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Worldas fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decadeas end, report finds
The worldas fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.
There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global heating, above pre-industrial times, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has previously stated. Breaching this warming threshold, agreed to by governments in the Paris climate agreement, will see ever worsening effects such as heatwaves, floods, drought and more, scientists have warned.
Continue reading...Israeli PM had cancelled officialsa US visit to discuss planned offensive in southern Gaza after the US refused to veto a UN security council vote on a ceasefire
In the UK, pro-Palestine protesters have occupied the entrance to the governmentas trade department over its perceived links to the supply of arms to Israel, PA media reports.
London for a Free Palestine targeted the Department for Business and Trade early on Thursday.
Continue reading...Marine Engineersa Beneficial Association warned of the dangers of bigger cargo vessels and smaller crews not at par with US levels
A top labor union for maritime engineers has sounded the alarm against corporate profiteering in the wake of Tuesdayas cargo ship crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, claiming the industry is aprobably the worst offendera.
The Marine Engineersa Beneficial Association (Meba) warned of the dangers of growing vessels and shrinking crews a claiming that those from overseas are anot up to the standardsa required in the US.
Continue reading...Lieberman, Connecticut senator for four terms, was Al Goreas Democratic running mate in 2000
The former US senator Joe Lieberman, who ran as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in the 2000 election and became the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket for the White House, alongside presidential candidate Al Gore, has died at the age of 82.
Lieberman died in New York due to complications from a fall, according to a statement from his family. He was a Connecticut senator for four terms.
Continue reading...Kyivas forces shoot down 26 drones overnight as Russian president says suggestion of attacks on nearby Nato states is adrivela
The Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has restricted access to 11 channels in the Telegram messaging app awith terrorist contenta over the past two days, reports Reuters citing an article by the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti on Thursday.
Polandas prime minister on Thursday hosted his Ukrainian counterpart for long-awaited talks designed to ease friction over Ukrainian farm imports and border blockades by disgruntled Polish farmers, reports news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Continue reading...Deal to send hundreds of officers to Caribbean country amid spiraling gang violence is facing intense public and legal scrutiny
Haitias raging gang insurrection has prompted growing concern in Kenya over plans to deploy hundreds of paramilitary police officers from the East African country on a UN-backed multinational mission to counter the violence.
aIf they come back in body bags, what will [Kenyan President William Ruto] tell the nation?a said Ekuru Aukot, leader of the opposition Thirdway Alliance, who last year filed a legal challenge against the deployment.
Continue reading...Rockford police chief says one person remains in critical condition following attacks, as investigators seek motive
Four people were killed and seven were hurt in stabbings in northern Illinois on Wednesday, authorities said.
A suspect is in police custody and was being questioned, according to the police chief in Rockford, Carla Redd. She said one of the people who was wounded remained in critical condition.
Continue reading...The Israeli-Americanas book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, was a worldwide bestseller with revolutionary ideas about human error and bias
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioural economics that heavily influenced the discipline, and won him a Nobel prize, has died at age 90.
Kahneman, who wrote bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, argued against the notion that peopleas behaviour is rooted in a rational decision-making process a rather that it is often based on instinct.
Continue reading...Judge recommends John Eastman, facing 11 disciplinary charges, lose his California law license over efforts to keep Trump in power
A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election.
Eastman, a former law school dean, faces 11 disciplinary charges in the state bar court stemming from his development of a legal strategy to have then vice president Mike Pence interfere with the certification of Joe Bidenas victory.
Continue reading...Patients taking certain progestogens as a contraceptive or for gynaecological conditions may be more likely to develop growths, researchers say
Millions of women around the world who use certain hormone drugs for contraception and to manage conditions such as endometriosis may have a raised risk of rare, usually benign, brain tumours, researchers say.
Scientists found that prolonged use of certain progestogen medications was linked to a greater risk of meningioma, which are tumours (usually noncancerous) that form in tissues around the brain.
