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| =====Remember “Dampen the forests”? Now, the Deep South is choking, and wildlife is devastated in Canada.=====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/4/2197304/-Dampening-the-forest-floors-the-Deep-South-is-enveloped-in-smoke-and-wildlife-devastation-in-Canada?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Pakalolo 4/10/23 DAILY KOS]
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| Canadian wildfires are out of sight and out of mind for the most part. The fires only get press when the smoke affects human populations, particularly in the United States, such as New York City or Miami. Yes, all the way down to the Magic City.
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| =====Ancient wooden tools show human ancestors ate their veggies=====
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| [https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-wooden-tools-show-human-ancestors-ate-their-veggies by Andrew Curry 3/7/25 Science]
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| Proponents of the “paleo diet” like to imagine the deep past as an all-meat barbecue buffet. And thus far, the kinds of tools dating to the dawn of humanity—countless stone blades and choppers, along with a few wooden spears and throwing sticks—seemed to support the idea of a pre-historic diet heavy on mammoth steaks.
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| =====Aid groups say USAID cuts are already having deadly consequences=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/nx-s1-5413322/aid-groups-say-usaid-cuts-are-already-having-deadly-consequences by Gabrielle Emanuel 28/5/25 npr]
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| President Trump, with the help of Elon Musk, cut billions of dollars in global health programs earlier this year. The administration has dismissed the idea that that had much effect. Here's an exchange between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative Brad Sherman of California during a hearing last week.
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| =====Subcultures of collapse – will there be a convergence?=====
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| [https://jembendell.com/2025/06/08/subcultures-of-collapse-will-there-be-a-convergence/ by Prof Jem Bendell 8/6/25]
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| Many environmentalists have shifted from climate activism to mourning and degrowth, influenced by recent climate data and science. Richard argues they see climate change as unable to be fixed technologically, and prioritise localism, harm reduction and emotional wellbeing, amid disillusionment with both state action and mainstream environmental narratives.
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| # [[Mental adaptations]]
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| =====What the farmers say=====
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| [https://jembendell.com/2025/06/21/what-the-farmers-say/ by Prof Jem Bendell 21/6/25]
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| In my experience, it is rare to hear farmers from the Global South discussing their challenges and aspirations, and what might be useful support to receive from successful restaurateurs and resort owners. That’s why I’m delighted to release a short film that brings you the voices of organic and regenerative farmers in dialogue with others in the food business sector in Bali, Indonesia.
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| =====Mangroves show surprising resilience to storms in a changing climate=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2025-05-mangroves-resilience-storms-climate.html by Yale University 30/5/25 PHYS ORG]
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| The findings, recently published in Global Change Biology, help illuminate the complex process of ecosystem recovery after climate-driven shocks and the value of long-term ecological monitoring.
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| =====Major global study on future climate threats to coastal oceans=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2025-06-major-global-future-climate-threats.html#google_vignette by University of Strathclyde 23/6/25 PHYS ORG]
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| Using advanced climate models and high-resolution data, the study projects significant warming in coastal ocean regions by 2100 under high-emission scenarios, with associated changes in salinity and ocean dynamics. These transformations are expected to have profound consequences for biodiversity, fisheries, coastal communities and the wider climate system.
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| =====Modeling study finds early signs of widespread coastal marsh decline=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2025-06-early-widespread-coastal-marsh-decline.html by Colorado State University 23/6/25 PHYS ORG]
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| Researchers have revealed the declining health of coastal marshes several years before visible signs of decline, providing an early warning and an opportunity to protect an ecosystem that serves as the first line of defense against coastal flooding.
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| =====Gone with the glaciers: Researchers track unprecedented ice loss=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glaciers-track-unprecedented-ice-loss.html by Hakai Institute 25/6/25 PHYS ORG]
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| A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland lost around 12% of their ice between 2021 and 2024.
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| =====First sea-level records for coastal community protection=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2025-06-sea-coastal-community.html by European Space Agency 25/6/25 PHYS ORG]
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| Our ability to monitor sea-level rise is thanks largely to the long-term record of sea-surface height from satellite radar altimeters, initially provided by the French–US Topex Poseidon satellite and the Jason series of satellites, and now by the Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission.
