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Rail firm must pay Native American tribe $400m for illegal crude oil trains
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:19:43 GMT

Judge orders BNSF to pay Swinomish Tribe for trespassing with dangerous cargo across tribal land of Washington state

One of the largest freight railroad networks in North America must pay nearly $400m to the Swinomish Tribe, a federally recognized tribe located in Washington state, a federal judge ordered on Monday. Last year, US district judge Robert Lasnik ruled that BNSF Railway intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe’s reservation.

Lasnik held a trial earlier this month to determine how much in profits BNSF had made from trespassing from 2012 to 2021, and how much of the company should be required to repay to the Indigenous group. Lasnik put that figure at $362m and added $32m in post-tax profits such as investment income for a total of more than $394m.

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GOP States Double Down on Fighting Medication Abortion After Supreme Court Keeps It Legal
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:51:02 +0000

From the jump, the lawsuit challenging the legality of mifepristone was a cynical, propagandistic endeavor. In a 9-0 opinion, the Supreme Court threw it out.

The post GOP States Double Down on Fighting Medication Abortion After Supreme Court Keeps It Legal appeared first on The Intercept.

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Texas A&M Wants to Keep Emails About Leonard Leo’s $15 Million Gift Secret
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:14:58 +0000

The donation, one of the largest in the school’s history, was made as right-wing megadonor Leo shopped a new law school center.

The post Texas A&M Wants to Keep Emails About Leonard Leo’s $15 Million Gift Secret appeared first on The Intercept.

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Joey Barton to pay Jeremy Vine £75,000 after calling him a ‘bike nonce’
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:29:09 GMT

Former footballer also issues public apology to presenter, who sued him over insults a court found to be defamatory

The former footballer and manager Joey Barton has issued a public apology on the social media site X and has agreed to pay £75,000 to Jeremy Vine, after a high court ruling that calling the broadcaster a “bike nonce” on social media was defamatory.

The radio and TV presenter sued Barton after the former footballer called him a “bike nonce” and a “pedo defender” during an online argument on X in January and March this year. In May the high court ruled that the social media posts could defame Vine.

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Keir Starmer commits to judge-led inquiry into Nottingham killings
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:24:48 GMT

Labour leader says families of three people stabbed to death have had ‘horrific experience’, as Barnaby Webber’s mother challenges him on radio phone-in

Keir Starmer has committed to a judge-led inquiry into the Nottingham attacks if Labour wins the election, saying there are “too many examples of victims and family members being let down”.

Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were stabbed to death last year by Valdo Calocane, who was sentenced to a hospital order after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility due to paranoid schizophrenia.

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Robbie Savage takes head coach job at Macclesfield, the club he part-owns
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:54:27 GMT

• Savage gets job after being ‘offered senior role elsewhere’
• Seventh-tier club say he will ‘judged solely on results’

Robbie Savage has been appointed as the head coach of Macclesfield FC. The former Wales midfielder was director of football at the phoenix club, as well as a shareholder, but after another club approached him he decided to take control of the first team.

Savage will be assisted by Peter Band while his former Leicester teammate Emile Heskey has been appointed in a “position-specific role as and when required”. Savage moving into the dugout means Michael Clegg, who was appointed as manager in February, has left the club.

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Stinginess, sexts and a Nazi tee: six revelations from The House of Beckham
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:00:03 GMT

Tom Bower’s unflattering portrait of Posh and Becks is packed with moments of high-level cringe

• House of Beckham by Tom Bower review – a symphony of snide

They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but what about judging it by its contents page? Scanning the list of chapters in The House of Beckham, Tom Bower’s allegedly “explosive” book on the celebrity couple, will certainly give you a good impression of what you’ll be getting. Wreckage! Shame! Agony! Cheapskate! Sex Scandal! Downfall! Warfare!

It’s safe to say this relentlessly mean book hasn’t been written with the blessing of Posh and Becks (or Thin and Thick, as Bower reminds readers they were often referred). But is it really as scandalous as it looks? Here are some things we learned from it.

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The British judges ruling on the law in authoritarian Hong Kong - podcast
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:00:04 GMT

Since 1997 Hong Kong’s highest court has included British judges. But with China changing the laws in the city, they are being urged to resign. Amy Hawkins reports

Since 1997, British and Commonwealth judges have sat in the highest court in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong legal system is derived from English common law and foreign judges, including those from the UK, have been said to add expertise and prestige to its court system.

But in 2020 Beijing imposed a strict national security law to clamp down on pro-democracy protests. Since then the number of foreign judges has fallen as fears grow that the judges are lending credibility to a system where basic rights and freedoms are not being respected.

