Figure is highest ever recorded for species and confirms one of Indian Ocean’s greatest conservation success stories A landmark survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed the once endangered species is thriving. A population of Aldabra giant tortoise lives on an island in Seychelles called Aldabra Atoll. Continue reading...

From Carrie’s bullies to Cathy Ames, sympathetic backstories have made villains boring. It’s time to bring back truly awful villains – in all their deliciously sinful glory

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to his social media platform Tuesday to say that he thinks Quebec should become independent and separate from Canada. He also said that Alberta and Saskatchewan sho...

Research has shown that species considered colourful and patterned are the subject of more studies, and receive more conservation funding

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Researcher Muhammad Shehada reviewed all 170 names on the IDF's list of supposed militants posing as journalists and found it to be "the most sloppy shameless fraud possible."

The Green party has passed a resolution declaring, rightly, that Zionism is racism. The vote passed at the party's autumn conference today by 1022-813

With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia Bangkok is used to absorbing the sudden afternoon downpours that inundate the city during the rainy season. Even streets in many central high-rise districts can briefly turn into rivers, with rats and cockroaches racing out of sewers and taking temporary refuge on trees and buildings as the subterranean world is flushed out. But every city has a breaking point, and this year rain fell so fast and so hard that whole neighbourhoods of the Thai capital have been transformed, not into rivers, but stagnant lakes. In parts of the city, roughly 300mm of rain – the equivalent of half a year of average rainfall in London – fell in about two days. Continue reading...

When the U.S. Supreme Court returns Monday, the justices will kick off a new term featuring cases on climate change, gun rights, immigration and religious liberty.

EU Copernicus report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average

ロイター通信は9月30日、ロシアの飛び地カリーニングラード州を孤立化させるような動きを北大西洋条約機構（NATO）加盟国が見せた場合は「核兵器を含む全ての戦力…

(Conversation recorded on September 16th, 2026) The El Niño now building in the tropical Pacific is unlike anything in the historical record, and it's arriving on top of decades of warming. Together, they could push global temperatures to roughly 1.8°C (3.2ºF) above pre-industrial levels next year,

全国で記録的な猛暑となった今夏。総務省消防庁の速報値によると、今年5月から9月27日までで熱中症で約7万7400人が搬送、うち120人が亡くなっている。平成19年5月、高校での部活動中に16歳で熱中

福島第一原発事故から15年が経過した今も､原発再稼働や避難計画､司法の在り方には深刻な課題が残されています。なぜ日本は危機管理や人権よりも経済性を優先し続けるのか。最高裁判事の退官後の動きにも鋭く切り込み､問題の核心に迫ります。

In early September, the organization behind Canada's push for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) quietly signalled their demise, researcher and author Susan O'Donnell writes in analysis for The Ene...

Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials The film-makers behind NAZA, the award-winning documentary on Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, defended their findings at the film’s North American premiere in New York on Saturday, amid protests in Israel and escalating threats from Israeli officials to strip them of their citizenship. The critically acclaimed film, directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, features the testimony of 24 anonymized Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers involved in the surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, who describe the AI-powered systems used to select their targets. The project takes its name from an acronym used euphemistically by Israeli intelligence to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike, which are often conducted at night in private homes, killing many family members, including children, at once. Continue reading...

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Many leaders are unlikely to welcome the Russian leader’s presence at the event because of his country’s war against Ukraine.

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

高市政権は、沖縄県で12年ぶりとなる保守系知事の誕生を踏まえ、南西地域の防衛力を強化する「南西シフト」を進める方針だ。 　軍事活動を活発化させる中国をにらんだ対応だが、地元には攻撃の標的となるリ

The revelation ‘left experts scratching their heads at exactly what Donald Trump has in his cosmic arsenal’

New Mexico Democratic gubernatorial nominee Deb Haaland said she'd sign a data center moratorium on day one in office, if elected.

Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland (D) on Thursday backed a moratorium on the construction of data centers in her state, citing environmental and workforce-related concerns. In a policy…

Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times

Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with

Some AI executives think the industry is three to five years away from self-improving AI systems that need little or no help from humans.

Rescue crews in Gaza pull survivors from a collapsed building as cries for help echo beneath the rubble, witnesses say.

I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the