If you are an employer in the forestry business, you may have employees who, according to their contracts, have to use their own power saws or tree trimmers at their own expense. If a worker is an ...

The idea of a health tax or “sin tax” on Khat, as this model is sometimes called in the health financing sector, emerged about six years ago as a grassroots effort led by civil servants ...

A blue ring formed in 1902 in a tree in northern Norway. Image by Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz. Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the ...

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...

It’s usually unpopular with voters. However, the government has one window to raise taxes and simultaneously improve public health: the sin tax. While the Indian government imposes certain taxes and ...

There’s a lot of fun stuff to stream on Paramount+ this weekend. First and foremost, I always recommend the wonderfully absurd Tim Robinson/Sam Richardson sitcom Detroiters. Originally airing on ...

‘Without government intervention, no business is going to dissuade potential customers from using its product or services – we’ve seen that with tobacco’: Lesedi Seforo, project director ...

THE Sin Tax Coalition on Thursday, January 16, 2025, slammed lawmakers behind the recent push to lower tobacco taxes, calling such a proposal a "gross betrayal" of public health. In a statement, Sin ...

He also proposes upping its tax rate, as well as adding gambling as a “Sin Tax”, much like tobacco and alcohol. This is to disincentivise addiction while using the revenue generated for ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

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