Building on nearly a decade of co-engineering, CoreWeave has built NVIDIA compute, networking and software into a cloud purpose-built for AI that’s still returning on investment across multiple generations of deployment. Now, CoreWeave is bringing the next generation of NVIDIA infrastructure to production. At CoreWeave Fully Connected, running this week in San Francisco, CoreWeave announced availability of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems with Spectrum-X 102.4T Ethernet networking. Cognition, the applied AI lab behind the Devin AI software engineer, is the first customer running production workloads on Vera Rubin. CoreWeave will also offer NVIDIA Vera, the first CPU built for AI agents. In addition, CoreWeave launched CoreWeave Forge, a connected environment for training, evaluating and improving models and agents on NVIDIA accelerated computing. “NVIDIA accelerated computing delivers value across generations,” said Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA. “CoreWeave’s NVIDIA V100 GPUs are still running customer workloads nearly a decade after Volta launched, even as CoreWeave brings Vera Rubin NVL72 into production. That’s the strength of the NVIDIA platform: infrastructure that keeps earning for years, and the flexibility to put the right GPU on the right workload.” Cognition Runs on Vera Rubin NVL72 With 4.8x Higher Token...

A government seeks private funding for a solar plant to help address the country’s vital energy needs. The location is an area of vulnerable households and nomadic groups, near nesting grounds for endangered birds and an important cultural heritage site. To feed the electricity to the grid, a transmission line will have to be built through a densely populated area. Would you invest in the project? The scenario – fictional but based on real-life cases – was part of an interactive role-play by participants in Navigating Environmental, Social and Governance and Sustainability-linked Finance for the Energy Transition, a workshop hosted in Vienna by the Vienna Development Knowledge Center from September 15-17, 2026. Some $2 trillion in investment will be needed every year until 2035 to fund the energy transition in emerging markets and developing economies – mostly private finance. “Large-scale renewable energy and grid infrastructure requires a significant increase in capital investments,” said Verena Hagg of Austria’s Finance Ministry. “Public financing possibilities are increasingly limited, and this capital must therefore be mobilized from private commercial and institutional investors.” While strong management of environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in sustainable energy projects can ensure they do not cause unacceptable harm...

IASSA has opened the call for abstracts for ICASS XII, taking place in Nuuk, Greenland, from 31 May to 4 June 2027 under the theme “Our Arctic – Our Future: Coming Together.” The Arctic is undergoing rapid environmental, political and social change, while growing geopolitical interest continues to reshape the region. Against this background, ICASS XII will provide a platform for discussion on the major challenges and transformations affecting the Arctic and its communities. The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) has opened submissions for the 12th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS XII), which will take place in Nuuk, Greenland, from 31 May to 4 June 2027. Held under the theme “Our Arctic – Our Future: Coming Together,” the congress will gather researchers, students, policymakers, Indigenous representatives and practitioners from across the Arctic and beyond. ICASS XII welcomes papers, panels and sessions covering a wide range of topics within the Arctic social sciences. These include geopolitics, economic development, environmental change, Indigenous rights, social issues and cultural transformations, as well as other themes shaping the present and future of the region. The congress will be hosted at the Katuaq Cultural Centre and Hotel Hans Egede in Nuuk. Important dates...

Mining royalties are drawing attention as a potential tool for economic reconciliation in Canada. The discussion comes as Indigenous participation in the country’s resource economy grows. BNN Bloomberg spoke with Derrick Pattenden, president and chief executive officer of Nations Royalty, about the company’s origins with the Nisga’a Nation and its portfolio of interests in five mines and development projects. How to set BNN Bloomberg as your preferred source on Google Key Takeaways Indigenous ownership can help align mining operations with the interests of communities affected by resource development, Pattenden says. Access to capital and thorough consultation about project benefits and risks remain barriers to Indigenous ownership. Pattenden estimates that Indigenous communities received slightly more than $500 million through mining impact benefit agreements in 2025. Building trust takes time, with financial advice during agreement negotiations offering one way to establish partnerships with First Nations. Pattenden favours royalties over equity in mining, arguing they offer lower risk and can command higher valuation multiples. Read the full transcript below: LINDSAY: Nations Royalty holds a unique distinction as Canada’s only majority Indigenous-owned and led public company, providing investors a unique opportunity to invest in Canada’s last untapped segment of the royalty market. For more,...

Misfolded filamentous aggregates of the prion protein cause neurodegeneration in diseases such as kuru, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), variant CJD, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, chronic wasting disease and scrapie3,4. Misfolded prion protein assemblies are believed to self-propagate by templated seeding, by which small amounts of filaments induce the misfolding of the native prion protein into filaments with the same conformation. This ability to self-propagate underlies the prion spread within tissues, between individuals of a given species and, depending on the prion protein sequence similarity, between individuals of distinct species. Various misfolded conformations of the prion protein give rise to prion strains that lead to different incubation times, lesion profiles and clinical phenotypes. Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of prion filaments have shown that distinct amyloid folds provide the physical basis for prion strains5,6,7,8,9. More than 20 neurodegenerative diseases are defined by the filamentous assembly of hyperphosphorylated tau10. Most disease cases with abundant tau filaments are sporadic, with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) being the most common tauopathy. Mutations in MAPT, the gene encoding tau, cause dominantly inherited forms of frontotemporal dementia with abundant tau inclusions, consistent with tau filament formation causing neurodegeneration. Cryo-EM structures of tau filaments from human brains have shown that distinct tau...

On September 28, 2026, ministers and senior officials from the 43 Union for the Mediterranean member states met in Rome for the group’s second ministerial meeting on water, the first since 2017. Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani hosted the event alongside the group’s co-presidency, represented by EU Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall and Jordan’s water minister Raed Abu al-Soud. The talks come amid growing climate pressures and acute water scarcity across the region. Participants adopted a second ministerial declaration outlining priorities for the water-related Sustainable Development Goals through 2030. They also launched the Rome Initiative on Water, the region’s input to the UN Water Conference in Abu Dhabi in December. It aims to turn national goals into practical project pipelines that can attract finance, particularly for Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries. Ministers additionally backed three frameworks covering the water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus, water finance, and digitalisation of the sector, including AI-focused capacity building. Featured ESG Tool of the Week: Klimado – Navigating climate complexity just got easier. Klimado offers a user-friendly platform for tracking local and global environmental shifts, making it an essential tool for climate-aware individuals and organizations. Antarctic sea ice hits third-lowest winter peak Winter sea ice around Antarctica reached its...

