A US jury has awarded $265 million to a Missouri farmer who blamed herbicide from chemical giants Bayer AG and German rival BASF for destroying his peach orchards, in a case set to bolster 140 other lawsuits.
Other
Feb 17, 2020
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Psychological tests are important instruments used in courts to aid legal decisions that profoundly affect people's lives. They can help determine anything from parental fitness for child custody, to the sanity or insanity ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2020
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In 2011, China's Supreme Court dealt a blow to the property rights of women by ruling that family homes purchased before marriage automatically belong to the registered buyer upon divorce, historically the husband.
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2020
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12
People who are exposed to banks and other financial institutions as kids are more likely to be financially stable later in life, new research from CU Boulder's Leeds School of Business shows. People without that exposure ...
Economics & Business
Jan 22, 2020
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1
French authorities on Wednesday banned two US pesticides which ecologists deem harmful to bees.
Ecology
Dec 4, 2019
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Biotech giant Monsanto on Thursday agreed to plead guilty to illegally using a banned and highly toxic pesticide on research crops at one of its facilities on the Hawaiian island of Maui and to pay $10 million in fines.
Other
Nov 22, 2019
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India's top court has ordered a complete halt to stubble burning around Delhi, a major contributor to lethal smog that on Tuesday kept the metropolis of 20 million people choking in air rated "very poor".
Environment
Nov 5, 2019
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15
New York can stake a claim to being the culinary capital of the world, but one famous dish is about to be taken off the menu: foie gras.
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2019
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13
A new study from researchers at The University of Manchester investigates the sophisticated network of agents on Twitter who work to distribute fake news during election campaigns.
Political science
Oct 28, 2019
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13
California law enforcement has learned that Mexican drug traffickers are using a dangerous pesticide banned in the United States to grow marijuana in remote areas of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, and are going after ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2019
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