JUNE 29. 2026

Climate activists take on a new foe: Data centers

As climate action stalls, the movement is finding new energy in local fights to stop polluting, power-hungry facilities.

Data centres cooling drives heatwave demand

Seasonal spikes in data centre water use pose a risk to water-stressed regions, despite tech industry claims, Environment Agency analysis shows

A legal catastrophe

How the contemporary global oil industry depends on Britain's archaic legal system to avoid accountability during the climate crisis.

EU Inc Is a Deregulation Tool in Disguise

The Commission’s optional “EU company” lets firms register anywhere and sidestep the national rules that protect workers.

The Cost of America Abandoning the Military Draft

Trump could be confident his war in Iran would not touch the daily lives of most voters.

The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

Yesterday evening, the United States held its “Freedom 250” celebration – paid for by private companies, organised by the three American embassies in

An entire neighbourhood without a single permit

The unauthorised building site is inside an EU-protected Natura 2000 site in Baba Alino, near Varna. More than 300 cubic meters of protected forests w

Oops, Europe's lifelines are too old

Since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Europeans have paid more for their electricity – except in Spain. The average Spanish householdhas actuall

Salmon poop is choking Norway’s fjords

It’s as if the equivalent of the entire Australian population – almost 30 million people – relieved themselves directly into Norwegian fjords. That’s

JUNE 28. 2026

Mostly Doomed

Christopher Hooks on “Dubya’s Texas, ” the White House UFC fight, and his plans for celebrating 250 years of America

Cow manure could be the next data center fuel

The manure-to-energy field has a new sales pitch. Critics warn it could mean even more factory farms.

The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum

Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd. 1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of

Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing

The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

JUNE 27. 2026

Spare Me the Hedgehoggery

“I’m not fond of efforts to see ourselves reflected in places where we aren’t: better, I think, to let the past be the past in all its irreducible bloody-minded weirdness. ”

Environmental defenders remain among world’s most targeted activists

A new report found that environmental defenders are increasingly encountering overlapping networks of government officials, corporations, criminal groups and private security forces.

Keir Starmer’s Downfall Is the Only Reward for Simpering Centrism

As head of Labour, Starmer served his role ignobly: weeding out the Left and paving the way for the far right.

JUNE 26. 2026

U. S. Strikes Iran Over Attack on Hormuz Ship

Washington said Tehran violated the cease-fire.

Across Europe, heat adaptation plans are being put to a brutal test

“Cities across the world are still preparing for the heat that we're experiencing today. ”

No Place for Selfish Behavior

The Scottish national team, playing in the World Cup for the first time in twenty-eight years, is based out of Boston for the group stage. Fifty thousand Scots traveled here for the tournament, equal to nearly a full percent of Scotland’s population. They have won the city’s hearts by drinking up all the beer, buying up all the unwanted Red Sox tickets, and tumbling down the metal slide outside City Hall in their kilts.

States want transparent laws around animal agriculture. A fight in Congress could derail that.

The Save Our Bacon bill would make it harder for consumers to know how their meat was raised.