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A Nigerian teen is turning agricultural waste into biodegradable sanitary pads
For many Nigerian women, access to sanitary pads remains a challenge. Even those who can obtain them, the prevalence of single-use menstrual products creates problems of its own. They contain plastics and chemicals and are not eco-friendly generating large amounts of waste. After learning that many traditional sanitary pads used contain up to 90% plastic […]

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control.
Detailed satellite pictures with before/after slider. Even cemeteries were completely destroyed.
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Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control
Satellite images show transformation as Netanyahu orders military to occupy 70 percent of Gaza.

Top prospect Fernando Mendoza shows of trademark accuracy at Indiana Pro Day https://www.nfl.com/news/top-prospect-fernando-mendoza-shows-of-trademark-accuracy-at-indiana-pro-day

One of the clearest examples of an uninsurable area to date comes from California.
In 2024, State Farm, one of the largest home insurers in the United States, chose not to renew 72,000 home insurance policies across the state due, in part, to unsustainable wildfire risk.
It was not alone, as six of California’s twelve largest insurers had already paused or heavily restricted new policies.
Homeowners who can no longer find private coverage are directed to California’s insure…

Climate change: how fires and floods are creating uninsurable areas across Europe
From California to France and the UK, traditional private markets are buckling under the weight of climate claims.

Feds to open hundreds of acres of Colorado wilderness to oil drilling - Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/31/800047530/environment/feds-to-open-hundreds-of-acres-of-colorado-wilderness-to-oil-drilling/

Jerry Jones Hints Cowboys Could Take Aggressive Draft Approach With Trades in Play https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/jerry-jones-hints-cowboys-could-take-aggressive-draft-approach-trades

Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital to form Franklin Crypto, which will offer strategies designed for institutional investors (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
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Snow surveys taking place across the American west this week are offering a grim prognosis,
after a historically warm winter and searing March temperatures left the critical snowpack at record-low levels across the region.
Experts warned that even as the heat begins to subside, the stunning pace of melt-off over the past month has left key basins in uncharted territory for the dry seasons ahead.
Though there’s still potential for more snow in the forecast, experts said it wi…

A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed 1 in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
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America Has a Pangram Problem
AI-detection tools are getting better. But they still aren’t good enough.