22+ hour, 2+ min ago   (350+ words) The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal Recently, I overheard a conversation in a cafe where someone described their toast as “awesome”. I felt myself…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1783+ words) Canadians ‘angry’ at Trump for suggesting Canada should become 51st state, says mayor, as US businesses see sales fall amid trade war Like many Canadians, Tom Reid isn’t crossing the US-Canada border as often these days. But he needed a haircut....

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (478+ words) Atlantic Industrial Coatings was given $14.7m no-bid contract and its findings contradict president’s claims of vandalism The company hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has acknowledged that “human oversight” and flaws in the repair plan caused the newly installed…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (667+ words) Annualized inflation rate was 3.4%, same as July, and core inflation, which omits energy and food prices, rose to 2.4% US consumer prices remained stubbornly high in August as the end of the ceasefire between the US and Iran pushed energy prices…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (339+ words) Boss Richard Walker is ‘proud to be backing Britain’ with a store in the capital, Stanley The supermarket chain Iceland has said it will open a shop on the Falkland Islands in early December. The shop, to be launched in…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (750+ words) Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world’s forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions…...

4+ day, 12+ min ago   (798+ words) Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans A rapid global shift to clean electricity could trigger a “cascade” of progress towards repairing the damage to the planet by…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (641+ words) Plus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. They should visit London Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after visiting Coney Island in New York…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1151+ words) Firms warn of impact of company’s decision to to axe 4,000 jobs and call for government to support sector Jaguar Land Rover confirms plan to cut 4,000 jobs David Roberts is not in an optimistic mood. The chair of Coventry-based Evtec may…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (575+ words) Javier ⁠Milei has vowed to sanction oil companies drilling in the British overseas territory amid speculation Donald Trump is reviewing UK’s sovereignty ​claims Argentina’s government said on ⁠Monday it will file criminal charges against the Israeli energy company Navitas Petroleum…...