Tadzio Müller is a climate justice and queer rights activist in Berlin and a political scientist. For 30 years, he has been involved in struggles against neoliberal globalization, nuclear waste, and coal, and more recently in what he sees as an anti-fascist struggle. Climate activist and professor Adam Aron spoke with Müller about his years of activism and whether the climate movement can still forge a meaningful path forward amid accelerating ecological and political crises. This is the second piece in a two-part series. You can read the first half of the interview here. Adam Aron: I get your idea of a loose network of motivated people ready to step up during catastrophes. But what are they doing in between? What kinds of projects could such a movement pursue—food sovereignty, building local resilience? Tadzio Müller: Let’s call it solidarity prepping right now. Solidarity prepping is different from individualistic prepping in that it focuses on social relations. And this is not just a bunch of anarchists saying that. A general in the Swedish military said exactly the same thing: in a catastrophe, the most important thing is social relations. So anything that builds resilient social relations is a step towards having...

“EPA has never taken factory farm pollution seriously — under Trump, it has stopped even pretending.” Washington, D.C. — Today, the national advocacy organization Food & Water Watch sued the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), demanding the agency release records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) related to its abandonment of an Animal Agriculture and Water Quality (AAWQ) Federal Advisory Subcommittee. EPA formed the Subcommittee in 2024 in response to a Food & Water Watch petition demanding EPA strengthen its rules to adequately regulate factory farm pollution under the Clean Water Act. To justify its petition denial, EPA claimed it lacked adequate information about factory farm pollution and committed to studying the problem via the Subcommittee. It then repeated this excuse before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in defending the legality of its petition denial. The Subcommittee met three times in 2024, but has not met since Trump took office in January 2025. Trump’s EPA has, with no communication or explanation, rendered the Subcommittee “inactive.” After more than a year of radio silence, on February 18, 2026, Food & Water Watch requested records about the status of the Subcommittee and what led EPA to abandon it. Requested...

One person was killed and four others were injured by landmines in occupied Oleshky over the past day, while Russian forces confiscated food delivered by Ukrainian military drones and questioned residents found with non-Russian products, the local military administration head told the Kyiv Independent on Sept. 30. Oleshky in Kherson Oblast has been under Russian occupation since the early days of the full-scale invasion. Residents face severe shortages of food, water, and electricity, while mines, constant drone attacks, and interrogations by Russian troops at checkpoints make it impossible to evacuate safely. Tetiana Hasanenko, exiled head of the Oleshky City Military Administration, confirmed reports circulating on Telegram that four civilians were injured and one was killed by landmine explosions around Oleshky over the past day. Hasanenko told the Kyiv Independent that four people were attempting to leave the town when they stepped on a mine and were injured, while a man collecting nuts was killed by another mine. The incidents occurred along routes used by civilians to leave the occupied town. "These people left Oleshky at 6 a.m. and must have failed to spot something before stepping on a landmine. One woman suffered a back injury and injuries to her limbs...

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The international campaign to rescue Ukrainian children from Russian control has been complicated by identity verification issues and the search for intermediaries to negotiate the return of the children, officials say. Canada, Ukraine and Norway led a conference in Toronto this week to seek progress on the return of the estimated 20,650 Ukrainian children in Russian hands in occupied Ukrainian territory or in Russia itself. But the effort will need to rely on countries with closer ties to Moscow to serve as mediators, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand acknowledged. Ms. Anand said 83 countries and international organizations attended the conference, of which 54 signed a “Toronto pledge” to help recover the children, along with detained civilians and prisoners of war. This exceeds the number who signed a similar commitment at a Montreal conference two years ago. Under the new pledge, the countries expressed grave concern at the deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia. They called for global efforts to identify, trace and locate the children and verify information about each case. “We have pledged to bring them back, knowing that it can be dangerous, complex, difficult, but above all necessary,” Ms. Anand told the conference. How two...

The range of plausible outcomes has widened substantially for the global energy system, according to McKinsey & Company’s Global Energy Perspective 2026. The new report finds that there is no longer a single ‘most likely’ future for the sector and that business leaders need to prepare for a range of strategies that can perform across fundamentally different energy landscapes. The analysis suggests that the ongoing energy transition – impacted by the volatile market conditions and a series of back-to-back gray swan events that are becoming more frequent – is increasingly becoming an energy expansion. Global energy demand grew 2.7% in 2025, with oil, gas, and coal growing alongside renewables simultaneously, with data centres the fastest-growing load segment in OECD power markets and projected to consume 10 – 15% of global power by 2030.That shifts the central question from whether the world will need more energy, to what will supply that growth, at what cost, and with what implications for security and emissions. McKinsey’s 2026 report also widens the aperture with four new scenarios, a revised bottom-up energy model and more holistic energy system view that explores affordability and security alongside decarbonisation and pace of economic growth through to 2050. The...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding the ability to query the popular Apache Iceberg data lake directly from its Aurora PostgreSQL database management system, allowing applications to combine live transactions with historical records without copying data or creating extract/transform/load pipelines. The capability embeds the DuckDB analytical engine inside Aurora PostgreSQL to support data stored in Iceberg and Apache Parquet formats. Customers can use existing PostgreSQL applications, tools and endpoints to query operational records alongside data in Amazon S3, including S3 Tables. AWS acquired DuckLabs B.V., developer of the popular open-source database, last month. AWS is positioning the feature as a way to simplify application development and reduce the engineering work needed to maintain data pipelines. Potential uses include real-time dashboards, transactions enriched with historical information and artificial intelligence agents that need access to both current and archived records. Previously, combining recent transactions in Aurora with historical records in S3 commonly required reverse ETL pipelines. That resulted in duplicated data, additional infrastructure costs and continuing work to keep records synchronized. “This challenge only grows as you increasingly embed AI agents into your applications, where it is impractical to predict and pre-replicate every dataset an agent might need,” Esra Kayabali, a principal...

