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This story was originally published by Mother Jones and has been republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The website Women for Natural Gas is a pink-tinged, fancy-cursive-drenched love letter to the oil and gas industry. A prominently featured promo video shows women in hard hats and on rig sites. “Who’s powering the world? We are!” enthuses the narrator. Viewers can click through to a “Herstory” timeline of women working in the oil sector. Another page, about the group’s grassroots network of supporters, announces, “We are women for natural gas,” and s...

The New Yorker Fell Into the “Weird Japan” Trap Elif Batuman was duped by a source’s fabrications about the country’s rent-a-family industry. What went wrong? Chris McGrath/Getty Images It has not been a good year for anyone, but it’s been an especially bad year for the fact-checkers of highbrow magazines. In November, The Atlanticappended an extraordinary editor’s note to a story written by Ruth Barrett, née Shalit, disclosing that Barrett, among other exaggerations and falsehoods, had encouraged a source to fabricate details about her life, including that the source had a son ...

This article was originally published by Mother Jones and appears here as part of Canada's National Observer's collaboration with Climate Desk. The website Women for Natural Gas is a pink-tinged, fancy-cursive-drenched love letter to the oil and gas industry. A prominently featured promo video shows women in hard hats and on rig sites. “Who’s powering the world? We are!” enthuses the narrator. Viewers can click through to a “Herstory” timeline of women working in the oil sector. Another page, about the group’s grassroots network of supporters, announces, “We are women for natura...

Your Friday Briefing South Korea with a vaccine months away, worries about another devastating wild fire season in Australia and backyard treasures found while stuck at home. Image South Korea faces ‘biggest ever’ wave As other countries prepare to roll out vaccinations, South Korea is grappling with its biggest wave of coronavirus infections yet. South Korea’s daily number of new cases was once as low as two per day. That number soared to​ 682 on Thursday, with health officials warning it could reach record highs in coming days. On Wednesday​, 686 new cases were reported, the hig...