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Hegseth Bars Bearded Troops From Air Force Event

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Pete Hegseth appears to have found a great workaround for racial integration at military events: When the rules won’t allow you to put up a “No Coloreds” sign, you can just ban soldiers with shaving waivers instead. The Pentagon boss—who now insists on being called the “Secretary of War”—is refusing entry to servicemen with beards […]

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“I Was Contaminated”: New Study Reveals Widespread Pesticide Exposure

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Khoji Wesselius has noticed the oily scent of pesticides during spraying periods when the wind has blown through his tiny farming village in a rural corner of the Netherlands. Now, after volunteering in an experiment to count […]

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Jamaica Cowers as Category 5 Melissa Bears Down, Supercharged by Warming Seas

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. History is unfolding in the Atlantic Ocean right now. Hurricane Melissa has spun up into an extraordinarily dangerous Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph, and is set to strike Jamaica Monday night before marching toward Cuba. This […]

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To Save Madagascar’s One-of-a-Kind Ecosystems, You Have to Feed the People First

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  The coral reef itself was exquisite. Growing about 3 miles offshore in 50 feet of water, it was a rugged terrain of pinks, blues, and oranges, set against a backdrop of deep blue. The coral pieces, each a colony of […]

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Devastated by Israel, Gaza Faces an Environmental Crisis “Above Imagination”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over two years of nearly incessant bombardment, Israeli forces have killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, at least a third of whom are children. The human toll has been called genocide by human rights organizations around the world and by a UN commission, but a new […]

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This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It has been 10 years since countries signed on to the Paris Agreement, and emissions and temperatures continue to reach new highs, fueling unprecedented weather disasters around the globe. Meanwhile, the shift to clean energy is facing powerful […]

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The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

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“The problem is the export license, huh? For this we can find a…a way.” It was early June and Guenther Rudolph was in an expansive mood. Sharp-suited, relaxed, and charming, he was standing in a booth in Prague’s Clarion Congress Hotel. Every year the Clarion hosts an exclusive gathering: the premier get-together of the surveillance […]

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Is America Contagious? 

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In late September, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced a crackdown on a relatively new foe: antifa, which he said would be designated as a “terrorist organization.” This was, on its face, ridiculous, given that antifa is an ideology, not an organization, and not one that Orbán has previously spent much time denouncing. But the move […]

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If You Want to Stay Healthy and Care About Humanity, Here’s What to Eat

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This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report. The diet—which allows moderate meat consumption—and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by […]

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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

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This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just west of Fort Qu’Appelle in Saskatchewan, the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive centuries-old trade routes as part of a new Indigenous-governed trade corridor.  Trucks from the First Nation could soon be […]

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The Joke’s On You at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Any writer worth a damn will tell you that writing short is often a lot harder than writing long. You have to get the pacing, the structure, and the tone just right, but when it hits, it really hits. Capturing something essential about the modern world in 80,000 words is an accomplishment. The Riyadh Comedy […]

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Trump’s Argentina Bailout Enriches One Well-Connected US Billionaire

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This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a $20 billion package to rescue the Argentinian economy. The risky taxpayer-financed deal, which involves trading US dollars for Argentine pesos, has little upside for ordinary Americans. Argentina is not a significant US trading partner, and its […]

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