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Thursday, 5 November 2026
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Rokiatu Traoré, president of a social enterprise in Mali that uses agroforestry to restore degraded land and create jobs for women and youths, has been named a Changemaker at the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Action Awards.
The PREMIER project, a public-private European consortium of research organizations (like Radboud University) and international pharmaceutical companies, has launched a new database to support the environmental risk assessment (ERA) of human pharmaceuticals.
| Photo by Kevin Carter / Getty Images It's the year 2026 and the Federal Aviation Administration is still running critical pieces of American airspace on 3.5-inch magnetic floppy disks.
Vieira de Almeida (VdA) and CS’Associados advised on the refinancing operation of the entire senior debt of the Douro Interior Sub-Concessionary (SDI), with a total amount of around EUR 450 million.
A Vieira de Almeida (VdA) e a CS’Associados assessoraram a operação de refinanciamento da totalidade da dívida sénior da Subconcessionária do Douro Interior (SDI), no montante global de cerca de 450 milhões de euros.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.On the southern coast of Argentina, in the waters of a sanctuary that covers 3,000 sq km, giant petrels soar on the gusty winds while humpback whales, South American fur sea lions and Magellanic penguins feed and breed.
Fifteen years ago I wrote an article about “networked authoritarianism,” describing China as “exhibit A” for how an authoritarian state adapts to the internet and then adapts digital technologies to increase its own power.
CSA/Joshua Kutryk City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct.
Credit: SpaceX Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station.
The Powerful Economics Behind Global Supply Chains.
After a 16-year journey, last year Ghana became the first African country to earn a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) license.
Abreu Advogados advised Pure Planet, S.A., a company owned by Geronimo Martins, Visabeira and Black & Blue groups, on the acquisition of the total social capital of RDUZ – Global Waste Management, S.A., a Portuguese operator specializing in the collection, transport, sorting and recovery of waste,
A Abreu Advogados assessorou a Pure Planet, S.A., sociedade detida pelos grupos Jerónimo Martins, Visabeira e Black & Blue, na aquisição da totalidade do capital social da RDUZ – Gestão Global de Resíduos, S.A., operador português especializado na recolha, transporte, triagem e valorização de resíduos,
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.In this episode, Shayle speaks with Mike Alkin, founder and chief investment officer at Sachem Cove Partners, to unpack the full nuclear fuel cycle: from mining and yellowcake to conversion, enrichment, and fabrication.
With the US midterms over, Democrats are turning to what could become one of their most crowded and unpredictable presidential primaries in decades – a 2028 contest likely to expose the party's divide over how to win back the White House.
Also, do the midterm results signal the end of the MAGA woman and the "Mar-a-Lago face"?
As sea levels creep higher in the Pacific, salt leaches into the soil and reduces the land available to grow food.
Winner of KPMG’s Global Tech Innovator 2026 competition, Lampsy Health created a medical lamp to monitor nocturnal seizures of epilepsy with 99% accuracy and alert caregivers in their own homes.
Vencedora da competição “Global Tech Innovator 2026” da KPMG, a Lampsy Health criou um candeeiro médico para monitorizar as crises noturnas de epilepsia com 99% de precisão e alertar os cuidadores nas suas próprias casas.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.New high-resolution speleothem records from China and India, together with isotope-enabled climate models, show that abrupt glacial ocean circulation recoveries took centuries, not decades—a finding with important implications for how we assess future Atlantic circulation change.
Latin America is heading to this year’s UN climate summit with less political backing for the agenda it pushed a year ago in Brazil.
On Tuesday night, Democrats made history as they took control of the House and the Senate, and a blue wave swept through traditionally red and swing states - with the nation's first Black woman governor elected in Georgia, the country's first Native American woman governor
Portugal superstar Ronaldo calls time on international career after a falling-out with head coach Jorge Jesus.
As Cristiano Ronaldo retires from international football, Guillem Balague looks at why and what is next for the Portugal legend.
Ronaldo, 41, ended an illustrious 23-year career that spanned six World Cups and six European Championships.
Print article Share The centrepiece of every UN climate summit is for countries to negotiate the wording of a large number of legal agreements – and COP31 in the Turkish city of Antalya is no different.
The US midterm results showed how unpopular Donald Trump's Iran war is.
First up on the podcast, people are buying consumer-grade brain wave detectors ostensibly to help with sleep, concentration, and meditation. But as freelance investigative journalist Jonathan Moens describes, companies are getting more than the price of the devices in the exchange—including training data for artificial intelligence models—in many cases without the consent of the user. Next on the show, we delve into the many uses for glucagonlike peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist drugs beyond reducing obesity. Host Sarah Crespi talks with one of the special issue editors, Yevgeniya Nusinovich, senior
This is an (unpaid) cross-post of an episode from the podcast NonZero, which Rob Wiblin thought you might be interested in. The originals are on the NonZero website: Part 1 and Part 2. If you like it and want more similar stuff in the future, consider subscribing to NonZero on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get podcasts. What will it take for Washington to slow down AI? Not better arguments, says Jeremie Harris, CEO of Gladstone AI and coauthor of a 2024 State Department–commissioned action plan on AI risk. He argues it will take an “AI Chernobyl”: a disaster so severe the president
Jev creator and TypeSafe AI co-founder, Diogo Almeida, joins Jacob Effron to talk about why AI still isn't automating the easy work it's been smart enough to do for years, and why he built a new class of model around reliability. Diogo coauthored OpenAI's InstructGPT paper and spent two years in stealth building Jev, a "system one" model that returns structured decisions instead of text, which launched in September. Diogo and Jacob discuss what the viral launch was really like, why he thought Jev would take a week and it took years, why almost every LLM call should be meant for a machine, and
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