Russia has carried out its heaviest wave of attacks on Ukraine's energy grid in months, ahead of what is expected to be a bitterly cold winter for many in the war-torn country. At least seven people were killed in the strikes, which followed days of drone attacks on Kyiv. Emergency power cuts were in operation, causing some tram services in Kyiv to be suspended. Russia has unleashed a widely anticipated air campaign against Ukraine's energy grid, hitting power facilities and infrastructure around Kyiv and other regions in the heaviest combined attack on energy sites in months. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, while visiting the eastern front on Wednesday, said seven people, including a child, were killed in the attacks. It followed days of intensifying drone barrages primarily on the capital, a prelude to what many Ukrainians expect to be a winter of attacks intended to plunge cities into cold and darkness. Ukraine's state power grid operator Ukrenergo said it had imposed its first emergency power cuts since spring as a result of the attack in Kyiv and three surrounding regions. Kyiv authorities said the strikes damaged a key power plant and other energy facilities around the capital. Russian attacks last winter,...

She said women farmers work throughout the year and their contribution needs to be recognised. “The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh has shown this reality today that a woman farmer is empowered, prosperous and self-reliant. If she struggles, if she is dedicated, she also delivers results. Those results are before us today,” she said. Dikshit said women farmers also face challenges related to ownership of agricultural land and claimed that despite women undertaking 60 to 80 per cent of agricultural tasks, only around 8 to 10 per cent of agricultural land is in their names. “But today, we will demonstrate that too. Women will be present here, and they will be honoured. They will show not just India but the entire world how empowered and prosperous they are,” she said. She said around 7 lakh women are associated with the BKS as workers out of its 42 lakh members, and women workers are present at the state, district, tehsil and village levels. The BKS has around 60,000 village committees and works across the country, she said. Dikshit said women farmers from different parts of the country, including Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Tripura, Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh, participated in the conference. According...

Nelfbfl/fl mice61 were a gift from R. Li. AID-cre mice62 were provided by M. Muschen and were used as heterozygotes. Experimental mice were generated by intercrossing AID-cre and Nelfbfl/fl mice to generate Nelfbfl/fl;AID-cre and control Nelfbfl/+;AID-cre mice. Both male and female mice were used in experiments. Splenic GCB cells were sorted as the B220+PNAhiCD95hi population 7 days after intraperitoneal injection of sheep red blood cells followed by mutation sequencing analysis. Animal studies were performed without randomization, investigator blinding or previous analyses of sample size. All animal studies were conducted in accordance with national guidelines and were approved by the Yale Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Cell culture Ramos cells and cell lines derived from Ramos cells were grown in RPMI-1640 (Gibco, 11875) supplemented with 10% FBS (Gemini) and 0.5 mg ml–1 penicillin–streptomycin–glutamine (Gibco, 10378016) at 37 °C, 5% CO2. Ramos cells have been used extensively for the study of SHM factors and mechanisms60,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76. 293T cells were grown at 37 °C, 5% CO2 in DMEM (Gibco, 10566) supplemented in the same manner as Ramos cells. CH12F3 cells were cultured in RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 10% FBS (Gibco), 1× MEM non-essential amino acids, 10 mM HEPES, 2 mM Glutamax, 1...

Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI. For years, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number of groups for the tens of thousands of people interested in urine therapy — a pseudo-scientific practice involving the use of human micturate to “treat” ailments, ranging from acne to viral infections and even terminal cancer. The members of these groups have done a fine job of cultivating a dangerous ecosystem of quack remedies and misinformation on their own. But with the advent of AI, many are starting to branch out, using the tools to brainstorm new applications and reassure themselves that pee is indeed the cure-all they already believe it to be. In a Facebook group called “Urine Therapy, your sacred plasma medicine,” which has over 45,000 members, some discovered that popular AI chatbots initially push back on wild notions of tinkle as medicine. “Have you come across any AI tool that is positive about urine therapy and explains it in detail?” one frustrated user asked. “I haven’t found a single one so far.” But despite some initial hurdles, acolytes of the urine drinking lifestyle have found it remarkably easy to break through chatbot safeguards — engineering AI to say whatever...

Three people, a tractor and four hours are what it takes on our regenerative farm at the San Antonio Food Bank, in Texas, to pull one acre’s worth of plastic mulch film out of the ground at the end of the season, and we still don’t get it all. Nobody does. Even under the best management practices, 5 to 10 percent of the material stays in the soil. Our farm, and certified organic farms, don’t use powerful herbicides like Roundup, which has been tied to risks of cancer, kidney damage and other human health harms, as well as environmental consequences. Instead, we find other ways to fight weeds; one of the most common is pulling a thin layer of plastic tightly over the field rows around our crops and burying its edges in soil. Globally, about 2.5 million metric tons of this plastic mulch film goes onto farmland every year. Almost all of it ends up in a landfill, and what doesn’t get hauled away stays in the ground. But there is another version of this material, biodegradable mulch film, that’s designed to be tilled into the soil and consumed by microbes rather than removed. The United States Department of...

Australian scientists are calling for a multimillion-dollar international effort to investigate ”the last unexplored place in Antarctica”, which contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by up to four metres. Researchers from 14 countries issued the call on Wednesday, warning that little was known about the vast Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica and models could not reliably predict when major ice loss could occur. Australia could lead the study due to its proximity to the basin, they said, but no nation should undertake the research alone. The warning comes weeks after a Climate Council study found more than 267,000 Australian properties would be at risk from rising seas and coastal flooding by 2100, in a trend that could cost $855 billion. The review, led by the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science and published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, focused on an ice basin roughly 1400 kilometres long and 400km wide. Its ice rests on bedrock more than 2000 metres below sea level in places, making it vulnerable to warm ocean waters. Despite the risk, major research gaps meant scientists could not confidently predict its future, lead author and University of Tasmania Professor Matt King said...

