Over the last two weeks, oil companies have announced eye-popping profits from the spring quarter. Exxon Mobil pulled in $14.5 billion. Chevron landed $12 billion, its highest quarterly profit on record. Shell posted $9.8 billion — more than twice its earnings from the same time last year. These profits are...
A new type of levee is taking root in Northern California
Visitors to the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, captivated by gliding birds overhead and golden hills across the Bay waters, could be forgiven for failing to notice that the preserve is also home to the Bay’s newest levee. Most levees look like steep, barren embankments or riprap-clad seawalls, designed to...
Canada’s wildfire season is taking a heavy toll on First Nations
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. When the chief of the Okanagan Indian Band looked down on his community from a helicopter last week, much of what he had known all his life was gone. Homes had burned. Photographs, memorabilia, and Salish baskets had disappeared with them....
Infantino’s opponents developing new framework for running world football
Uefa, Concacaf and AFC working together on system Fifa has ignored calls for an independent review Gianni Infantino’s opponents are working together to produce a new framework for running world football to replace what they regard as a system of patronage that Fifa has adopted since he replaced Sepp Blatter...
Emery positive about Aston Villa’s outlook despite summer exits as PSG await
Ebullient manager takes his side to Salzburg to cross swords with the European champions in the Super Cup One thing was almost instantly detectable as Unai Emery walked into a stuffy room inside the Red Bull Arena on the eve of Wednesday’s Super Cup against Paris Saint-Germain. After a summer...
Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly offered to Manchester United as left-back solution
Chelsea also made aware of 19-year-old’s availability Newcastle’s Lewis Hall remains prime United target Myles Lewis-Skelly has been offered to Manchester United as a potential left-back option, with Arsenal wishing to recoup some of the £75m paid to Newcastle for Bruno Guimarães. Chelsea, it is understood, have also been made...
Romell Glave soars to European men’s 100m title in British one-two ahead of Jeremiah Azu
Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs pulls up injured Italy’s Nadia Battocletti wins gold in women’s 5,000m On Marcell Jacobs’ right arm there is a tattoo of the Roman colosseum and a gladiator: a reminder of his fighting spirit and what Italy’s capital means to him. But in the swirling bearpit of...
Premier League 2026-27 preview No 5: Brighton
Fabian Hürzeler has lost key players including Welbeck and Van Hecke with Brighton needing squad depth to cope with the demands of European football Guardian writers’ predicted position: 9th (NB: this is not necessarily John Brewin’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 8th Continue reading...
‘It’s going to be spectacular’: Millions flock to Spain seeking best view of total solar eclipse
Eclipse chasers, tourists and astronomers searching for the clearest skies to watch the two minutes of totality The online forums are abuzz as people debate potential cloud cover and trade tips on the best viewing points. Hours before wide swathes of Spain were set to experience the country’s first total...
‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing
Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients’ cells in a drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development....