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Heatwaves will be worst for rural parts of Africa – new model shows tens of millions face dangerous warming by 2100
https://theconversation.com/heatwaves-will-be-worst-for-rural-parts-of-africa-new-model-shows-tens-of-millions-face-dangerous-warming-by-2100-278570

Heatwaves will be worst for rural parts of Africa – new model shows tens of millions face dangerous warming by 2100

By 2100, rural African dwellers will be exposed to dangerous levels of heat nearly twice as high as those in urban areas.

The Conversation

David Whittle 10h ago

Overseas political funding capped and crypto donations blocked in blow to Reform UK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/25/political-donations-cryptocurrency-blocked-reform-uk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Overseas political funding capped and crypto donations blocked in blow to Reform UK

Legislation subject to MPs’ approval but will be backdated due to urgency of threat to UK democracy, says minister

The Guardian

David Whittle 10h ago

Trump’s war in Iran exposes US’s shift from a global guardian to an arbiter of chaos
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/trump-war-in-iran-us-shift-global-chaos?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Trump’s war in Iran exposes US’s shift from a global guardian to an arbiter of chaos

The US is recklessly spreading economic havoc among global friends and foes while suffering little harm itself

The Guardian

David Whittle 15h ago

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

David Whittle 15h ago

NASA pushes space industry to use the ISS as a test ground for future stations | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-pushes-space-industry-to-use-iss-as-test-ground-for-future-stations/

NASA pushes space industry to use the ISS as a test ground for future stations

Faced with the imminent retirement of the International Space Station, NASA is pushing to speed up work on its potential replacements

Scientific American

David Whittle 15h ago

NASA announces nuclear-powered Mars mission by 2028 | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-announces-nuclear-powered-mars-mission-by-2028/

NASA announces nuclear-powered Mars mission by 2028

The U.S. space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion can be used to send missions into deep space

Scientific American

David Whittle 18h ago

Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to ‘lie low’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/24/canadian-mother-detention-warns-immigrants?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to ‘lie low’

Tania Warner says she has documents showing she is in the US legally, but immigration agents were not swayed

The Guardian

David Whittle 18h ago

‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/boston-lincolnshire-flooding-reform-uk-richard-tice-climate?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance

The Guardian

David Whittle 18h ago

How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00879-0

How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins

Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.

David Whittle 19h ago

Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00950-w

Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck

Physicists have succeeded for the first time in transporting the most expensive and most volatile substance on Earth — antimatter.