It's well-known that regular exercise comes with health benefits, but exactly how those benefits manifest at the cellular level isn't clear. Now, researchers have identified a series of changes in metabolism and the immune system that differentiate regular exercisers from people with sedentary lifestyles. The findings, published Sept. 18 in the journal Science Advances, point to potential pathways for managing chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer, the scientists say. The team of researchers analyzed data from the Chinese Immune Multi-omics Atlas (CIMA), which includes data from 400 adults who gave blood samples and answered an in-depth questionnaire about their lifestyles. To capture the biggest possible effects of exercise, the team included only data from participants who did the most or least exercise. One group worked out at least three times a week, racking up more than 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of high-intensity exercise in that timeframe. The sedentary group said they did not work out at all. The researchers then analyzed their volunteers' blood samples for physiological markers, such as blood sugar and fat levels. They found that the participants who exercised more had signs of boosted sugar and fat metabolism, stronger muscle...

The nature of the shortage of diesel and jet fuel is more complex than most people realize. Based on my analysis, a shortfall has existed since at least 2020. The shortage is not simply the result of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. In this post, I will provide background information regarding the nature of the shortfall and the international conflict it is leading to. I will also share my thoughts on how, over the long term, the situation might be mitigated. I doubt whether a solution will be available in the short term, but I can at least give readers an idea of one direction in which a possible workaround might be available. My idea is that the economy needs to transform itself in a way that uses diesel and jet fuel (grouped together on some reports as “middle distillates”) more sparingly. At the same time, research on extracting heavy oil and bitumen at lower cost is needed. If this is done, it may be possible to use additional heavy oil to increase the supply of diesel and jet fuel. One thing that will probably need to change is the price of diesel relative to gasoline. The price...

The Trump administration has resorted to trying to bribe Americans to let data centers into their communities. “The people are going to benefit directly, whether its teachers that get paid a bonus, whether its people that live in the community get paid a dividend, you could call it a dividend because a dividend sounds right,” Trump said Tuesday evening. “They are going to greatly benefit by what’s happened.” “And by the way, I’m very good at real estate,” Trump added. “Some of those data centers are absolutely beautiful.” The president then blamed the hardware sites’ bad reputation on Democrats, suggesting that there was no sensible or justifiable reason that the public could be opposed to their creation. Trump did not elaborate on how he would ensure that Americans received their share of data center profits, or how much that sum could be. Data center development is necessary for building out artificial intelligence. Yet despite collectively pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the critical infrastructure, the tech industry has done a remarkably bad job at marketing its product to American communities contemplating their futures alongside them. Unaware of any benefits, the public has instead become highly attuned to the inordinate...

STRATFORD, Conn. – Audubon Connecticut congratulates Director of Bird Conservation Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe on being named the 2026 recipient of the Terry Backer Environmental Champion Award, presented by the Stratford Democratic Town Committee. Named in honor of the late Terry Backer, a longtime environmental advocate and public servant, the award recognizes individuals who demonstrate exceptional environmental stewardship, community leadership, and dedication to protecting Connecticut's natural resources. Folsom-O'Keefe was recognized for her leadership in protecting birds and the places they need across Stratford, including her work to restore 44 acres of salt marsh and other important coastal habitat at Stratford's Great Meadows Marsh, and leading the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds. She was also recognized for creating the WildLife Guards program, which employs local high school students to support shorebird and seabird conservation during the busy summer months. "The Stratford Democratic Town Committee is proud to recognize Corrie Folsom‑O’Keefe as this year’s (2026) Terry Backer Environmental Champion. This award celebrates individuals who embody Backer’s legacy of environmental stewardship, public service, and deep commitment to community. As Director of Bird Conservation for Audubon Connecticut, Folsom‑O’Keefe has been a steadfast partner in protecting Stratford’s natural assets - including Great Meadows Marsh and the Stewart...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) approach using data from wearable devices that can forecast upcoming periods of prolonged sitting in women with chronic pelvic pain disorders. The findings, published in the September 30 online issue of npj Women's Health [DOI: 10.1038/s44294-026-00156-5], could inform personalized digital health tools that prompt the individual to move, such as by taking a short walk, at the right time while minimizing unnecessary alerts. Chronic pelvic pain affects an estimated one in seven women and frequently occurs in people with conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine fibroids. They are often associated with prolonged sitting because of pain, fatigue, and other symptoms that impact daily life. While regular movement can help manage symptoms and improve overall health, generic advice to "sit less and move more" often fails to account for the realities of living with these conditions. The study shows that wearable devices may do more than count steps. Using data collected over time from wearables of women with chronic pelvic pain, the researchers developed a forecasting model that can identify when prolonged sedentary periods are likely to occur during waking hours. This could allow...

The air is scented with the sweet tang of ladies bedstraw and made musical by skylark and blackcap song. An abundance of marbled white butterflies, small skippers and common blue damselflies dart over the flowering knapweed, yarrow and wild carrot. That the largest chalk grassland in the Chilterns is full of wildlife may not surprise you. But the fact that it is completely artificial, only four years old and has been built by the much-maligned HS2, may do. The Western Slopes “rewilding” project is due to open to the public next year on land beside the high-speed railway as it dives under the M25 and into a 10-mile tunnel beneath the Chilterns. The trains may be running late, but the wildlife has already arrived. A decade ago, this area was a vast wheatfield with precious little biodiversity. Today, as the construction effort winds down, more and more of the 127-hectare site is being turned into wildlife-rich grasslands, wet meadows, ponds and small woods. It is now one of the largest wildlife habitat creation projects in south-east England, and has already witnessed the arrival of hedgehog clover, which hasn’t been recorded in Hertfordshire since 1878, alongside water voles, lesser emperor dragonflies...