Continue reading...Too often cemeteries for enslaved people have been all but erased from history but how we remember matters
For archeologists, what defines people as human is how we bury our dead. Imagine, then, a society that relegates a whole community as legally inhuman, enslaved with no rights. In spite of slavery, African burial grounds are tangible reminders of the enslaved and free a defying oppressive circumstances by reclaiming peopleas humanity through acts of remembrance.
When I first visited the British overseas territory of St Helena in 2018 and saw the burial ground in Rupertas Valley, I was astounded by its size and significance. It unambiguously placed the island at the centre of the Middle Passage a tying the British empire to the institution of slavery in the US, the Caribbean, and globally.
Continue reading...Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in Indiaas sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay a often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away
Sonu has one clear instruction from his boss: when you see an outsider, run. In the two years since he started working full time, he has had to run only twice. Sonu is eight years old. His mother, Anita, said that almost every time an outsider comes to their village of Budhpura, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, she receives a phone call telling her not to bring Sonu to work. aOnly adults go to work on those days,a said the 40-year-old, cradling her youngest child, who is three.
Sonu and his mother work eight hours a day, usually six days a week, making small paving stones, many of which are exported to the UK, North America and Europe. Sonu began working after his father died of the lung disease silicosis in 2021. aFirst, he made five stones, then 10, and then he quit school to work full-time,a his mother said. The pair sit on a street close to their home, amid heaps of sandstone rubble, chiselling rocks into rough cubes of rugged stone. Sonu is paid one rupee a less than a penny a for each cobblestone he produces. These stones have a retail value of about APS80 a square metre in the UK.
Continue reading...Les Jeux Olympiques: Miroir des SociA(c)tA(c)s opens ahead of Paris Olympics and puts previous games in context of conflicts and injustices
From the Nazi stadium propaganda in 1936 Berlin to the 1968 Mexico City podium protest of medal-winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were expelled from the competition after raising their gloved fists in a Black Power salute against racial injustice, the Olympic Games have held a mirror up to some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history.
Now, as the Paris Olympics prepares to open this summer against a backdrop of war from Ukraine to the Middle East a with Emmanuel Macron saying Russia will be asked to observe a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Games a a new exhibition in Paris takes an unflinching look at the social and geopolitical impact of the Games over the last century.
Continue reading...In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons a an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
Nick Cave has a touch of Dr Frankenstein about him a long, white lab coat, inscrutable smile, unnerving intensity. He introduces me to his two assistants, the identical twins Liv and Dom Cave-Sutherland, who are helping to glaze his ceramics series, The Devil a A Life. The twins are not related to Cave. His wife, the fashion designer Susie Cave, came across them one day, discovered they were ceramicists and thought they would be able to help him complete his project. It adds to the eeriness of it all.
Cave, 66, is one of the worldas great singer-songwriters a from the howling post-punk of the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds to the lugubrious lyricism of his love songs (Into My Arms, Straight to You and a million others I adore) and the haunted grief of recent albums such as Skeleton Tree, Ghosteen and Carnage. He is also a fine author (see his apocalyptic novel And the Ass Saw the Angel), thinker (his book of conversations with the Observer journalist Sean OaHagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage), agony uncle (at his website, the Red Hand Files), screenwriter (The Proposition) and now visual artist. Which is where he started out half a century ago.
aThese losses are incorporated into the artistic flowa a| Caveas sculptures go through the glazing process. Photograph: courtesy of Liv & Dom
Continue reading...A group of hospitals in Germany serve up a menu rich in plants and light in animals a and say they have had few complaints
Patrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But 25 years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that.
From an industrial park on the outskirts of Berlin, Burrichter and his team cook for a dozen hospitals that offer patients a aplanetary healtha diet a one that is rich in plants and light in animals. Compared with the typical diet in Germany, known for its bratwurst sausage and doner kebab, the 13,000 meals they rustle up each day are better for the health of people and the planet.
