Contemplatives down the centuries have expressed a sense of unity with the All That Is, the Heart Mind of the Universe, whatever we want to call it. The words may be different, but the sense of non du...

Google has been ordered to temporarily stop work on two datacentres in Finland after failing to do the necessary environmental impact assessments on its construction sites. The planned datacentres in Muhos and Kajanni are part of a €13bn (£11bn) project across multiple sites in northern Finland by the technology company amid huge demand for space to house online infrastructure. It comes after it emerged that Tuike Finland Oy, the company representing Google, had felled 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest in Muhos without completing an environmental impact assessment (EIA). In Kajaani, the company has reportedly been logging across just under 200 hectares (494 acres) of land. The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation said the sites had been reduced to “sand”, blaming the oversights on the “overheated” market for new datacentres. On Tuesday, the Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority (LVV) said it had issued a notice to the company to “immediately suspend” – by 23 October at the latest – “preparatory measures that significantly change the environment” of the two sites until the environmental impact assessment had been completed. Google has until next Wednesday to submit a written explanation. The EIA is ongoing and expected to be completed later this year...

Community organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback.

MAGA figures erupted Tuesday over a report that the FBI monitored Melania and Barron Trump’s travel and tapped future White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ phone during its investigation of Presiden...

"We are a collective of artists making art to bring forth the second renaissance. We are alchemists. We create a new world through our work. We are the bridge between the dying past and the future unb...

FBI counterintelligence squads have dropped to as little as half strength in many field offices as Director Kash Patel steers the bureau toward the crime and immigration promises President Donald Trum...

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Tyler Lee didn’t need to read a national report to know that the way his family has ranched cattle on the west side of Lake Manitoba comes from somewhere older than any government program. “A lot of traditional Métis land practices came from paying attention to the land, the animals, the seasons and what was happening around you, then adjusting as needed,” said Lee, a Red River Métis rancher and owner of Mossy Rock Cattle Co. That same idea sits at the centre of a new report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) called Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Food Sovereignty, which argues that Indigenous knowledge systems and healthy food systems are so closely linked that one cannot be strengthened without the other. It also posits that Canadian agriculture and food policy has a long way to go before it treats that knowledge as equal to western science, rather than simply adding it to the pile. The report was commissioned by the federal government’s Indigenous Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (I-STEM) Cluster and produced by an eight-member expert panel chaired by Treena Wasonti:io Delormier, Kanienke’há:ka (Mohawk) from the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawá:ke and associate professor in the School of Human...

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

But what if you knew you were not alone in caring about the crises our planet faces? What if you knew that almost everyone in our culture cares about this, they just don't know what to do about it? Th...

An FBI whistleblower has revealed how Trump’s White House pushed for an investigation that violated protesters’ constitutional rights.

A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.

The earliest definitive animal fossils date to roughly 560 million years ago. But because these organisms are already multicellular and somewhat complex (despite lacking some trivial things like a mouth or gut), their true origin is thought to be older still. However, researchers hunting for fossils of these more ancient animals have so far come up empty handed. That's despite some fossil sites showing exceptional preservation that should, in theory, have captured any simple animals that were swimming about. One of these is a site in China known as the Doushantuo Formation, which contains an assemblage called the Weng’an Biota. Dating back around 590 million years, it preserves an incredible snapshot of microscopic marine organisms in three dimensions. And yet, despite the near-perfect level of preservation, there is no evidence of animal life. This has been used to argue that animals must have evolved during the 30-million-year gap between the Weng’an Biota and the first definitive animal fossils. Now, however, new evidence from a fossil assemblage in Mongolia called the Kheseen Biota is challenging that interpretation. Like Weng’an, the Kheseen assemblage contains an astonishing array of well-preserved marine organisms without a single animal fossil. But there is one key difference:...

Cupla Focal!  (Irish Gaelic for 'A Couple of Words')  - so here are a couple of words and then a few more: what happens when the Fires in our Hearts become tsunamis of feeling that take us beyond the ...

We talk a lot on this podcast about the need for a new system: politically, culturally, in business, media and art…in everything we do.  And yet, we don't often have the opportunity to talk with someo...

In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive.

" The first and most fundamental duty of a civilised state is the safety of its people.  Not just safety from overseas adversaries, or crime in the street. Economic security. A bill you can pay withou...

"When we build, we first remove the soil and replace it with rubble, concrete and tarmac. When we grow, we exclude all life from the land bar the one crop we want. Where we belatedly recognise our ult...

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The ship's captain was killed in the strike involving two drones, Zelensky said, and another sailor was unaccounted for. Eleven crew members - nationals of Azerbaijan and India - have been rescued. Romania said it had mounted a rescue mission after "a fire on the ship Royad Mammadov" outside the country's territorial waters. It said two people had died. Russia has not commented, but its defence ministry earlier said it had struck two cargo vessels. Russia has been pounding Ukrainian infrastructure in what it says is retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries and ships in the Black Sea. He did not give the location of the ship, but Romania's interior ministry said it had sunk about 30 nautical miles south of its port of Sfantu Gheorghe. "At around 11:00 (09:00 GMT), Coast Guard border police officers were informed that a fire had broken out on board a commercial vessel located within Romania's exclusive economic zone," the ministry said in a statement. "Eleven crew members have been rescued. Two deceased persons have also been identified," it added. Ukraine's president said he had "repeatedly proposed concrete steps to de-escalate the situation and ensure security in the Black Sea" - and...