51 h. ago ICE removes MGMT’s ‘Little Dark Age’ song from “propaganda” social media post after band issues takedown request

The song accompanied a video showing federal agents arresting protesters outside the ICE facility in Portland

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7 d. ago Troops on the streets, Ice thuggery – and prices still climbing: welcome to Trump’s ‘golden age’ | Steven Greenhouse

The president has repeatedly proclaimed a shining moment. Meanwhile, he’s taking a wrecking ball to truth and democracyIn his inauguration speech last January, Donald Trump bombastically declared: “The golden age of America begins right now.” Our braggadocious president has stuck to that theme ever since, telling the United National general assembly in late September: “This is indeed the golden age of America.”With the federal government shut down for more than two weeks, the nation more polarized than at any time since the civil war, political violence growing and the job market slowing, it doesn’t feel remotely like a golden age, unless one focuses on Trump’s Louis XIV-like effort to gild as many things as possible in the Oval Office. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ice Age snow sloths are brought to life in glossy new natural history show

More than a million years ago, the little-known snow sloths lived in the Ice Age... now they have been brought to life

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1 week ago Humanish by Justin Gregg review – how much of a person is your pet?

From prosthetic testicles for dogs to sociable reptiles, a behavioural scientist explains what we get wrong – and right – about animal mindsIn the 1970s a former Soviet naval officer named Igor Charkovsky popularised a concept which came to be known as dolphin-assisted birth. Likely inspired by New Age theories, he urged expectant mothers to dip in the ice-cold water of the Black Sea, commune with dolphins, and give birth underwater. In the “very near future,” he claimed, “a newborn child would be able to live in the ocean with a pod of dolphins and feed on dolphin milk”.The oddest thing about Charkovsky was not so much his theory, but its remarkable resilience within both Soviet and western culture, as Justin Gregg sets out in his illuminating and lively new book. Gregg’s work is both a dissection and an ode to the irresistible allure of anthropomorphism, our tendency to apply human characteristics to non-humans, whether animals, objects, AI, or God. An expert on ani...

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1 week ago Hippos thrived in central Europe 40,000 years ago, fossils reveal

Findings point to Upper Rhine fossil deposits as an important continental climate archive

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2 w. ago Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warnsSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereThe earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.The report from scientists and conservationists warns the world is also “on the brink” of reaching other tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the collapse of major ocean currents and the loss of ice sheets.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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3 w. ago UK and Europe could be plunged into new 'ice age' as 'tipping point' approaches

Scientists are warning of extreme and dramatic climate changes if a weakened ocean current collapses - potentially sending us hurtling into a new "little Ice Age"

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3 w. ago France is plunged into fresh chaos as another PM QUITS weeks after his appointment in new humiliation for Emmanuel Macron

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday accepted Lecornu's resignation, the Elysee Palace said, plunging the European nation further into political deadlock.

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