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What does Steve Coogan’s Lost King case mean for future biopics?
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:38:22 GMT

The appetite for drama based on real events seems insatiable, but a preliminary ruling that a British film defamed the original of one of its characters – along with legal action against Baby Reindeer – may give producers pause for thought

It’s enough to chill the blood of screenwriters, directors and producers everywhere – or at least provoke a wince of recognition, whether they are in UK legal jurisdiction or not. In a preliminary ruling, a British judge has ruled that the The Lost King, the film about the discovery in 2012 of Richard III’s remains in a Leicester car park, has a case to answer that it is defamatory of Richard Taylor, a former university official.

The Lost King covers the efforts spearheaded by Philippa Langley (played by Sally Hawkins) to uncover Richard III’s skeleton, and Lee Ingleby plays Taylor, the then deputy registrar of Leicester university. Taylor claims the film shows him “behaving abominably” and shows him taking credit for the discovery for himself and the university.

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The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter – podcast
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:00:09 GMT

Stuart Potts is an unlikely do-gooder – a former crack addict who has hit rock bottom more than once. But since 2020, he has offered hundreds of homeless people a bed in his small flat – and for many of them, it has been life-changing. By Samira Shackle

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Magnet Fishing

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Biden moves to protect undocumented spouses and children from deportation – live
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:46:19 GMT

Latest immigration push comes weeks after implementing new rules to limit the flow of asylum seekers across the southern border

The House ethics committee has given an update into its investigation of Matt Gaetz, a rightwing Republican lawmaker from Florida who has been the subject of a long-running inquiry into his behavior.

The committee said they were continuing their investigation of Gaetz over whether he “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct”.

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Another Boeing whistleblower speaks out as CEO to testify before Congress
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:53:14 GMT

Sam Mohawk alleges he was told to conceal evidence from regulators while Dave Calhoun will face senators’ questions

Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward, accusing the embattled planemaker of cutting corners on its production line hours before its CEO testifies before Congress.

Sam Mohawk, a quality assurance inspector for the company in Renton, Washington, alleged that he was instructed by his supervisors to conceal evidence from regulators.

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JD Vance ‘disrespecting the dead’ with bump stock remarks, Nevada senator says
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:40:57 GMT

Ohio Republican senator dismissed efforts by Democrats to ban gun devices, used in 2017 Las Vegas concert shooting

• US politics live – latest updates

Political ripples from the supreme court’s decision to overturn a Trump White House-era ban on sales of “bump stocks” – a spring-loaded stock that uses recoil to in effect turn a semi-automatic firearm into a machine gun – continued to radiate on Monday when Jacky Rosen took exception to comments on the issue made by his Republican colleague JD Vance.

Vance, the Ohio senator and potential vice-presidential pick as Trump seeks a second presidency in November had dismissed efforts by senior Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, to pass legislation banning the devices as “a huge distraction”.

Ramon Antonio Vargas contributed reporting

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Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI
2024-06-18T11:04:08Z

There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general story: The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies...

Match ID: 14 Score: 10.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 0 days
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“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

“I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people."

The post “Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military appeared first on The Intercept.

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Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:25:16 +0000

The task force revealed its plans not in a communiqué to faculty and students — but instead in an Israeli newspaper article.

The post Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism appeared first on The Intercept.

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Congress should push for warning labels on social media platforms, White House says
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:48:42 +0000

Match ID: 17 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:59:24 +0000

UAVs continually kill civilians, but the U.S. military wants to expand its arsenal with an army of new, mass-produced kamikaze AI drones.

The post Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War appeared first on The Intercept.

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Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected as South Africa’s president
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:09:59 GMT

Leader gets second term after winning vote just hours after ANC and Democratic Alliance agreed coalition deal

South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has been reelected by lawmakers for a second term, hours after his African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance (DA) agreed to form a coalition, setting aside their rivalry in a historic governance pact.

Ramaphosa won the late Friday vote against Julius Malema, leader of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters, winning 283 votes to Malema’s 44.

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Match ID: 19 Score: 8.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
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South Africa’s ANC strikes coalition deal with free-market DA
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:00:29 GMT

Country’s second-largest party agrees to support re-election of Cyril Ramaphosa as president

South Africa’s African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance have agreed to form a coalition in which the former liberation movement and the pro-business party will set aside their rivalry in an historic governance pact.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s centrist preferences ultimately won out over more leftwing factions of the ANC that wanted to strike a deal with breakaway parties that back nationalisation and seizing land from white farmers. The deal was struck amid criticisms that the DA favours the interests of South Africa’s white minority, something it denies.

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:35:30 +0000

“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.

The post Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio appeared first on The Intercept.

