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Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Climate change is affecting mental health literally everywhere (yaleclimateconnections.org)

It’s Not Your Imagination. Your Allergies Are Getting Worse. (www.nytimes.com)

Seasonal allergies are nothing new, but they’ve been worsening as the climate grows warmer. The growing season starts earlier now — in North America an average of 20 days earlier — and lasts longer, too, extending the length of time when plants are pumping pollen into the air. And the resulting misery arises not just...

Cloud Brightening Study in California Is Halted by Local Officials (www.nytimes.com)

Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals (www.theguardian.com)

U.S. banks hold trillions of dollars off-balance sheet, in a replay of accounting hubris that led to the 2008 Wall Street collapse (wallstreetonparade.com)

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UK Tory row to ignite over subsidies to wood-burning power stations | No more funding should be handed to biomass electricity until it can prove it does not worsen climate change, MPs say (www.thetimes.co.uk)

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If you care about US democracy, tell your congressperson to support the Fair Representation Act! (p2a.co)

The Fair Representation Act has been re-introduced in Congress. This bold solution can stop gerrymandering and make Congress work for every American....

Lawn in bloom (i.imgur.com)

[Image description: clusters of violets bloom in a section of our front yard]

Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process (theintercept.com)

Media Scorn Gaza Protesters for Recognizing Corporate Reporters Aren’t Their Friends (fair.org)

As Peace Protests Are Violently Suppressed, CNN Paints Them as Hate Rallies (fair.org)

We Can Get the Electricity We Need Without Frying the Planet (or Our Pocketbooks) (www.nytimes.com)

The Disinformation Machine: How Susceptible Are We to AI Propaganda? (hai.stanford.edu)

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European made batteries could be 60% less carbon intensive than Chinese, researchers urging Europe to support investments (www.transportenvironment.org)

Onshoring the EV supply chain to Europe would cut the emissions of producing a battery by 37% compared to a China-controlled supply chain, according to new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E). This carbon saving rises to over 60% when renewable electricity is used. Producing Europe’s demand for battery cells and...

Former spy for China's secret police reveals operations targeting dissidents in Australia and overseas (www.abc.net.au)

The inner workings of China’s notorious secret police unit and how it hunts down dissidents living overseas – including in Australia – have been exposed by a former spy in a Four Corners investigation, raising tough questions about Australia’s national security....

New Rules to Overhaul Electric Grids Could Boost Wind and Solar Power | FERC approved the biggest changes in more than a decade to the way U.S. power lines are planned and funded. (www.nytimes.com)

Beavers Are Back in London — and They're Thriving (reasonstobecheerful.world)

In an area in eastern Serbia, a steel mill acquired by Chinese company HBIS became synonymous with environmental degradation and health hazards for the local community (www.onegreenplanet.org)

In the villages surrounding the eastern Serbian city of Smederevo, trouble has brewed over the last eight years. Once a symbol of economic promise, the steel mill acquired by Chinese company HBIS has become synonymous with environmental degradation and health hazards for the local community....

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