‘Choose drugs?’ 30 years after he wrote Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh says life is tougher now (www.theguardian.com)
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Simultaneous strikes by WGA and Sag-Aftra are expected to halt the majority of Hollywood’s film and TV production
A sweeping Russian draft law to ban legally or medically changing gender has been approved by the lower house of parliament in its final reading, part of a crackdown against LGBTQ+ rights under the president, Vladimir Putin....
Payments to Rajan Vasisht, an aide from 2019-21, underscore ties between the justice and lawyers who argue cases in front of him
Edit: A bit more detail, if you’re interested: ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/…/IP_22_3746
Artificial intelligence is already advancing at a worrying pace. What if we don’t slam on the brakes? Experts explain what keeps them up at night
More info about the legislation passed here: ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/…/IP_22_3746
Dutch study identifies several examples of corvids’ ‘amazing’ ability to adapt to the urban environment
The court has vastly overextended its own power and flaunted its corruption. It will take a political movement to stop them
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High pressure forecast to raise temperatures to 48C as hot weather sweeps Spain, France, Germany and Poland
Days after publication, the newsreader is in hospital with mental health issues and the paper is rapidly backtracking
The sea is becoming greener due to changes in plankton populations, analysis of Nasa images finds
Volume of debris in the unexplored twilight zone is an ‘emerging threat’ to reefs already stressed by climate crisis, say scientists
Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows. That amount is not far off the 32 gigatonnes gap between current planned emissions reduction globally per year and the amount of carbon that must be cut by 2030 to stay within 1.5C.