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How toxic haze is causing Singapore’s landmarks to disappear
The BBC’s Tessa Wong breaks down how one of Indonesia’s worst wildfire seasons is impacting countries around South East Asia.
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‘Lawyers should be running to courts’ to stop coal approvals after landmark ruling, NSW MP says
High court finding in favour of Hunter Valley community group sets precedent other environmentalists should follow, advocate says A landmark decision in Australia’s first climate change high court case has been described as a clear message to governments and fossil fuel companies that exported greenhouse gas emissions…
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Researchers find 180,000 giant tortoises living on island in Seychelles
Figure is highest ever recorded for species and confirms one of Indian Ocean’s greatest conservation success stories A landmark survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed the once endangered species is thriving. A population of Aldabra giant tortoise lives on an island in…
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Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case
Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says A Hunter Valley community group has won Australia’s first high court case to consider climate change, in a ruling advocates say sets a binding national precedent for fossil…
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Harry Kane doubles up on landmark night as England cruise past Czechia
It was a night that belonged to Harry Kane. Yet another one. It began with him being shown a replay of his first England goal during a pre-match interview with ITV – the header against Lithuania in 2015, just 79 seconds after he came on as a substitute for his debut. It ended with him reflecting on two more in what…
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Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say
A landmark report reveals that the world must change the way it produces food to avoid a biodiversity collapse Conservation comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and green sea turtles prove that global nature loss can be reversed, scientists have said. But a report warns food production must be the next “positive…
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Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.
Ars TechnicaTechnology
Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
Critics say workers are still owed far more.
The GuardianWorld
Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102
Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life Eva Marie Saint, one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age of the 1940s and 50s, has died aged 102. Her screen work spanned six decades: Saint made her screen…
The New York TimesPolitics
Supreme Court Tangles Over a Major Climate Change Case
The justices began their new term with a landmark dispute over whether local governments can hold oil companies liable for damages from climate change.
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‘Each artist on their own terms’: why Lee Krasner was every bit the equal to husband Jackson Pollock
At a landmark exhibition at New York’s Met Museum, Mrs Pollock finally steps out of her spouse’s shadow In addition to managing her own career as an artist and being a devoted partner to an often unpredictable and tumultuous Jackson Pollock , Lee Krasner had at least one other duty – acting as the unofficial publicist…
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Uzbekistan dominates chess Olympiad while England’s Sivanandan, 11, sets new world age record
Host nation won having led almost from start to finish, while young English player reached a stunning landmark Uzbekistan, the host nation, won the open gold medals at the 2026 Olympiad, the biennial chess international team tournament, at Samarkand last week in the style of the legendary Soviet grandmasters of long…
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