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Judge Who Went on Israel Junket Recuses Himself From Gaza Case
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:14:44 +0000

The federal judge hearing a human rights case disputed allegations he might not be impartial but recused himself out of an “abundance of caution.”

The post Judge Who Went on Israel Junket Recuses Himself From Gaza Case appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 22 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 11 days
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AI and the Indian Election
2024-06-13T11:02:28Z

As India concluded the world’s largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologies—and what lessons that holds for the rest of the world.

The campaigns made extensive use of AI, including deepfake impersonations of candidates, celebrities and dead politicians. By some estimates, millions of Indian voters viewed deepfakes.

But, despite fears of widespread disinformation, for the most part the campaigns, candidates and activists used AI constructively in the election. They used AI for typical political activities, including mudslinging, but primarily to better connect with voters...

Match ID: 23 Score: 5.71 source: www.schneier.com age: 5 days
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House Votes to Block U.S. Funding to Rebuild Gaza
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:05:30 +0000

The Republican amendment to the annual defense budget is just one of several proposals to restrict humanitarian aid to Gaza.

The post House Votes to Block U.S. Funding to Rebuild Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:17:35 +0000

Dan Osborn, running as an independent, has racked up endorsements in a race that could help determine Senate control in 2024.

The post UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 25 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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“Not the Career in Public Service I Signed Up For”: Federal Workers Protest War
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:16:16 +0000

Government employees are using their official badges to demonstrate against U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

The post “Not the Career in Public Service I Signed Up For”: Federal Workers Protest War appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 26 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 1.43 congress

Exclusive: The Guardian interviews President Zelenskiy
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:48:04 GMT

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, revealed the tactics and traits that help him face the daily frustrations of leading a country at war for more than two years.

Within a ceremonial room inside Kyiv’s presidential compound, Zelenskiy spoke for nearly an hour with a Guardian team, including the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. The interview took place during perhaps the toughest time for Ukraine since the early days of the war. Russia is on the offensive in Kharkiv, an advance that follows months of delay in the US Congress over the passing of a major support package, limiting Ukraine’s battlefield capabilities

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Pascal's Wager Triangle

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Magnet Fishing

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Broken Model

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NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:56:13 +0000
Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data. Declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake and Lake Mead have been testaments to a megadrought afflicting western North America since 2000. But […]
Match ID: 0 Score: 70.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Justin Timberlake arrested on driving while intoxicated charge
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:37:00 GMT
The pop start was arrested and formally charged on Tuesday morning, local officials told the BBC.
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Justin Timberlake arrested on DWI charge in the Hamptons
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:31:56 GMT

Pop star to be arraigned in Sag Harbor, court official confirms, after Monday night arrest

Justin Timberlake is facing a charge of driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons in New York and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, a local court official confirmed to the Guardian.

The pop singer and actor’s arraignment was set to occur at the courthouse in Sag Harbor after he was arrested in that community on Monday night, New York’s Newsday reported.

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Match ID: 2 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI
2024-06-18T11:04:08Z

There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general story: The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies...

Match ID: 3 Score: 15.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 0 days
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From Endrick to Adams: 10 players ready to shine at Copa América
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:00:17 GMT

With the tournament kicking off this week, we look at the players who will be decisive in the US this summer

One of the beautiful things about soccer in the Americas is the mix of players who suit up at the international level. Peru will once again trust 40-year-old Paolo Guerrero at a Copa América, Chile will turn to 41-year-old goalkeeper Claudio Bravo while future stars like 17-year-old Kendry Páez of Ecuador and 19-year-old Valentín Carboni of Argentina will play in their major international tournament.

Between the extremes, there are plenty of players in their primes who will dazzle. We trust you’re familiar with Lionel Messi, Vinícius Júnior and Luis Díaz, so here are 10 players who should star – if not shine as brightly as the Ballon d’Or contenders – in the US this summer.

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Instead of Mining the Deep Sea, Maybe People Should Just Fix Stuff
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000
A new report contends that deep sea mining is not only an environmental risk, it’s also not going to help meet the world’s renewable energy needs.
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From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:00:06 GMT

The University of Nairobi’s new chancellor says the continent has vast potential – but to realise the promise of AI and green jobs, rich countries must honour their commitments

Africa has all the potential to meet pressing climate challenges with innovative solutions, according to one of the world’s renowned environmentalists. With its vast natural capital and youthful population, “this is Africa’s century,” according to Prof Patrick Verkooijen, chief executive of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), and the new chancellor of the University of Nairobi.

But Verkooijen emphasises that support and investment from the global north is essential, highlighting that 65% of the world’s uncultivated land is in Africa, a continent with immense promise in its population, set to make up one in four people globally by 2050.

