Expensive prices for electric cars could hold back the UK’s transition from fossil fuel vehicles, the…
Day: September 3, 2020
Pelosi and Mnuchin agree on plan to avoid government shutdown
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | Patrick Semansky/AP Photo Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin…
Burning bush, melting Arctic, a deadly virus: nobody said the end times would be boring | John Birmingham
For one brief shining moment it seemed humanity’s inability to imagine much beyond our lived experience…
Australia’s environment minister orders investigation into export of hundreds of endangered parrots
The environment minister, Sussan Ley, has appointed an auditor to investigate her own department over the…
New Zealand suspends live animal exports after ship sinks
Gulf Livestock 1, carrying more than 40 crew members and nearly 6,000 cattle, foundered off coast…
Senate Dems press Mnuchin to sanction Russia for 2020 election interference
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. | Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images Top Democratic senators are calling on the Trump…
Anohni on her new track R.N.C. 2020: ‘It’s me, screaming in the past, for the present’
Inspired by the fear and loathing on display at the Republican National Convention, Anohni talks us…
Why are elephants dying? The race to solve the mystery of mass die-offs
Hundreds of animals perished in Botswana and new deaths are reported in Zimbabwe – now scientists…
Extinction Rebellion: rights experts say peaceful protest in UK under threat
Liberty condemns ‘unworkable restrictions, fines and arrests’ used by police to stifle rallies Civil liberty experts…
Wildfires rage, Covid spreads: in California, life as we knew it has disappeared | Dana Frank
The devastating blazes began just as I began a two-week quarantine. We desperately need leadership At…