Bio-inspired robots are a dime a dozen these days, with machines mimicking everything from bats and beetles to long-extinct sea creatures. But making the absolute most effective robot for certain niche scenarios like remote ocean monitoring during storms requires going one step beyond what nature offers. With this in mind, researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design recently engineered a kind of multi-formed chimera robot that can be dropped from high in the sky, spin its outstretched “wings” to slow itself down, land on water, and then seamlessly morph into a sailboat with a fish-like backup rudder. Once afloat, the sensing robot (part maple seed, part swan, part fish) can navigate autonomously for several hours. The result is a machine that uses biology less like a strict blueprint and more as a garage full of useful, interchangeable part, according to in a study published today in the journal Science Robotics, The team calls their creation ALBATROSS, short for Airborne Lander with Buoyant AuToROtating Sailing Sensor. “Individual mechanisms can be borrowed, recombined, and engineered toward objectives evolution never faced,” engineers Raphael Zufferey and Andre Farinha write in a related editorial about their study. “Nature does not provide the complete...

John Deere is the largest player in the U.S. agricultural machinery market, accounting for nearly 35% of sales, according to Farm Action. Its grip is even stronger in major equipment markets such as large tractors and combines. Now the company is pushing further beyond machinery, into farm data, software and AI. On Sept. 1, Deere introduced JD, an artificial intelligence assistant built into its operations center. Farmers can ask the AI assistant questions about their own data, including fuel use, yields, machine performance and the best time to harvest, according to Successful Farming. Deere says farmers should stay in control of their data and understand how it is used. But in its July 2026 report, Farm Action says that major equipment manufacturers’ move beyond tractors and combines into software, precision agriculture, repairs and farm-data systems means they are becoming technology platforms, not just machinery makers. Farm Action, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on competition and corporate concentration in agriculture, had this to say about the industry's focus: “Major firms are accelerating technology-focused consolidation, acquiring companies in precision agriculture, artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and data analytics. These acquisitions are expanding dominant firms’ control across the digital stack of modern farming, from...

The Republican-controlled Senate will soon formally announce a legislative “permitting reform” deal to speed the development of AI data centers and energy infrastructure. We expect the Senate will then rush through a vote in the lame duck session immediately after the midterm elections, sending the bill to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives before a new Congress is seated in January 2027. While the text of the bill has not yet been released, credible intelligence suggests that the bill, if passed, would prove to be the largest rollback of environmental and public health protections in U.S. history, weakening the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and more. The bill would erode state and Tribal authority provided by the Clean Water Act to review and certify federal permits to protect that state or Tribe’s water resources. The bill would also hand developers new exemptions from Clean Water Act permitting for natural gas pipelines and other infrastructure. These provisions would compound the Trump administration’s own deregulatory attacks on the fundamental law and the Supreme Court’s disastrous 2023 Sackett v. EPA decision, which radically scaled back the Clean Water Act’s jurisdictional scope. In New Mexico, this resulted in the loss...

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) applauds Governor Newsom for his signing of Senate Bill 1250, which will make California’s roads safer while contributing to the state’s wildlife conservation goals by supporting wildlife connectivity. SB 1250, authored by Senator Cortese and sponsored by TNC, was signed into law today at the California Natural Resources Agency’s 30×30 Partnership Summit. TNC’s leadership in connectivity conservation spans more than 25 years and includes the landmark California Missing Linkages effort launched in 2000, which identified over 200 priority wildlife linkages and shaped today’s statewide connectivity planning. In January 2026, TNC co-hosted the 25th Anniversary Missing Linkages Symposium in Sacramento, convening agency, science, NGO and many other partners as well as tribal representatives to assess progress and chart actions needed through 2050. TNC also sponsored AB 2785 in 2008, which established the Essential Habitat Connectivity Project – the first time Caltrans and California Department of Fish and Game (CDFW) mapped habitat connectivity corridors in California. This body of work, together with our partnerships in California Wildlife Reconnected (CWR) and with Senator Cortese, led to the idea of aligning ecological movement corridors with planned State Highway System (SHS) upgrades to deliver safer roads and resilient landscapes and, subsequently,...

Researchers have answered a longstanding question about how certain non-enveloped viruses punch through the cell membrane to deliver their genetic material. The findings deepen understanding of virology and could aid the biotech industry’s search for ways to deliver relatively large therapeutic agents into cells to treat or prevent disease. Work was made possible by an advanced imaging technique known as cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, at HMS. Viruses come in two major flavors — not chocolate and vanilla, quips Harvard Medical School structural biologist Stephen Harrison, but those enveloped in membranes, such as herpesvirus, influenza virus, HIV, and SARS-CoV-2, and those that are not, such as poliovirus, HPV, rotavirus, and adenovirus. Scientists know more about how enveloped viruses get their genetic material across the cell membrane and into our cells, thereby causing infection, than about how non-enveloped viruses do. Harrison, the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Professor of Basic Medical Sciences at HMS and HMS professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, has spent decades closing this gap. Thanks to advanced imaging methods, his lab and collaborators have now filled in one of the final pieces of the puzzle for non-enveloped viruses that deliver their genomes packaged within a protein shell. The findings, supported...

Ukrainian officials had looked for a reset with Budapest after Viktor Orban's defeat. Instead, Hungary's new prime minister, Peter Magyar, has taken a hard line of his own. After a promising start, Budapest is yet again stalling Kyiv's EU bid until Ukraine puts into effect earlier agreements on the rights of its roughly 80,000-strong Hungarian community. As the standoff has dragged on, Magyar has raised the stakes: he skipped the Ukraine-hosted Carpathian summit, traded barbs with Ukrainian officials online, and flatly rejected a deal to deepen cross-border energy cooperation. Yet there are fundamental differences between Hungary's current leader and his pro-Kremlin predecessor. While Orban had held Ukraine and its Hungarian community hostage for his own political gains, Magyar may actually want to see the matter through — while using whatever leverage available to him, experts believe. A new draft law on national minority education rights, drafted by the Ukrainian government on the basis of a June deal with Hungary, could clear the path forward. It may reach parliament as early as October. But ultimately, both sides will have to rethink their diplomatic strategies and put in real work to move past the "ghost of Orban," says Sergiy Solodkyy, director of...

