An Academy rule aimed at recycled themes has quietly disqualified some of the best-reviewed film scores of the last two decades, Hans Zimmer's Dune: Part Two among them.

Türkiye and Australia split the COP31 presidency to end a yearlong hosting fight. This week Türkiye's climate minister said the deal doesn't make them equals.

A new LP now averages $37, up 24% in five years. Pricier plastic, packed pressing plants, and labels selling the same album in seven colors are why.

The acrid, chemical smell in wildfire smoke isn't your imagination — it's benzene and formaldehyde, and sometimes it's literally burning plastic.

Subtitles and dubbed dialogue are usually written by two separate translators solving two separate problems, which is why they rarely say the same thing.

Before a single drop of storm runoff arrives, California dam operators are already emptying space for it. New atmospheric-river forecasting means they can now time that release to the hour.

A ten-person board decides if your movie is PG-13 or R. Six of them you will never identify. The other four, including its chair since 2019, work in the open.

Publishers enforce strict on-sale dates called embargoes for new books -- break one, and a bookstore risks fines, lost shipments, even a lawsuit.

Twice a year, the moon and sun line up to push ordinary high tides over seawalls with no storm in sight, and South Florida just published exactly when it happens next.

A twelve-month window that runs June to May, not January to December, explains why a hit new show can premiere and still wait a year for its shot at an Emmy.

Dolly Parton's Walk of Fame star was vandalized days after her death, but the repair itself was already scheduled. Here's how the Hollywood Historic Trust actually fixes a star.

A new UN report concedes the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C limit will be crossed within years. What happens next is called "overshoot" — and it will shape climate policy for the rest of the century.

A federal judge sided with 22 Republican state attorneys general to block New York's first-in-the-nation climate superfund fee, ruling the Clean Air Act preempts states from making polluters pay for storm and flood damage.

A stationary turbine on a windy day usually isn't broken. It's hit a safety limit, a grid order, or a maintenance window.

Two ratings boards look at the same cut of film and land in different places, mostly because they weigh violence differently.

A 2019 ad deal set off a decade-long standoff between theater chains chasing revenue and studios who need people to actually see the trailers.

A 400-watt panel that plugs into a wall outlet like a toaster is one governor's signature away from being legal in California. Most states still haven't caught up.

A 1925 Times Square theater bet everything on an untested cooling system and accidentally invented the summer blockbuster. The habit it started never really stopped.

After the 2025 Los Angeles fires, California's insurer of last resort needed a $1 billion rescue, its first since 1993. Homeowners who never filed a claim are footing part of the bill.

Record rain overwhelmed small-town Indiana this month. The bigger story is a stormwater system that earned a D on its last national report card, and a $115 billion repair bill nobody's paying.