It looked for a while like the coal mining era was over in the Clearfork Valley of East Tennessee, a pocket of mountainous land on the Kentucky border. A permit for a new mine hasn’t been issued since 2020, and the last mine in the region shuttered two years ago....
Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall?
Loading… The Kill Step By Alleen Brown July 18, 2025 In March 2025, a jury ordered the environmental giant Greenpeace to pay $666 million to the companies behind the Dakota Access pipeline. The companies argued that Greenpeace was responsible for protests near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation nearly a decade...
Feel v theory at the Open: MacIntyre and DeChambeau try to navigate Portrush chaos
The Scot and the American find different ways to crack the links before worst of weather and give themselves a chance this weekend You could feel the bad weather closing in on Royal Portrush during Friday morning. The atmosphere around the links grew stickier, and sweatier, every minute, and soon...
Havana Hurricane can blow rivals away in Newbury Super Sprint
Eve Johnson Houghton’s Royal Ascot winner has plenty in his favour in Saturday’s traditionally competitive contest Eve Johnson Houghton has drawn a blank with 14 previous runners in the Super Sprint at Newbury and recently described it as her “unluckiest race”, but she may never have a better chance to...
Tour de France: Pogacar pulls more than four minutes clear with stage 13 victory
Defending champion eases to time-trial triumph Vingegaard finishes second with Roglic in third A breathless Jonas Vingegaard slumped exhaustedly over his bike on another baking Pyrenean afternoon, after Tadej Pogacar inflicted a further crushing defeat in the mountain time trial to the altiport at Peyragudes. The second time trial in...
Meet the unlikely double act who have found key to unlock real Daniel Dubois
One is a former child soldier, the other lost 30% of his brain to a boxing injury, and together they’ve built the Briton into fighter who can challenge Usyk ‘We understand human psychology because of what we went through rather than going to university to study it,” Don Charles says...
Starmer backs bid to bring 2029 World Athletics Championships to London
UK government will give £35m to help push for event Previous successes leave city in strong position for bid London is in prime position to stage the 2029 World Athletics Championships after finally securing a substantial government funding commitment for the bid. It is understood that the UK government has...
Are Arsenal finally signing Viktor Gyökeres? It’s already real in the digital hive mind | Barney Ronay
The Swedish striker has become more meme than man but he is the very good thing fans asked for, on a tray, ready to go The current edition of France Football magazine has a photo of Viktor Gyökeres on the cover. Not that I’ve looked at it much, or pored...
Spain see off stubborn Swiss to reach semis despite two missed penalties
“Spain is Spain,” Switzerland’s talismanic captain, Lia Wälti, had warned and, in the quarter-final between the host nation and the world champions, Spain Spained, crushing the resolve of a team that had played in an inspired fashion. The hosts had more than clung on, they fought, roared on by a...
England’s Hannah Hampton hits the headlines in latest act of unlikely career
Bloodied-nose penalty heroine against Sweden was born with a serious eye condition that still affects her vision The image of Terry Butcher’s blood-stained shirt during an England draw against Sweden in 1989 is immortalised in the country’s football history. Now another English player’s stoic display against Sweden – this time...