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Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

US district judge orders temporary lifting of Trump’s ban on the three media outlets, saying it was likely unconstitutional A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore ⁠White House ⁠access ​to journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico, ⁠saying his ban on the three media outlets was ⁠likely unconstitutional. US district judge Tim Kelly issued his order in a lawsuit that the news organizations filed ‌contesting the ban that the president announced ​on 18 September. Continue reading...

António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation

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

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

Experts warn of a global surge in PFAS production driven by AI and data centers.

Evoking emotions is more likely to prompt people to engage with climate efforts than are data alone.

What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality

Pointless obstruction by governments over publishing scientific climate evaluation is threatening crucial work

In two-hour address, president asked voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate Donald Trump said every adult citizen in the US will receive a dividend of $5,000 if Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections, while delivering a historically long convention speech in Dallas in which the president assailed Democrats as radical communists and defended his unpopular war in Iran. “If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000,” Trump told the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday, claiming the payment was possible “because of our tremendous strength and success economically”. Continue reading...

They’re going to do something good? Is this a joke?

Researchers urge governments to help worst afflicted countries, such as Nigeria and Algeria, which rely on oil revenues for public services Conflict, migration and economic upheaval will accompany the global move away from oil, unless governments act urgently to help the worst afflicted countries to cope, research has found. Nigeria, Iran, Angola and Algeria are among the countries that will be severely affected, as they rely strongly on oil revenues for their government and provision of public services, but have little diversification and too little capital to cushion the blow. Continue reading...

The atmospheric methane plateau can be explained by tropical hydroxyl radical enhancement primarily driven by a global rise and spatial redistribution of nitrogen oxides emissions towards developing regions and the oceans.

It’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.

Trump believes in a world in which there are no allies, only satellites, and in which power is America’s alone to wield

A bill proposing a cap on donations is up for debate this week. We must seize this chance to keep big money out of our politics, says MP Stella Creasy

Organisers say people must revive spiritual relationship with food amid double threat of climate crisis and conflict Mending the broken food system under the threat of climate-driven weather extremes will require more than economic fixes and intensive agriculture, and the world must revive its spiritual relationship with food, according to the organisers of a pioneering summit this week. Delegates from more than 60 countries and the UN will gather for the next five days in Paro, in the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan, for the world’s first “conscious food summit”, which will bring together governments and farmers, mindfulness experts and yoga therapists. Continue reading...

PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour

People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns wildfires could accelerate release of methane and carbon as vast regions approach irreversible thresholds

People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own homes, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy?

npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model