Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...

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AI image generators such as Midjourney, Dall-E or Stable Diffusion are able to perfectly simulate the appearance of photographic images, but they are no longer part of the history of optical media....

A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

Rechtsruck, multiethnische Koalition, Held einfacher Leute: Trump gilt als fest verankert. Doch diese Überzeugung beruht auf drei großen Missverständnissen.

Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”

A new history of societal collapse by an expert in existential risk argues that our globalized society is edging toward the precipice.

Last week, I wrote about how the Trump administration has replaced any sort of concept of governance with governance-by-trolling—a government optimized purely for making a huge segment of the country angry while the base cheers them on. The entire apparatus of federal power has been repurposed into a machine for generating engagement through cruelty, with no actual governing philosophy beyond "own the libs."

One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here

At Castellon airport in eastern Spain, workers in hazmat suits wriggle through hatches of a nearly new Airbus jet, stripping out parts as if gutting a mechanical whale. Once a semi-deserted airport, Castellon has become a graveyard for aircraft caught in a global engine crisis.