Global environmental leaders gathered Monday in Cali, Colombia to assess the world’s plummeting biodiversity levels and commitments by countries to protect plants, animals and critical habitats.
The two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference is a follow-up to the 2022 Montreal meetings where 196 countries signed a historic global treaty to protect biodiversity.
Cubans took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their fourth day, their concerns heightened as Hurricane Oscar crossed the island’s eastern coast with winds and heavy rain. Oscar later weakened to a tropical storm but its effects were forecast to linger in the island through Monday.
Voters in Arizona and Massachusetts will decide in November whether it’s good policy to continue to let employers pass some of their labor costs to consumers.Federal labor law allows businesses to pay tipped workers, like food servers, bartenders and bellhops, less than the minimum wage as long as customer tips make up the difference. Minnesota is one of 7 states to have no separate minimum wage for tipped workers.
Elizabeth Dickey can be reached at ehdickey@stthomas.edu.