Hosting FIFA World Cup will cost taxpayers $1B: watchdog report | Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates cost across all levels of government at $82M per game
The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem” | Preserving racial hierarchy remains one of most animating impulses in American political life
Canada's updated its plant hardiness map — and growers are seeing their options bloom | Plant growing zones shifting amid climate change, says scientist
Turning down the heat from data centers | Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts Open Access
Ontario touts $8.5B annual economic impact from Toronto Island airport expansion — but won't show the math | Critics say purported economic benefit of allowing jets at Billy Bishop is likely overblown
Gaza Is Rebuilding With Lego-Like Bricks Made From Rubble | As reconstruction materials remain blocked, Palestinians are crushing debris into interlocking blocks to build shelters from destruction
Fire and ‘sheer volume’: how Britain’s 6m-vape problem is putting recycling under strain | Despite the ban on disposables, waste professionals say the mountain of discarded devices is a £1bn-a-year issue
First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable people | Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies