BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 3 -- The European Commission issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: The European Commission has today adopted exceptional and temporary preventive measures on imports of a limited number of products from Ukraine under the exceptional safeguard of the Autonomous Trade Measures Regulation. These measures are necessary given the exceptional circumstances of serious logistical bottlenecks experienced in five Member States. The measures concern only four agricultura  more

LONDON, England, May 4 -- Nature, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features science and technology, published research articles on the following topics in its May 4, 2023 edition: Research: * Reappraising the palaeobiology of Australopithecus * An infrared transient from a star engulfing a planet * Quantum critical dynamics in a 5,000-qubit programmable spin glass * Two-dimensional ferroelectricity in a single-element bismuth monolayer * Electrically driven amplified spontaneous emiss  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry and Natural Resources issued the following written testimony by Ray Flickner, owner and operator of Flickner Farms, involving a hearing on April 20, 2023, entitled "Conservation in the Farm Bill: Making Conservation Programs Work for Farmers and Ranchers": * * * Chairman Bennet, Ranking Member Marshall, and Members of the Subcommittee, it is an honor and a privilege to appear   more