How the EU plans to regulate artificial intelligence
The EU Parliament and the member states have agreed on a draft of their new AI Act. So what exactly will the landmark regulations entail?What happens if the 1.5C target for global heating is missed?
The Guardian asks five climate experts to explain the key differences between 1.5C and 2C.Plans to present meat as ‘sustainable nutrition’ at Cop28 revealed
Big meat companies and lobby groups are planning a large presence at the Cop28 climate conference, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit.Deadly harvest
Demand for palm oil is fuelling corruption in Honduras.
Climate scientists rebel against the IPCC
Following three decades of IPCC failures to convince nation states to make a dent in greenhouse gas emissions, a group of rebellious climate scientists claim rapid planet cooling measures must be employed as soon as possible to slow global heating.Canada oil and gas firms to drill 8% more wells next year
Amid forecasts that Canada is not on target to reach its emissions reductions goals, on Friday the Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) predicted nearly 500 more wells next year, to 6,229 projects.The seaweed farms that could feed us all – at a cost
Mammoth efforts to grow seaweed are springing up in the Philippines and beyond, and they’re in line for Elon Musk’s ‘largest incentive prize in history’. Meddling with the ocean to grow them, however, has some scientists troubled.After a record year of wildfires, will Canada ever be the same again?
Unprecedented blazes tore through boreal forest, unleashing vast carbon emissions in what may be a permanent change of state.Secularism in Iran
Postcolonial intellectuals and Iran’s rulers agree that secularism is just Western imperialism in disguise. They are wrong.Satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts
Declassified cold-war spy satellite images have thrown new light on the workings of the Roman empire by revealing hundreds of previously undiscovered forts, with dramatic implications for our understanding, experts have said.