Ecuador starts fracking in Amazon rainforest
The government of President Daniel Noboa has promised more funds for oil exploration and infrastructure and to attract greater foreign oil investments. At the same time, his government’s push to expand oil exploration, particularly in the Amazon, has alarmed environmentalists and Indigenous leaders.
You’d better start paying attention to the manosphere. You’re living in it
Mainstream awareness of the manosphere emerged following its rapid expansion during the COVID pandemic through influencers such as Andrew Tate. A common understanding emerged during this time of the manosphere as a digital subculture that leads vulnerable young boys and men astray. Popular media such as 2025’s Adolescence and Louis Theroux’s latest documentary have only reinforced this perception.
‘Hegemonic power’: How Modi’s BJP won India’s Bengal for the first time
Das had previously always voted for the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) party under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a centrist political force that has been in power in the eastern Indian state since 2011. But this time, she said, her mother-in-law had convinced her that “Didi” – a nickname for Banerjee, which translates to elder sister in Bangla – “favours Muslims”.
‘Heartbreaking’: Iranian scientists on losing labs, libraries and liberty
Isfahan University of Technology in central Iran was attacked twice in late March, according to Abideh Jafari, a particle physicist at the university. Jafari is also a deputy team leader at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, working on the CMS particle detector. She says that a countrywide Internet blackout prevented her team accessing data from CERN. Her group continues to try to work, but it is difficult “because the students are not in a good state of mind: most of them were worried because the city was being bombarded”, she says.
Evolving Folks Project 