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Sixteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, researchers report that deep sea ecosystems show little sign of recovery. Coral communities and seafloor habitats affected by the spill remain damaged, underscoring how slowly life at depth rebounds from oil contamination and reinforcing concerns about long-term impacts of offshore drilling.

A Financial Times commentary asks whether the world's major powers are drifting, through miscalculation and escalation, into a third world war. The piece frames current geopolitical tensions as echoes of the pre-1914 period, when complacent leaders stumbled into catastrophic conflict. Readers are debating whether today's rivalries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia are being managed carefully or left to spiral unchecked.