Baja California’s Arid Delta
A salt-encrusted landscape surrounds the Colorado River where it empties into the Gulf of California. Read More... Read More
How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health
The BBC's James Gallagher investigates the invisible killer all around us.
Road hogs: what is Australia’s love of big cars costing us all?
SUVs are now Australia’s most popular new car to buy. But while owners enjoy tax benefits and more powerful engines, society is paying in ways big and smallAustralians are obsessed
From sterilising baby bottles to charging laptops, some Australians powered through Cyclone Alfred using EV batteries
With power unlikely to be restored in some areas for weeks, EV owners are finding clever uses for their ‘batteries on wheels’ Get our breaking news email, free app or
Rocket blasts off to bring stranded US astronauts home from the ISS at long last
Launched by Nasa and SpaceX, the Falcon 9 is picking up Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, whose eight days on board the International Space Station became nine monthsA long-awaited mission
Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein
Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online He was a self-educated genius whose groundbreaking discoveries in the fields
Pluralistic: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 Mar 2025)
Today's links Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading: "The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting
“Guardrails” Won’t Protect Nashville Residents From AI-Enabled Camera Networks
Nashville’s Metropolitan Council is one vote away from passing an ordinance that’s being branded as “guardrails” against the privacy problems that come with giving the police a connected camera system
Big oil gathers in Texas – but beneath the bravado, Trump-induced anxiety
Energy summit in Houston makes clear US is nowhere close to curbing fossil fuels, but tariffs are causing disquietThis week, the world’s most influential fossil-fuels conference, which has been dubbed
UN chief affirms solidarity with Bangladesh amid political transition
On a visit to Bangladesh, UN Secretary-General António Guterres underscored the pivotal moment the country is facing as it navigates a period of significant transition and reform.
‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds
Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisationsThe red tape of government bureaucracy spans more than 4,000 years, according to new finds
How Spotify’s Premium Piracy Panic Played Out & What Pirates Did Next
Reports last week that Spotify had suddenly gone down worldwide were a little overblown. The ‘outage’ may have felt that big to those affected, and it may have been of