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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.

Enlarge / No one's entirely sure if driverless racing will be any good to watch, but before we find that out, people have to actually develop driverless race cars. A2RL in Abu Dhabi is the latest step down that path. (credit: A2RL) A2RL provided flights from London to Abu Dhabi and accommodation so Ars could attend the autonomous race event.

Enlarge / A sea-borne variant of the commercial Ceres 1 rocket lifts off near the coast of Rizhao, a city of 3 million in China's Shandong province. (credit: VCG via Getty Images) Welcome to Edition 6.46 of the Rocket Report! It looks like we will be covering the crew test flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft and the fourth test flight of SpaceX's giant Starship rocket over the next week.