Study authors seek to attribute climate damages to individual corporate polluters in order to hold them accountable. The world’s top corporations have caused $28 trillion in damages related to the climate crisis, a new study seeking to help attribute climate costs to individual polluters finds. In a peer-reviewed paper published in Nature last week, Dartmouth...
Nigeria is known for international stars such as Victor Osimhen, Ademola Lookman and, further back, Jay-Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu, who faced heart problems of his own. But some local players – in a sign of the atmosphere enveloping the country’s domestic football – turned down a chance to support their late friend. “I begged...
Catrin Nye, Adam Eley and Oliver Englehart BBC Panorama Getty Images Baby food pouches from six of the UK’s leading brands are failing to meet key nutritional needs of babies and toddlers – with parents being “misled” by their marketing – BBC Panorama has been told. Laboratory testing of 18 pouches made by Ella’s Kitchen,...
Pamela Tickell BBC News, North East and Cumbria Jake Brooker / Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust Chimpanzees consoled each other by embracing, holding hands, and touching, researchers found Chimpanzees comfort each other when in distress, despite typically being referred to as “violent” and “despotic” when compared to other apes. Researchers at Durham University found that chimpanzees...
Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease in areas where pheasants are released, new research has shown. Researchers studied ticks in 25 woodland areas in the South West where pheasants are released and 25 nearby control sites where no pheasants are released. They found the bacteria that can cause...
A labor board worker received a threatening note after he became a whistleblower on the all-out raid of the agency by Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” during which Musk’s minions apparently stole a huge amount of sensitive information about workers and union organizers, a new bombshell NPR report finds. The whistleblower, Daniel Berulis, works...
The horse developed pleuropneumonia – a bacterial respiratory infection – after the race. The infection resulted in the onset of sepsis, which is “likely to have been a key factor” in the cause of death. Blood tests taken on the day of the race indicated that the infection had not been present in the horse...
The first stage of a High Court libel case has found that ex-footballer Joey Barton libelled former England striker Eni Aluko in online posts about her and her family. The broadcaster said she faced threats of violence and abuse on social media after Barton posted twice on social media site, X, in January 2024, which...
Hayley Hassall, Eleanor Layhe and Alan Haslam BBC England Investigations Watch Genevieve’s mother, Katie, explain how her nine-month-old daughter was killed at a now-closed nursery There have been almost 20,000 reports of serious childcare incidents in nurseries in England in the past five years, the BBC has found. That is an average of about 75...
A new Gallup survey finds 11 percent of US adults can’t access quality care and can’t pay for care or medicine. Lack of access to health care has hit a new high in the U.S., with over a third of Americans now unable to access quality care due to cost, new West Health-Gallup polling finds....
Yogita Limaye Mandalay, Myanmar BBC Five men are still stuck under this building, including Nan’s 21-year-old son Warning: This article contains details and images that some readers may find distressing Driving into Mandalay, the massive scale of the destruction from last Friday’s earthquake revealed itself bit by bit. In nearly every street we turned into,...
A report into options for Plymouth’s fish market has found its reinstatement for auctions would be “unviable”. The feasibility study was commissioned by Plymouth Fishing and Seafood Association, Sutton Harbour Company and Plymouth City Council after the closure last May. The report, by Tegen Mor Fisheries Consultants Ltd, identified “significant upfront investment” and “ongoing running...
The Trump administration seemingly labeled hundreds of Venezuelan people in the U.S. as gang members simply because they had tattoos, defying court orders earlier this month in order to send them to a torture center in El Salvador. Mother Jones reports in an article published Wednesday that numerous families of deported Venezuelan men say that...
Sam Francis Political Reporter BBC A lawyer investigating former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has found “credible evidence” he and his staff mistreated two female team members in ways that “seem to amount to harassment”. Jacqueline Perry KC, employed by Reform to investigate after complaints were raised in February, found evidence of “victimisation, constant criticisms...
The sweeping U.S. cuts to foreign aid are potentially killing thousands of people a day due to factors like starvation and disease, a new report finds — after “shadow president” Elon Musk has claimed that “no one” has died to the supposed “brief pause” on aid funding that the administration is seemingly seeking to make...