Ten residents in Lowell, Massachusetts, are suing the state’s environmental regulator and the company behind a large data centre over an expansion that would bring the facility’s total to 27 industrial-scale diesel backup generators and 16 cooling towers. The lawsuit challenges the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s approval of the expansion and alleges that residents…

Britain’s fields, parks and lawns were thriving areas of fresh greenery, just before summer arrived. Then, everything was burnt to a crisp, with a yellow and golden hue and now landscapes as old as thousands of years have been revealed as green outlines against yellow backgrounds.July was the driest month ever recorded in England and…

Shackled skeletons, PC: Athens Journal of History, 2021 In 2016, archaeologists digging at the Phaleron cemetery on the coast near Athens uncovered one of the most unsettling finds in Greek archaeology, a mass grave holding nearly 80 adult men, many still shackled at the wrists with iron restraints. The men, known as the Esplanada group,…

Baby holding mother’s hand (Representative Image, Canva) A complex surrogacy dispute involving California, Alaska and Texas intensified after surrogate McKenna West gave birth in Texas to a baby with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a severe and life-threatening congenital heart condition. The baby was born on August 12 and is receiving specialised medical care. According to…

18-year-old Bianca Adler turns back 400m from Everest summit, returns a year later to make historyPhoto: Bianca Adler/ Instagram In the pre-dawn darkness of the world’s highest mountain, an 18-year-old from Melbourne stood on top of the world. Bianca Adler had just become the youngest Australian to summit Mount Everest, completing a feat that had…