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Sols 4216-4218: Another ‘Mammoth’ Plan!
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:36:42 +0000
Earth planning date: Friday, June 14, 2024 At the start of this week, we did a preload test on the target “Mammoth Lakes,” the rightmost bright ellipse (DRT ellipse, so less dusty) on the workspace image above. The preload test shows the stability of the rock, making sure it doesn’t move and that it doesn’t […]
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Many stunt performers are reluctant to report head injuries, study finds
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 22:53:40 +0000
"This population doesn’t often seek medical help out of fear of being unemployed.”
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NASA Awards Contract for Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Operations
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:27:33 +0000
NASA has awarded a contract to Vertex Aerospace, LLC of Madison, Mississippi, for labor support to ensure continuing safe operations of the Sonny Carter Training Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Operations Contract II has a two-year base period that begins Oct. 1, followed by five option periods ranging […]
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Stanford disappoints critics of fossil fuel donations by hiring PR firm with big oil ties
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:13:43 GMT

University hires Brunswick Group amid anger from campus organizers at its sustainability school’s funding

Stanford University’s sustainability school has hired a public relations firm to address “potential reputational challenges” amid concern from campus activists over the institution’s extensive ties with fossil fuel companies.

However, that PR firm, the Brunswick Group, has itself faced criticism for working with oil and gas companies, disappointing the university’s climate advocates. Brunswick says it is “vital to engage with companies in the most complex sectors to decarbonize”.

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NASA Interns Blast Off for Their First Week at Goddard
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:02:17 +0000
Several hundred new faces walked through the gates of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the first time on June 3. Who is this small army of motivated space-enthusiasts? It’s Goddard’s 2024 summer intern cohort. Across Goddard’s campuses, more than 300 on-site and virtual interns spend the 10-week program contributing across all […]
Match ID: 11 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Slow Your Student’s ‘Summer Slide’ and Beat Boredom With NASA STEM
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:31:42 +0000
The school year has come to an end, and those long summer days are stretching ahead like an open runway. Parents and educators often worry about the “summer slide,” the concept that students may lose academic ground while out of school. But summer doesn’t mean students’ imaginations have to stay grounded! Are you hoping to […]
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Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. A team of scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. With the telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), the team gathered data that is […]
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Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Extreme weather threatens the investment value of many properties, but financing for climate mitigation efforts are only just getting going.
Match ID: 14 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Globetrotting NASA Research Model Increases Accuracy
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:59:00 +0000
NASA and its international partners are using the same generically shaped wing design to create physical and digital research models to better understand how air moves around an aircraft during takeoff and landing. Various organizations are doing computer modeling with computational tools and conducting wind tunnel tests using the same High Lift Common Research Model […]
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Hello sunshine: We test McLaren’s drop-top hybrid Artura Spider
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:01:31 +0000
The addition of a retractable roof makes this Artura the one to pick.
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Ukrainian Sailors Are Using Telegram to Avoid Being Tricked Into Smuggling Oil for Russia
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contract seafarers in Ukraine are turning to online whisper networks to keep themselves from being hired into Russia’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet.
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Tropical Solstice Shadows
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Solstices were some of our earliest astronomical observations, celebrated throughout history via many summer and winter celebrations.
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The Decline of the Rio Grande
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:00:31 +0000
When the water runs out, there are no good options. One of the poorest regions in Texas faces an uncertain future.
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Crossbows and eerie silences – following Antarctic whales for climate change clues
Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:06:47 GMT
How scientists are discovering secrets of Antarctic climate change in the bodies of giant humpback whales.
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How One Insurtech Firm Formulated a Strategy for Climate Change
2024-06-04T00:00:00Z

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Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:51:10 +0000
Temperature fluctuations are unpredictable. Humans are even more so
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How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:59:08 +0000
Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences
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Hottest February marks ninth new monthly record
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:06:49 GMT
It's the ninth month of global temperature records in a row, driven by climate change and El Niño.
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Why firms are racing to produce green ammonia
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:04:21 GMT
Ammonia is essential for fertiliser production but producing it is carbon intensive.
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A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The climate crisis has become a mental health crisis. But eco-anxiety isn’t necessarily a pathology.
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

SEMrush and Ahrefs are among the most popular tools in the SEO industry. Both companies have been in business for years and have thousands of customers per month.

If you're a professional SEO or trying to do digital marketing on your own, at some point you'll likely consider using a tool to help with your efforts. Ahrefs and SEMrush are two names that will likely appear on your shortlist.

In this guide, I'm going to help you learn more about these SEO tools and how to choose the one that's best for your purposes.

What is SEMrush?

