AI Will Only Intensify Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care.
The AI phenomenon may functionally print money for tech billionaires, at least for the time being, but it comes with a gargantuan environmental cost
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-climate-change-bill-gates/
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Students underestimate the impacts of local efforts on climate change
Students express awareness towards climate change but neglect working to combat it in their everyday lives
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Global race to secure critical minerals for weapons threatens climate, warns report
Study reveals US earmarked billions to stockpile critical minerals for military use, including precision-guided weaponry and AI-driven warfare
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Lake Erie turning the corner, but climate, contaminants pose risks
Lake Erie sees reduced nutrient runoff and signs of recovery, but climate change and emerging threats continue to challenge long-term restoration efforts
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“Canadians aren’t necessarily fully clear on where our responsibility or our obligations as insurers starts and ends, & we’re trying to figure that out… in real time,” he said.
That ambiguity, he suggested, is dangerous. As climate‑driven losses mount & underwriting decisions get tougher, it risks fuelling the perception that insurers are quietly retreating just when people need them most
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We found that both breadth and depth are significant predictors of message effect size, but breadth is a much stronger predictor than depth (see figure below). This means that more successful messages tend to convince more people rather than convince a smaller number of people to a larger degree
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Climate Change Accountability Report shows lower emissions, more work to do
The Province has released the 2025 Climate Change Accountability Report, reaffirming its commitment to climate action and affordability while highlighting progress in cutting emissions and advancing clean energy throughout B.C
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2025ECS0048-001198
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Feds facing climate criticisms action amid resignations on net-zero advisory body
Two founding members of Canada's net-zero advisory body have resigned, accusing the Carney government of not seeking the group's advice on key policy decisions, including the Alberta energy deal and Bill C-5
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**Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe**
"_Here, we argue that a post-volcanic climate downturn and trans-Mediterranean famine from 1345–1347 CE forced the Italian maritime republics of Venice, Genoa and Pisa to activate their well-established supply network and import grain from the Mongols of the Golden Horde around the Sea of Azov in 1347 CE. This climate-driven change in long-distance grain trade not only prevented large parts of Italy from starvation but also introduced the plague bacterium to Mediterranean harbours and fueled its rapid dispersal across much of Europe._"
Bauch, M., Büntgen, U. Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe. Commun Earth Environ 6, 986 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02964-0.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Medieval #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Ecology #Academia
Nature’s Clock Broken: Climate change keeping Kashmir’s bears awake, hungry
Human-bear encounters surge; 50 bears captured in November
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The latest global study warns that heat waves, severe floods, and wildfires amplified by climate change will have a significant financial impact. According to the new study published in Nature, the world economy could suffer a decline in global income of roughly 19% over the next 26 years
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/climate-change-could-slash-global-income-by-19-in-26-years/
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Zillow Doesn’t Care If Climate Change Destroys Your New Home
Will we be safer living inland, away from coastal storms? What about forest fires? Should we have children, and if so, how many? Can we handle old age in a flooding basement, or at the end of a dirt road? What if everywhere we love is dangerous?
https://newrepublic.com/article/203982/zillow-climate-risk-home-house
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Subby, for one, welcomes our murder hornet devouring hoppy amphibian overlords (with great action photo)
I have a question for anyone who happens to be knowledgeable about web standards:
The same way we had the (failed?) "DoNotTrack" header... Is there any working group or initiative working on an #HTTP header sent by the browser (or similar mechanism) to signal that the user wants an ecological/lightweight website? Something like "SaveEnergy" or "LowEnergy", or "LightweightMode".
Would it make sense? Or do you foresee that it would fail for some specific reasons?
P.S.: Of course I would prefer if we didn't have to signal our discontent with the unjustifiably big and unoptimized web pages that we are served.
P.S.2: Now I am feeling tempted to write a browser extension for people who want to use "alternative communication channels" (HTTP headers) to "yell" arbitrary stuff at certain websites (It would be glorious if we could coordinate a big "Fuck you, Google", or, in a more positive tone, "Free Palestine!").
Not the best storyline, but it is still impressive how a #documentary about insects ("the giants") can give you a deeper understanding on evolution's limitless possibilities. #Nature, #multispecies , #evolution (which for me includes #revolution ) rock!:)
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/118991-001-A/krasse-krabbeltiere/
#whadjuknoongar #noongar #nature #multispecies #ecology #wildbearWAproduction #arte #zdf #itvstudios #k22
In foggy weather, it is not uncommon to see gray #cranes flying along the Montagne Noire (#Occitanie, southern France), traveling in small groups to distant, sunnier lands.
It was a magnificent, moving, and unexpected sight, which I had the pleasure of witnessing last month...
#nature #naturephotography #bird #birds #birdphotography #biodiversity #ecology #migration #autumn
4-Dec-2025
New camera traps snap nearly three times more images of endangered Sumatran #tigers than before
In #Sumatra, researchers captured almost three times as many images of critically #endangered tigers as during previous surveys, which shows the positive impact of #conservation efforts even outside of national parks
Nice demonstration of different pollinator species "pulling" floral morphology in different directions for optimal pollen deposition, in two South African wildflower species
