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Supercell recruits Chris Hemsworth, Christina Ricci, Will Arnett, and Ken Jeong to hype its first new release in five years. Supercell’s five mobile games have 220 million monthly active players and more than 6 billion lifetime downloads combined. But facing stagnant growth, the Finnish game developer knew it had to go big to launch its first new release in five years.

A pilot project will repurpose an old oil field to help clean up the grid. When a small company leased an oil field in California’s Central Valley six years ago, it quickly realized that drilling for oil wasn’t going to be viable. As the state works to decarbonize, it was nearly impossible to get permits.

Low income communities must be included in the clean energy push so that decarbonization goals don’t further fuel the poverty cycle. The United States is making significant strides to mitigate carbon emissions, enlisting and incentivizing corporations and citizens. Laws have been passed, government-backed roadmaps have been set, and billions of dollars are now available in the hopes of curtailing the climate crisis.

Women in Bangladesh are confronting the dangerous health effects of consuming salty water. They won’t be the last. This story is part of the series Expecting Worse: Giving Birth on a Planet in Crisis, a collaboration between Grist, Vox, and The 19th that investigates how climate change impacts reproductive health from menstruation to conception to birth. 

If one of your employees experiences a significant loss, there are several things you can do to help. Loss is a fact of life. Sooner or later, every one of us will lose loved ones, and those losses create a rip in the fabric of our lives. To start to repair that tear, we engage in a grieving process that helps us rewrite the story of our lives in a way that eventually allows us to move forward without the presence of the individual we have lost.

New research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate sounds the alarm ahead of a blockbuster political season. Seeing is no longer believing, thanks to the rise of generative AI video tools. And now, in a crucial election year around the world, hearing isn’t believing any more either.