This week’s UN Climate Action Summit will be tricky for agribusiness CEOs. With forest fires raging in the Amazon, a damning new report about the food system by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and millions of young people out in streets clamouring to shut down fossil fuels and factory farming, it will be […]
General elections that are conducted once every five years are underway in India and voting will end on May 19th. Held in seven phases for over a month, every adult citizen gets to choose the members that will represent their constituency in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament that subsequently decides the […]
The day before a court hearing planned for Thursday on the U.S. Justice Department’s request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, a British judge sentenced him to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago, when he first took refuge at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. “What is at […]
A greeting card company’s attempt to take over the trademark to Banksy’s name led the anonymous artist to create a new project designed to protect the rights to his name—with the larger goal of supporting asylum seekers’ rights. Overnight Tuesday, Banksy unveiled a storefront under the name Gross Domestic Product in the London suburb of […]
It’s no secret that Sia and Maddie Ziegler have collaborated for years. The pop star and Dance Moms alum have worked on music videos like “Elastic Heart” and performed together at the 2015 Grammys. Despite her longtime work with Ziegler on such public platforms, Sia has previously stated how she has suffered deeply from fame. […]
Streaming records, beware: Taylor Swift’s behemoth sixth LP—which, after two weeks, is still atop the Billboard 200 albums charts, selling 1.21 million copies in its first seven days—is now available on streaming services, including Spotify. Reputation was Swift’s fifth album to find itself on the top of the sales heap, though the set did fall […]
Climate campaigners cheered on Friday after the European Investment Bank revealed a proposal to phase out funding for fossil fuel projects by the end of 2020. In a nod to activists pushing for a “fossil-free EIB,” the financing institution, which is the lending arm of the E.U., said the climate-friendly plan came after listening “to […]
Rather than delivering prepared remarks, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg submitted a landmark United Nations report on global warming as testimony at a U.S. House hearing Wednesday and urged federal lawmakers to heed experts’ warnings about the necessity of ambitious, urgent efforts to address the planetary emergency. “I am submitting this report as my […]
After 10 years at the helm of Céline as the house’s creative director, news broke on Friday that Phoebe Philo would be leaving the brand. Lars Niki/Corbis via Getty Images “Working with Céline has been an exceptional experience for me these last 10 years,” Philo stated in an official release. “I am grateful to have […]
The hashtag #PrayForAmazonia went viral on Tuesday as social media users attempted to draw the world’s attention to the Amazon rainforest, which has been devastated for weeks by fires so intense they can be seen from space. According to Euro News, it is unclear whether the fires were caused by agricultural activity or deforestation. Both […]