• Who's Leading The Race To Mine The Deep Sea?

    Who's Leading The Race To Mine The Deep Sea? India has applied to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for two new licenses to explore parts of the Indian Ocean sea bed for minerals crucial to the green energy transition. If they are granted, India would hold four contracts, making it the country with the second highest number of active contracts for deep sea mining exploration projects in the world. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the following chart, based on ISA data,...

  • Battle over deep-sea mining heats up

    Greenpeace could be thrown out of the UN body overseeing deep-sea mining for obstructing a research expedition.

  • 'Barbie pigs' and 'unicumbers' among several bizarre, new species discovered at proposed site for deep-sea mining site in the Pacific

    Scientists catalogued new species in the 3-mile deep Clarion-Clipperton Zone. The CCZ, between Hawaii and Mexico, interests the deep-sea miners of battery metals needed for EVs

  • Havana syndrome: will we ever understand what happened? – podcast

    In late 2016, US officials in Cuba’s capital began experiencing a mysterious and often debilitating set of symptoms that came to be known as Havana syndrome. As two new studies into the condition are published, Ian Sample speaks to the Guardian’s world affairs editor, Julian Borger, who has been following the story, and to the consultant neurologist Prof Jon Stone, about what could be behind the conditionFollow all of Julian Borger’s reporting here Continue reading

  • Murphy’s Law: Associated Press Will Decline in Wisconsin

    Decision by Gannett and McClatchey to drop AP will reduce state news coverage.

  • ‘Euphoria’ Actor Doubts Season 3 Will Ever Happen

    Eddy Chen / HBOFans have been asking for the third season of Sam Levinson drama Euphoria for nearly two years, but rumors recently began swirling that the show has been canceled. This week, in a statement to Variety, an HBO spokesperson attempted to shut down the speculation, saying “HBO and Sam Levinson remain committed to making an exceptional third season,” but “in the interim, we are allowing our in-demand cast to pursue other opportunities.” Variety added that the scripts for Season 3 are...

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    Pinning ceremonies for Vietnam-era veterans will happen today and tomorrow

    In celebration of National Vietnam War Day, Jackson, Grand Rapids, and Detroit are hosting pinning ceremonies.

  • The readers' letters on what REALLY happens in care homes that will shock you to your core

    In an explosive piece in Saturday's Mail, Christopher Stevens recounted the horrific year his autistic adult son David spent in the Old Vicarage residential care home in Cardiff.

  • Will Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler Fight Happen In 2024?

    No matter what happens in the combat sports scene, there's one question that's always looming within the minds of the fans- when will Conor McGregor make his much awaited return to the Octagon? McGregor vs. Chandler- potentially the biggest fight of the year "The Notorious" has been out of action since breaking his leg in the Dustin Poirier trilogy fight back in July 2021 at UFC 264. A prolonged recovery phase was followed by speculations of his comeback, although nothing concrete has come up...

  • Province says graduations will happen; STF eyes path to bargaining table

    Saskatchewan’s education minister says graduations will take place this year, regardless of potential job sanctions. But what that looks like is something of a mystery, after Jeremy Cockrill was unable to provide many details of the government’s contingency plans during a news conference with the Saskatchewan School Boards Association (SSBA) on Thursday. “Government is going […]

  • Sinking shores and rising seas will inundate 24 US coastal cities

    This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Flooding could affect one out of every 50 residents in 24 coastal cities in the United States by 2050, a study led by Virginia Tech researchers suggests. The study, published this month in Nature, shows how the combination of land subsidence—in […]

  • A San Diego museum is selling its buildings. What will happen to the extraordinary art built into it?

    Two years after opening a $110-million expansion project in the tony seaside enclave of La Jolla, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has put its downtown exhibition facility on the market. The property, at 1100 Kettner Blvd., two blocks from the piers at San Diego Bay, consists of two structures, which opened to the art public in 2007. Exhibitions were held in the historic Santa Fe railroad baggage depot, built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition and now named for museum benefactors...