Swedish activist joined other youth climate protesters in front of the US Supreme Court on 2019, demanding action on climate change. | AFP via Getty ImagesThe future of climate change will be litigated. Humans now have left undeniable fingerprints on extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and flooding experienced around the world. As these disasters intensify, they push questions the world has grappled with for over 30 years to the forefront: Who... Read more ›
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Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell testifies during a hearing before Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on June 22, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe Fed is looking to slow but not stop its aggressive approach to inflation. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a 0.25 percentage point Wednesday to further fight inflation, bringing an end to a brief pause to rate hikes last month.... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, and Valerie Biden, sister of President Biden, board Air Force One on April 11, 2023. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe president’s son planned to plead guilty to two tax charges and admit unlawfully buying a gun. Then things took a turn. Hunter Biden’s legal drama isn’t over yet. On Wednesday, the president’s son went to court, expected to plead guilty to failing... Read more ›
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Parts of Mexico like Guadalajara saw record-breaking heat this month. | Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty ImagesHeat domes, heat islands, mega-droughts, and climate change: The anatomy of worsening heat waves. It’s been a hot, smoky, sticky summer across much of the US, with temperatures climbing up to ranges never measured before. Scientists say these record highs align with their expectations for climate change, and warn that more scorchers are coming. There’s... Read more ›
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KTSDesign/Science Photo LibraryThe ultimate “whoa, if true.” Especially the “if true” part. The headline is a bold one. “Intelligence officials say US has retrieved craft of non-human origin,” last month’s story in the publication The Debrief read. The phrase “whoa, if true” was coined for a situation like this. Especially the “if true” part. Here’s what seems true enough at this point: a former government official named David Grusch, who... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoHeat records will keep falling. Our guide on why it’s so hot, how to stay cool, and climate solutions. Record-breaking heat is scorching different parts of the globe. Fueled by climate change and a global weather event called El Niño, this summer is especially hot. Oceans all around the world have seen extraordinarily high average temperatures. And as summer sets in, the temperature will continue to climb. June 2023... Read more ›
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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a hearing before Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on June 22, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe Fed is looking to slow but not stop its aggressive approach to inflation. The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by a 0.25 percentage point Wednesday to further fight inflation, bringing an end to a brief pause to rate... Read more ›
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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich shakes the hand of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem on January 25, 2023. | Ronen Zvulun/AFP via Getty ImagesThe far-right faction behind Israel’s judicial overhaul wants one big thing: Palestinian land. Despite ongoing, widespread demonstrations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government on Monday passed the first piece of legislation of a radical overhaul to... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, and Valerie Biden, sister of President Biden, board Air Force One on April 11, 2023. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe president’s son will plead guilty to two tax charges and admit unlawfully buying a gun. The right is furious — that he wasn’t charged with more. Hunter Biden is going to court. The president’s son is expected to plead guilty to failing... Read more ›
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Twenty-eight-year-old New Jersey coal-fired power plant Logan Generating Station was demolished last year in pursuit of cleaner electricity. | Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThere’s hidden climate potential in overlooked fossil fuel infrastructure. The International Energy Agency expects the world to invest about a billion dollars a day into solar in 2023, marking the first time the renewable has surpassed global investment in oil production. It’s astonishing growth for an industry... Read more ›
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Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. | UniversalIs Oppenheimercore on the way? There’s a moment in Oppenheimer that seems almost like something out of a superhero movie or an Indiana Jones flick. Standing in his office at Los Alamos, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) puts on a hat and picks up a pipe, each item lingered on by director Christopher Nolan’s camera. Nolan films these actions from behind like Oppenheimer... Read more ›
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Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra with a massive magpie nest made using anti-bird pins. | Alexander Schippers/NaturalisHumans install spikes so birds will go away. Birds steal them and do this instead. Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there. It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in... Read more ›
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Naomi Elliott for VoxImmerse yourself in nature — with respect for the environment and the culture that supports it. If you love nature, you may have tried to plan a vacation where you get to be immersed in it. Maybe you’ve explored a coral reef or visited an elephant sanctuary, or you dream of doing so one day. These activities can fall under the umbrella of ecotourism — a kind... Read more ›
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Death Valley, California, holds the record for the hottest temperature recorded on Earth. | Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty ImagesTemperature records are falling around the world, but those records aren’t equally meaningful. Like an overturned truck that had been carrying vinyl LPs, 2023 is overflowing with broken records. The Atlantic Ocean’s surface temperature is at a record high for this time of year while Antarctic sea ice is at a record... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden greets Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before delivering the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on February 7, 2023 in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. | Jacquelyn Martin/Getty ImagesThe Court ordered Alabama to draw a second congressional district where Black voters can elect their chosen candidate. Last month, the Supreme Court held that Alabama violated the Voting... Read more ›
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Bronny James in December 2021. | Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesBronny James’s heart reportedly stopped during practice. Incidents like this are rare but explainable. On Monday, Bronny James — Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James’s 18-year-old son and a freshman point guard on the University of Southern California’s basketball team — collapsed when his heart stopped during practice. After treatment in an intensive care unit, James is now in stable condition, according... Read more ›
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It’s not just a consumer choice; it’s a policy choice. It’s no secret that big cars dominate American roads. But even so, some of the stats are staggering: Last year, 80 percent of all new cars sold in the US were SUVs and trucks. That’s compared to just 52 percent in 2011. Meanwhile, many automakers are phasing out passenger cars as consumer demand for them has disappeared. Not all of... Read more ›
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People walk through the gate at the Harvard University campus on June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Scott Eisen/Getty ImagesLegacy admits, athletic recruits, and the children of donors, faculty members, and VIPs still have a leg up under the Supreme Court’s new ruling. The Supreme Court’s decision to effectively ban the consideration of race in college admissions reversed more than 40 years of precedent. It also left other kinds... Read more ›
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Teamsters in Queens, New York, hold “practice” picket signs on July 7, ahead of a potential strike. | Timothy A Clary/AFP via Getty ImagesOur reliance on delivery gave the Teamsters union a lot more leverage in UPS negotiations. Editor’s note, July 25: UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday, which should avert a nationwide strike that had been planned for August 1. The provisional... Read more ›
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A woman holds a child on her back as migrants walk near concertina wire in the water along the Rio Grande border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 16, 2023. | Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty ImagesBiden is clashing with Texas over the border again. The Biden administration has sued Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for refusing to remove a floating barrier along the Rio Grande that has become... Read more ›
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