SEMrush is a popular SEO tool with a wide range of features—it's the leading competitor research service for online marketers. SEMrush's SEO Keyword Magic tool offers over 20 billion Google-approved keywords, which are constantly updated and it's the largest keyword database.

The program was developed in 2007 as SeoQuake is a small Firefox extension

Features

• Most accurate keyword data: Accurate keyword search volume data is crucial for SEO and PPC campaigns by allowing you to identify what keywords are most likely to bring in big sales from ad clicks. SEMrush constantly updates its databases and provides the most accurate data.
• Largest Keyword database: SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool now features 20-billion keywords, providing marketers and SEO professionals the largest database of keywords.


• All SEMrush users receive daily ranking data, mobile volume information, and the option to buy additional keywords by default with no additional payment or add-ons needed
• Most accurate position tracking tool: This tool provides all subscribers with basic tracking capabilities, making it suitable for SEO professionals. Plus, the Position Tracking tool provides local-level data to everyone who uses the tool.
• SEO Data Management: SEMrush makes managing your online data easy by allowing you to create visually appealing custom PDF reports, including Branded and White Label reports, report scheduling, and integration with GA, GMB, and GSC.
• Toxic link monitoring and penalty recovery: With SEMrush, you can make a detailed analysis of toxic backlinks, toxic scores, toxic markers, and outreach to those sites.
• Content Optimization and Creation Tools: SEMrush offers content optimization and creation tools that let you create SEO-friendly content. Some features include the SEO Writing Assistant, On-Page SEO Check, er/SEO Content Template, Content Audit, Post Tracking, Brand Monitoring.

Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading SEO platform that offers a set of tools to grow your search traffic, research your competitors, and monitor your niche. The company was founded in 2010, and it has become a popular choice among SEO tools. Ahrefs has a keyword index of over 10.3 billion keywords and offers accurate and extensive backlink data updated every 15-30 minutes and it is the world's most extensive backlink index database.

Features

• Backlink alerts data and new keywords: Get an alert when your site is linked to or discussed in blogs, forums, comments, or when new keywords are added to a blog posting about you.
• Intuitive interface: The intuitive design of the widget helps you see the overall health of your website and search engine ranking at a glance.
• Site Explorer: The Site Explorer will give you an in-depth look at your site's search traffic.
• Domain Comparison
• Reports with charts and graphs
• JavaScript rendering and a site audit can identify SEO issues.
• A question explorer that provides well-crafted topic suggestions

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

Now that you know a little more about each tool, let's take a look at how they compare. I'll analyze each tool to see how they differ in interfaces, keyword research resources, rank tracking, and competitor analysis.

User Interface

Ahrefs and SEMrush both offer comprehensive information and quick metrics regarding your website's SEO performance. However, Ahrefs takes a bit more of a hands-on approach to getting your account fully set up, whereas SEMrush's simpler dashboard can give you access to the data you need quickly.

In this section, we provide a brief overview of the elements found on each dashboard and highlight the ease with which you can complete tasks.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs dashboard is less cluttered than that of SEMrush, and its primary menu is at the very top of the page, with a search bar designed only for entering URLs.

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

• You can see analytics from the dashboard, including search engine rankings to domain ratings, referring domains, and backlink
• Jumping from one tool to another is easy. You can use the Keyword Explorer to find a keyword to target and then directly track your ranking with one click.
• The website offers a tooltip helper tool that allows you to hover your mouse over something that isn't clear and get an in-depth explanation.

SEMRUSH

When you log into the SEMrush Tool, you will find four main modules. These include information about your domains, organic keyword analysis, ad keyword, and site traffic.

You'll also find some other options like

• A search bar allows you to enter a domain, keyword, or anything else you wish to explore.
• A menu on the left side of the page provides quick links to relevant information, including marketing insights, projects, keyword analytics, and more.
• The customer support resources located directly within the dashboard can be used to communicate with the support team or to learn about other resources such as webinars and blogs.
• Detailed descriptions of every resource offered. This detail is beneficial for new marketers, who are just starting.

WHO WINS?

Both Ahrefs and SEMrush have user-friendly dashboards, but Ahrefs is less cluttered and easier to navigate. On the other hand, SEMrush offers dozens of extra tools, including access to customer support resources.

When deciding on which dashboard to use, consider what you value in the user interface, and test out both.

Rank Tracking

If you're looking to track your website's search engine ranking, rank tracking features can help. You can also use them to monitor your competitors.

Let's take a look at Ahrefs vs. SEMrush to see which tool does a better job.

Ahrefs

The Ahrefs Rank Tracker is simpler to use. Just type in the domain name and keywords you want to analyze, and it spits out a report showing you the search engine results page (SERP) ranking for each keyword you enter.

