A Broadway Tradition Is Fluttering Into History
Broadway plans to replace the cast-change slips that are stuffed into Playbills with QR codes. Some understudies and theater buffs will mourn their loss.
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Offshore windfarm projects may be exempted from new UK nature rules
Exclusive: Firms say added costs would mean they are unable to install enough turbines to meet green energy goals Offshore windfarm companies may be exempted from new nature rules in an attempt to keep the cost of renewable energy down,…
Senegal’s great green wall progress falters amid unfulfilled pledges: Study
Earlier in 2025, political and administrative leaders in Senegal gathered to plant trees in a forest in the country’s northwest to mark National Tree Day. They took advantage of the ceremony to call for action towards a greener, more resilient…
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given presentation casting doubt on climate science
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative think-tank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Coalition MPs weighing up whether to abandon net zero have been briefed on…
The West’s new gold rush is the data center boom
A new kind of gold rush is sweeping the West, and this time the prize isn’t minerals but megawatts. From Phoenix to Colorado’s Front Range, data centers are arriving with outsize demands for power and water. In a new report,…
MacKenzie Scott Backs Disaster Recovery in Marginalized Communities
The billionaire’s $60 million donation to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy counters cuts to federal emergency assistance and diversity programs.
Pakistani farmers to sue German polluters over climate-linked flood damage
Claimants seek compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials after extreme flooding destroyed harvests A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has fired the starting shot in legal action against two of Germany’s most…
Will Bill Gates’s ‘Strategic Pivot’ Shake Up Climate Policy?
The billionaire philanthropist said it was a mistake to focus so much on “near-term emissions goals,” a position that could generate serious debate.
‘Trump doesn’t represent us’: US activist groups to push for climate action at Cop30 in Brazil
US groups aim to represent country at UN climate summit even as Trump administration declines to send a delegation Despite historic environmental rollbacks under a president who pulled the US from a key international climate treaty – and recently called…
Mexico adopts protections for Atlantic sharks
Mexico recently adopted national regulations protecting several threatened shark species in the Atlantic from being caught or retained as bycatch. Shark conservationists welcome the protections but say they are long overdue, coming years after the country’s commitments to a multilateral…