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Friday, 6 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.
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.
The US midterm results showed how unpopular Donald Trump's Iran war is.
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Asia-Pacific markets slide after Wall Street rout There were some dramatic scenes in Asia-Pacific stock markets today.
Thousands gathered on the Valle-Coche highway in Caracas to welcome opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado, who had returned to Venezuela after 16 months in hiding and 10 months in exile.
Thousands of people took to the Valle-Coche highway in Caracas to welcome the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado, who returned to Venezuela after 16 months in hiding and ten months in exile.
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Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.With global warming set to exceed 1.5°C, adaptation finance falls far short of needs, implementation is constrained by institutional barriers, and losses and damages are mounting, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Faktoje is a respected member of the international fact-checking community Originally published on Global Voices Since October 27, at least 20 online media outlets and social media accounts in Albania have been waging a coordinated attack against the staff of fact-checking media service Faktoje Center,
Using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), an international team led by Leiden University has produced the sharpest and most sensitive radio image of the sky ever made at low radio frequencies.
Many potential factors for the population declines have been cited, but a potentially significant threat to pollinator health—environmental antibiotic pollution from agricultural sources—has been largely overlooked, according to a new article published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
As packaging materials and films, they account for approximately half of our plastic consumption.
The dollar closed in high and the stock market ended in fall on Thursday (5), in a post marked by increased aversion to risk in international markets.
O dólar fechou em alta e a bolsa encerrou em queda nesta quinta-feira (5), em um pregão marcado pelo aumento da aversão ao risco nos mercados internacionais.
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One example is the growing presence of Hyalomma ticks in parts of Europe where they were previously uncommon.
Asian markets plunged Friday, tracking a sell-off in Western stocks following the US midterm elections.
Featuring Bollywood stars Ranbir Kapoor and Yash, the multi-million epic brings together Indian storytelling and Hollywood expertise in a bid to captivate audiences worldwide.
For the first time in 60 years, Democrats will have a trifecta in Arizona, opening the door for reform of the state’s groundwater laws and climate policies.
The new law is aimed at deepening international cooperation on the issue and safeguarding China's sovereignty and security.
Despite global iPad shipments dropping 27.5% year-over-year in the third calendar quarter, Apple maintained its lead in the tablet market, according to a new report released today.
Former England international Nathan Hughes will make his return to international rugby in Fiji's test against France
According to a new report from Counterpoint Research, Apple just recorded its highest-ever global smartphone revenue for a third calendar quarter.
Human societies could lose the ability to respond to worsening climate change, scientists have warned.
Germany and Japan have reaffirmed their commitment to advancing fusion energy through cooperation following German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to Tokyo on October 28, 2026.
On this week’s Friday Wrap-Up, Marthe Skaar catches up with Nicolai Tangen, joining from New York, to break down his podcast conversation with John Ketchum, CEO of NextEra Energy. They discuss how AI is driving a surge in demand for power, why nuclear and batteries are becoming more important, and the fund’s first direct investment in battery storage. Nicolai also shares his plans for his month in New York, and how he keeps his focus on the long term when the news gets noisy. Tune in! Listen to In Good Company with John Ketchum, CEO of NextEra Energy: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/next
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Sentinel Bio co-founder and managing director Joshua Monrad joins Nathan Labenz to examine the evolving biosecurity risks posed by frontier artificial intelligence and autonomous agents. Drawing on recent in-lab uplift trials and multimodal troubleshooting benchmarks, Monrad explains how emerging models are rapidly dismantling tacit-knowledge barriers in wet labs. He analyzes potential governance interventions ranging from pathogen training-data filtering to DNA synthesis screening as robotics development looms as the final physical bottleneck. With biological tools advancing toward dual-use d
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
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