Putin orders state of emergency after huge fuel spill inside Arctic Circle

President lambasts power plant owner ‘for not reporting earlier’ incident bigger than Kerch spill

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Coronavirus crisis could cause $25tn fossil fuel industry collapse

Value of reserves could fall by two-thirds as Covid-19 hastens peak in demand, study shows

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Governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company

Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of ...

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The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think

On May 26th, crowds gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to protest the death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of the city’s police departme...

Making Sense of the Downward Spiral, Daniel Schmachtenberger

America's cities are ablaze with rioting after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This comes in the heightened tensions of the coronavirus...

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Man shot dead in Minneapolis amid protests over George Floyd death

FBI prosecutors and investigators assigned as part of ‘robust’ inquiry while protests followed George Floyd’s killing by police on Monday

Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine

Mining company was given permission to blast Juukan Gorge cave, which provided a 4,000-year-old genetic link to present-day traditional owners

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Doctors condemn secrecy over false negative Covid-19 tests

Medical research has found that as many as 29% of swab tests produce the wrong result

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The Conspiracy Myth

The other day I was amused to read a critique of The Coronation in which the author was absolutely certain that I am a closet conspiracy theorist. ...

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The Secret Lives of Fungi

They shape the world—and offer lessons for how to live in it.

'People in the west live squeezed together, frenzied as wasps in the nest'

John Vidal: An indigenous Yanomami leader and shaman from Brazil shares his views on wealth, the environment and politics

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Metamodern Municipalism

A New Theory of Change

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Introducing GraphQL Support in MongoDB Atlas with Stitch

Learn how to interact with MongoDB through GraphQL directly in Stitch, without the need for a backend web service.

Self-isolation is why uncontacted tribes survive today

Over 100 tribes today deliberately avoid interaction with outsiders — the impact of infectious diseases is one reason why

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Brazil’s uncontacted tribes in peril from the COVID-19 crisis

Uncontacted tribes have no resistance to common diseases like flu or measles, let alone coronavirus.

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Notes on Counterculture

Then and Now: 1960s, 2020s

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Beautiful photos from Unsplash in your new tabs.

Pandemics: Lessons Looking Back from 2050

Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson  Imagine, it is the year 2050 and we are looking back to the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pand...

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Miners and loggers target uncontacted tribes in Brazil

President Bolsonaro enabling industrial invasion into the Amazon rainforest using the Covid-19 pandemic as cover

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The YouTuber Accused of Using Coronavirus to Scam His Followers

Brian Rose has raised nearly £1 million to fund a "free speech" platform where he'll host video interviews with conspiracy theorists and other gues...

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It Hit 80 Degrees in the Arctic This Week

This story will provide important context for the headline, and I encourage you to read it—but really, the headline tells you what you need to know...

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Commons: how the art of co-operation is the only way out of this crisis

Our broken systems are proving incapable to cope with the COVID-19 emergency, let alone the looming threat of social and environmental collapse. Th...

‘The Yanomami need the world’s support to bring pressure on Bolsonaro’

Down To Earth talks to Davi Kopenawa, the ‘Dalai Lama of the Amazon Rainforest’

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Worker Co-op Code

The Worker Co-operative Code sets out what anyone should expect and work together to achieve, as a member of a worker co-operative.

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What if everyone's wrong?

Boris Johnson's message to the working class: good luck out there

There is a glaring divide between those who can stay at home and those who can’t, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Scotland eyes outdoor learning as model for reopening of schools

Local authorities are exploring how using outdoor space could optimise physical distancing

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As Boris plans to ease the lockdown, progressives seem poised to make a catastrophic mistake- flatly opposing him.

Since the birth of the welfare state from the ashes of the second world war, those of us who identify as progressive have usually felt…

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Britain criticised around the world for 'complacent' and 'calamitous' coronavirus response

As British death toll becomes the worst in Europe, criticism of the UK approach is being voiced around the globe

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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

Armed black citizens escort Michigan lawmaker to capitol after volatile rightwing protest

State representative Sarah Anthony says she wanted to highlight failure of policing after armed white protesters demonstrated

Wild Love and The World Soul

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Code Review of Ferguson's Model – Lockdown Sceptics

by Sue Denim Imperial finally released a derivative of Ferguson’s code. I figured I’d do a review of it and send you some of the things I noticed. ...

Online Community Gathering with Charles Eisenstein & Bayo Akomolafe

SAND honors and nurtures the exploration and experience of nonduality as a pathway to greater wisdom and wellbeing.

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Wealth shown to scale

Inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.

UK coronavirus death toll rises above 32,000 to highest in Europe

Government’s handling of pandemic under scrutiny as UK becomes worst-hit European country

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One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study

Human cost of climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals

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