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The team behind the up-and-coming experiential dining concept, Ke’nekt™, has released a rendering and discussed the idea behind their new indoor/outdoor beer garden branded as “The unCommons”.  The space draws inspiration from trends that have emerged in a hospitality world highly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.  One “post-Covid” hospitality trend the team believes is here to stay is an increase in outdoor dining space. “One trace of normalcy that remained in 2020 were small...

An area of forest roughly the size of California was cleared across the tropics and subtropics between 2004 and 2017 largely for commercial agriculture, finds a new assessment published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The report, titled Deforestation Fronts: Drivers and Responses in a Changing World, looks at the state of forests and causes […]

WASHINGTON, January 13, 2021 - More than 166,000 square miles of forest habitat—an area roughly the size of California—were lost to deforestation in the tropics and subtropics between 2004 and 2017, according to a new report from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) titled “Deforestation Fronts: Drivers and Responses in a Changing World.” The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes of deforestation, tracking 24 hot spots encompassing more than 2.7 million square miles, w...

Tacoma, WA – Cara Frankenfeld, associate professor and former director of graduate studies at George Mason University’s College of Health and Human Services, has been appointed as the inaugural director of University of Puget Sound’s new Master of Public Health (MPH) program. The program aligns with Puget Sound’s 2018 strategic plan, Leadership for a Changing World, anticipating an increasing need for public health professionals both locally and nationally. The two-year program will acc...

Author Sue Monk Kidd. | Tony Pearce / CC BY-SA 4.0 If there’s one word that characterises our post-pandemic existence, it is “longing”. Whether of outdoor indulgences or social interaction, we’re suffused with unfulfilled urges. No two people feel this more urgently than lovers parted by travel bans. At the heart of Sue Monk Kidd’s fourth bestseller, The Book of Longings, is a tale of similar deprivation. Of course, it joins a long list of creative reimaginings of ...

Polly Wiessner, a professor in ASU’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change, recently analyzed more than 300 village court sessions in Enga, Papua New Guinea, focusing on how the restorative justice system adapts to changing cultural norms. These norms have been influenced by the adoption of new technologies such as mobile phones, weapons, cash and motor vehicles.

© Getty Images/EyeEm Weve been putting out the MoneyWeek podcast for several years now, but this year we stepped it up a notch and actually made it a weekly event, as opposed to just aspiring to being weekly. Merryn has also had some superb guests on the podcast. So I thought Id take a quick look back through the 2020 archive and flag up some of the best conversations of the year in case you missed them. If you havent already started listening to the podcast, I humbly suggest you subscribe no...

No. 21 Sun Devil Gymnastics will hold their annual Maroon and Gold intrasquad scrimmage on Wednesday, December 30, giving the team a chance to compete in its first full meet at Desert Financial Arena

play-icon What a year 2020 has been. As we head towards 2021, the ITV Weather team wanted to bring you a second episode of their Climate Crisis: Our Changing World series, to end this year with some hope. A new US president, the Covid vaccine, and a 10 point strategy from our government to tackle climate change to name a few. Laura Tobin brings you the latest data from the studio. Credit: ITV Weather But sadly weve seen more severe weather events too. Among them: The hottest November on record ...

LUCY VERASAMY caused quite the stir on Instagram this week, as the ITV weather presenter stunned her fans in a figure-hugging festive dress.