Tropical Depressions

Climate change means, quite plausibly, the end of everything we now understand to constitute our humanity. By Sam Kriss, Ellie Mae O’Hagan.

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Is this Britain’s most influential bridge?

Nestled upon the banks of the River Severn lies the Shropshire town of Ironbridge, a modest Victorian settlement with a world-changing history.

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Sci-Fi novel envisions corporatocracy in a climate-changed future

In Tal Klein’s new novel, The Punch Escrow, humans have successfully tackled disease and climate change, but powerful corporations control everything.

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Endangered Parrots moved to sheltered as Maria approaches Puerto Rico | Enjoy The Silence

For the second time in two weeks, the biologists in Puerto Rico are scrambling to protect the endangered Puerto Rican parrot from intense Hurricane winds.

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Thirty of the World’s Most Valuable Treasures That Are Still Missing

Some of these treasures are now likely destroyed, including the Ark of the Covenant, but some may still exist and be recovered — such as the crown jewels of Ireland, a 333-carat pink diamond and mysterious treasure depicted in a Dead Sea Scroll. By Owen Jarus.

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Octlantis: the underwater city built by octopuses

f animals are our other, there is nothing quite so other as the octopus. It is the alien with whom we share our planet, a coeval evolutionary life form whose slithery slipperiness and more than the requisite number of limbs (each of which contains its own “brain”) symbolise the dark mystery and fear of the deep.

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President Macron says Paris Climate Agreement 'will not be re-negotiated' after US demands

Emmanuel Macron has said the landmark Paris climate deal will not be renegotiated, after White House officials suggested Donald Trump could remain a signatory of the agreement but only if new terms were reached. The French President's comments during his address to the UN General Assembly effectively end renewed hopes that the world's second largest polluter would remain tied to the accord's carbon emission targets.

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