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With the number of black bear encounters on the rise in Jasper, conservation officials caution that the problem will not be solved by relocating the animals out of town and that grizzlies could soon become part of the problem. Hungry animals often move in from backcountry to feast on backyard …

Hamas has threatened to broadcast videos of hostage executions. With the war between Israel and Hamas poised to enter a new phase, are social platforms ready? Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty Images For the past decade, social media platforms have struggled to stop the spread of extremist violence livestreamed on their …

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s global summit on AI governance will focus on extreme scenarios of algorithms causing harm. Many British AI experts would rather he focus on near-term problems. Illustration: Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images The UK government, with its reversals on climate policy and commitment to oil drilling and air …

Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash Centralized online services such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Threads (although they claim to be joining the ActivityPub-based federated universe, a.k.a. fediverse), and TikTok, all collect your data for profit. In addition, their machine learning models push whatever is inferred as posts that maximizes their …

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we meet a Canadian who repairs wind turbine blades and learn about the energy that could be generated from rain droplets. Also: An oil CEO on the hot seat Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This weekly newsletter is part …

With a new emphasis on the Hamas attacks on Israel, the US Treasury has proposed designating foreign cryptocurrency “mixer” services as money launderers and national security threats. The US Treasury Department building.Photograph: SAUL LOEB/Getty Images Hamas’ attacks Against Israel on October 7 have shifted the geopolitical landscape and triggered a …

New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against crypto companies, including the Winkelvoss twins’ Gemini, alleging they misled investors. Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss, creators of the crypto exchange Gemini.Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images In the state of New York, where Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of fallen crypto exchange FTX, is …

Experts say that so far, El Niño has played a small part in 2023’s soaring temperatures. Its bigger role is yet to come. If typical climate patterns hold, the soaring temperatures we had in 2023 could get even hotter next year There is little doubt among climate forecasters that 2023 …

More than 200 medical journals are calling on the World Health Organization to deem two overlapping environmental crises — climate change and biodiversity loss — as a global health emergency, while warning of the potential for “catastrophic harm” to human health. Co-ordinated editorial calls on World Health Organization to declare …

All of A&W's pork now comes from pigs that aren't confined to crates, while Tim Hortons has pushed back its deadline for serving cage-free eggs, according to a new report scoring Canadian food companies on their commitments to animal welfare. Annual Mercy for Animals report spotlights cage-free eggs, crate-free pork …