Last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins visited Georgia to announce the release of more than $500 million to help farmers rebuild from 2024’s Hurricane Helene. The widespread agricultural and forestry devastation from Helene cost the state’s economy about $5.5 billion, including job losses and impacts to related...
How Ann Arbor, Michigan, is creating its own clean energy utility
When Krystal Steward started knocking on her neighbors’ doors in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2021, to discuss energy efficiency and sustainability upgrades, she was met with a lot of blank stares. She was new to the issues herself, she said. But the longtime social worker kept at her new job...
The Supreme Court takes up a Guam munitions case with high stakes for CHamoru lands
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine the future of a beach with cultural and ecological importance to the Indigenous CHamoru people of Guam. The case is an appeal from the U.S. Air Force, which wants to continue the open detonation of obsolete munitions...
Scientists race to decode data from Europe’s vanishing glaciers
High up in the Ötztal Alps, near the border of Austria and Italy, sprawls the closest thing you can get — scientifically, at least — to a time machine. For thousands of years, snow has fallen here and turned to ice, building layer upon layer of the Weißseespitze glacier and...
Venezuela win first World Baseball Classic title after taming USA in politically fraught final
Suárez double seals Venezuela’s first WBC title Harper HR ties it, but USA fall short in ninth Caracas celebrates as Venezuela win – in pictures Venezuela defeated the United States 3-2 on Tuesday night to win their first World Baseball Classic title, a landmark triumph in a politically charged final...
‘All we wanted to do was go and win the Ashes’: Ollie Pope hits out at England critics
Batter denies the team ‘weren’t fussed’ in Australia 28-year-old believes his ‘best batting years are to come’ Ollie Pope has challenged the perception England “weren’t fussed” during their troubled Ashes tour but accepts why it formed. Ben Stokes’ tourists crashed to a 4-1 series defeat by Australia that is being...
Sale warn England ‘superhuman’ Tom Curry needs time off to prolong career
Sanderson suggests player should miss summer tour Back-rower sustained calf injury during Six Nations Alex Sanderson has warned that Tom Curry’s physical playing style will shorten his career and has suggested England should give him the summer off with the World Cup next year in mind. The back-rower sustained a...
Arne Slot says he ‘must have done a lot wrong’ if Liverpool fans are booing team
‘Never nice’ to hear boos after reaction to Spurs draw Liverpool face Galatasaray looking to overturn deficit Arne Slot has said that he must have “done a lot of things wrong” for Liverpool fans to boo their team, but he does not feel the Anfield crowd has turned against him...
Sabalenka may avoid championships in Dubai after ‘ridiculous’ comment
Director says stronger penalties needed for withdrawals Jack Draper continues comeback at Miami Open Aryna Sabalenka says she may never return to compete at the Dubai Tennis Championships after she and Iga Swiatek were harshly criticised by the tournament director for their withdrawals from the tournament last month. “I think...
Ruthless PSG condemn Chelsea to humiliating Champions League exit
Chelsea huddled once and, as if in an act of resistance, huddled again. They gathered on either side of the centre-circle before kick-off, apparently impervious to the kerfuffle that had followed their weekend antics, and it was the biggest fight they put up on a night that laid bare their...