Lake-effect snow blankets Midwest US, Great Lakes region
A lake effect storm pummelled parts of the Great Lakes region Friday night, shutting down highways on one of the biggest travel days of the year in the US. Communities…
Canada Post strike strains Christmas shopping season
Getty Images It’s one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year, but for many Canadians, this year’s Black Friday deals may not arrive before Christmas – and that could…
Daniel San Diego: Why would FBI fugitive hide in rural Wales?
BBC Earlier this week one of America’s most wanted men was finally arrested in rural north Wales having spent the past 21 years on the run. Daniel Andreas San Diego,…
2024 Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end
This potential was realised in late September with the birth of Hurricane Helene. It intensified rapidly before making landfall on the Florida coast as a major category four storm. Helene…
Links 12/1/2024 | naked capitalism
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in ‘remarkable’ Scotland rewilding project The Scotsman World Beekeeping Awards axe honey prize due to fraud BBC All Life on Earth Today Descended From…
Syria Rebels Take Aleppo Airport and Attack Hama, Officials and a Monitor Say
Rebel forces advanced in Syria on Sunday amid fierce fighting, capturing the airport of the major city of Aleppo and attacking the outskirts of the western city of Hama, according…
Book Review: The Many Bounties of Collaboration in Nature | naked capitalism
Lambert Strether: Dang, another book to read: Kropotkin. By Elizabeth Svoboda, a science writer in San Jose, California, and the author of What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of…
Opinion | Barstool Conservatism, Revisited
Despite Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election, his political coalition was already expanding in consequential ways. Not only did he make notable gains among Hispanic and African-American voters…
Opinion | Republicans Would Regret Letting Elon Musk Ax Weather Forecasting
One way Donald Trump may try to differentiate his second term from his first is by slashing the federal work force and budget and consolidating and restructuring a host of…
A Power Vacuum in Gaza Could Empower Warlords and Gangs
Since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas, the war in Gaza has been dogged by a persistent question: What happens after the conflict ends? Recent events point to one…