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shonin, 6 months ago to random

The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870

shonin, 6 months ago to random

Youngkin’s team removes 3,400 legal voters ahead of key Va. elections - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/29/youngkin-virginia-elections-voter-rolls/

shonin, 4 months ago to random

Smoke reduced life expectancy across Washington State

https://wildfiretoday.com/2024/01/10/smoke-reduced-life-expectancy-across-washington/

shonin, 5 months ago to random

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need

https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

shonin, 5 months ago to random

Amazon drought: 'We've never seen anything like this'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67751685

shonin, 10 days ago to random

Maui residents struggle with health issues months after devastating fires - The Daily Climate

https://www.dailyclimate.org/maui-residents-struggle-with-health-issues-months-after-devastating-fires-2668295810.html

shonin, 4 months ago to random

I get by on a squirt bottle of organic apple cider vinegar for most uses. There's also a squirt bottle of diluted Dr. Bronner's. >>

Companies fight to keep consumers in the dark about chemicals in cleaners | Environmental Working Group

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2024/01/companies-fight-keep-consumers-dark-about-chemicals-cleaners

shonin, 3 months ago to random

Africa's ice is disappearing: Tropical ice fields demonstrate speed of climate change

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-africa-ice-tropical-fields-climate.html

shonin, 29 days ago to random

At least 17 died in Fla. after sedatives injected during police encounters

https://www.wptv.com/news/state/at-least-17-people-died-in-florida-after-medics-injected-sedatives-during-encounters-with-police

shonin, 5 months ago to random

NOAA report says declining snowpack means worldwide food disruptions - UPI.com

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/11/26/NOAA-report-says-declining-snow-pack-means-worldwide-food-disruptions/2371701037202/

shonin, 4 months ago to random

How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web - Alex Cabal

https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech

shonin, 1 month ago to random

When red-hot isn't enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/killer-heat-health-climate-red-hot-magenta-496d5dfad5d3b224b8d1a506a755d42b

shonin, 6 months ago to random

Stories told by Aboriginal Tasmanians could be oldest recorded in the world - Australian Geographic

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2023/10/stories-told-by-aboriginal-tasmanians-could-be-oldest-recorded-in-the-world/

shonin, 6 months ago to random

"Jimenez said that NIOSH experts he’s spoken with agree with him but “are basically forbidden from talking to the press.” This is because “if they talked freely about the science, it will contradict the policies of the CDC,” he added."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2023/11/24/cdc-told-to-weaken-infection-protections-as-mysterious-pneumonia-brews-overseas/?sh=29305a0d48de

shonin, 5 months ago to random

Thousands of employees say the USPS is failing to protect them from major heat - POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/11/usps-major-heat-deaths-00128875

shonin, 7 months ago to random

Hotshots working under an 'unsustainable system' - Wildfire Today

https://wildfiretoday.com/2023/10/08/hotshots-working-under-an-unsustainable-system/

shonin, 4 months ago to random

What If the Clean Energy Transition Costs Much Less Than We’ve Been Told? - Inside Climate News

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012024/inside-clean-energy-transition-costs-much-less-than-told/

shonin, 3 months ago to random

Air pollution from Canada’s tar sands is much worse than we thought | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/air-pollution-from-canadas-tar-sands-is-much-worse-than-we-thought/

shonin, 3 months ago to random

Dozens of Rogue California Police Agencies Still Sharing Driver Locations with Anti-Abortion States | Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/dozens-rogue-california-police-agencies-still-sharing-driver-locations-anti-abortion

shonin, 4 months ago to random

Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems | Communications Earth & Environment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01164-y

shonin, 8 months ago to random

In the inn that is this world
People come and go in a flash.
The moon shines on the hill bamboo,
Alone I sit and hear the kingfishers.

Spring rain, a pondful of frogs:
Going in and out, like the drum beat,
Chanting and turning a thousand sutras.
What is the use of reading texts?

All my life I have lacked cleverness,
My early learning was sleeping beneath the trees.

-- Poems of Cheongheodang (1520–1604) tr. Whitfield and Park

shonin, 5 months ago to random

"Alpha, Delta, and Omicron independently evolved high viral aerosol shedding phenotypes, demonstrating convergent evolution. Vaccinated and boosted cases can shed infectious SARS-CoV-2 via EBA. These findings support a dominant role of infectious aerosols in transmission of SARS-CoV-2."

Exhaled Breath Aerosol Shedding of Highly Transmissible Versus Prior Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variants | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/76/5/786/6773834?login=false

shonin, 2 months ago to random

COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain. Significant Drops in IQ Scores Are Noted. | Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-are/

shonin, 3 months ago to random

Bird population in North America has plummeted by 3 billion birds • Earth.com

https://www.earth.com/news/bird-population-north-america-dramatic-decline-lost-3-billion-birds/

QueenValhalla, 1 month ago to random

When good environmental news is akshully bad news as a distraction from WaPo's owner fighting the constitutionality of the NLRB.

From the WaPo:

Grid operators in California are grappling with a strange reality: There is so much solar on the grid that, on sunny spring days when there’s not as much demand, electricity prices go negative. Gigawatts of solar are “curtailed” — essentially, thrown away.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/