Ted Cruz inserted language into the Republican spending bill that cut weather forecast funding. He was then on holiday in Greece (checking out the Parthenon) as a flood killed more than 100 people in his state, amid concerns over forecasting cuts theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

You can’t have trains this infrequent on a major subway line, it’s bonkers

New York City's congestion charge for cars is 6 months old. The numbers are in - traffic congestion is down, vehicles are traveling faster, there are fewer car crashes and air pollution has eased. The Trump administration still wants to kill it off. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

The website for the US' premier climate assessment has been taken offline by the Trump administration. We have retrieved the report so anyone can read all 1,800 pages of it here. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Oooh his name is Diogooo 🎶 Truly special moments at full-time ❤️

Household energy bills are set to soar from Donald Trump's 'big beautiful bill' cutting support for cheap renewables. States that voted for Trump last year will be the hardest hit, with some getting cost rises of more than $600 each year. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

imagine going back to 1970 and telling those who formed the Environmental Protection Agency that this is what its administrator will be talking about

An update from the President of the United States on Coca-Cola.

The US has 30% fewer pipeline inspectors than it should have, with just one inspector for every 19,000 miles of pipe. Trump cuts and halting of pipeline safety rules have raised fears of further leaks and explosions. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

GAZA: At least 15 more people have died of starvation. 4 of them are children. Suffering in the Strip has reached new depths, as Israel continues to blockade food and medical supplies.

"We have divorced ourselves from nature, yet we crave a connection with the very thing that we have turned our back on. In surrounding ourselves with simulated recreations of nature we create unwitting monuments to the very things that we have lost." theguardian.com/environment/20…

Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards

But the problem is for the American psyche they start to associate walkability with vacations and movies. They literally don’t understand that normal people all over the world live like this. They don’t think it’s “real life”. They think being in ugly miserable suburbs is the

we are hiring a new science reporter, please do apply if you think that's you workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795/

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Could we perhaps win your vote with rural broadband?

A reminder that Kristi Noem’s response to outrage over her killing her pet dog (and a goat) was to say oh I also recently killed three horses, too

A radioactive wasp nest was discovered near a nuclear plant in South Carolina. Department of energy report: "The wasp nest was sprayed to kill wasps, then bagged as radiological waste. The ground and surrounded area did not have any contamination." orpspublic.doe.gov/orps/reports/d…