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...About 1 per cent of the commercial timber plantation is set aside to regrow native species....
...Futures prices broke $10,000 yesterday after trading in the $2,000 range a year ago, driven by climate, disease and under-investment in plantations....
...In 2014, the artist Kara Walker’s huge installation “A Subtlety”, a massive sugar sphinx with an African-American head, haunted the refinery with its evocations of sugarcane plantations, enslavement and...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 18. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Tucked in Brooklyn’s edgy East Williamsburg neighbourhood there is now a Rivian service centre. Across town, the electric-truck maker has opened a high-end showroom in New York’s Meatpacking District....
...Islands takes on Singapore and Hong Kong Vice, TPG and a private equity reckoning More than a decade ago, by Shane Smith’s telling, the Vice Media founder and Rupert Murdoch got drunk on tequila in a Williamsburg...
...We’re sitting outside BKLYN Comedy Club in Williamsburg, where she’s just taken a tequila shot and done an eight-minute set to a sleepy but receptive crowd....
...Who Luxury Portfolio International, Illustrated Properties Real Estate, Inc Estate, Plantation Key, $13.999m Where In Plantation Key, part of the Upper Keys, south of Key Largo....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...There she orchestrated its highly praised decision to stop promoting former slave plantations as wedding venues. But her time there deteriorated rapidly....
...The downgrade stemmed in part from “allegations of forced labour in Malaysia involving human rights of migrant labourers on palm oil plantations,” Lander said....
...Plantations operators sometimes destroy rainforest or wrest land from small farmers....
...Automotive pioneer Henry Ford wasted tens of millions of dollars developing Brazilian rubber plantations. He feared a shortage for US car tyres....
...Cutting out China’s role would allow Tesla to integrate supplies completely from basic raw materials to batteries, he said, in a throwback to Henry Ford, who bought up rubber plantations in the Amazon to...
...The move follows a decision on Tuesday by WarnerMedia’s new streaming service HBO Max to temporary drop Gone with the Wind, the 1939 film about the daughter of a Georgia plantation owner that critics say...
...Indonesia emits massive amounts of pollution from fires lit to clear land for plantations....
...He owned 1,700 stores nationwide and 4,500 hectares of coffee plantations. He had stakes in start-ups, eco-resorts, banana plantations and commercial property....
...Oliver Krischer, a prominent Green MP, said it was “absurd to turn a commercial pinewood plantation into a battleground. That has nothing to do with conservation.”...
...Jörg Steinbach, Brandenburg’s economy minister, retorted that it was the “worst category” of forest, a plantation producing wood to make cardboard. Locals booed. “A bad forest is still a forest!”...
...The company said addressing deforestation from South American soyabean farming was different from that of palm oil, a tropical crop produced by plantations in south-east Asia, because the market was more...
...As Mayer explains to the sceptical father of his bride-to-be, they are “middlemen” who bring together northern industrialists with southern plantation owners....
...Scientists and researchers are trying to stop Panama disease, a soil-dwelling fungus that is devastating plantations around the world and threatening the Cavendish banana, the variety that accounts for 95...
...In Williamsburg and Greenpoint, sales fell 18 per cent as inventory declined. Demand rose in neighbourhoods farther from Manhattan....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on February 6. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Hershey said it had mapped more than 99 per cent of its palm oil supply chain to the mills, and identified 14 per cent of the plantations where its palm oil comes from but would not publish the names due...
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