine at the Olympics, a group of Ukrainian athletes has relocated back to Cardiff Metropolitan University. Because of the conflict in their home country, the Ukrainian men’s 4x100m relay team had to relocate to Cardiff, where they were provided with a training facility and housing, food, and sports science assistance as they prepared for the European Championships in August. Now, they’re back in Wales with the rest of Ukraine’s sprinting talent in the hopes of qualifying for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Andrii Vasyliev, a member of the winning relay team, says,…

Unions representing Rolls-Royce employees say they have avoided a strike by negotiating their members’ wage raise of 17.6 percent. An estimated 1,200 workers at the company’s West Sussex plant would each receive a 10% raise in salary plus a £2,000 incentive. Strikes are occurring across a wide variety of businesses as workers try to get pay raises to match growing costs of living. On Friday, rail workers began a new 48-hour walkout, and other businesses will follow suit the following week. New data released this week indicated that annual price growth in the 12 months ending in November was 10.7%,…

To encourage more women to pursue careers in motorsport, Formula 1 has created an all-female series. It will be called the F1 Academy and feature seven events, each of which will have three races. There will be five teams, each of which will field three cars. The series provides women drivers with the “best chance to fulfil their ambitions,” according to F1 president Stefano Domenicali. Each car will receive a €150,000 (£131,000) subsidy from F1. In order to stay competitive, drivers will need to add the same amount once more. While F1 has not yet released a schedule, they did…