Israel approves a plan to seize some 70 historic sites in the West Bank, looking to sever Palestinians from any historic connection to the land. / Al Jazeera Iran-linked hackers are attacking water utilities in the United States only a few years after opponents scuppered Biden-era proposals to ramp
The US oil embargo causes another blackout in Cuba, with people sleeping by the sea for relief from the heat. / Associated Press Unrelated: “The expansion would make Stargate one of the largest fossil fuel power plants in [Texas] ... emitting more annual greenhouse gases than nearly 2 million cars.” / The Texas
Europe is having a low wildfire year at the same time that some parts of the continent are battling huge outbreaks. Meanwhile, its rivers are drying up. / By the Numbers, The Week Ice areas on Mount Kenya, Africa’s second-highest peak, have shrunk 96% in the past 115 years.
ICE claims it’s surveilling social media to protect agents, but the reality is closer to an intimidation campaign against Americans. / The Wall Street Journal [$] See also: ICE collected more than a million people’s DNA last year, many of whom never committed a crime, and those records are going
London has recorded its first month with no significant rainfall since 1871. / London Centric “It kind of undermines a child’s faith in the world.” How wildfire smoke is reshaping childhood. / Inside Climate News “Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreak currently raging throughout
As the midterms approach, new polling shows two-thirds of US adults are worried politicians will “[pressure] election officials to change election outcomes.” / Gallup See also: “Elon Musk is firing up the vote-buying machine again.” / Gizmodo The Trump administration’s cuts to Medicare Part D, which subsidizes prescriptions for
ICE added new contract terms that “state laws shall not apply” to its detention centers a day after a federal judge ordered a facility be opened to state health inspectors. / WIRED “A larger question is whether the GOP should be explicitly Christianist or, as it did when it embraced the
It can take less than a year to build a new data center, but “building new energy generation to meet that data center's power needs could take a decade.” / 404 Media See also: Data centers are expected to comprise more than 10% of US electricity usage by 2030,
ICE is paying Thomson Reuters data brokers $25 million a year to screen individuals and entities for various offenses and identify those violating US laws. / The Week The US and China are in a race to outdo each other in providing drone support to Everest mountaineers. “The contest has geopolitical
Oil prices fall after a pause in Donald Trump’s war on Iran. Why the pause? The United States is running out of missiles again. / Semafor, The Week Ukraine and Russia trade strikes on civilian sites associated with supply chains, including a Kyiv arms exhibition and warehouses belonging to Russia’
