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Saved From the Saw: Conservation Deal Spares 8,000 Acres of Sensitive Land in Alabama From Becoming a Wood Pellet Mill
insideclimatenews.org Saved From the Saw: Conservation Deal Spares 8,000 Acres of Sensitive Land in Alabama From Becoming a Wood Pellet Mill - Inside Climate News

Almost 8,000 acres of forest in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta was in danger of becoming the site of a wood pellet mill. Instead it is now protected as the E.O. Wilson Land Between the Rivers Preserve, honoring the world-famous biologist and Alabama native.

Saved From the Saw: Conservation Deal Spares 8,000 Acres of Sensitive Land in Alabama From Becoming a Wood Pellet Mill - Inside Climate News
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www.sciencedaily.com Scientists reveal the hidden trigger behind massive floods

Atmospheric rivers, while vital for replenishing water on the U.S. West Coast, are also the leading cause of floods though storm size alone doesn t dictate their danger. A groundbreaking study analyzing over 43,000 storms across four decades found that pre-existing soil moisture is a critical factor...

Scientists reveal the hidden trigger behind massive floods

> Atmospheric rivers, while vital for replenishing water on the U.S. West Coast, are also the leading cause of floods though storm size alone doesn't dictate their danger. A groundbreaking study analyzing over 43,000 storms across four decades found that pre-existing soil moisture is a critical factor, with flood peaks multiplying when the ground is already saturated.

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blog.nature.org Meet the Kangaroos That Live in Trees

Tree-kangaroos are one of the world’s most bizarre and fascinating mammals.

Meet the Kangaroos That Live in Trees
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www.france24.com Tens of thousands rally for Gaza in Netherlands, Belgium

Tens of thousands of people dressed in red marched through the streets of The Hague and in Brussels on Sunday to demand more action from their governments against what they termed a "genocide" in Gaza.

Tens of thousands rally for Gaza in Netherlands, Belgium
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Huge turnout at a second Dutch protest seeking government action against Israel, in Belgium too
apnews.com Huge turnout at a second Dutch protest seeking government action against Israel

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in the Netherlands have donned red clothing and marched to protest the Dutch government’s policy toward Israel, exceeding the turnout for a similar event in May.

Huge turnout at a second Dutch protest seeking government action against Israel

> [In Hague] the march estimated the peaceful crowd at more than 150,000 people. Local media put the numbers closer to 100,000.

> In neighboring Belgium, around 75,000 people, many of them also clad in red, hit the streets in the capital Brussels, police said. Several rallies have been held to draw attention to Israel’s actions in Gaza, but Sunday’s was the biggest rally so far.

According to another source:

  • In Brussels, where protesters were also calling for action from the EU, turnout was estimated at 110,000 by organisers and 75,000 by police.
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Close the mathematics gender gap: huge study prompts urgent call to action
  • This article is not really about mathematical talent. It mentions that stereotypes might be reproduced by attributing success in girls to diligence and in boys to talent, but it's about mathematical ability.

    At the start of the first school year (when children are five or six years old), there are no differences, on average, between boys and girls in mathematical ability. But after just four months, boys have pulled ahead. The gap widens throughout the year.

  • earth.org The Vital Role of Keystone Species in Human-Wildlife Coexistence

    A concerted effort to combine current knowledge, research and technology to promote keystone species conservation may prevent their demise.

    The Vital Role of Keystone Species in Human-Wildlife Coexistence
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    Colorado kids with leukemia are more than twice as likely to live near dense oil and gas development
  • In that case, adding /s at the end of the comment helps a lot to clarify its tone

  • How to spot suspicious papers: a sleuthing guide for scientists

    Archived link of the article

    > The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) brings together 27 freely available resources that explain how to spot image duplication, citation manipulation, plagiarism, tortured phrases and other hallmarks of paper mills — businesses that produce fake papers to order. The guides also provide tips for reviewing papers in specific disciplines, including biology, chemistry, statistics and computer science.

    > “A lot of people assume that you need some special talent, you need eagle eyes to see things, or you need to be at your computer ten hours a day looking through the scientific literature. But really, anybody can do it,” says Richardson. “That’s one of our mantras.”

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    www.desmog.com Oil and Gas Lobby Behind ‘Concerted’ Attempt to Weaken EU Methane Policy, Research Finds

    The fossil fuel industry is ramping up efforts to weaken a key EU policy aimed at tackling the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a new report by research group InfluenceMap. Published today, the report highlights how oil and gas companies and lobby groups across the EU and U.S. are using a...

    Oil and Gas Lobby Behind ‘Concerted’ Attempt to Weaken EU Methane Policy, Research Finds

    > Industry’s calls to relax reporting requirements come as lobby groups seek to capitalise on the European Commission’s new mandate and strategy of “competitiveness”, “security” and “simplification”. > > The Commission is in the process of amending multiple sustainability reporting laws through a collection of policy proposals known as the “omnibus package”. While the methane regulation is not yet included in this, InfluenceMap’s research suggests calls to “simplify” the policy show how industry groups are pushing to include it in order to weaken climate action.

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    www.climatechangenews.com Women still face gender hurdles at UN climate talks

    Barriers to the equal participation of women at the UN talks include travel costs, schedules, entrenched gender norms and a lack of childcare

    Women still face gender hurdles at UN climate talks
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    ‘Mining companies will lie to your face’: Carlos Zorrilla on 30 years of fighting for Intag Valley [Podcast 38:15]
    news.mongabay.com ‘Mining companies will lie to your face’: Carlos Zorrilla on 30 years of fighting for Intag Valley

    Carlos Zorrilla has been living in an Ecuadorian cloud forest since the 1970s, and his last 30 years there have been spent fighting mining companies seeking to extract its large copper deposits. He and his community have successfully fought proposals by multiple firms in one of the most biodiverse r...