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| ====='Right size, right place' approach required for climate adaptation plans=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2025-06-size-approach-required-climate.html by University of Glasgow 27/6/25 PHYS ORG]
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| Sophisticated computer modeling of the Clyde by researchers at the University of Glasgow suggests that urban planners will need to adopt a "right size, right place" approach to tidal flood management in the years to come.
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| # [[Land/Sea Use adaptations]]
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| =====Old aerial photos give scientists a new tool to predict sea level rise=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2025-07-aerial-photos-scientists-tool-sea.html by Kristian Bjorn 2/7/25 PHYS ORG]
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| On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On board is a photographer, probably from the U.S. Navy, whose job is to map the Antarctic landscape. But it turns out that the photographer is also documenting a very special situation that is in progress. He shoots an aerial photo of the Wordie Ice Shelf, which, 30 years later, has almost vanished after a total collapse.
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| =====The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why=====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/climate/great-dying-extinction-tipping-point-tropical-forests by Laura Paddlson 2/7/25 CNN]
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| A team of international researchers say they have now figured out why using a vast trove of fossils — and it all revolves around tropical forests.
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| [[Education-Science]]
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| =====Regen agriculture outperforms conventional farming across key metrics=====
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| [https://8point9.com/regen-agriculture-can-outperform-conventional-farming-across-key-metrics/ by 8 Point ( 6/6/25]
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| The European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture has released the results of new study which reveals that regenerative farming systems across Europe are not only environmentally superior but bring higher returns for farmers and are more resilient than conventional models.
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| =====Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives=====
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| [https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-pollution-rules-analysis-savings-health-0a289aec2507ed38d386680afdd0ea45 by Seth Borenstein 5/6/25 AP]
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| When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of climate-change religion” and introduce a “Golden Age” for the American economy.
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| =====Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing=====
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| [https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding by Matt Krupnick 3/6/25 PROPUBLICA]
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| The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
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| [[Education-Racism]]
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| =====5 ways Trump's megabill will limit health care access=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453870/senate-republicans-tax-bill-medicaid-health-care by Phil Galewitz 3/7/25 npr]
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| The bill, passed in both the House and the Senate without a single Democratic vote, is expected to reverse many of the health coverage gains of the Biden and Obama administrations. Their policies made it easier for millions of people to access health care and reduced the U.S. uninsured rate to record lows, though Republicans say the trade-off was far higher costs borne by taxpayers and increased fraud.
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| [[Health Care-Prevention]]
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| =====A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading=====
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| [https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/07/kids-biking-decline/683377/ by Erin Sagen 1/7/25 The Atlantic]
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| You’re less likely to catch that kind of scene today. Over the course of the 1990s, an average of 20.5 million children ages 7 to 17 hopped on a bike six or more times a year, according to data from the National Sporting Goods Association, a sports-equipment trade group. Only a few decades later, that number has fallen by nearly half, to about 10.9 million in 2023. Of those kids, according to the association, just less than 5 percent rode their bikes “frequently.”
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| =====Why induction stoves are better than gas=====
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| [https://www.popsci.com/environment/why-induction-stoves-are-better-than-gas/ by Justin Pot 1/7/25 POPULAR SCIENCE]
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| Gas stoves have a reputation as being the best, mostly because of marketing, so you might think I’m only saying I “upgraded” to induction because of environmental conviction. And I’ll admit using less energy motivated the switch (I like saving money) but efficiency alone is not why I’m saying that induction is better.
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| [[Health Care-Environmental Factors]]
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| =====Destroying 50 years of women’s health samples is like ‘burning the Library of Congress’=====
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| [https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/01/health/nurses-study-trump-wellness by Sandee LaMotte 1/7/25 CNN]
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| For decades, researchers have been collecting samples from hundreds of thousands of women and tracking their health. The work has deepened our basic understanding of human health, but now the entire project is in danger.
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| =====Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down=====
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| [https://theconversation.com/mauna-loa-observatory-captured-the-reality-of-climate-change-the-us-plans-to-shut-it-down-260403 by Alex Sen Gupta 3/7/25 THE CONVERSATION]
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| In 1956, United States scientist Charles Keeling chose Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano for the site of a new atmospheric measuring station. It was ideal, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and at high altitude away from the confounding influence of population centres.