Continue reading...In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rockanaroll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond a but couldnat corner Charlie Watts
Continue reading...While France and England are among the favourites, Austria could spring a surprise
This was not a vintage window for Didier Deschampsa side with a home defeat against Germany followed up by a shaky 3-2 win against Chile in Marseille. The captain, Kylian MbappA(c), had a difficult few days and the absence of Antoine Griezmann, who missed his first France games for seven years because of injury, was clearly felt. There were positives, however, with the 18-year-old Warren ZaA-re-Emery having a good game against Germany and Randal Kolo Muani scoring and assisting against Chile. Deschamps made nine changes for the second game with William Saliba getting a rare start in Marseille, even though the coach had said beforehand that the Arsenal player adoes things he doesnat likea. Still the team to beat. Marcus Christenson
Continue reading...Experts say the hybrids risk apollutinga the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litter
From the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italyas Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this was not a wolf at all, but a hybrid wolfdog a the first to be seen so far into Piedmontas alpine region. And where one hybrid is found, more are sure to follow.
aWe thought he would go away,a says Elisa Ramassa, a park ranger in Gran Bosco who has tracked the local wolves for 25 years. aUnfortunately, he found a female who loves blonds.a
Elisa Ramassa and fellow ranger Massimo Rosso search for wolf tracks in Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park
Continue reading...From picking a perfect fragrance to spraying your radiators and getting rid of the worst stinks, here is how to make sure your life always smells sweet
From a fancy fragrance to a simple bowl of oranges, scent can transform how you feel about yourself, another person or a place. But how can you work out what suits the moment? And the best way to get rid of a stink? Perfumers reveal how to make your world smell fantastic.
1. Smell is an extreme sensation
aScent provokes a visceral reaction,a says Ezra-Lloyd Jackson, a perfumer and artist who makes wearable fragrances under the brand name deya and creates scent installations for art exhibitions. What fascinates him about working with scent is the process of transforming asomething that is grotesque or alarming into something that is familiar and comforting, or vice versaa.
2. Your reaction to a smell is linked to memory
Maya Njie makes perfumes inspired by her Swedish and Gambian heritage. She tried to capture this feeling in other artistic forms before realising that what she really wanted was to portray the way it smelled. aWe know that our sense of smell is directly linked to the part of the brain where our memories are stored,a she says. aSo it makes a lot of sense that fragrance and smells are connected to our memories. If you smell something that someone has worn, or you go to a house that belongs to your grandparents, smelling makes you feel way more emotional than a photo ever could.a Jackson describes this as ainternal time travel. It is another form of communication that isnat linguistic.a
3. It is possible to train your nose
aThat is what perfume is all about,a says Jackson. He didnat have a very orthodox route into perfumery: aI went straight into a laboratory and got to work, but most people will train at one of the schools in France, where the first year is all about learning 500 smells.a Brighton-based French perfumer Elodie Durande, who works for Somerset label Ffern, honed her craft at the University of Montpellier. aYou start out by working on your olfactory skills, remembering smells and describing smells,a before receiving a wide-ranging education about the perfume industry, she says.
A new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century life
The women gather in a circle, talking intensely and unselfconsciously, their attention passing from one animated face to another as the conversation darts around the group. They seem completely unaware, from a window above the courtyard where theyare chatting, the artist Jacques Jordaens is sketching them in quick red chalk and brown ink.
It is 1659, Antwerp, and, according to Jordaensa scribbled note at the bottom of the paper, these so-called agossip auntsa are discussing local political adisturbancesa a perhaps the recent strike of the paintersa guild. aItas a snapshot of daily life that you donat usually see,a says An Van Camp, the curator of Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings at Oxfordas Ashmolean Museum.
Continue reading...Readers share their thoughts on maintaining the world of DVDs and Blu-rays after a feature looking exploring the phenomenon
At home we have been getting into the habit, when we identify (a knack in itself!) a show or movie we are confident we will want to re-watch, of ordering an inexpensive DVD copy.
Continue reading...After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, promoting the 2020 stolen election lie has become a litmus test for loyalty
If youare seeking employment at the Republican National Committee (RNC), youare likely to be asked in your job interview if you believe the 2020 election was stolen. And if you say no, well, you might as well seek a job with George Santos.
After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, agreeing to the false claim has become a kind of litmus test for gaining employment a no less than itas become a litmus test for running for public office as a Republican.
