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‘Hotter and hotter and hotter’ – Europe’s new climate in seven charts
Temperature records have tumbled across the UK and Europe as scientists warn it is a sign of things to come.
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UK temperatures forecast to exceed 30C as another heatwave imminent
Another heatwave is on its way and set to last significantly longer as Stav Danaos explains.
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Scientist dubbed The Bogfather is restoring peatland to fight climate change
A childhood fascination with bogs led one Welsh scientist to try and help save the planet.
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Woke NYC mayor’s wife seen boarding carbon-belching flight to MALLORCA after he urged locals to keep air con at 78F during 100F heatwave
Rama Duwaji, 29, was seen preparing to board a long-haul flight on Friday, despite her socialist husband Zohran Mamdani ordering New Yorkers to set their AC’s to 78 degrees amid a heatwave.
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Record-breaking temps in US as 4th July holiday begins
Record-breaking heatwave hits US as Fourth of July holiday weekend gets underway.
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NBA tests single free throw attempt at Summer League as sport pushes for a faster game
Adam Silver has openly advocated for shorter quarters already used in the G League, and now another G League experiment hits Summer League courts.
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Well, Professor Pippin Barr, you’ve done it again: you’ve ruined chess
Back in 2019, experimental game developer and actual university professor Pippin Barr released a browser game consisting of eight, very silly variations on chess – a flagrant assault on the dignity of a strategy experience whose roots go back a thousand years, which Barr justified as an effort to “allow non-players of chess to get…
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Tish Murtha and Kuba Ryniewicz review – pit closures and cuddly pets struggle for connection
Baltic, GatesheadClose to Home pairs the two artists’ contrasting visions of the pursuit of happiness in north-east England. There are many good things but they don’t add upIn Tish Murtha’s Youth Unemployment series, shot in Newcastle between 1979 and 1981, young men slouch and smile, cigarettes hanging from their fingertips as they study a hand…
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Washington Post throws cold water on DC fireworks with report of ‘hazardous air pollution’
Internal National Park Service documents project hazardous PM2.5 levels from 850,000 fireworks shells launched across 10 sites on the National Mall.
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Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs
At the event “The Briefing: AI for Science” earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new “AI workbench for scientists” that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around what it…