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July 4 - Monday, July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F) as heatwaves sizzled around the world. Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base in the white continent's Argentine Islands recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7C (47.6F). "This is not a milestone we should be celebrating," said climate scientist Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Britain's Imperial College London. Scientists said climate change, combined with an emerging El Nino pattern, were to blame.

Persons: Friederike Otto of, Zeke Hausfather, Gloria Dickie, Mark Potter Organizations: U.S . National Centers for Environmental, Vernadsky Research, Argentine Islands, Grantham Institute, Climate, Britain's Imperial College London, El Nino, Thomson Locations: U.S, China, North Africa, Antarctica, Argentine, El, Berkeley

☆ Why the Kennedys keep going back to their Hyannis Port compound after generations of tragedy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Raquel Laneri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

In 1928, Joseph Kennedy bought a white-shingled cottage in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, for $25,000. The main home in the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. AP/Stew MilneHyannis Port became a homeBefore the Kennedys rolled into Hyannis Port, they had trouble establishing a summer home in coastal Massachusetts. Eunice Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, Edward Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Jean Kennedy play footballl while on vacation at the Kennedy compound in June 1953 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. (His father stayed in his Hyannis Port bedroom for five days listening to classical music when he heard the news.)

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☆ Lonely adults are driving a boom in stuffed animal sales
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Grace Mayer | Gloria Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Adults are clamoring for stuffed animals, a craze that is part of a larger toy trend among adults. For some people, stuffed animals help alleviate anxiety and loneliness. She said she created Hugimals, a line of weighted stuffed animals designed to relieve stress and promote sleep, in part for herself. The stuffed animal craze is tied to a larger toy trend among adults, or, as the toy industry has labeled this group, "kidults." Weighing 4.5 pounds, these stuffed animals are designed to replicate a "calming, hugging you back" effect, she told Insider.

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☆ World hits record land, sea temperatures as climate change fuels 2023 extremes
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( David Stanway | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Sea temperatures also broke April and May records. Global average sea surface temperatures hit 21C in late March and have remained at record levels for the time of year throughout April and May. Australia's weather agency warned that Pacific and Indian ocean sea temperatures could be 3C warmer than normal by October. Though this year's high sea temperatures are caused by a "perfect combination" of circumstances, the ecological impact could endure, she said. The Worldwide Fund for Nature, however, warned of a "worrying lack of momentum" during climate talks in Bonn this month, with little progress made on key issues like fossil fuels and finance ahead of November's COP28 climate talks in Dubai.

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☆ Climate nears point of no return as land, sea temperatures break records, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( David Stanway | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Persons: Kerry, Sarah Perkins, Kirkpatrick, Piers Forster, El Nino, Annalisa Bracco, Li Shuo, John Kerry, Li, David Stanway, Ali Withers, Gloria Dickie, Jamie Freed Organizations: EU, Australia's University of New, U.S ., World Meteorological Organization, El Nino, University of Leeds, Georgia Institute of Technology, DUBAI, The, Nature, Thomson Locations: Beijing, SINGAPORE, Bonn, Australia's University of New South Wales, United States, North America, Canada, U.S . East Coast, India, Spain, Iran, Vietnam, Paris, 1.5C, California, Africa, November's, Dubai, China, Copenhagen, London

This year's wildfire season is the worst on record in Canada, with some 76,000 square kilometres (29,000 square miles) burning across eastern and western Canada. "The difference is eastern Canada fires driving this growth in the emissions more than just western Canada," said Copernicus senior scientist Mark Parrington. The carbon they have released is roughly equivalent to Indonesia's annual carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. It's estimated that Canada's northern boreal forest stores more than 200 billion tonnes of carbon — equivalent to several decades worth of global carbon emissions. Canada's wildfire season typically peaks in late July or August, with emissions continuing to climb throughout the summer.

