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International solidarity needed as Les Républicains calls to ban La France Insoumise (LFI) and arrest Phillipe Poutou from the NPA-A.

Federal lawmakers want to ban imports of wild sloths to the United States, a move experts say could have global implications for the conservation of the tree-dwelling species.  Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) is set on Tuesday to introduce a bill, co-sponsored by Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), known as the “SLOTHS Act”—Stopping Legalized Organized Trafficking and Harm […]

In the Permian Basin of West Texas, methane gas billows from oil wells. It blasts out of pressure valves on pipelines, wafts from sprawling gas processing plants and rises up in plumes when companies air out systems during routine maintenance in the nation’s largest oilfield. More than a decade of efforts to bring these practices […]

It’s been more than three decades since Democrats held a trifecta in Pennsylvania, but the prospect of a blue wave in next month’s elections has Gov. Josh Shapiro and party leadership optimistic that their time could come in Harrisburg.  After flipping the state House of Representatives in 2022, Democrats now have a chance to take […]

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . Picture a buoyant triangular steel or concrete platform roughly the dimensions of a baseball field. Now place a wind turbine…

Amy Winton doesn’t like that she has to depend on fossil gas for her restaurant, Mexican taquería Pandita in Eugene, Oregon. But she’s stuck with the gas-fueled burners, heaters, and outdoor fireplace that came with the space. “We just don't have the funds” to switch to electric equipment, Winton said. “If we had…

Botany, welfare, friendships, work and housing. David Matthews picks six of the best new books for leftists

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By Simon Pirani Britain’s largest community-owned solar project is fighting for its life, after the local grid company stopped it generating electricity for four months. Derril Water solar park in Pyworthy, north Devon, started supplying power to the grid again late last month, when some technical problems blamed for the shutdown were solved. But the […]

Internal material from the far-right German party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) and its surrounding infrastructure. The data includes more than half a million emails,...

Regulators in Texas did not stop processing permits for data center projects when Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a pause last month, according to an analysis of public records released Monday by the oil and gas watchdog group FracTracker.  Amid an upswell of public opposition to the booming buildout of digital infrastructure in Texas, Abbott directed […]

CODY, Wyo.—On a warm October evening at a bar in downtown Cody, Wyomingites gathered to ponder the future of what some hope will be the Cowboy State’s next booming industry: data centers. This summer, outgoing Gov. Mark Gordon signed an executive order titled “Data Centers the Wyoming Way” that he said would “guide responsible development […]

While many of his attempts to compromise the midterms have failed, stay vigilant. Subversion doesn’t always look like insurrection.

Across hundreds of miles of the northern Gulf of Mexico, a deep-water ecosystem collapsed after the massive 2011 Deepwater Horizon oil and gas spill, and recovery is uncertain, new research concludes. The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that animal populations, including octopus, krill, squid and shrimp declined […]

Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have called France’s protests the work of Muslim and Third World invaders. Ignoring the movement’s roots in high schooler demonstrations, they are using violent episodes to paint a dark picture of racial conflict.

Amid renewed interest in the religion across the political spectrum, the historian of antiquity Tim Whitmarsh argues in his new book, Rome’s Age of Revolution, that Christianity’s success relied on the physical and cultural infrastructure of empire.

A tiny power plant notched a big win last month off the coast of Oregon: For nearly 30 seconds, it generated electricity using the heat of an underwater volcano. The startup Endurance Energy deployed its test unit, called Adélie, about a mile below the surface of the Pacific Ocean during a three-week demonstration…

Cognitive dissonance helps explain why people often turn away from problems they feel powerless to change: denial takes hold. That denial can weaken the solidarity required to change the conditions that leave people feeling powerless.

The Canary has closed after two banks shut it out. The left press should treat its bank account the way it once treated its printer: as the weakest point in the chain.

SUNBURY, Ohio—A proposal for a large data center has upended politics in this Republican-leaning suburb of Columbus. That could spell trouble for U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, a longtime fixture in state Republican politics who was appointed to his seat in 2025 after former Sen. J.D. Vance became vice president. Husted is running against Sherrod Brown, […]

Illinois has built out large amounts of renewables in the past decade to reach its mandate of 100% clean energy by 2050 . So far, though, it has lagged on building battery storage, which advocates say is especially necessary now as data center development drives up energy demand. Last fall, Illinois passed an…