The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, one of the US’s largest health insurers, was shot dead on Wednesday in midtown Manhattan, police confirmed in a press conference. Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare. Photograph: United Health Group Brian Thompson, 50, was shot outside the Hilton…

By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows The following piece is a short synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. The full length book is available at Chelsea Green’s website. The signs are everywhere around us: Sea level has risen 10–20 cm since 1900. Most non-polar glaciers…

A vigilante militia notorious for its patrols on America’s border with Mexico has threatened to take on the US military in recent weeks, with its founder baselessly claiming that Hurricane Helene was deliberately caused by a government energy weapon that needs to be destroyed, according to private…

The Covid-19 pandemic will “look minor” compared with what humanity faces from the growing number of superbugs resistant to current drugs, Prof Dame Sally Davies, England’s former chief medical officer, has warned. Davies, who is now the UK’s special envoy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), lost her…

THE WORLD Study: Germany went into recession last year due to "medical leave" Click here if you want to read the latest and selected news on our official Viber channel The reason for last year's recession of the German economy is the high level of sick leave, according to a new study. "The large…

Isabella Weber, the economist who ignited controversy with a bold proposal to implement strategic price controls at the peak of inflation and identified corporate profits as a driver of high prices, has proposed a new measure that could prevent food shortages and price gouging in the wake of another…

The appointment of a US health secretary with anti-vaccine views could cause deaths and have profound consequences around the world, global health experts fear. Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s pick for the position, has a history of spreading misinformation on vaccines and questioning the…

Subscribe Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. By now, if you have spent any amount of time reading about the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, it is likely that you have seen the AI-generated image above. This is the exact same type of AI-generated slop that has gone viral time and…

Microplastic pollution has been found in all human semen samples tested in a study, and researchers say further research on the potential harm to reproduction is “imperative”. Sperm counts in men have been falling for decades and 40% of low counts remain unexplained, although chemical pollution has…

Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isn't a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new reassessment of a 1970s report, Vice reported In that report — published in the bestselling book "The Limits to Growth" (1972) — a team of MIT scientists argued…

An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival. By: Peter Watts BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. I’ve known Dan Brooks for 40 years now. Somehow we’re still talking to each other. We’ve followed radically…

President-elect Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime environmental lawyer and vaccine skeptic, for the nation’s top health care job, leading the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump announced the pick on the social media platform Truth Social, and said RFK Jr. will be charged…

Donald Trump has suggested vaccines could be banned if he becomes president, in the clearest sign yet of a radical shake-up in public health policy should he put his ally Robert F Kennedy Jr in charge of it. Trump on Sunday told NBC that Kennedy, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and former…

It begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of zooplankton, crustaceans and other marine organisms rise to the ocean surface to feed on microscopic algae, returning to the depths at sunrise. The waste from this frenzy – Earth’s largest migration of creatures – sinks to the…

A former US navy base in Maine has caused among the largest accidental spills of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” ever recorded in the nation, and public health advocates suspect state officials are attempting to cover up its scale by reporting misleading and incomplete data. Meanwhile, state and…

Local officials in Massachusetts have issued warnings about mosquitoes carrying eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), and, in one case, placed restrictions on the use of public fields at night, prompting backlash from some residents. Public health experts, and others, are also concerned that such…

Donald Trump’s criminal case on charges that he illegally retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club was dismissed on Monday after a federal judge sided with the former president and ruled that the special counsel who brought the prosecution had been improperly appointed. The stunning…

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – Grocery stores in Alabama and Oklahoma have vending machines that allow users to purchase ammo for guns. The vending machine supplier, American Rounds, markets “ammo sales like you’ve never seen before” on its website. The company is looking to revolutionize how ammunition for…

Major news and tech media that have run fossil-fuel ads were largely staying quiet after the UN’s secretary general called for governments and companies to place bans on advertisements for coal, oil and gas. “Stop taking fossil-fuel advertising,” António Guterres implored in a major speech on…

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For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize tents and cars with people living inside in what experts believe is the first experiment of its kind in the United States. Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to…

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US 11 March 2024 Theo LeggettBusiness correspondent, BBC News John Barnett John Barnett was a former quality control manager at Boeing A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm's production standards has been found dead in the…

Microscopic pieces of plastic are everywhere . Now, they've been found in bottled water in concentrations 10 to 100 times more than previously estimated. Researchers from Columbia University and Rutge

Katie Mazarac just wanted to give her daughter a bath. It was late summer evening, and the small Louisiana fishing community where she and her then 18-month-old live had been plagued by water issues for months. Saltwater from the ocean had been creeping up the Mississippi River since June, making…

Artificial rain has been used in an attempt to lower pollution levels in Lahore, Pakistan. The capital city of the eastern province of Punjab, near the Indian border, has some of the worst air quality in the world and has become extremely polluted because of a growing population of more than 13…

What's the point of doomsday kits? Jessica Wildfire Dec 9, 2023 Grandfailure December 09 2023 6:04 PM 6 min read Share Email I'm not sure how I found out about Judy, but it was an accident. Judy sells emergency readiness kits. They run anywhere from $200 to $1000. The deluxe kits come with portable…

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Now will never come again. Alan Urban Nov 13, 2023 Photo by NEOM on Unsplash November 13 2023 1:56 PM 5 min read Share Email I first became collapse-aware in the fall of 2020. At the time, I believed we had about three decades before collapse would claim the lives of myself and my family. At first,…

In the aftermath of extreme weather events, major insurers are increasingly no longer offering coverage that homeowners in areas vulnerable to those disasters need most. At least five large U.S. property insurers — including Allstate, American Family, Nationwide, Erie Insurance Group and Berkshire…

Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts 16 September 2023 Georgina Rannard, Becky Dale and Erwan RivaultBBC News Climate & Science and Data Journalism Team Dr Robbie Mallett A scientist on the ice in Antarctica The sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded…

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In the early afternoon of September 1, 1914, Martha the passenger pigeon, the last of her kind in the world, passed away, and her entire species disappeared with her. But before that instant of extinc

It was just over a decade ago that Emma Smart and her husband, Andy, first decided they would not have children. Back then, her friends and family did not understand. “When you tell people you didn’t

Underneath the vineyards and thermal spas in southern Italy, magma churns to create one of the world’s most active volcanic systems in a region known as Campi Flegrei. Outside of Naples, Campi Flegrei

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