Persons: Cpl Marc, Andre Leclerc, Copernicus, Mark Parrington, Parrington, there's, David Evans, Ed Osmond Organizations: Canadian Forces, REUTERS, Atmospheric Monitoring, Canadian Interagency Forest Fire, New, Thomson Locations: Mistissini, Quebec, Canada, Alberta, British Columbia, New York City, Toronto, Ontario, Europe

Despite a recent global pledge to reach zero deforestation by 2030, tropical forest loss last year exceeded 2021 levels. Global Forest Watch assessed 'primary forests', which includes mature forests that have not been cleared or regrown in recent history. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Bolivia suffered the greatest losses of tropical forest after Brazil. The Global Forest Watch analysis found deforestation in 2022 was more than 10,000 sq km (3,900 sq miles) in excess of what would be needed to halt it by 2030. The world lost 10% less forest in 2022 than 2021, as fewer big fires burned in the Russian boreal forest, though the country still lost 43,000 sq km (16,600 sq miles) of tree cover last year.

Persons: Jair, Francis Seymour, Rod Taylor, Gloria Dickie, Clarence Fernandez Organizations: Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute, University of Maryland, Watch, Democratic, Thomson Locations: Switzerland, Brazilian, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Democratic Republic of, Congo, Bolivia

☆ Julian Sands: Unidentified human remains are found in California wilderness near search area for missing British actor
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Andy Rose | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Human remains were found Saturday in Southern California near the area where investigators have been searching for missing British actor Julian Sands, according to authorities. “Civilian hikers contacted the Fontana Sheriff’s Station after they discovered human remains in the Mt. Baldy wilderness,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. Investigators say positive identification of the remains should be completed next week. Poor weather and harsh conditions meant the active search had been mostly dormant until resuming last Saturday.

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The Hindu Kush Himalaya stretches 3,500 km (2,175 miles) across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan. At 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2C of warming above preindustrial temperatures, glaciers across the entire region will lose 30% to 50% of their volume by 2100, the report said. At 3C of warming — what the world is roughly on track for under current climate policies — glaciers in the Eastern Himalaya, which includes Nepal and Bhutan, will lose up to 75% of their ice. THE FULL PICTUREScientists have struggled to assess how climate change is affecting the Hindu Kush Himalaya. “We have a better sense of what the loss will be through to 2100 at different levels of global warming.”LIVELIHOODS AT RISKWith this newfound understanding comes grave concern for the people living in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

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☆ Remembering Sally Ride: 40th anniversary of her historic spaceflight
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —It has been 40 years since Sally Ride became the first woman from the United States to travel into outer space. She was not open about her personal life, according to former NASA astronaut Steve Hawley, who was married to Ride from 1982 to 1987. However, the educational company she cofounded, Sally Ride Science, revealed more of her personal life in her 2012 obituary, recognizing her longtime partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, after Ride died of pancreatic cancer. NASASherr’s book “Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space” was first published in 2014. A trailblazer’s legacyRide’s ambition and love of knowledge extended far beyond her role as an astronaut, Sherr noted.

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☆ Trump welcomed transgender women in his Miss Universe pageant years before he started campaigning on excluding them from women's sports
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump took credit in 2012 for ending the Miss Universe pageant's ban on transgender women. CNN's Andrew Kaczynski resurfaced Trump's stance on trans women competing in the Miss Universe pageant, which he owned from 1996 to 2015. Several news reports from April 2012 credit Trump specifically with reversing the pageant's ban on transgender women. Trump's tone on transgender women competing in women's sports has been pointedly different on the 2024 campaign trail. In countless rallies and speeches, Trump has railed against transgender women and claimed they are destroying women's sports.

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☆ Jeffrey Epstein's victims will be able to get up to $5 million from Deutsche Bank sex-trafficking settlement
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A settlement from Deutsche Bank will give up to $5 million each to Jeffrey Epstein's victims. Friday's court filings — if approved by the judge overseeing the case — outline how the funds would be distributed to Epstein's victims. The Deutsche Bank settlement allows Epstein's victims to file claims with a new compensation program. Their law firms can get up to 30% of the Deutsche Bank settlement funds, according to the settlement documents. Representatives for Deutsche Bank and the "Jane Doe" plaintiff didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

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☆ Trump repeatedly celebrated the inclusion of transgender women in his beauty pageant
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Years before he said he was running for president to “defeat the cult of gender ideology,” Donald Trump welcomed and praised the inclusion of transgender women in the Miss Universe pageant. He then later effusively praised the winner of the Miss USA pageant, Olivia Culpo, for saying that transgender women should be allowed to compete. Transgender contestant Jenna Talackova takes part in Miss Universe Canada competition in Toronto, May 19, 2012. Mark Blinch/ReutersTrump, then the owner of the Miss Universe pageant, would go on to cite the possible participation of transgender women in Olympic sports to justify his decision to end a ban on transgender pageant participants. “And you have the Miss Canada, which is essentially the Miss Universe.

