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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister
What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out.
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Colossal and the US Government Are Creating an Endangered Species ‘BioVault’
The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place.
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London Climate Action Week Foiled by Extreme Heat
As record-breaking heat crushes Europe, organizers are moving events online to avoid exposing people to dangerously high temperatures.
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Even the Internet’s Favorite Pool Guy Doesn’t Know How to Fix the Reflecting Pool
Algae blooms, peeling paint, and a host of fixes from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubblers have made it hard to diagnose what's wrong with the Reflecting Pool, let alone how to clean up the mess.
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The ‘Parasite of Parasites’ Has Been Discovered in the Tropical Forests of Borneo
A newly identified species of fungus attacks the famous “zombie mushrooms” that control ants.
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Canada Missed Chances to Inspect Titan Before Fatal Implosion
A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters.
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West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice
Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.
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Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation
Warm weather has fueled a bloom that National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead of July 4 celebrations.
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Around the World, These Building Solutions Keep Things Local
Designers are finding sustainable building solves close to home—in ancient practices and cutting-edge innovations alike.
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What Do Americans Spend on Housing?
WIRED surveyed readers on their housing costs. The answers paint a stark portrait of unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream.
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Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap
A new, AI-assisted model of insurance is quietly exploding in disaster-prone areas—and may be coming for FEMA too. Is it the answer to climate change, or a trap?
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DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
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1 in 4 World Cup Matches Could Be Played in Dangerous Temperatures
A new report warns that Miami, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Houston could be particularly hot places to play during the 2026 World Cup.
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The Strait of Hormuz Has Been Closed for 100 Days. Why Aren’t Oil Prices Higher?
President Donald Trump says a secret mission moved 100 million barrels of oil through the blocked Strait of Hormuz. That number is impossible to verify.
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Is It a Super El Niño Year? It Could Turn the World’s Weather Upside Down
From a wet winter in the Southwest to fewer Atlantic hurricanes, this is what to expect as a potential super El Niño takes shape.
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How Mexican World Cup Stadiums Achieved FIFA’s Environmental Certifications
Venues hosting the 2026 World Cup must meet high standards to obtain environmental certifications, but FIFA also requires that they use natural grass, which is water-intensive to maintain.
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People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Furious About the SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.
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Great White Sharks Have Been in the Mediterranean Sea for Millions of Years—but Sightings Are Incredibly Rare
A recent video of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea offers the possibility of deriving valuable information for conservation strategies.
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The Developer's Guide to Environment Variables and Secrets Management
Why This Deserves More Attention Than It Gets Credential leaks are one of the most common and preventable security incidents in software. Bots actively scan GitHub for newly pushed API keys, database URLs, and private credentials — and they find them within minutes of a commit going public. Rotating compromised credentials is painful, and in some cases the damage is done before you even realize what happened. This isn't just an enterprise problem. It happens on solo side projects, open-source repos, and internal tools at startups. And the root cause is almost always the same: someone treated secrets like regular configuration and didn't have a clear strategy for keeping them out of version control, logs, and error messages. The patterns in this guide aren't bureaucratic overhead. They're the minimum viable approach for any app that talks to a real database or a real API. What Environment Variables Actually Are An environment variable is a key-value pair that lives in a process's environment — a set of values the operating system makes available to any running program. Every process inherits the environment of the process that spawned it. In Node.js, you access them through process.env : const port = process . env . PORT ; const dbUrl = process . env . DATABASE_URL ; In Python: import os port = os . environ . get ( ' PORT ' ) db_url = os . environ . get ( ' DATABASE_URL ' ) The core idea — and the reason env vars are the standard approach — is that they decouple what the app does from where it runs . The same application code can point at a local development database or a production cluster. The code doesn't change; only the environment does. This is the heart of the 12-Factor App principle: store config in the environment, not in the code. The .env File: What It Is and What It Isn't In local development, you don't set environment variables by hand before every terminal session. Instead, you use a .env file — a plain text file at the root of your project with one key
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The US Has a Plan to Combat Screwworm. It Involves a Lot More Flies
Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them.