Author: Aidan
-
French President Macron joins India’s Republic Day celebrations as chief guest
Thousands of people lined a ceremonial boulevard in the heart of India’s capital on Friday to watch a colorful parade showcasing the country’s military power and cultural heritage to mark its 75th Republic Day. French President Emmanuel Macron attended the parade as the chief guest at the celebration of the adoption of the country’s Constitution…
-
Invasive ants leave lions scrambling for prey on the savannah in an ecological chain reaction
Lions, elephants, zebras, buffalo, ants, and trees are all locked in an intricate ecological web in one Kenyan nature preserve. But that web is unraveling as a small invader disrupts the natural balance of things, according to a study published January 24 in the journal Science. The spread of an invasive insect across the savannah habitat of Ol…
-
US pauses UNRWA funding after employees accused of Oct. 7 involvement
The State Department has paused additional funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees while it reviews allegations that 12 of the organization’s employees were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA, said on Friday that it was conducting an investigation into the alleged…
-
Not a date to celebrate
hello, just a friendly reminder that Jan 26 is not a celebration. This is a day of mourning, of loss, of invasion. see also: thousands march in Invasion Day rallies.
-
PM defends tax cut backflip as living costs soar
More help is on its way for middle income workers stretched thin by the high cost of living in the form of more generous income tax cuts. Laying out the details of the revamped stage three tax cuts at a national address, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended the change in policy as the “right thing…
-
Global warming drove record Amazon rainforest drought
Climate change, and not El Nino, was the primary driver of the unprecedented drought last year in the Amazon rainforest that caused rivers to dry up, required deliveries of essential supplies to river communities and resulted in the deaths of endangered dolphins, scientists have said. A report released on Wednesday by World Weather Attribution, an international network of scientists, showed…
-
Workers Need to Fight to Make Sure AI Works for Them
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a labor issue. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it will prove to be a marginal labor issue. Or maybe it will prove to be an existential, epochal labor issue on par with industrialization or globalization, each of which revolutionized their own eras of work. Before we get completely immersed in the…
-
Groundwater depletion accelerating in many parts of the world
The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world, and in many places faster than in the past 40 years, according to a new study that calls for urgency in addressing the depletion. The declines were most notable in dry regions with extensive cropland, said researchers whose work was…