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Government won’t support Arctic climate report
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story NOAA pulls support from Arctic Report Card The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is pulling its support from an Arctic climate and environment report it has helped with in the past. © AP Photo/Mark Thiessen Rick Thoman, lead editor for the 2026 Arctic…
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Jellyfish Swarm Overwhelms Nuclear Power Plant For The Second Time In 2 Years
Climate change will likely make similar events more common, scientists warned.
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NOAA pulls support from Arctic climate report
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is pulling its support from an Arctic climate and environment report it has helped with in the past. Rick Thoman, lead editor for the 2026 Arctic Report Card, said that participants were informed Monday that they would no longer receive assistance from the government agency. “We were informed…
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Watch: Severe storms overturn vehicle and trigger flooding in Ohio
Footage from the Ohio Department of Transportation captured a powerful storm sweeping through Columbus, flipping a vehicle as severe weather battered central Ohio. No injuries were reported in the incident caught on camera, but the wider storm system brought strong winds, heavy rain and flooding that caused widespread damage and at least one fatality across…
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Cinema Civil War: Why the Paramount-Warner Bros. Sale Is Dividing Movie Theater Owners
Movie theatre owners are publicly split over Paramount’s proposed $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, with the industry’s main lobbying body, Cinema United, at odds with its own two biggest members. Cinema United president Michael O’Leary has spent months opposing the deal, warning it could lead to fewer films and theatre closures, but AMC…
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Cornyn raises concerns about Trump move to build border wall in national park
Republican Sen. John Cornyn is raising concerns about the Trump administration’s construction of a border wall through national and state parks in his state. In a letter released on Tuesday, Cornyn warned that the border barrier’s construction could disrupt natural beauty, indigenous sites, wildlife and tourism at Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park,…
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10 Forgotten Thrillers That Are Perfect To Watch in 2026
An article from Collider recommends ten lesser-known thriller films worth revisiting in 2026, arguing that streaming algorithms tend to bury older, high-quality titles in favour of newer content. The piece frames itself as a starting point for cinephiles looking to expand beyond commonly recommended classics, spanning decades of the genre from the 1930s through to…
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Trump says Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax for million dollar homes a ‘dangerous political experiment’
President Trump on Tuesday went after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) attempt to tax second homes worth over $5 million. Trump called the proposed “pied-à-terre” tax a “dangerous political ‘experiment'” in a Tuesday Truth Social post. The president’s comments came after a Staten Island, N.Y., judge temporarily halted the tax’s rollout, also ordering…
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Ten Ways to Die Happy review – gameshow invites you to don a robe and treasure time
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh Audience members are invited to examine what they will do with their lives in this earnest shared thought experiment If you could hold the years of your life in your hands like coins, would you choose to spend them differently? This is the thoughtful, earnest tone of Ten Ways to Die…
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Authors face backlash for participation in 2022 Google AI study
Thirteen professional authors, including science-fiction writers Ken Liu and Robin Sloan, are facing online backlash after their participation in a 2022 Google research study resurfaced on social media. The Wordcraft Writers Workshop, run by Google’s DeepMind division, asked the writers to trial an AI-assisted editing tool built on the LaMDA language model, the predecessor to…