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☆ Why Starbucks' Pride decor ignited chaos and confusion this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Gloria Dawson | Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some Starbucks employees said they were asked to remove Pride flags and decor. #pridemonth #rainbowcapitalism #shameonstarbucks #starbucks #starbuckssucks #prideflag #pridedecor #starbucksbarista #starbucksstore #targetlgbtq #starbuckslgbtq ♬ Makeba - Jain @sbworkersunited STARBUCKS IS BANNING PRIDE FLAGS ACROSS THE US. Starbucks employees said they got mixed messages about Pride decorSome store employees told Insider they were given various rationales for changes in Pride decor at their stores. A Starbucks store manager in the Midwest said her district manager told her, "We are not allowed to have any decorations that are not Starbucks brand, period. "This year, they told us we can't decorate," Alisha Humphrey, a Starbucks partner in Oklahoma City and Starbucks Workers United organizer, told Insider.

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☆ A Walmart shopper said a police officer kneeled on his neck during a receipt check over a frozen pizza
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Hayley Peterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Walmart shopper said a police officer pinned him to the ground after asking about his receipt. Dayton Borisouth told Insider the officer confronted him after he purchased a $5 frozen pizza. The Kansas City, Kansas police department said it disciplined two officers involved in the incident. Dayton Borisouth, 24, told Insider he was leaving the Walmart store in early June after purchasing the pizza for his family, when an officer confronted him. Video shows officers kneeling on the Walmart shopperThe police department said Borisouth became "belligerent" after he was asked for his receipt.

Persons: Dayton Borisouth, —, Borisouth, Borisouth's, Chris Enloe, Gloria Dawson Organizations: Walmart, Service, Dayton Borisouth, Fox, Kansas City, Shoppers Locations: Kansas City , Kansas, Denver

☆ Uber and DoorDash warn of huge changes when New York City adopts its new $18 minimum wage for delivery workers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Gloria Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New York City announced a new law making $18 the minimum wage for delivery workers. "New York City is setting the tone for across America," Adams said during a press conference announcing the new minimum wage. Currently, most apps pay delivery workers, who are contractors and not employees, per order. DoorDash's spokesperson said many of its delivery workers are casual users who are supplementing income at their full- or part-time jobs. Grubhub, for its part, said the pay structure had "good intentions" but would have "serious adverse consequences for delivery workers in New York City."

Persons: Uber, —, Eric Adams, Adams, Josh Gold, Gold, DoorDash's, Gloria Dawson Organizations: York City, Service, New York City Department of Consumer, New Locations: York, York City, America, New York City, New York

Some 75 of the world's largest 112 fossil fuel companies have now committed to reaching net-zero - the point at which greenhouse gas emissions are negated by deep cuts in output elsewhere and methods to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. But most targets do not fully cover or lack transparency on Scope 3 emissions — which include the use of a company's products, the biggest source of emissions for fossil fuel companies — or don't include short-term reduction plans, the report added. The report also found that none of the fossil fuel companies were making the needed commitments to move away from fossil fuel extraction or production. As it stands, some 4,000 countries, states, regions, cities and companies globally have now committed to net-zero. A study published last week in the journal Science found that about 90% of countries' net-zero targets were unlikely to be achieved.

Persons: Thomas Hale, Daisy Streatfield, Gloria Dickie, Simon Jessop, Jan Harvey Organizations: Climate Intelligence Unit, University of Oxford, Science, Thomson Locations: Britain, London

☆ Teens can cash in on summer jobs and expect to be paid more as employers scramble to fill openings this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Gloria Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

There were 10 million job openings in April, many in sectors ripe for teen employment. Teens in typical summer jobs like lifeguards, camp counselors, waiters, and retail workers should see raises this year. Summer job openings are slightly less than last year, according to Indeed. But overall, summer jobs have positive benefits for teens and the economy, according to the Rhode Island College report. "Teen employment is highly path-dependent — the more teens work today, the more likely they will work tomorrow," the report said.

