Plug-in EVs reach 54% in August of China's auto market, world's largest. ICE down to 46%. Wow! BEVs: 530k sales +19% year-on-year. PHEVs: 440k sales +97% year-on-year. Gasoline accounts for ~26 million barrels per day of oil, and EVs are coming for it. Credit Simon Evans

BREAKING: James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars, has died at 93

#RIP dad 💔

Excl: Rishi Sunak ignored a direct plea from Britain's most senior police officers who wrote to him a week before the election urging him to announce the SDS40 early release measure. They warned that failure to act would leave criminals exploiting the prisons crisis and police

1. This isn't a Hamas official. It's the former head of Al Jazeera. 2. If Mehdi did interview Hamas, isn't that just part of being a journo rather than a show of support? 3. Since Oct, IDF has murdered >134 journos. Is Eyal Yakoby inciting violence against Mehdi and Al Jazeera?

Child Poverty % (children living in households below the minimum wage) Denmark 2.4% Finland 3.2% Norway 3.6% Sweden 3.6% The UK 32.1% All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.

🧡🖤Let’s get The Hive Stadium rocking! We are delighted to announce that all tickets for our home game against AFC Fylde on Saturday 28th September will be available to buy for just £5! #BarnetFC🐝 #TheTogethernessContinues #Character

This is brilliant stuff from the club. Striking while the media is looking our way for maximum effect.

I haven’t seen a better takedown of Christian nationalism. Hallelujah!

Sparrowhawk just caught and ate a dove in my garden. At least I think it was once a dove.

Wir haben 2021 eine Studie zur weltweiten Zunahme von extremer Hitze und Rekordniederschlägen in den Messdaten veröffentlicht. nature.com/articles/s4161…

Ukraine faces the highest death rate and lowest birth rate globally amid Russia’s war The demographic crisis poses the greatest long-term threat to Ukraine’s defense and sustainability. For every 1,000 Ukrainians, 18 die while only six are born annually euromaidanpress.com/2024/09/13/ukr…

Did you know that solar farms can help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss?? When planted with pollinator-friendly plants, they support 🐝 and create micro-climates. Sheep and goats even help "mow" the grass sustainably. Read more and share: talkingclimate.ca/p/can-solar-fa…

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For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is Kamala Harris. | Editorial bit.ly/4daH36q

Global coal use (black) compared to scenarios that limit warming to 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot (blues). Not quite on track...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut.

The BBC political editor (260K pa) thinks it's a story that the Downing Street chief of staff (170K pa) earns more than the PM (167Kpa). Welcome to political journalism! PS Laura Kuenssberg is on 325K, Nick Robinson 340K and Fiona Bruce even more. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This Sue Gray story is a tedious non story but it shows the difference in reporting Tories v Labour in power. Her effective predecessor; Simon Case, was paid more than her and, therefore, more than any of the PMs he served, why was that not news?

Your reminder that four of every 10 acres of corn in the U.S. is used to feed traffic.