All mice were bred on a C57BL/6J genetic background and were approximately 2–6 months old at the start of testing. Male C57BL/6J mice were obtained from Jackson Laboratories for whole-brain immediate early gene imaging as well as pan-neuronal and axon terminal silencing (Jackson Laboratories, catalogue no. 000664). Studies with homozygous GAD2-IRES-Cre mice (Jackson Laboratories, catalogue no. 028867) used an equal mixture of female and male mice that were bred in house. Critically, we did not observe any sex differences in the behaviours under study, consistent with our previous work11, nor did we observe any sex differences in our neuronal recordings. After initially observing no effects of sex, sex was dropped as a variable in the final reported analyses. The number of male and female mice per experiment can be found in Supplementary Table 3. Animals were housed in a temperature- and humidity-controlled vivarium on a 12–12 h light–dark cycle (lights on at 7.00 a.m.), and all handling and behavioural testing took place during the light phase. All experimental procedures were approved by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai IACUC. Sample sizes were determined based on previous research from the laboratory using the described stress sensitization procedure11 and the...

Do you have any idea what you’re looking at in the image above? It might look completely abstract at first glance, but this is, in fact, an aerial photo. The white cobwebby-looking bits are bubbles, the green is algae and the straight lines are the edges of tanks. This is the Kasslerfeld sewage-treatment plant in Duisburg, Germany, next to the Rhine river, which treats wastewater from nearby businesses and homes. “This is part of my series which illustrates environmental damage in a creative way to engage viewers,” says photographer and environmental activist J Henry Fair. While wastewater plants help minimise human impact on rivers, Fair points out that they don’t remove all pollutants. For instance, they don’t filter out all microplastics. We all have microplastics in our bodies, Fair says, but the ramifications of that are not understood. Fair has been using small aircraft to document the impact of human activity on the landscape, with the aerial view often revealing much that can’t be seen from the ground. The photograph above is one from a new exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, A Great Breach in Nature: Aerial photography by J Henry Fair. “I first photographed it in...

I grew up on the border between Brazil and Paraguay, shaped by the presence, resistance, and cultural memory of the Guarani-Kaiowá people. My earliest memories are stories shared by Elders, carried through songs, explaining our relationship to the land, to one another, and to the generations before us. My grandmother was a Guarani-Kaiowá rezadeira e raizeira, a healer and shaman, and she never wrote down a single one of her prayers. To keep her practice alive, she told me that for her knowledge to keep on living, no one could kill her. When she died a few years ago, the part of me that wanted to archive everything ached, because no notebooks or photographs existed to collect. It took me my whole life to understand that her refusal to write things down was its own kind of survival, an archive carried inside a living person rather than on a shelf. Yet, when I opened newspapers, magazines, or turned on the television, those stories were rarely there. Indigenous people appeared, of course, usually for a conflict, a tragedy, a political debate. Our stories were told by someone else, and with that, there is a specific kind of quiet that comes when...

WASHINGTON -- Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump 's third nominee for surgeon general, moved a step closer to confirmation after a Senate committee voted to advance her nomination on Wednesday. Saphier, a radiologist and former Fox News Channel contributor, was advanced out of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on a 12 to 11 vote to serve as surgeon general after she was grilled at her confirmation hearing earlier this month about her stance on childhood vaccines. She expressed support for vaccines and told lawmakers she didn’t believe they cause autism. The Trump administration has sought to revisit claims about a link between vaccines and autism, although widespread scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is none. Timothy Westlake, who was nominated to serve as assistant secretary for mental health and substance use at the Department of Health and Human Services was also advanced out of committee on the same en bloc vote. It was not immediately clear when the officials would face a full Senate vote for their confirmation but they are expected to be approved. During her confirmation hearing, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy pressed Saphier to declare whether she believed there...

Researchers have discovered an exoplanet that travels around its small, red star backward, much like a rubber duck spinning against the current in a whirlpool. The discovery could give insight about how exoplanets form around the most common types of stars in our galaxy. It's a mystery why the alien world, called GJ 3090 b, orbits its star backward (also called a retrograde orbit). Stars and planets usually form from the same rotating disk of gas and dust, called a protoplanetary disk. Newly formed celestial objects normally rotate in the same direction as the protoplanetary disk, because changing the rotational direction requires a lot of energy applied in the right way. Astronomers have discovered a few exoplanets with retrograde orbits before; these orbits often happen when the gravitational attraction of other massive objects in their star systems scrambles the planets' orbits. However, this newly discovered planetary system doesn't seem to have any massive objects that could have changed the retrograde planet's orbit, researchers reported in a study published Sept. 21 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. "We looked for the kind of massive companion that could have forced the planet into such an extreme orbit," study co-author Yann Carteret, an...

Climate activists are putting their weight behind a claim New Zealand has broken its climate change promises in the free trade agreement with the EU. They say the complaint isn't an attack on New Zealand's exporters, workers, or communities, but a call for the government to "explain its conduct and to take corrective action." It comes as the Trade Minister and the Greens' trade barbs over the issue. A Dutch organisation lodged the first complaint of its kind through the European Commission's complaints mechanism known as the Single Entry Point. It claims New Zealand had failed to uphold its legal commitments in the EU-NZ FTA not to weaken environmental protections in order to "encourage trade or investment," and to effectively implement the Paris Agreement. The most extreme consequences could be losing access to the lucrative European market, but the group is seeking compliance rather than the suspension of trade benefits. New Zealand organisations cannot themselves file a complaint, but a number of groups and individuals have added their support as co-sponsors, including Greenpeace, Ngāti Pukenga, Ora Taiao, Environmental Law Initiative, Mike Smith and Professor Jane Kelsey. Climate campaigner and co-sponsor Mike Smith told RNZ the complaint was not an attack...

