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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal |Emma Graham-Harrison |Eli Block |Natalie Ktena |Olivia Lee |Joel Cox | +1 more
Israel faced growing international pressure earlier this month as hundreds of starving people in Gaza were killed as they tried to reach aid distribution sites. Since Israel launched its attacks on Iran on Friday, however, that diplomatic outcry has largely disappeared.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Madeleine Finlay |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
Jon Watts explores new ways of finding value in the forest and asks whether they will be enough to secure its future survival – podcast
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Joel Cox
As a companion to the Guardian’s Missing in the Amazon podcast, global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to the question Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how can we save the Amazon? In the final episode of a three-part series, Jon encounters a radical new view of the Amazon’s history being uncovered by archaeologists. Far from an uninhabited wilderness, the rainforest has been shaped by indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Heather Stewart |Lucy Hough |Ivor Manley |Joel Cox |Sami Kent
The last few weeks have proved difficult for Rachel Reeves. In public, the news has been dominated by Labour’s U-turn on the winter fuel allowance. In private, the Treasury has been caught up in wrangle after wrangle with ministers, all negotiating what their departments would receive in the spending review. Reeves’ speech to parliament on Wednesday announcing the review was a chance to tell a more positive story – particularly for a government accused of lacking direction and ambition.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Patrick Wintour |Natalie Ktena |Ivor Manley |Joel Cox |Courtney Yusuf
Laila Soueif, 69, has been on hunger strike in London for more than 250 days in an effort to secure the release of her son, the activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, from jail in Egypt. As diplomatic pressure mounts, she is now in a critical condition. Alaa’s sister Mona Seif describes to Michael Safi the toll that imprisonment has taken on her brother, her mother’s determination to do whatever she can to secure his release, and the difficulty of coming to terms with her mother’s decision to risk her life.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Madeleine Finlay |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
As a companion to the Guardian’s Missing in the Amazon, the global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to the question Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how can we save the Amazon? In episode one of a three-part series, Watts explores what’s at stake if we fail to act in time.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Chris Stokel-Walker |Eleanor Biggs |Olivia Lee |Joel Cox |Courtney Yusuf
Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, arguably Open AI’s greatest rival, issued a stark warning. He claimed that AI’s rapid advancement could lead to the disappearance of half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years, as well as 10-20% unemployment levels in the United States by the end of the decade. “Everyone I’ve talked to has said this technological change looks different.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Oliver Laughland |Natalie Ktena |Joel Cox |Sami Kent
“This is the future, man,” a SpaceX fan tells Oliver Laughland as they look over at a giant rocket. “It’s a weird combination of the wild wild west and the brand new future!”The rocket stands in Starbase, Texas, and the Guardian US southern bureau chief was visiting at a very particular time: as the area home to Elon Musk’s pioneering space company was poised to vote in an election to officially transform the place into its own city.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Rachel Porter |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
Ian Sample meets Jaap de Roode, professor of biology at Emory University in Atlanta, and author of the book Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes and Other Animals Heal Themselves. De Roode explains how a chance discovery got him interested in animal medicine, the amazing ways that creatures use toxins to fight parasites and pathogens, and what humans have learnt about medicine from the animal world
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Joel Cox
Ian Sample is joined by James Kinross, colorectal surgeon and author of the book Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome, to answer all your questions about gut health. In episode one, James explains how the gut microbiome gets set up, how it impacts our early development, and the effect antibiotics can have on our microbes
