12,000 evacuated as wildfire rages through Gironde's Landes forest, consuming 2,000 hectares

Your privacy choices

We use analytics to improve Pollar and, with your consent, marketing tools (Meta, X) to measure our ads. You can change this anytime in Settings.

Privacy policy

Home Ask Live Brief Search Map Markets Notifications For You

Free to read, and staying that way

No ads. Membership keeps Pollar independent.

from$2.99/mo

Support Pollar

Membership

Members don't see this panel.

Supporter$2.99/mo
Founder$6.99/mo

Support Pollar

Today’s Brief

Nuclear deals, heat and hacked sandboxes

Trump escalates Iran war as Saudi deal and AI breach expose weaker safeguards

The overnight brief has a familiar shape: hard power moves faster than the rules meant to contain it. Washington threatened Iran, armed Saudi Arabia’s nuclear ambitions, while software and climate systems showed their own uncomfortable limits.

Read the Brief

Live now

All live coverage

Wildfire spreads near Madrid
Burns 890 hectares as fire crews battle flames in Villa del Prado and Madrid region

In the spotlight

All threads

Other · Updated 13m ago

Climate: from mitigation to adaptation

Germany expanded its national heat health action plans, and a new wildfire near Bordeaux led to significant evacuations and land destruction, indicating intensifying climate impacts and adaptation efforts.

Home Brief Threads Ask