A Texas city will pay at least $175,000 after the SpaceX site it owns pumped 128 million gallons of groundwater above permitted limits over three years; the settlement includes monitoring payments for 25 years/Image: Facebook City of McGregor A groundwater dispute involving SpaceX’s sprawling Texas operations has left the city of McGregor facing at least…

The debt conversion was supported by several private funders, including the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation was among the private funders that backed a deal helping Seychelles use debt financing for ocean conservation. The deal helped the island nation increase the area of its ocean under protection from just 0.04% of its Exclusive Economic…

For Andernacht, the tournament has become an example of what can happen when people turn personal hardship into collective action. A hockey tournament born from a family cancer diagnosis has grown into a decade-long fundraising effort, turning a group of friends, a few teams and a shared love of the game into a million-dollar community…