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summary Europe will remove a record 603 dams and dams in 21 countries in 2025 and reconnect thousands of kilometers of rivers. Demolition of aging structures restores fish migration routes and addresses climate-related water risks across the continent. Rivers can change rapidly after dam removal, with salmon returning within first migration season in Finland’s Hitlanjoki River AI-generated summaries were reviewed by CNN editors. Editor’s note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series dedicated to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet and their solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to promote awareness and education on…

Luxury property in Kensington and Chelsea, London, UKBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis report is from this week’s CNBC UK Exchange newsletter. See what you see? You can subscribe here.dispatchFormer health secretary Wes Streeting, who is vying for a position in the yet-to-be-started election campaign to lead Britain’s ruling Labor Party, has promised to impose a wealth tax if elected leader.”We need a working wealth tax,” he told the BBC last week. “A pound earned simply by owning property should not be taxed less than a pound earned through hard work.”Strictly speaking, Street isn’t actually proposing a wealth tax. Rather,…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced plans to build a new campus in Taiwan at an employee meeting on May 27, 2026.NvidiaNvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced Wednesday that the company is expanding significantly in Taiwan with a new campus and a 10x increase in annual spending, as it plans to grow using artificial intelligence.Taiwan’s Tai Trade Stock Price Index rose 1.7% to a record high on Wednesday. South Korea’s SK Hynix and US-based micron became the latest chip company to reach $1 trillion in market value.”Currently, we spend $100 billion on Taiwan, reaching $150 billion every year,” Huang said in Taipei,…

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains highly restricted as the United States and Iran continue to negotiate a memorandum of understanding to resume the movement of oil and other goods into and out of the Persian Gulf, according to maritime tracking services. Late on Tuesday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy claimed that 25 ships, including oil tankers, container ships and other commercial vessels, had passed through the strait in the past 24 hours. The official said the vessel had passed “with permission and under the security protection of the Revolutionary Guards Navy.” Ship-tracking services could not confirm…

SK Hynix Inc.’s 12-layer HBM3E memory chip, front, and LPDDR5X CAMM2 memory modules were deployed at the company’s offices in Seongnam, South Korea, Tuesday, April 22, 2025.Cho Sung Joon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesHello, my name is Leonie Kidd and I’m from London. Welcome to today’s Daily Open Newsletter.The $1 trillion club has grown even larger as more companies move into mega-market cap territory thanks to AI-powered stock price gains. The race to scale continues at a ferocious pace, keeping technology-focused indices around the world at record levels. This is one of the first days that Iranian developments are not…

GCHQ Director Anne Keast Butler pictured during CYBERUK 2024 in Birmingham, England on May 14, 2024.Matthew Horwood for CYBERUK | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBritain and its allies have a “narrowing window” to pre-empt security risks posed by China, Russia and other adversaries, Britain’s top intelligence official warned on Wednesday. In a rare public address, Anne Keast Butler, director of Britain’s intelligence, cyber and security agency, GCHQ, said Britain was at a “critical juncture” as it faced increasingly brazen acts from hostile states.”China is now a scientific and technological powerhouse with advanced capabilities across intelligence, cyber and military institutions,”…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated four-term Sen. John Cornyn on Tuesday to win the Republican Senate nomination.Mr. Paxton won with about 64% of the vote and Mr. Cornyn received about 36%, a difference of about 28 points, according to results reported by the Associated Press.Recommended stories list of two itemsend of listPresident Donald Trump endorsed Paxton last week, calling him a “true MAGA warrior.” Cornyn, who was first elected in 2002, became the first Texas Republican senator to lose his nomination for re-election.Here’s what we know:Paxton calls Trump supporter ‘the most powerful force in politics’Paxton’s victory adds to Trump’s…

Ukrainian soldiers of the 24th Brigade prepare their FPV drone equipment as the Russo-Ukrainian war continues.Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesAs Russia struggles to defend against attacks on Ukraine, it has passed a law giving its central bank and other financial institutions the power to repel drone attacks with their own defense systems.The law, passed by Russia’s parliament on Tuesday, would allow employees of Russia’s central bank to be armed and operate systems used to suppress unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) attacks without the involvement of special forces. The Ukrainian military is increasingly opting for long-range drone strikes, expanding its…

AP — Britain and its allies risk losing cyberspace conflicts with adversaries such as Russia unless people, businesses and governments address cybersecurity more urgently, Britain’s intelligence chief has warned. Ann Keast Butler, head of communications intelligence agency GCHQ, will warn on Wednesday that the Russian government is “relentlessly targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains and public trust” in the UK and Europe. In a speech at a World War II code-breaking center near London, she will accuse Russia of stealing technology and plotting sabotage and assassinations. Keast-Butler will say that rapid advances in artificial intelligence mean “the ground beneath…

Shayda Frost and Timothy Amoui sometimes joke that they work in “innovative real estate.” After all, as Frost puts it, a burial ground is essentially “a very, very small piece of land that you own forever.” Frost, 39, and Amoui, 36, are owners of Lincoln Memorial Group, a cemetery company that operates four cemeteries in Atlanta. The company had revenue of about $6.3 million and net income of about $1.7 million in 2025, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. The business brought in an average of nearly $6 million annually from 2021 to 2025. Although running a cemetery…