    ‘Mining companies will lie to your face’: Carlos Zorrilla on 30 years of fighting for Intag Valley
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    www.dailyclimate.org Colorado kids with leukemia are more than twice as likely to live near dense oil and gas development

    A recent study found that Colorado children who’d been diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia were more than twice as likely to live near dense oil and gas development, including both conventional and fracking wells, than healthy children throughout the state.

    Colorado kids with leukemia are more than twice as likely to live near dense oil and gas development

    > The new study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, looked at medical records for more than 3,000 children born in Colorado between 1992 and 2019. The researchers found that children who were diagnosed with leukemia between the ages of two and nine were more than twice as likely to live within five kilometers — about three miles — of dense oil and gas development compared to healthy children. The study also found that Children who’d been diagnosed with leukemia during this time period were between 1.4 and 2.64 times more likely to live within 13 kilometers (about eight miles) of dense oil and gas development.

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    Not again with the Burqa Ban?
    freedomnews.org.uk Not again with the Burqa Ban? - Freedom News

    As Reform UK splits over a stale debate, Muslim women’s voices remain conspicuously absent ~ James Horton ~ Many had thought very little about Sarah Pochin upon her tight win in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election on May 1st. They know what they think of her now. Upon her first ever question in PMQs ...

    Not again with the Burqa Ban? - Freedom News

    > Notably absent from the conversation is the voice of Muslim women. [...] It seems evident from recent events in Iran and Kurdistan that Muslim women are very well capable of speaking for themselves on the issue. They certainly do not need posh white people in positions of exalted power and privilege to speak for them.

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    news.mongabay.com Rare earth rush in Myanmar blamed for toxic river spillover into Thailand

    CHIANG RAI, Thailand — Just days before the water fights were set to erupt across Chiang Rai for Songkran — Thailand’s New Year celebration, held every April and known for its festive street soakings — the city’s residents received a sobering warning: avoid contact with the Kok River, which winds th...

    Rare earth rush in Myanmar blamed for toxic river spillover into Thailand

    > - Water tests from the Kok and Sai rivers near Thailand’s border with Myanmar have revealed elevated arsenic levels, leading Thai officials to warn citizens to avoid contact with river water. > > - The pollution is widely believed to be linked to unregulated mining in Myanmar’s Shan state. > > - Extraction of gold in Shan State has surged in the years since the 2021 military coup in Myanmar; more recently, mounting evidence suggests rare earth mining is also expanding across the state. > > - Elevated arsenic levels have also been found at testing points in the Mekong, which is fed by both the Kok and Sai rivers.

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    insideclimatenews.org UN Ocean Conference Opens With a Call to Defend the Deep Sea - Inside Climate News

    Marine experts say governments must protect fragile ecosystems from destructive practices such as bottom trawling and deep sea mining to combat the climate crisis.

    UN Ocean Conference Opens With a Call to Defend the Deep Sea - Inside Climate News

    > Marine experts say governments must protect fragile ecosystems from destructive practices such as bottom trawling and deep sea mining to combat the climate crisis.

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    The communities menu is now mega
  • For me, this is beautiful because thanks to the many rows, we can access more stuff in just one click.

    I don't know how anyone would feel about the following, nor how easy or difficult it would be to implement something like that, but I'll say it anyways. I was wondering if we could somehow access all these in one click, instead of two. Meaning, what if these lists were on the sidebar? Or perhaps create a new, narrower sidebar on the left side? Possibly, them having the option to collapse as well?

    Just some thoughts and thank you for everything.

  • phys.org What is the high seas treaty?

    The high seas treaty could be law by the end of the year, affording protection to marine life in the vast swathes of ocean that belong to no one.

    What is the high seas treaty?

    > The high seas treaty could become law by the end of the year, affording protection to marine life in the vast swaths of ocean that belong to no one. > > The treaty was adopted by UN member states in June 2023. It has been ratified by 31 nations plus the European Union, and comes into force 120 days after its 60th ratification. > > But at the UN Ocean Conference this week, hosts France said around 50 countries have ratified the pact, bringing it within reach of enactment. [...]

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    As Arctic ice vanishes, maritime traffic boom fuels the climate crisis
  • It looks like the IMO's pledge to reduce emissions by at least 20% is totally feasible. At least according to the following recent study

    Reducing travel speeds and using an intelligent queuing system at busy ports can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oceangoing container vessels by 16-24%, according to researchers. Not only would those relatively simple interventions reduce emissions from a major, direct source of greenhouse gases, the technology to implement these measures already exists.

  • ‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event
  • Maybe so, maybe no. It's not predetermined.

    It's what we do now that will shape the future. I mean, we the people. We cannot rely on governments or corporations to do the right thing without us forcing them to. By now, we know this.

    So, I believe that conversations about solutions are more fruitful than deterministic statements, no matter how highly upvoted these statements are.

  • ‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event
  • I thought of adding this article too, because it looks like there are Some Hopeful News About the Future of the World’s Corals.

    Much has been learned about heat-resistant corals in the last decade. Village by village and beach by beach, reef restoration is progressing.

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    My main account is solo@slrpnk.net. For now, I'll also be using this one because I really like its feed feature.

    Btw I'm a non-binary trans person [they/she/he].

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