Rank Tracker looks at the ranking performance of keywords and compares them with the top rankings for those keywords. Ahrefs also offers:

You'll see metrics that help you understand your visibility, traffic, average position, and keyword difficulty.

It gives you an idea of whether a keyword would be profitable to target or not.

SEMRUSH

SEMRush offers a tool called Position Tracking. This tool is a project tool—you must set it up as a new project. Below are a few of the most popular features of the SEMrush Position Tracking tool:

All subscribers are given regular data updates and mobile search rankings upon subscribing

The platform provides opportunities to track several SERP features, including Local tracking.

Intuitive reports allow you to track statistics for the pages on your website, as well as the keywords used in those pages.

Identify pages that may be competing with each other using the Cannibalization report.

WHO WINS?

Ahrefs is a more user-friendly option. It takes seconds to enter a domain name and keywords. From there, you can quickly decide whether to proceed with that keyword or figure out how to rank better for other keywords.

SEMrush allows you to check your mobile rankings and ranking updates daily, which is something Ahrefs does not offer. SEMrush also offers social media rankings, a tool you won't find within the Ahrefs platform. Both are good which one do you like let me know in the comment.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is closely related to rank tracking, but it's used for deciding which keywords you plan on using for future content rather than those you use now.

When it comes to SEO, keyword research is the most important thing to consider when comparing the two platforms.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs Keyword Explorer provides you with thousands of keyword ideas and filters search results based on the chosen search engine.

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

• It can search multiple keywords in a single search and analyze them together. At SEMrush, you also have this feature in Keyword Overview.
• Ahrefs has a variety of keywords for different search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and other search engines.
• When you click on a keyword, you can see its search volume and keyword difficulty, but also other keywords related to it, which you didn't use.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool has over 20 billion keywords for Google. You can type in any keyword you want, and a list of suggested keywords will appear.

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

• Show performance metrics by keyword
• Search results are based on both broad and exact keyword matches.
• Show data like search volume, trends, keyword difficulty, and CPC.
• Show the first 100 Google search results for any keyword.
• Identify SERP Features and Questions related to each keyword
• SEMrush has released a new Keyword Gap Tool that uncovers potentially useful keyword opportunities for you, including both paid and organic keywords.

WHO WINS?

Both of these tools offer keyword research features and allow users to break down complicated tasks into something that can be understood by beginners and advanced users alike.

If you're interested in keyword suggestions, SEMrush appears to have more keyword suggestions than Ahrefs does. It also continues to add new features, like the Keyword Gap tool and SERP Questions recommendations.

Competitor Analysis

Both platforms offer competitor analysis tools, eliminating the need to come up with keywords off the top of your head. Each tool is useful for finding keywords that will be useful for your competition so you know they will be valuable to you.

AHREFS

Ahrefs' domain comparison tool lets you compare up to five websites (your website and four competitors) side-by-side.it also shows you how your site is ranked against others with metrics such as backlinks, domain ratings, and more.

Use the Competing Domains section to see a list of your most direct competitors, and explore how many keywords matches your competitors have.

To find more information about your competitor, you can look at the Site Explorer and Content Explorer tools and type in their URL instead of yours.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush provides a variety of insights into your competitors' marketing tactics. The platform enables you to research your competitors effectively. It also offers several resources for competitor analysis including:

Traffic Analytics helps you identify where your audience comes from, how they engage with your site, what devices visitors use to view your site, and how your audiences overlap with other websites.

SEMrush's Organic Research examines your website's major competitors and shows their organic search rankings, keywords they are ranking for, and even if they are ranking for any (SERP) features and more.

The Market Explorer search field allows you to type in a domain and lists websites or articles similar to what you entered. Market Explorer also allows users to perform in-depth data analytics on These companies and markets.

WHO WINS?

SEMrush wins here because it has more tools dedicated to competitor analysis than Ahrefs. However, Ahrefs offers a lot of functionality in this area, too. It takes a combination of both tools to gain an advantage over your competition.

Pricing

Ahrefs

• Lite Monthly: $99/month
• Standard Monthly: $179/month
• Annually Lite: $990/year
• Annually Standard: $1790/year

SEMRUSH

• Pro Plan: $119.95/month
• Guru Plan:$229.95/month
• Business Plan: $449.95/month

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

When it comes to keyword data research, you will become confused about which one to choose.

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

• Like friendly and clean interface
• Searching for simple keyword suggestions

• Want to get more keywords for different search engines like Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, and more

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

• Want more marketing and SEO features
• Need competitor analysis tool
• Need to keep your backlinks profile clean
• Looking for more keyword suggestions for Google

Both tools are great. Choose the one which meets your requirements and if you have any experience using either Ahrefs or SEMrush let me know in the comment section which works well for you.

