New study shows the bet many companies are making on forest carbon capture to reach their net-zero pledges is flawed at its core.

Scientists are seeing warning signs for 2023.

Ova don’t make a woman, and sperm don’t make a man

Idaho is already facing several federal lawsuits over its anti-trans legislation...

L’économiste, proche d’Emmanuel Macron, appelle à s’endetter en faveur de la transition climatique dans un rapport rendu public lundi 22 mai.

On May Day, South Korean construction union leader Yang Hoe-dong took his own life by setting himself on fire rather than accept the state’s anti-union charges against him. Yang is a brutal casualty of the South Korean president’s war on labor.

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

As Black Lives Matter protests surged after George Floyd's murder, the UK vowed to act. Three years on, it hasn't followed through

The upstart European Sleeper is gambling on a night train revival to link up the Continent.

In California una norma chiede che i dati sulle emissioni legate a produzione e consumo dei singoli beni debbano essere divulgati: le aziende si mobilitano per impedirlo

David Elliot Berman and Victor Pickard say we must assert greater public oversight, control, and—ultimately—ownership of the internet.

The "Fake News Bill" threatens to undo many of the rights protections of Brazil’s Marco Civil da Internet, says Joan Barata.

Although China now has an urban majority, the key to its development since 1949 lies in the vast countryside. Maoist land reform redistributed land on a huge scale, but the country’s rulers are still reluctant to discuss the darker side of its history.

Barack Obama abandoned his commitments to unions, and many top staffers went to work for the gig economy. In his Netflix series Working, the former president bears witness to workers’ suffering as if it were immutable — and something he had nothing to do…

The closure of the Beijing LGBT Centre (北京同志中心) on 15 May 2023, only three months after its fifteenth anniversary, caused shock and heartbreak among the Chinese queer community both within China and abroad. One of the largest and longest-running LGBTQ non…

There’s no substitute for building worker power and winning state power to change the world. But we also shouldn’t reject the utopian spirit that has long driven many to create egalitarian living and working arrangements.

Washington needs an endgame in Ukraine.

Silvio Berlusconi, who died today at age 86, centered Italian politics on his TV empire and brought the far right to power. A predecessor to Donald Trump, he remains the ultimate icon of the sidelining of democracy by media power.

In the 19th century, London was an overcrowded river of sewage. One peculiar man helped to reshape public health.