Continue reading...If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didnat show it
Later today, a man who has recently turned 32 will be hauled in front of a Manhattan judge. Already convicted of huge fraud, he knows heas going to prison. The only question is for how long. If the US government gets its way, he will not emerge before his 80th birthday.
This is the final disgrace of Sam Bankman-Fried. The judge, politicians and the worldas press will declare him one of the biggest swindlers in American history. They will note how within three years he built a marketplace for digital currencies, or crypto, that was worth around $32bn a and made himself the worldas richest person under 30. Still it wasnat enough. He spent perhaps $8bn of his customersa savings on luxury homes, risky investments and whatever else took his fancy.
Continue reading...Donald Tusk is working hard and fast on a great transformation, but travel the country and itas clear what a difficult task that is
My formative journalistic years were spent reporting on the final freeze of the cold war a days of hard times and soft currencies. When I return to those countries now, I test myself on how well I guessed what would follow in the three decades since. On Poland in particular, I would have been hard pressed to predict the giddy zigzag of power still featuring a generation who marched to topple communism, but whose protagonists feud bitterly about how to govern the country in the 21st century.
We talk a lot about places that have recently bought a one-way ticket towards authoritarian politics a Russia and Turkey for the full-fat versions, and Hungaryas democratic backsliding and stifling of independent institutions.
Continue reading...The way musicians are compensated is highly unfair. A new bill in the US Congress could fix that a and itas about time
Many of the younger musicians I know a musicians in the full flush of their career a donat see a path forward toward making a living. These arenat artists failing to connect with a public; on the contrary, they are releasing widely reviewed albums, going on tours and communicating (constantly) with their fans via social media. But this work is not paying them enough to manage without second jobs or side hustles.
Thatas a broken system. Itas not just broken for individual artists, itas broken for our society as a whole. We all benefit from music. And I believe we as a society want that music to come from as wide and deep and rich and varied sources as exist. How could we not?
Continue reading...The Duchess of Sussexas lifestyle website will sell fancy goods at fancy prices. But is she really ready to compete with Goopas vagina candles?
You know what the world really needs? More luxury marmalade options. Luckily, the Duchess of Sussex has it covered. As you may have heard, Meghan is launching a new lifestyle brand called American Riviera Orchard (ARO). Details are still hush-hush, but the trademark applications cover everything from pet-related accessories and homeware to marmalade and jam. She is going to sell fancy things to aspirationally fancy people.
It was always likely that Meghan would move in this direction. She did, after all, run a lifestyle website called the Tig (described as aa hub for the discerning palatea), which closed in 2017. Launching an aspirational brand is also the sort of thing every celebrity does these days. Reigning over the celebrity entrepreneur space, of course, is Gwyneth Paltrow. Her brand, Goop, is worth $250m (APS198m) despite (or possibly thanks to) the fact that itas a constant source of ridicule. Meghan is never going to be the next British queen, but maybe she thinks she has a shot at being the next Paltrow.
Continue reading...I worry about national security amid Trumpas money ups and downs a they make way for influence-peddling and mischief
Donald Trump has had an encouraging day or two on the money front.
On Monday, a New York appeals panel lowered a to a mere $175m a the amount the former president needs to cough up as he challenges the huge judgment against him in his civil fraud case. Itas not clear whether Trump can obtain such a bond a he has another week or so to try. He couldnat raise an earlier, much higher sum, but this seems much more likely.
Continue reading...On the same day as the vote, the White House declared, contrary to all evidence, that Israel has not blocked humanitarian aid from Gaza
After the US vetoed three previous resolutions, the United Nations security council voted on Monday to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the remaining weeks of Ramadan. The UN resolution was approved after Joe Bidenas administration dropped its veto threat and lifted its diplomatic cover for Israel, at least temporarily, by abstaining from the vote.
Has Biden finally decided to use his leverage over Israel to stop its devastating war in Gaza, which has killed more than 32,000 people, the majority of them women and children and displaced over 75% of the population? It doesnat seem so: on the same day that the US abstained on the UN ceasefire resolution, allowing it to pass, the Biden administration inexplicably declared that Israel had not violated international law or blocked humanitarian aid from reaching desperate people in Gaza.
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