The forecast calls for uncertainty

🌍BYD’s new Flash Chargers can charge an EV from 10% to full in roughly nine minutes at 1500 kW (meanwhile the US is busy cancelling EVs and fighting over emissions standards). (WIRED)

Big Oil is moving on from its greenwashing era and now just stares you dead in the eye and spends $7 billion a year to convince you that they aren’t going anywhere. (Heated)

🌎Low-income countries will face 10 times more heat-related deaths than wealthy ones, another reminder that the people who did the least to contribute to climate change are the first in line to suffer from its impacts. (Bloomberg)

Nuclear power is having a big comeback, with even deep-blue states repealing decades-old bans. (Canary Media)

The plan to fix rural healthcare, where hospitals are closing and doctors are scarce, is to bring in robots? Experts aren’t convinced. (The Washington Post)

🌍 Romania’s history reveals a brutal, data-backed lesson that banning abortions doesn’t stop abortions, it just kills the women having them. (Our World in Data)

The story of a woman who couldn’t afford to go to the hospital ended up there anyway after a brain aneurysm burst, a story that makes the abstraction of America’s healthcare crisis devastatingly human. (The Atlantic)

A biotech startup is genetically engineering chickens so their eggs produce expensive drugs, potentially cutting costs to a hundredth of current prices. (The New York Times)

The SAVE Act would weaponize the paperwork gaps that segregation itself created, turning the legacy of a system that denied Black Americans birth certificates into a new mechanism for denying them votes. (Capital B)

A company called “HealthEquity” donated $1 million to Trump’s Super PAC and then got policy changes that turned a tool supposedly designed to help everyday people pay medical bills into a tax shelter than overwhelmingly benefits wealthy people. (Popular Information)

The story of American democracy (and the fight to build and protect it) is a chain of ordinary people choosing to pick up the baton and show up. (The 19th)

Farmers using AI precision agriculture tools to optimize crops may be signing over the data generated by their land to tech companies who profit from it without sharing a dime. (Civil Eats)

Hawaii has been slammed by severe flooding for the second time in two weeks (Bloomberg)

RFK is declaring victory over a food safety loophole that hasn’t actually been closed yet, which is fitting because the loophole itself exists because companies have been allowed to simply declare their own ingredients safe for decades. (The New York Times)

🌎 Britain’s flood insurance program is being subsidized by poorer households to cover million-plan claims from wealthy homeowners, because eligibility is determined by 1991 property values. (Bloomberg)

🌏 Bringing wild animals back to degraded land doesn’t just restore biodiversity, but can rebuild carbon stores in the soil. Sometimes the best climate tech might just be a herd of springbok doing what springbok do. (Mongabay)

Scientists have discovered that whether a mouse dad is nurturing or neglectful comes down to a single gene that flips on or off based on the social environment. (Smithsonian Magazine)

🌎 Cutting USAID scattered decades of hard-won, place-specific knowledge about how to actually make conservation work. (Mongabay)

🌏 The ocean is increasingly covered in protected areas that exist mainly on maps, but satellites and data analytics are making it harder for illegal fishing fleets to hide, suggesting that the next frontier of ocean conservation isn’t drawing more blue zones but actually enforcing the ones we already have. (Mongabay)

Medical algorithms that use race as a clinical variable have baked historical inequity into automated decision making, and researchers are mapping how to carefully remove it because simply deleting the variable without addressing the underlying disparities it was masking can actually make things worse. (Nature)

Disney’s billion-dollar bet that people would happily watch AI-slop featuring beloved characters lasted roughly four months before collapsing entirely. (404 Media)

🌏A jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for knowingly designing addictive products aimed at kids, but platforms are already warning it might mean even less safety oversight for users outside of the US. (Rest of World)

Wikipedia’s volunteer editors took one look at the flood of AI-generated content overwhelming their community, and banned it. (404 Media)