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| # [[Overview]]
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| =====How did these class rings stay put for decades? Santa Cruz County beach mystery delights ocean expert=====
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| [https://lookout.co/how-did-these-class-rings-stay-put-for-decades-santa-cruz-county-beach-mystery-delights-ocean-expert/story by Hillary Ojeda 3/7/25 LookOut
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| When UC Santa Cruz ocean expert Gary Griggs read this week about a ring found on a local beach 28 years after it was lost in the water, he was struck by the similarities to another story he’s told his students for more than two decades about a long-lost ring found on the beach.
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| [[Free Expression-Stories of Peoples]]
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| =====RFK Jr.’s Confusing Disdain for Medicaid=====
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| [https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/medicaid-cuts-rfk-jr-maha/683406/ by Nicholas Florko 2/7/25 The Atlantic]
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| For Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “Make America healthy again” is far more than a nice slogan. His cosmic purpose in life, he has said, is to fix the country’s health woes. “The first thing I’ve done every morning for the past 20 years is to get on my knees and pray to God that he would put me in a position to end the chronic-disease epidemic,” Kennedy told senators during his confirmation hearing in January. As health secretary, he has continued to emphasize his commitment to that goal. But yesterday, Kennedy cheered a move that is all but guaranteed to make America less healthy.
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| [[Health Care-Insurance]]
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| =====Wearables Aren't Going to 'Make America Healthy Again'=====
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| [https://lifehacker.com/health/wearables-wont-make-america-healthy-again by Beth Skwarecki 1/7/25 LIFEHACKER]
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| Health and fitness wearables can do many things, but they really can’t do much to make people healthier—no matter what U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., says in front of Congress.
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| [[Health Care-Prevention]]
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| =====Dr James Hansen Warns Climate is Heating up way faster than IPCC forecasts & he has the receipts=====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/28/2202159/-Dr-James-Hansen-Warns-Climate-is-Heating-up-way-faster-than-IPCC-forecasts-he-has-the-receipts?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by FishOutofWater 28/10/23 DAILY KOS]
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| Dr. James Hansen is publishing a paper next week that warns of future warming at a much faster pace than the official IPCC forecasts. He has summarized his scientific paper In multiple recent communications, explaining the differences between his forecasts and those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. The recent spike in global temperatures, coupled with rapidly declining reflected solar radiation and Antarctic sea ice extent support Hansen’s views.
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| ===== We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning by Oliver Milman 19/7/23 The Guardian]
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| The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because “we are damned fools” for not acting upon warnings over the climate crisis, according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.
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| ===== The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies =====
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| [https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1117653/the-trump-administration-has-shut-down-more-than-100-climate-studies/ by James Temple 2/6/25 MIT Technology Review]
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| The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.
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| ===== Glaciers will keep melting for centuries even if warming stops, study warns =====
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| [https://www.the-independent.com/climate-change/news/swiss-glacier-collapse-melting-b2761880.html by Stuti Mishra 3/6/25 INDEPENDENT]
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| About 40 per cent of the world's glacier mass is already set to disappear due to past greenhouse gas emissions. The ongoing loss not only contributes to sea-level rise but also threatens freshwater supplies and increases the risk of natural hazards in mountainous regions.
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| ===== Can multivitamins improve memory? A new study shows 'intriguing' results =====
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| A team of researchers wanted to assess how a daily multivitamin may influence cognitive aging and memory. They tracked about 3,500 older adults who were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial. One group of participants took a placebo, and another group took a Silver Centrum multivitamin, for three years. The participants also took tests, administered online, to evaluate memory.
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| ===== ‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power?utm_term=64a247cbc7347b0db83e05b44b3db4e2&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email by Ned Carter Miles 2/7/23]
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| In the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity from the air around us. Ever ambitious, Tesla was thinking on a vast scale, effectively looking at the Earth and upper atmosphere as two ends of an enormous battery. Needless to say, his dreams were never realised, but the promise of air-derived electricity – hygroelectricity – is now capturing researchers’ imaginations again. The difference: they’re not thinking big, but very, very small.
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| ===== The 'Game-Changing' Technology The Nuclear Industry Is Betting On For A Revival =====
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| [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/small-nuclear-reactors-energy_n_649f055be4b0c7e9d8e723e8 by Alexander C.Kaufman 31/7/23 HUFFPOST]
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| CAMDEN, N.J. ― On a bright, humid afternoon last September, Allen Hickman made the rounds on the floor of a factory that embodies the past, present and future of the nation’s atomic energy industry perhaps more than any other site in the United States.
