A four-ton, building-sized piece of a discarded SpaceX rocket is believed to have crashed into the Moon earlier today at 5,400mph. The uncontrolled fragment had been drifting through space since January 2025. NASA predicted that its impact would create a crater around 18 m wide and 4m deep.

Forget space exploration, global powers and private interests are racing to militarize space. William J. Astore, retired professor of history and former Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force, explores how space is becoming the next battlefield. Read now. 👇

The militarization of space threatens us all

As space becomes an increasingly vital arena for war, William J Astore tracks its increased militarization.

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It is reported that 46% of Brazilians who use gambling platforms and online casinos do so to earn extra income and pay bills, pushing many deeper into debt, while a powerful betting lobby resists reforms, writes Leonardo Sakamoto in the latest edition of the View From Brazil.

Online gambling is destroying lives in Brazil

Bad betting companies are targeting the most vulnerable, with the help of some politicians, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

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The new space race promises a future among the stars, but as billionaires pursue dreams of Mars, profit and power, are they creating a future for humanity, or sacrificing the only planet we have? Astronomer Lucian Walkowicz (@notnotrocketscience.com) writes for New Internationalist.

Space: the billionaires’ playground

As tycoons like Elon Musk attempt to seize space for profit, the Earth is being trashed, writes astronomer Lucian Walkowicz.

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Trump and his oil-hungry allies may have slipped up. The energy crisis they helped fuel is pushing countries and individuals around the world to accelerate the shift towards more sustainable and reliable energy options.

Has Trump doomed fossil fuels?

The war on Iran could have lasting consequences for the fossil fuel industry, writes Danny Chivers.

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🗨️‘The miners buy the conscience of people’. Indigenous Asháninka leader, Diana, on how illegal gold mining is destroying lives and habitats in the Amazon – with help from the international trading system.

The people resisting Peru’s illegal goldrush

Precious metal mafias are destroying lives and habitats in the Amazon – with help from the international trading system. Vanessa Baird explains how.

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As a new space race looks set to worsen global inequality and extend conflict, we have a choice: see space as a place for all humankind, or leave it to the rich and powerful to exploit. From our new magazine, Nick Dowson asks: Who owns the skies? read more at newint.org/corporations...

Billionaire tech titans are spearheading a new space race while they litter Earth’s skies with their debris. As the likes of Elon Musk rake in the dollars, our new magazine examines the privatisation and militarization of space, and what’s at stake for people and the planet. a.nin.tl/spacerace

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