 

 

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How extreme weather could impact the Paris Olympics
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:35:21 GMT
With the Paris Olympic games coming up and extreme heat already affecting parts of Europe, there are concerns for athletes and spectators.
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Super Seniors review – the near-miraculous feats of tennis players in their 80s and 90s
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:16 GMT

Former pro Dan Lobb’s perky documentary follows the irrepressible athletes as they compete for glory in their age groups’ world championships

Three sinewy octogenarians and one unfeasibly hale-looking nonagenarian are the focus of this perky documentary looking at tennis players still holding their own in a late tiebreak with father time. A mixture of ex-pros and dogged late starters who picked the game up in middle age, they all converge at the International Tennis Federation senior world championships in Croatia; a tournament with more matches than Wimbledon. As serial winner King van Nostrand – a former maths teacher who was 85 at the time of filming – points out, small margins of age count; at a given point, a younger player of inferior ability will statistically start beating their older betters.

A stooping Floridian with a rapier grin, Van Nostrand has dominated the seniors circuit winning a record-breaking 43 titles and is still not tired of winning. His doubles partner is 87-year-old John Powless, a varsity-league and pro player whose beautiful stroke and attaboy magnanimity are intact, but whose energy is being sapped by chemo. Refusing to acknowledge her age (82), Etty Marouani is a coquettish former Parisian model who took up tennis at 42. Her girlish hair ribbon belies a killer determination to add the world title to her French seniors one. Most remarkable is 95-year-old Ukrainian Leonid Stanislavskyi, an amateur who picked up a racket to keep body and mind ticking over. He’s generally resigned to being battered by his juniors, with only two other nonagenarian competitors available. “Even if I lose, I’ll come third,” he says.

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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

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Slow Your Student’s ‘Summer Slide’ and Beat Boredom With NASA STEM
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:31:42 +0000
The school year has come to an end, and those long summer days are stretching ahead like an open runway. Parents and educators often worry about the “summer slide,” the concept that students may lose academic ground while out of school. But summer doesn’t mean students’ imaginations have to stay grounded! Are you hoping to […]
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Keir Starmer calls for review of late kick-offs at football matches
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:00:21 GMT

Exclusive: Labour leader wants a new regulator to look into issue, saying it is increasing travel costs for supporters

• UK election live – latest updates

Keir Starmer has called for a review into late kick-offs at football matches, warning they are increasing costs for supporters who want to travel to games.

The Labour leader told the Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast he wanted a new football regulator to look into whether the Premier League should be allowed to hold games late in the evening, such as at 8pm on Saturdays.

The Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast is available daily throughout the Euros.

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Parkour group damages historic Italian building in failed stunt
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:56:21 +0000
Team Phat’s stunt in Matera ended with a stone falling off a historic site and the jumper injuring himself. It comes as scrutiny of traveler behavior increases worldwide.
Match ID: 2 Score: 35.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Children who went missing after Thorpe Park trip found safe and well
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:22:11 GMT

Two girls, aged nine and 14, and a boy, seven, found in London after going missing on Monday

The three children who went missing after a day out at a theme park in Surrey have been found safe and well in London.

Khandi, 14, Amelia, nine, and Malik, seven, were reported missing shortly after 7pm after a day out in Thorpe Park. They were all known to each other, and the two youngest children are related. They had been at the park on a planned day out and had travelled to Surrey from Milton Keynes.

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‘Beware of locals, we are angry’: the Mallorcans battling tourists to protect their beautiful beach
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:31:19 GMT

What happens when a beach goes viral on social media? Thousands of people start visiting, leaving tampons, toilet paper and countless cigarette butts ...

Name: TikTok beaches.

Age: TikTok has been around since 2016; beaches slightly longer.

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Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI
2024-06-18T11:04:08Z

There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general story: The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies...

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Airbnb’s Olympics Push Could Help It Win Over Paris
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Paris officials have placed tough new restrictions on Airbnb rentals in recent years. The company is using the Olympics to try and win over locals and broaden its footprint in the iconic city.
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Thousands of Swift fans travel to Cardiff for gig
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:48:07 GMT
Swifties told roads around south Wales likely to be busy before Tuesday's Principality Stadium show.
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Premier League opening fixtures: Manchester City at Chelsea, Ipswich host Liverpool
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:05:28 GMT

• First game will be Manchester United v Fulham
• Promoted Southampton travel to Newcastle

Manchester City will begin their pursuit of an unprecedented fifth consecutive Premier League title away to Chelsea. The match on Sunday 18 August will pit Pep Guardiola against his former assistant Enzo Maresca, who was appointed by Chelsea after guiding Leicester to promotion.

