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Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?

How will we be fed? That’s the biggest question not seriously being addressed amid all this talk …

73 days ago

The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out

• Mia Mottley is the prime minister of Barbados

The timing is brut…

3 months ago

Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here’s how to weather the data storm

We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that…

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amaz…

5 months ago

Once the capital of the cotton weaving world during the Industrial Revolution, the former mill town - along with its neighbours - has become a golden triangle for asylum seekers.

6 months ago

Labour is hoping that big investors will build more homes. But there’s no guarantee they will be genuinely affordable

To an outside eye, English cities might seem deliberately designed to foment a hou…

The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants ha…

I have a friend in storage. Not the most glamorous business, to be sure, but lucrative. It's made him rich and his business is still expanding as he creates new storage facilities.

7 months ago

In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it

The Anthropocene is a new term use…

History comes to life on a hike through the woods and wagonways of County Durham, which takes in mining, trains, an award-winning museum – and corned beef and potato pie

The Great Northern Coalfield o…

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