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☆ Why Walmart, Costco, and Sam's Club workers check your receipts — and you should comply
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Hayley Peterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club, and many other retailers check shoppers' receipts at store exits. Retail employees check receipts to reduce theft and ensure customers leave with all their purchases. So why would any store check receipts if it creates if it causes so much tension? Why Costco and Sam's Club check receiptsBut checking receipts isn't just about reducing theft. "To ensure that you are charged correctly for the merchandise you have selected, Sam's Club may inspect or electronically scan your merchandise and electronic/phone or paper copy receipt(s) when you exit any Sam's Club location," the warehouse chain said on its website.

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☆ Gen Zers are the worst tippers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Gloria Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In a recent survey from Bankrate, Gen Z respondents were identified as the worst tippers. But like so many issues of the moment, Gen Z has a slightly different take and response to the situation. A recent survey from Bankrate found Gen Zers, or people 18-26 years old, are the generation least likely to tip. More than half of Baby Boomers surveyed tip at least 20%, but only a quarter of Gen Zers do. But just 22% of Gen Zers felt that way.

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☆ What Boycott? Target foot traffic is up days after LGBTQ collection blowback began.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Gloria Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

But while all the drama was unfolding, foot traffic was up at Target stores. Despite the outpouring of anti-Target sentiment (and false information) online and from right-wing politicians and pundits, foot traffic at Target stores for the last few days of May was up. From April 30 to May 27, 2023, Target saw a 69% increase in foot traffic compared to the same time period last year, Gravy Analytics found. To be sure, Target's foot traffic boost is part of a longer-term trend, Gravy Analytics noted in a blog post. Early in 2022, foot traffic at Target declined.

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On Thursday, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared that an El Nino is now underway. The last time a strong El Nino was in full swing, in 2016, the world saw its hottest year on record. Meteorologists expect that this El Nino, coupled with excess warming from climate change, will see the world grapple with record-high temperatures. Here is how El Nino will unfold and some of the weather we might expect:WHAT CAUSES AN EL NINO? Historically, both El Nino and La Nina have occurred about every two to seven years on average, with El Nino lasting 9 to 12 months.

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The last time an El Nino was in place, in 2016, the world saw its hottest year on record. DECLARING EL NINOMost experts look to two agencies for confirmation that El Nino has kicked off — NOAA and Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). The two agencies use different metrics for declaring El Nino, with the Australian definition slightly stricter. On Tuesday, Australia issued their own bulletin, noting a 70% chance of El Nino developing this year. Experts say that a strong El Nino could hit sugar production in India and Thailand, and possibly disrupt the sugarcane harvest in Brazil.

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☆ Stores are locking up entire aisles of items. They blame shoplifters — but some of it is their own fault.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Gloria Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Retailers like CVS, Walmart, and Target have tried to fight theft by locking up aisles of products. Stores must also consider staffing and supply chain issues, a retail theft expert told UBS. Tech can help fight organized retail crime, but "it's necessary to follow up with human intervention," the expert said. The source told UBS that retailers often miss two key elements — staffing levels and supply chain issues — when trying to tackle shrink. "The lack of sufficient staffing remains a major contributor to shrink, as shrink monitoring technologies are only effective insofar as they flag risk," the UBS note said.

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"(This) creates a very good defending position for Russians who expect Ukrainian offensive activity,” Matysiak said. Russia has denied responsibility and accused Ukraine of sabotaging the dam to deflect from what Moscow said were Ukrainian military failures. "For Russians the reason to do it would have been to stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive, obviously. For Ukraine, the breach might have provided a way of distracting the Russians while Kyiv launches its counteroffensive, she added. Patricia Lewis, Research Director for International Security at the Chatham House think tank, said the situation helps Russia even if the Ukrainian counteroffensive later makes inroads.

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