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| ===== Could kinder, gentler fracking create a breakthrough in geothermal power? =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/23/2182001/-Could-kinder-gentler-fracking-create-a-breakthrough-in-geothermal-power by Mark Sumner 23/7/23 DAILY KOS]
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| Hydro power is often mentioned, but only in the sense that while it plays a significant role in the current energy portfolio, there are few options for expansion. While wind and solar have been racing up, hydroelectric production has declined.
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| ===== Three independent studies say that blood platelet factor PF4 prevents and reverses cognitive decline =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/18/2187800/-Three-independent-studies-say-that-blood-platelet-factor-PF4-prevents-and-reverses-cognitive-decline by skralyx 8/18/23 DailyKos]
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| Although the percentage of older people with dementia is thankfully decreasing, from 13% to 10% in those over 70 from 2011-2019, the absolute number of people with dementia is actually increasing. That’s because the share of the U.S. population that is 65 and over ballooned by 38.6% from 2010-2020, in large part due to baby boomers (shown in dark blue below) crossing the 65-year mark. They’ll keep on doing that until 2031, so the 65+ population will continue to grow quickly until then.
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| ===== It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/26/its-absolutely-guaranteed-the-best-and-worst-case-scenarios-for-sea-level-rise by Karen McVeigh 6/26/23 the Guardian]
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| It is accelerating, too: the ocean rose more than twice as fast (4.62mm a year) in the most recent decade (2013-22) than it did in 1993-2002, the first decade of satellite measurements, when the rate was 2.77mm a year. Last year was a new high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. It is no coincidence that the past eight years were the warmest on record.
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| ===== How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud =====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1171159008/eric-investigation-voter-data-election-integrity by Miles Parks 6/6/23 NPR]
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| On a night in January 2022, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin stepped on stage in a former airbase in Houma, La. With American flags draped from the stage, the topic of the night was democracy.
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| ===== A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus by Joanna Pocock 26/7/23 The Guardian]
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| Historically, chroniclers of the road have travelled by car – intrepid individuals in charge of their destinies. They also tend to be male. The only book I could find by a woman about crossing the US was America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir. It is also the only Great American Road Trip book that features Greyhound bus travel. Simone became my companion on the road.
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| [[Free Expression-Stories of Peoples]]
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| ===== ‘This way of farming is really sexy’: the rise of regenerative agriculture =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/14/this-way-of-farming-is-really-sexy-the-rise-of-regenerative-agriculture by Alexandra Topping 14/8/23 The Guardian]
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| Hollie Fallick looks over Brading on the Isle of Wight, at a patchwork of fields bordered by ancient oaks, which stretches to the Solent. “We still have to pinch ourselves every day,” says the 30-year-old, as she surveys the 50 hectares (125 acres) she farms with her best friend, Francesca Cooper, 34.
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| ===== Five geoengineering trials the UK is funding to combat global warming =====
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| [https://theconversation.com/five-geoengineering-trials-the-uk-is-funding-to-combat-global-warming-256515?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The%20Conversation%20UK&utm_campaign=publer by Robert Chris 3/6/25 The Conversation]
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| The UK government recently announced plans to fund five small-scale trials related to geoengineering. It’s the first time a state research funding body has put serious money into what’s known as solar radiation management, or SRM, which seeks to cool the planet by reflecting more of the Sun’s energy back into space.
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| ===== Profound Paradigm Shift in Cellular Biology – DNA Damage Repaired by Antioxidant Enzymes =====
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| [https://scitechdaily.com/profound-paradigm-shift-in-cellular-biology-dna-damage-repaired-by-antioxidant-enzymes/ by CENTER FOR GENOMIC REGULATION 6/7/23 sciTechDaily]
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| The human nucleus is metabolically active, according to the findings of a new study in Molecular Systems Biology by researchers at the CRG in Barcelona and CeMM/Medical University of Vienna.
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| ===== How to improve US cities and tackle the climate crisis? Get rid of parking spaces ===== | | ===== How to improve US cities and tackle the climate crisis? Get rid of parking spaces ===== |
