Some shareholders might object, but there is little they could do, legal experts say.

An angry Musk has taken his business elsewhere, and has urged other companies to follow suit.

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Maxing out at around 200 tons, the blue whale is not only the largest animal on the planet, it is also the largest animal ever to exist. These creatures become so massive by eating a diet comprised almost […]

A new law passed in Tennessee will protect residents from incurring rising electricity costs from nearby data centers’ demands on the grid. Republican-led bill HB 1847 prohibits utilities companies and municipalities from paying for a data center’s electrical needs, or any of the infrastructure costs involved in expansion. Sponsored by Republicans Senator Brent Taylor from […]

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NASA recently announced details of its first three missions of the Moon Base program, a series of landings on the Lunar south pole. Moon Base is the first stage of establishing a semi-permanent human presence on our satellite, and the data gathered during missions I, II, and III will inform the first visit of humans […]

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Following eye-watering Q1 performance, some 48,000 of Samsung’s semiconductor division workers are set to receive a new profit-sharing-style bonus structure that will give a bigger slice of the AI pie to those making baking it. Samsung’s compensation package was among the country’s most generous, as the tech giant accounts for a staggering 16% of national […]

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The Trump administration backed lawsuits brought by the Havana Docks Corporation that would allow the U.S.-owned entity to get compensation for property confiscated by Fidel Castro’s regime.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito, who owns stock in oil companies, may be violating court ethics codes by participating in certain cases that could benefit Big Oil, government watchdog groups say. In a Thursday letter, a coalition of watchdog organizations called on the…

How familiar are you with business courts? They may be flying under your radar, but your lives are deeply entangled. Nearly two-thirds of Americans live in a state with a business court. And some workers or consumers in those states—whether they like it or not—could end up having important cases decided by a business court.

That could be a problem, because new research by the People’s Parity…

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Back in 2017, Tesla promised to bring an all-electric semitruck to market that would have a longer range and lower cost than its competitors. Then, the trucking industry waited—and waited. The initial production target of 2019 came and went, as did each newly announced date […]

Kenya’s highest court recently struck down as unconstitutional a law that forbade seed sharing, a long practiced traditional means of diversifying crop production and resilience. The law, whether inadvertently or by design, made Kenya another country within the network of those whose seed industry is virtually controlled by a small group of international conglomerates like […]

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since President Donald Trump took office, the Securities and Exchange Commission has made it harder for small and activist investors to raise concerns through the government filing system known as EDGAR. Now they’re pushing back with their own alternative platform, which they […]

Spirit once upended the industry by offering very low fares but was in its second bankruptcy in two years after years of struggle.

Mining is heavy business, and this giant Komatsu excavator is too. It weighs 2 million pounds, but comes standard with fully-electric drive mode, allowing even the world’s largest mining operations to suddenly zero-out emissions from excavation vehicles. The PC9000-12 is the largest excavator Komatsu has ever built. It can move 80 tons with a single […]

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Data reporting by Melissa Lewis In remote Northeast California, about 10 miles outside the lumber mill town of Chester and a half-hour’s drive from the old hunting cabin I bought and fixed up about a decade ago, I steer my old Toyota Tacoma down a bumpy dirt road to where the Lassen National Forest gives […]

Reaching the milestone just before Earth Day, Ecosia, the nonprofit search engine, is celebrating 250 million trees planted worldwide, becoming the world’s largest planter of native trees. Since its founding in 2009, Ecosia has built the world’s largest network of local reforestation operations, numbering more than 200,000 tree planters and 125 organizations worldwide. Users’ clicks […]

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Employees at a Lowe’s in Pennsylvania were shocked after they went to retrieve a pallet high on a shelf and heard a chorus of frightened mewling. Atop the boxes the pallet held, they discovered 7 kittens across two litters. The store in Downingtown called Lucky Dawg Rescue shelter and explained their predicament. Lisa Newton from […]

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On Sunday afternoon, Palantir, the defense-tech company that sells software to clients like ICE, the US military, and the Israeli military, decided to give us all a piece of their mind. The company’s official X account published a list of excerpts from co-founder Alex Karp’s 2025 book The Technological Republic. The book frames Silicon Valley’s […]

A jury recently decided unanimously that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster were operating as a monopoly, and that this had led to exploitative pricing and promotional contracts with venues. Rolling Stone magazine called it a “landmark decision,” and while fans and concertgoers shouldn’t expect ticket prices to go down anytime soon, it could usher […]

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A man stares up at tax documents

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. California Assemblymember Nick Schultz is leading an effort to phase out the use of pesticides containing toxic “forever chemicals” to safeguard the nation’s produce. Schultz (D-Burbank), introduced AB 1603 earlier this year to ban the use, sale, and manufacture of PFAS…

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Utah has made it nearly impossible for residents to hold fossil fuel companies legally accountable for climate damages in a move one advocacy group described as putting “profits for the biggest polluters over communities,” with other states expected to follow suit. The new state…

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have identified 24 new deep-sea creatures and a whole new evolutionary […]

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) will introduce a bill Wednesday that aims to put a national moratorium on data center construction “until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a…

This story was originally published by Grist and Spotlight PA is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “I don’t like to see anyone upset,” said Nick Farris of Provident Real Estate Advisors. He was sitting in the front of a crowd of roughly 150 inside Valley View High School’s auditorium in Archbald, a town of about […]

This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It sounds like a bad joke, but last week a press release dropped into my inbox: “Leading Scientists Challenge Foundation of Climate Change Assessments, Revealing Fatal Flaws in Ocean Heat Content (OHC) Measurements.” The article this email was […]

Fifty years ago, in a small San Francisco office above a fast-food restaurant, a handful of plucky journalists started a new magazine. It was a time not that dissimilar from today. Corporations were growing more powerful. Massive social movements were transforming the country. Journalism—under a political microscope following the Watergate scandal—seemed more important than ever. […]

For three years, Andrew Osborne helped his bosses promote the idea that good design could make imprisonment more humane. As a public relations specialist at DLR Group, one of the largest architecture firms in the world, he crafted campaigns for multimillion dollar projects, like the construction of a “youth campus for empowerment” in Nashville. Or […]

The best travel stories are often those most subtle; things that only a genuinely attentive person could pick out in the strange society they pass through. Such a story comes now from Japan via the BBC, where reporter Giulia Crouch put together the tale of a unique profession of smiling “watchers,” who consider themselves to […]

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