Colorado oil and gas companies have pumped at least 30m lbs of secret chemicals into the ground over the past 18 months without making legally required disclosures, according to a new analysis.

Another Oval Office meeting has descended into a tense and at times chaotic back and forth as Donald Trump hosts the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, at the White House.

On the eve of his inauguration, Trump promised the “most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history”, and what followed has been a whirlwind of extreme policies and actions that have reshaped the federal government and the US’s role in the world.

White smoke was sent up by the conclave and history has been made, as Robert Francis Prevost, an American, has been named as the 267th pope.

Prevost, 69, is the first ever pope from the United States. He will be known as Leo XIV.

Buying organic fruits and vegetables is the best way to avoid pesticides. But that can get expensive quickly.

If you don’t have the funds to buy all your produce organic, prioritize swapping out just the ones that are higher risk for pesticides.

The Guardian interviewed nine Panther cubs across the US over the past two years.

All have shared intimate stories about their exceptional childhoods, born to parents who challenged America’s white establishment in a bid for what they saw as Black self-determination.

In 1969, Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party, was sleeping beside his pregnant fiancee when 14 police officers burst into the Chicago apartment. Police shot him in bed, striking him twice in the head. Hampton, who was 21, was killed on the spot.

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The exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasing contamination in human brains, according to a new study.

The new research analyzed samples of brain, liver and kidney tissues from 28 people who died in 2016 and 24 who died in 2024 in New Mexico.

Donald Trump’s administration has started to remove or downgrade mentions of the climate crisis across the US government.

Websites for several major departments have pulled down references to anything related to the climate crisis.

See the thread below for some of the changes so far:

Trump has suggested dismantling Fema, a move that would cut off aid that has largely helped support Republican-leaning states like Louisiana and Florida that voted for him in last year’s US presidential election.

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