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The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils.

The Epstein revelations are symptoms of a deeper crisis: a political economy that rewards extraction over creation and concentrates power in ever fewer hands.

Bold choices, not better messaging, are the only way to save Europe's centre-left from electoral extinction.

Forget the inflated comparisons. Neither the war in the Middle East nor the Russian invasion of Ukraine ever signaled a global conflagration.

Fungi create soil, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and contribute $55 trillion to the global economy, but knowledge about them is scarce. Now, mycologists are pushing to get the international scientific community to recognize fungi on the same level as plants and animals.

Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.

The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk, ” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.

How officials in Crockett County are using wind investments to help older residents age in place.

The disaster is not over.

Nick Turse and Hooman Majd discuss war on Iran and other U. S. conflicts, and Sam Biddle breaks down how AI is being used.

IEA member states will distribute 400 million barrels of oil to ease the Iran war-caused supply crunch.

From Iran to Venezuela, Trump has fully embraced offensive cyberoperations.

Columbia commissioned the report after ProPublica’s investigation into how the university protected former OB-GYN Robert Hadden. The school also announced the resignation of two top doctors who were involved in allowing Hadden to continue practicing.

Farmers from Iowa to India depend on fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Much of their supply is stuck in the Persian Gulf.

Pretoria’s awkward dance between Washington and Tehran.

A year before presidential elections, the National Rally has a chance of capturing Marseille, a historic hub of immigration.

A U. S. military “targeting error” triggered the killing of at least 175 at a school in Iran, the highest civilian death toll in Trump’s war.

A better future for Palestine depends on psychological recovery.

In January 1960 Brussels hosted a “Round Table” conference of Congolese and European leaders to negotiate the future of the Belgian Congo. Anticolonial

In choosing Khamenei’s son, the regime has imposed exactly what many Iranians feared.