The FA Cup winners Manchester United will host the opening game of the campaign when Fulham visit on Friday 16 August.

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Solstice: Celebrating the return of light – in pictures
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:00:08 GMT

Every 21 June for over 10 years, Claudine Doury has traveled from St Petersburg to Maloyaroslavets in Russia, to the island of Lake Ives in Belarus, and to Kaunas, Vilnius and the Polish and Latvian countryside, to witness the summer solstice. The night of the solstice is a traditional celebration whose roots lie in pagan festivals closely linked to the forces of nature and the worship of the sun

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Paris can wait: how we dodged the summer crowds by Interrailing to Europe’s smaller towns
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:00:05 GMT

We took our teenage sons on quieter tracks – to Utrecht rather than Amsterdam, Baden-Baden not Berlin – and enjoyed a less frantic rail tour of Europe

We were sitting enjoying a quiet beer at a bar in Ghent when I realised we’d made the right decision. Ghent was humming but not heaving, cheerful but not chaotic. It was the first night of our three-week Interrail trip with our 18- and 16-year-old sons. Now, after a long train journey, the calm ambience of the medieval Belgian city left us feeling relaxed rather than exhausted.

An Interrail ticket opens up 33 European countries by rail and many people seize the opportunity to visit capital cities on their bucket list. A typical itinerary takes in big hitters like Paris, Prague, Rome and Madrid. We decided to do things a little differently.

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Putin praises North Korea for Ukraine support ahead of visit to Pyongyang
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:21:58 GMT

Russian leader will have talks with Kim Jong-un with shared aim of expanding security and economic cooperation

Vladimir Putin has praised North Korea for supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine, as he travels to Pyongyang to seek continued military support from one of the world’s most isolated nations.

In his first visit to North Korea since 2000, Putin will meet Kim Jong-un for one-on-one talks in Pyongyang as the two leaders pledge to expand their security and economic cooperation in defiance of western sanctions against both countries.

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‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:00:03 GMT

One of the world’s most remote populations must deal with a flood of multinational plastic, much of it tossed overboard by the factory fishing ships hoovering up sealife just offshore

• Photographs by Akira Franklin

From a distance, the colourful beach at Ovahe seems a postcard-perfect mosaic of natural beauty. Craggy volcanic boulders, pockmarked from bubbling lava, jut from the sand, garnished by a necklace of pastel-coloured corals and seashells pounded to pieces by the wild, crashing surf.

As the waves pull back, however, another reality emerges. The sand holds few corals or shells. Instead, the high-tide mark is a multinational carpet of plastics polished into an array of bleached Coca-Cola reds and Pepsi blues.

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Governor installs crowd control gate on Mount Fuji to limit tourists
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:23:15 GMT

Yamanashi prefecture brings in modest hiking fee to stop ‘bullet climbing’ and address safety concerns

A crowd-control gate has been installed halfway up Mount Fuji before the start of this year’s climbing season on 1 July, but the governor of Yamanashi, one of the two prefectures that are home to the mountain, said additional measures were needed to control overcrowding on its lower slopes.

The gate was completed on Monday as part of a set of measures being introduced this year to address growing safety, environmental and overcrowding problems on Japan’s highest and best-known mountain.

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Want to drive through Europe? Try this route from Amsterdam to Paris.
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Renting a car in the Netherlands can take you off the beaten path to stops like Gouda and Dijon, France, before finishing your road trip in Paris.
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18 Best Camera Bags, Slings, Straps, and Backpacks (2024)
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000
Tote your photo and video gear around in style. We tested more than 75 packs and rounded up our favorites.
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These “Tent Massacre” Survivors Couldn’t Afford to Leave Rafah. The Next Israeli Attack Nearly Wiped Their Family Out.
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

“I felt helpless watching my family dying and not able to help them. It is a nightmare that I will never wake up from.”

The post These “Tent Massacre” Survivors Couldn’t Afford to Leave Rafah. The Next Israeli Attack Nearly Wiped Their Family Out. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:35:30 +0000

“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.

The post Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio appeared first on The Intercept.

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The fake news divide: how Modi’s rule is fracturing India – video
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:31:48 GMT

Ahead of the election in India, the Guardian’s video team travelled through the country to explore how fake news and censorship might shape the outcome.

Almost one billion people are registered to vote. The country's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been in power for more than 10 years, and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is seeking a third term.

But critics of Modi and the BJP say his government has become increasingly authoritarian, fracturing the country along religious lines and threatening India’s secular democracy. At the same time, the space for freedom of speech has been shrinking while disinformation and hate speech has exploded on social media.

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Guardian Traveller newsletter: Sign up for our free holidays email
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors.

You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.

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