President Biden approved a secret strategy in March to prepare the United States for possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with China, Russia and North Korea. / The New York Times [+]Condoleezza Rice: US-China relations badly need n…
China and the United States are making progress, albeit limited, in cutting their reliance on coal. / SemaforAt this point of the year, global wildfire burn is the highest it's been since 2012. / Sustainability by numbersSee also: A f…
Even as the GOP publicly lambastes Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, some Republican mayors in Ohio say it's making local energy projects possible. / Semafor
A researcher at a US agency developing moonshot health therapies suggest…
US officials say that Israel has done all it can militarily against Hamas in Gaza, and any further actions will only risk harming civilians. / The New York Times [+]
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Scientists discover “seismic signals” of liquid water on Mars. / BBC NewsChina is building a massive wall of solar panels to fight desertification. / SemaforAnalysts explain why Harvard canceled its solar geoengineering project. / The Ver…
David Wallace-Wells explains why we shouldn't be applying lessons learned from Covid to bird flu. / The New York Times [+]A British couple compares photos of a Swiss glacier taken in 2009 and 2024. / KottkeDemand in the United States …
Experts say Covid can now be considered endemic, although it may take another decade to reach the predictability associated with other endemic diseases. / NPR
“The CDC has likely been violating federal law for years by systematically del…
A deep dive into a US court's ruling that warrantless searches of incoming travelers' devices at the border are unconstitutional. / The Dissenter
How a prominent anti-abortion doctor in San Antonio somehow became the rural repres…
Doctors say it doesn't work, but Olympic athletes swear drinking a Coke after emerging from the polluted Seine helps “flush out anything inside of us.” / The Wall Street Journal [+]
Gyms depend on members not showing up—that…
The Trump campaign is attacking Tim Walz for a policy that allows felons to vote, conveniently forgetting that Trump is also a convicted felon. / The New Republic
Harris picking Walz as her running mate is a big win for the right-to-repa…