For decades, software contracts followed a relatively predictable pattern. Customers pushed for broad intellectual property (IP) indemnities, meaningful warranties, and liability caps large enough to provide a practical remedy if things went wrong. Vendors responded by narrowing obligations, limiting damages, and carving out as much risk as possible. The parties negotiated, found a middle ground, and closed the deal. Artificial intelligence (AI) has disrupted that balance. Not because traditional contract principles no longer apply; they do. The challenge is that many of those principles were developed around deterministic software. If a software product malfunctioned, the parties generally had a clear understanding of what happened, why it happened, and who was responsible. AI systems do not always provide the same level of certainty. As a result, some of the most contentious negotiations in technology transactions today are no longer focused on functionality or service levels. They are focused on a much more fundamental question: Who bears the risk when an AI system produces an undesirable result? The answer increasingly depends on how the parties negotiate indemnities, warranties, and liability limitations. Software Was Predictable. AI Is Probabilistic. Traditional software is designed to perform specific functions according to defined rules. If a payroll...

WASHINGTON— Sens. Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse today released a top-line summary of an agreement with Sen. Shelly Moore Capito and Rep. Bruce Westerman to advance so-called “permitting reform.” The legislative package, cynically titled the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026,” would provide massive long-term structural advantages to the fossil fuel industry and minimal short-term improvements to electricity transmission policy that might marginally benefit renewable energy. The legislation fails to meaningfully curb the accelerating build-out of data centers and artificial intelligence. “This is a climate kill shot that condemns our most vulnerable communities to suffer decades more fossil fuel pollution. It’s absurd to ensure our planet chokes with greenhouse gases, gut endangered species protections and eviscerate the Clean Water Act for what seems to be a nearly meaningless victory against Trump’s war on offshore wind,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The minor benefits for renewable energy corporations are massively dwarfed by the gifts to the fossil fuel industry. If this grotesque legislation becomes law, the paltry increases in renewable energy will be instantly devoured by AI data centers. The only winners here are Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, tech oligarchs and the...

New research shows that past emissions from oil, gas, coal, and cement will continue to affect the environment and increase the odds of extreme weather for decades. If someone leaves the faucet running in your bathroom and the house floods, it’s easy to assign responsibility for the damage. But for other disasters—bigger, costlier, and more complicated ones—the link between cause and effect isn’t as clear. In recent years, scientists have improved methods for connecting extreme weather events, sometimes called climate disasters, to climate change. Advancements in attribution science clarify how burning fossil fuels has increased the likelihood of extreme weather occurring. These findings form the backbone of a growing list of lawsuits attempting to hold major emitters responsible for deaths and damages incurred during climate disasters. The new University of Washington study takes this work a step further by showing that past emissions from carbon majors—the top 178 oil, gas, coal, and cement producers—will continue affecting our environment for decades to come. The results appear in PLOS Climate. “We know that fossil fuel emissions have caused a lot of warming, and we’re seeing the impacts of that, but the question is: How long does that warming last into the future?”...

Many lawfully present immigrants will be among the first people to lose Medicaid coverage under congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is expected to cut spending by more than $900 billion through 2034 for the state-federal health program for people with low incomes or disabilities. The law will strip many more immigrants of their Affordable Care Act plan subsidies and Medicare coverage next year. Those losing their health benefits who were previously eligible include refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution, victims of sex trafficking, and interpreters who risked their lives assisting U.S. service members in Afghanistan — all of whom are in the country with the federal government’s permission. The law does not affect coverage for a few groups, including those who hold green cards. The Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan budget scorekeeper, estimated the law’s changes eliminating Medicaid eligibility for many noncitizen adults with legal status would lead to about 100,000 more immigrants being uninsured by 2034. KFF Health News asked several states how many Medicaid enrollees they had identified as being at risk of losing coverage under the provision. More than 281,000 immigrants from nine states and the District of Columbia are expected to lose...

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. “I will explode your butthole with this poopmaxxer pesto,” a calm Gen Z voice announced from my phone’s speakers. “And don’t worry, it doesn’t taste like poop, unless that’s what you’re into … I don’t know if Italians will approve of this, but it’s for my … a-butt-a-hole-a!” What followed in that video was actually a pretty good recipe. Two cups of blanched peas mixed into a fairly standard pesto recipe for a yield of 18 grams of fiber. Never mind my spouse’s flabbergasted face as the video played over and over while I blanched and blended in the kitchen. Not all TikTok fibermaxxers are as disturbingly whimsical as @hallysicle, a self-described “chaotic wellness” creator responsible for the poopmaxxer pesto; the cognitive dissonance of her deadpan scatological narration, cottagecore kawaii aesthetic, and actually good recipes is very much her own creation. That said, many of TikTok’s fiberheads are gleefully unhinged when preaching the benefits of the criminally underappreciated and underconsumed macronutrient. There’s Liam, a friendly...

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Russia is hitting warehouses, workshops, logistics hubs, exhibitions, and trains far from the front line. Many organizations working in Ukraine are not updating their duty of care as fast as the risks are changing, and make decisions on gut instinct. On Sept. 13, a Russian drone struck the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw train that carried more than 200 passengers at Yahodyn station in Ukraine, about 2 kilometers from the Polish border. A train carrying European officials had left the station only minutes earlier. Nobody on the Warsaw-bound train was hurt. A monitoring team warned the crew in time, which acted on the warning, according to Ukraine's state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia. Russia launched more than 2,500 jet-powered drones at Ukraine in August alone, according to Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky. While Russia used to strike mostly at night, its drones now also increasingly arrive in daylight at locations previously treated as rear areas. Russia targets the civilian-adjacent economy, meaning warehouses, transport and logistics complexes, industrial sites, assembly workshops, ports, rail junctions, and border crossings. Anyone who works in Ukraine can describe the general risk of the war, but not every organization turns that general risk into specific...

