E‑Waste Recycling Goes Green: No Smelters Needed
Here’s a refreshingly practical climate win: UK recyclers are swapping energy-hungry smelters for smart solvents to recover precious metals from our old phones and laptops — and they’re doing it at room temperature. As reported by Good News Network, startup DEScycle uses deep eutectic solvents to selectively dissolve metals like gold, cobalt, and copper from […]
Amazon’s 14,000 Cuts Are a Culture Reset: Not a Cost-Cut
Amazon just reframed one of the year’s biggest corporate shakeups. CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s decision to cut 14,000 roles is not about tightening the purse strings or AI replacing people. It is about culture. On the latest earnings call, he explained that as Amazon added headcount, locations, and business lines, layers crept in […]
The Big Short’s Michael Burry Bets Against AI
What happens when the man behind The Big Short thinks tech’s AI rocket ship is overheating? Markets listen. According to BBC News, hedge fund investor Michael Burry has wagered $1.1bn on a fall in shares of AI favorites Nvidia and Palantir, just as tech stocks stumbled across the globe. Japan’s Nikkei closed down 2.5%, weighed […]
Nyc Makes History With Zohran Mamdani: Rent Freeze Reshape City Living
New York City has made history by electing Zohran Mamdani as its first Muslim and first South Asian mayor, and he is arriving with a kitchen-table agenda that puts affordability front and center. The standout proposal is a four-year rent freeze on roughly one million rent-stabilized apartments. In a city where the average one-bedroom in […]
The Comfort Trap: Why AI Companions Can Make Us Less Social
The social media era as we knew it is officially over, and what’s replacing it might be far more isolating than we ever imagined. Mark Zuckerberg’s recent revelation that the average American has fewer than three friends speaks volumes about the unintended consequences of platforms designed to “connect” us. But rather than fixing the loneliness […]
Mind, Spirit, and the Nature Connection Gap
A sweeping new global study on our relationship with nature has a surprising twist: Britain, known for its gardens and green lanes, ranks among the least “nature-connected” nations in the world, landing 55th out of 61. Meanwhile, Nepal tops the list, with Iran, South Africa, Bangladesh, and Nigeria close behind. The research, published in Ambio […]
Why Your Prescription Is Hard To Fill Right Now
Millions of people are discovering that refilling a routine prescription now takes extra phone calls, extra patience, and sometimes a plan B. A BBC Future report traces the shortage puzzle to a mix of demand shocks, fragile economics, and slow-moving oversight that together make pharmacy shelves feel emptier than they should. Demand didn’t just grow. […]
Government Told to Prepare for 2c Warming by 2050
The UK’s independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) has delivered a clear message: plan now for a world that’s at least 2C warmer by 2050. Why this matters today, not tomorrow: the World Meteorological Organization just confirmed a record rise in atmospheric CO2 in 2024, and the Met Office says the kind of summer we saw […]
Why a Brazilian Favela Facing Eviction Went Green
In São Paulo’s Vila Nova Esperança, a threatened favela turned a trash-strewn hillside into a 0.5-hectare community garden, and in doing so, rewrote the script on what “survival” looks like in a city where 84% of favela homes have no open space. The project began in 2013 when resident and community leader Maria de Lourdes […]
The Rise of Green Tech: a New Water Reckoning in Chile’s Atacama
Electric cars promise cleaner air and quieter streets. But in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s thirst for lithium, the metal that powers EV batteries, laptops, and home storage, is colliding with a far older dependency: water. As global lithium demand more than doubled between 2021 and 2024 (with forecasts to quadruple again by 2040), locals […]