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Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:56 +0000

The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future?

Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Friday. In addition, May and June’s job numbers were revised downward, showing a combined 103,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.

As if this weren’t bad enough, wage growth has also slowed. Average hourly earnings rose by just 0.1% from June.

How to keep babies and children safe in heatwaves

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:13:10 +0000

Biological factors mean a child’s core temperature rises faster than an adult’s – and that can result in a medical emergency

Children and babies are more vulnerable in heatwaves than healthy adults. As temperatures rise again, how do we keep children safe?

Millions face higher water bills as suppliers allowed £3.4bn extra spending

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:10:54 +0000

Firms in England and Wales seek to fund measures including supporting new homes and datacentres

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Millions of households in England and Wales face higher bills after water companies were given the green light to spend £3.4bn more than planned, including to support new homes and datacentres.

Europe heatwave live: Temperatures of 40C expected in Spain, with amber heat health warning in place across large parts of UK

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:58:26 +0000

In France, 80 departments have been placed on an orange heat warning

Met Office has just offered an update on temperatures across the UK, with several stations already reporting temperatures above 30C – and it’s not even 11am.

It’s 30.4C in Wych Cross, 30.3C in Charlwood, 30.2C at Kenly Airfield.

Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George Monbiot

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:00:52 +0000

This summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than ever

When a business makes long-term plans, they call it prudence. When a government makes long-term plans, they call it communism. Any sustained state intervention attracts the prefix “Soviet-style”, and triggers vicious attacks across the billionaire media. So governments have developed a bias against long-term thinking. This may explain why we no longer maintain strategic food reserves.

Manila river clogged with rubbish after Typhoon Dolphin floods – in pictures

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:08:16 +0000

Days of rain has caused widespread flooding across the Philippines capital, Manila, and filled the city’s waterways with debris. A massive cleanup operation involving teams of workers and heavy machinery is under way

Australia’s largest aluminium smelter to run on renewables by 2033 after Rio Tinto strikes $2.5bn taxpayer bailout deal

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:00:25 +0000

Rio Tinto makes power supply deal with federal and NSW government to cut emissions and decarbonise, preventing potential closure

Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates

Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:00:50 +0000

As a controversial Spanish plan for sustainable meat on an industrial scale is dropped, it has revived the ethical debate over farming these intelligent wild animals

In 2022 Nueva Pescanova, Spain’s largest fisheries business, announced it was investing €65m (£56m) in the world’s first industrial octopus farm and processing plant near the Canary Islands’ port of Las Palmas.

India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:00:48 +0000

Rise in new mine proposals, mainly in states of Odisha and Jharkhand, comes despite plateau in global demand

Enough new coalmining projects were proposed last year to increase global supplies by 2.5bn tonnes a year, an increase of 11% from the year before, even as demand for coal plateaus, according to a new report.

Global Energy Monitor, an NGO, found that India ignited a rise in new coalmine proposals in 2025 despite a global slowdown in the number of mine openings because of falling demand for the fossil fuel.

Nurses fainting in ‘inhumane’ conditions due to extreme heat, union warns

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:01:42 +0000

RCN calls for more air conditioners as Burnham faces pressure to recognise urgency of adaptation to climate crisis

Nurses are collapsing during shifts amid “inhumane and impossible” conditions caused by extreme heat, their union has warned, as Andy Burnham promised to grapple with “the bigger questions” of climate adaptation.

Amid growing pressure from Labour backbenches to fully acknowledge the urgency of adaptation measures as the climate crisis bites, Burnham said he was for now focusing on the immediate crises caused by an ongoing summer of extreme heat.