A new study out of McMaster University suggests that common viral infections — like influenza or COVID-19 — may accelerate the onset and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. While viral infections have long been associated with neurodegenerative diseases, it has been unclear how infections caused by very diverse viruses all seem to increase risk. The new findings — published today in the journal Nature Communications — suggest that it is the immune response triggered by these infections that accelerates the onset and progression of ALS. “ALS is a debilitating and incurable disease, so it’s critical that we improve our understanding of the common environmental factors that can hasten its onset and accelerate its progression,” says Matthew Miller, a professor of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster and principal investigator on the new study. “Understanding what triggers or accelerates the disease could illuminate new strategies for slowing or even stopping it.” Commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS is the most common motor neuron disease, affecting about one in 300 Canadians. ALS progressively damages the nerve cells responsible for mobility, ultimately leading to severe weakness, paralysis, and death. With no known cure, researchers are working to better understand the...

CoreWeave has unveiled CoreWeave Forge, an integrated software platform for organizations to develop, run, and continuously improve AI models and agents. Announced today (Sept. 30) during the company’s Fully Connected event in San Francisco, Forge extends the AI cloud provider’s strategy beyond GPU infrastructure to the software layer enterprises need to develop, operate, and refine AI applications. “We have moved from a focus on being the best provider for AI-centric infrastructure to delivering a plethora of AI services to enable customers to build AI applications on our platform,” said Corey Sanders, CoreWeave’s senior vice president of product management, at a media briefing during the Fully Connected event. CoreWeave said Forge, available today, unifies existing products with new software into a stack for training, inference, evaluation, observability, and agent development. The platform is built around an “AI loop”: deploying models and agents, observing and evaluating them, and using results to drive continuous improvement. CoreWeave also introduced a partner network that provides validated integrations with ecosystem vendors. Early partners include VAST Data, CrowdStrike, and ClickHouse. On hardware, CoreWeave is in the early phases of making Nvidia’s Vera CPU for AI agents available to customers, with some early access underway and broader testing...

Afterwards, the probe flew to Venus and passed by the planet in August last year. That takes us to Monday, September 29, when it returned home once more to perform an exquisite maneuver around Earth. The spacecraft received a boost of 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) per second and was deflected by a 20° angle. “The flyby required ultra-precise navigation in real time. Thanks to our very careful planning, we used only a small amount of the propellant reserved for this flyby,” Angela Dietz, Juice’s Spacecraft Operations Manager, said in a statement. “This gives us more to use at Jupiter to carry out observations of the planet’s icy moons.” On approach to Earth, Juice's path had to be tweaked by just a tiny amount. There were six opportunities to light the thrusters, but only one was needed to nudge it onto the optimal trajectory around Earth, where ESA reports it flew 8640 kilometers (5370 miles) over the Indian Ocean. Less fuel spent means more flexibility when it comes to the science around Jupiter once Juice arrives at the Jovian system in a few years' time. This flyby was also a chance to test the craft's scientific instruments, though this isn't the...

Researchers from China, Europe, and the USA, including Dr. Stephan Spiekman, a paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and the University of Hohenheim, have described an exceptional specimen of the long-necked marine reptile Austronaga minuta. Although its ancestors lived on land, Austronaga had already developed sophisticated adaptations for life in the water by the Middle Triassic. The fossil is nearly complete and preserves not only most of the animal's skeleton, but also large portions of its digestive system. Using modern analytical techniques, researchers identified several internal organs, including the stomach, liver and intestines. It is the oldest known example of a largely complete digestive system preserved in a reptile. The findings have been published in Science Advances. A Small Reptile Built for Life at Sea Long-necked marine reptiles were common in the seas covering parts of what is now China during the Triassic period, and scientists have discovered fossils of several different species. Even so, the newly studied Austronaga minuta specimen stands out. The animal measured only about 60 centimeters in length, yet it had an unusually elongated neck and tail. Its anatomy shows that it was already highly specialized for swimming. The long tail likely provided...

The JYY Group hosted the 2026 Malaysian Trigona Honey Scientific Symposium, bringing together representatives from government, academia, research institutions, industry, retail and the consumer sector to explore the next chapter for Malaysian Trigona Honey. The symposium was officiated by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Datuk Chan Foong Hin, alongside Director-General of the Department of Agriculture Malaysia, Datuk Nor Sam, researchers from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), and representatives from the Trigona Honey industry. Through the symposium, JYY Group aims to establish a cross-sector platform that can bring greater scientific validation and international recognition to Malaysian Trigona Honey. The Group believes its potential extends beyond its traditional positioning as a wellness food, with opportunities to build a distinct Malaysian Trigona category and ecosystem through scientific research, quality standards, sustainable beekeeping, modern product innovation and stronger market development. In his speech, Chan said, “Malaysia is blessed with high-quality natural resources such as Trigona Honey, but bringing them to the world requires strong scientific research, quality standards, responsible production and industry participation. The Government will continue to support research and innovation, commercialisation and market development so that more high-quality Malaysian agricultural products...

By Stefan J. Bos Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched nearly 190 drones and missiles against Ukraine overnight, killing at least five people, including a child, across the country. Kyiv and the surrounding region were among the main targets, with energy infrastructure hit. Ukraine said it intercepted five missiles and more than 150 drones. Russia confirmed carrying out the attacks, saying it targeted facilities supporting Ukraine’s military, including energy and port infrastructure. Attacks spread beyond Ukraine The strikes also caused concern beyond Ukraine’s borders. Poland and Romania scrambled fighter jets, while Moldova said a Russian drone entered its airspace and exploded on its territory. There were no immediate reports of casualties. However, Ukraine also continued its own long-range attacks inside Russia. Russian authorities said one person was killed in the Bryansk border region, while Ukrainian drones also targeted the Samara region, an important center for Russia’s oil industry. Ukraine has increasingly attacked Russian refineries, fuel depots and other energy infrastructure in an effort to undermine Moscow’s war effort. Russia threatens NATO The latest exchanges came as tensions between Russia and the NATO military alliance were also rising sharply. Moscow warned NATO that Russia could use nuclear weapons if the...