Hazardous materials regulations make sure that the vehicles carrying them have the right labels.
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Nobody wants to see an accident involving flammable, corrosive or radioactive material. But understanding the rules put in place to prevent these accidents isn’t easy.
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The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge is already affecting global supply chains.
Loss of maritime traffic at Port of Baltimore could cost economy $9 million a day.
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A supply chain expert looks at the short- and long-term impacts of the bridge collapse.
Transparency throughout the supply chains for cacao, the raw ingredient for chocolate, is required to ensure ethical sourcing and manufacture of products.
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What makes a good egg? The ethics of chocolate is complicated and often hard to decipher with confusing marketing claims on some product packaging.
Companies face new rules for disclosing their climate-related risks.
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Climate disclosure rules are meant to help investors understand their risks, but they come with costs for companies, as a finance scholar explains.
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The effects of AI’s growth on global security could be difficult to predict.
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Tea supplies are under threat as a shipping crisis continues in the Red Sea.
Peat is a natural carbon sink but is often found in house plants and other retail products, particularly within the food and farming industry.
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Hidden Peat, a new campaign from The Wildlife Trusts, encourages people to look out for peat-free alternatives and support their wider use.
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Several years on from the pandemic, the demand for new cars still outstrips supply. But turning to the second hand market is not the solution.
Labourers load sacks of cobalt onto bicycles at Mutoshi mine in July 2021.
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Cobalt is a critical component in the production of batteries, smartphones, jet engines and electric vehicles. Yet miners who risk their lives digging it up receive almost none of the profits.
A fishing vessel is followed by flocks of seabirds in the Southern Ocean off the coast of the South Orkney Islands, north of the Antarctic Peninsula, on March 10, 2023.
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Canada is an outlier in its failure to hold buyers and retailers accountable for labour abuse in seafood supply chains.
Tesla has temporarily suspended most of its production at its factory near Berlin.
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EV manufacturers pause production in Europe as the Red Sea shipping crisis deepens.
Boeing, Boeing, gone?
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There have been so many problems with the 737 Max that the nuclear option may be the best way forward.
In Spectre (2015), Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw respectively play the world’s most famous secret agent and his gadget supplier.
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At Q’s of course! But he doesn’t pull them out of his sleeve. In Spectre (2015), Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw play the famous spy and his gadget supplier.
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Why wait until a Senate inquiry to explain how supermarkets come up with the prices in their stores? There’s an opportunity now for the big supermarkets to be more transparent on pricing.
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A cyberattack on one of Australia’s biggest port operators has highlighted the potential vulnerability of the global economy.
Canadian companies will soon be legally obligated to annually report on efforts to prevent and remediate forced and child labour in their supply chains. Technology could help them do this.
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Supply chains can contain thousands of suppliers spanning continents. DNA testing, drones, satellite imaging and other technologies can help identify forced and child labour.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s Los Angeles refinery, California’s largest producer of gasoline.
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California is the world’s fifth-largest economy. Laws tested there often spread across the U.S. and around the world.
The corporate rush to reduce the environmental footprint of their food supply chains poses several challenges for farmers.
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Big name food brands are pursuing decarbonisation – but they are squeezing farmers in the process.
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Is Australia ready for a house construction boom? Supply chain constraints say no.