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[https://phys.org/news/2025-07-agricultural-liming-large.amp by Goldachmidt Conference 10/7/25 PHYS ORG]

  The team, from the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture at Yale University, show that the addition of acidity, in the form of atmospheric pollution and fertilizers, is the main driver for CO2 emissions from soils. By calculating emissions based on acid inputs, they show how emissions may be being underestimated in some cases, and the potential for lime to reduce emissions is being overlooked.

=====Solar becomes top source of electricity in California=====

[https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/09/solar-becomes-top-source-of-electricity-in-california/ by John Fitz Gerald Weaver 9/7/25 pv magazine]

  Over the past year, solar generation surpassed natural gas to become California’s leading source of electricity, a milestone expected to persist.

=====Cheap Daily Supplement Appears to Boost Brain Function in Older People=====

[https://www.sciencealert.com/cheap-daily-supplement-appears-to-boost-brain-function-in-older-people by Carly Cassella 9/7/25 Sciencealert]

[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/bhutan-refugees-trump-america by Lok Darjee 10/7/25 The Guardian]

  In mid-March 2025, I sat quietly in the back of a small, crowded room at the Asian Refugees United center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, surrounded by members of the Bhutanese diaspora. The silence was heavy, thick with fear and uncertainty. This modest office, once a vibrant hub for refugee youth, cultural celebrations, and literary competitions, had become an impromptu crisis center, where community leaders scrambled to make sense of the Trump administration’s escalating immigration crackdown on Bhutanese refugees across the country.

=====‘It was filthy and it stank terribly’: how Europe’s dirtiest river was brought back to life=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/emscher-europe-dirtiest-river-nature-sewer-of-ruher by Ajit Niranjan 10/7/25 The Guardian]

  For more than a century, putrid fumes emanated from the “sewer of the Ruhr”, creating a pungent whiff that assaulted towns throughout Germany’s industrial heartland.  

=====‘What should be taught in schools?’: the infamous ‘Scopes monkey trial’ turns 100=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/10/scopes-monkey-trial-100 by David Smith 10/7/25 The Guardian]

  Her great-grandfather was a doctor called to attend to the lawyer who put the case for creationism. Her great-grandmother was related to Charles Darwin. And now she works in the courthouse where the “trial of the century” – in which a high school teacher was accused of illegally teaching evolution – began exactly a century ago on Thursday.

=====Look just how much red counties depend on the government they hate=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/10/2332575/-Look-just-how-much-red-counties-depend-on-the-government-they-hate? by kos 10/7/25 DAILY KOS]

  One of the most enduring conservative myths is that of the self-reliant, salt-of-the-earth, rural-dwelling American who pulls himself up by his bootstraps, wrestles a steer before breakfast, and builds his own house out of patriotism and chewing tobacco because, by god, they sure do love America!  

=====How Google’s Calico aims to fight aging and ‘solve death’=====

[https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/03/tech/innovation/google-calico-aging-death/index.html by Arion McNicoll 3/10/13 CNN]

[https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1234271511/how-gerontology-the-study-of-aging-came-to-be by ALL THINGS CONSIDERED 27/2/24 npr]

  For centuries, people have been obsessed with staying young and even living forever. We spend billions of dollars on anti-aging products. We're told to look younger. We question whether older people are fit to lead. Well, NPR's history podcast, Throughline, brings us the story of the scientist who helped launch gerontology, the study of aging, and how we started viewing aging as a disease.

=====Heat can age you as much as smoking, a new study finds=====

[https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5325273/heat-accelerates-aging-new-study-finds by Alejandra Borunda 17/3/25 npr]

[https://www.npr.org/2013/03/08/173821482/can-the-anti-aging-secret-be-found-in-red-wine by TALK OF THE NATION 8/3/13 npr]

  This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, I'm Ira Flatow. Here's some news to raise a glass to: the idea that red wine may help us live longer and healthier lives. Well, it got a new boost this week. According to a team of researchers, a compound found in the skin of grapes could be an antidote to aging by slowing down the process and even fending off disease and inflammation associated with getting old. It's the topic of a new study published this week in the journal Science.

=====The theory: the US population is just aging out of crime=====

[https://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/17991864/crime-drop-murder-aging-out-elderly-old by Dara Lind and German Lopez 19/1/16 Vox]

[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/press-releases/aging-in-place-is-the-focus-of-a-multi-platform-report-by-the-pbs-newshour by All Press Release 8/8/13 PBS NEWS]

  As Americans live longer, more-productive lives, many seniors are seeking ways to “Age in Place” – to grow old in their own homes rather than move in with family or to traditional retirement facilities.  As part of its ongoing reporting on the challenges of aging and long-term care, Ray Suarez reports from Boston on a non-profit membership organization that helps seniors grow old in their own homes.  

=====< VIDEO: What If Aging Wasn't Inevitable? The Quest To Slow And Even Reverse Aging=====

[https://www.npr.org/transcripts/717487451?storyId=717487451?storyId=717487451 by Elise Hu 25/9/19 npr]

[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568163724003994 by Ageing Research Reviews 12/24 ScienceDirect]

  Living longer has always been a desire nurtured by humans, but this increased longevity might not be of interest if it is not accompanied by a sustained health status to ensure autonomy and quality of life.  

=====Trump officials axed an online portal for its key climate report. Read it in full here=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/10/national-climate-assessment-published by Oliver Milman 10/7/25 The Guardian]