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Alexei Navalny was killed ‘by punch to the heart’ (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Chile’s deadly wildfires wiped out neighborhoods. One stood unscathed. (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024 Begins With More Record Heat Worldwide | On the heels of Earth’s warmest year, January was the eighth month in a row in which global temperatures blew past previous records. (www.nytimes.com)
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‘They thought they were doing good but it made people worse’: why mental health apps are under scrutiny (www.theguardian.com)
Greta Thunberg: Case thrown because of 'no evidence' (www.bbc.com)
GoFundMe Is a Boon for Disaster Survivors. Especially the Wealthy Ones. Campaigns on the crowdfunding site raised more money for wildfire survivors with high incomes than for those who need help most (www.nytimes.com)
Panama Canal Drought Slows Cargo Traffic (www.nytimes.com)
I’ll note that the Washington Post is also running an opinion piece titled A dry Panama Canal shows how climate change will scramble globalization...
After years of stability, Antarctica is losing ice. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
The plants used to make the world’s best mezcal are disappearing | Soaring demand is draining Mexico of its wild agave (wapo.st)
UK nuclear plant hit by new multiyear delay and could cost up to £35bn | Latest overrun to Hinkley Point C a blow to UK energy plans and French constructor EDF (www.ft.com)
A Belgian port seized tons of cocaine. Criminals tried to take it back. (wapo.st)
Belgian customs officers seized three times as much cocaine in the port of Antwerp last year as U.S. customs and border officials seized in all of the United States
China’s Economy Is in Serious Trouble (www.nytimes.com)
China’s Solar Dominance Faces New Rival: An Ultrathin Film (www.wsj.com)
Drought Touches a Quarter of Humanity, U.N. Says, Disrupting Lives Globally (www.nytimes.com)
France Gets Its Youngest and First Openly Gay Prime Minister (www.nytimes.com)
See How Hot 2023 Was in Two Charts. Hint: Record Hot. (www.nytimes.com)
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First Flight of the Vulcan Rocket Sends an American Lander Toward the Moon (www.nytimes.com)
Scholars’ names ‘stolen’ in propaganda written by AI (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. (www.nytimes.com)
She stopped responding to him, she said, even though he texted and called her hundreds of times....
Game of clones: Science is immortalizing Argentina’s top polo horses (wapo.st)
the extent to which this polo-obsessed nation has already fundamentally transformed the sport and the nature of horse breeding was evident on the field at the Argentine Open in Palermo in late November. As the players and the clones watched a video montage memorializing the late original champion mare, her name flashed across...
How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent (www.nytimes.com)
In the past, the government would make examples of a few individuals, some prominent; now it is practicing widespread censorship. This year, with antiwar speech in public largely eliminated, the records show that authorities remained intent on stamping out criticism expressed online and in private. More than 3,000 cases involved...
HVDC Networks Come to Europe | New technology is making possible the first multiterminal DC system outside of China (spectrum.ieee.org)
The 260-kilometer, 320-kilovolt high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system, based on technology from Hitachi Energy, in Zurich, marks a milestone in an ongoing transformation of the European power grid: It will plug into the first truly dynamic multiterminal HVDC network in Europe.
China Quietly Rebuilds Secretive Base for Nuclear Tests (www.nytimes.com)
For years, U.S. government reports and independent experts have expressed vague concerns about the old base, Lop Nur. The reports point to possible preparations for year-round operations and a “lack of transparency.”...
