International climate action has long rested on the consequential distinction between the Global North and the Global South. Wealthier, earlier-to-industrialize nations contributed the most to a warming planet while developing countries bear the brunt of the climate crisis. As a result, developed countries have been called on to help developing...
Project 2025 was extreme. Trump’s first 100 days have been even more radical.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” President Donald Trump said in a social media post last summer, four months before he defeated former vice president Kamala Harris and made a triumphant return to power. He was referring to a 900-page document written by the Heritage Foundation, a think tank that...
Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy
Around the world, farmers are retooling their land to harvest the hottest new commodity: sunlight. As the price of renewable energy technology has plummeted and water has gotten more scarce, growers are fallowing acreage and installing solar panels. Some are even growing crops beneath them, which is great for plants...
Bill Belichick defends girlfriend Hudson as ‘doing her job’ in viral CBS interview
Belichick says girlfriend wasn’t out to control interview Hudson, 24, interjected during question on relationship North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick defended his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, for interjecting during a CBS interviewer’s questions about their relationship and said she was “simply doing her job”. The six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach...
Arsenal are talking the talk after PSG loss but can they walk the walk in Paris?
Mikel Merino says team have the quality, motivation and mentality to turn Champions League semi-final on its head The fighting talk comes as standard. Arsenal are down after Tuesday night’s 1-0 home defeat against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semi-final first leg – but not out. “This team …...
Rory McIlroy moves into ‘new chapter’ and targets more big prizes
Masters triumph was unique but Northern Irishman knows more silverware will follow if he maintains his fine form When you have spent so long labouring under a burden associated with the reaching of targets, it would seem ridiculous to set more. At Augusta National this month Rory McIlroy didn’t just...
World Rugby’s brain health service finds 25% of ex-players ‘at risk’ of problems
New service refers quarter of those seen for treatment Concern over high numbers of participants dropping out A significant number of former elite players who have participated in World Rugby’s new brain health service programme have been identified as being “at risk” of cognitive problems in later life. So far...
Iñaki Williams: ‘It’s belonging. For the people and for us, Athletic is a religion’
The Ghana international on how recent successes and his club’s feeling and culture fuel hope for their semi-final with Manchester United Iñaki Williams, the fastest footballer in town, is accelerating again. The more the images come, the quicker he goes, flying through faces, flashbacks and feelings, everything they did and...
‘One big dream’: Bodø/Glimt’s modern miracle built on history and humility
Family club, known as a symbol of northern Norwegian self-esteem, prepare to face Tottenham in Europa League semis No one is sure precisely when the “coffee table” tradition began, but consensus traces it back about 60 years. It would take a lot for one of the regulars not to show...
Chris Eubank Jr says he needed eye surgery after ‘headbutt’ by Benn
Boxer spent two nights in hospital after points victory Potential fight with Saul ‘Canelo’ Álvarez mentioned Chris Eubank Jr says he underwent eye surgery after his gruelling points victory over bitter rival Conor Benn after being “headbutted”. Eubank Jr spent two nights in hospital after his victory at the Tottenham...