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As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts #Amazon

As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts
Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the cause may lie high above the rainforest, where invisible "flying rivers" carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean across South America.

Hey @… & @…, falls ihr es noch nicht mitbekommen habt, hier der Hinweis, dass gerade wieder das Transcontinental Race läuft und die ersten Teilnehmenden in spätestens zwei Tagen wieder auf dem Balkan aufschlagen.
Ich würd…

Transcontinental Race No11 // #TCRNo11 2025
Follow riders as they race across Europe, beginning in Santiago de Compostela, Spain and ending in Constanta, Romania

Why is Greenpeace East Asia releasing an #AI report that doesn't include a single company based in East Asia?
It also does not include an single social factor, only ranking on energy, which seems to go against @… own core on centering communities when campaig…

Nvidia Ranks Last on AI Supply Chain Decarbonization, Greenpeace Report Finds - Greenpeace East Asia
HONG KONG – Nvidia, the world's first US$4 trillion firm and a leader in AI chip design, is falling significantly behind other AI giants in cutting emissions and transitioning to renewable energy, especially across its AI hardware manufacturing supply chain, according to a new report released by Greenpeace East Asia. 

Agriculture Secretary Brooke
Rollins gave a candid message to Americans about the continued impasse and concerns that millions of people could soon miss out on food benefits.
“My message to America is, first, the fact that your government is failing you, right now,”
said Rollins, whose department oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

Mike Johnson Steps In After Trump Official Tells Americans: 'We Have Failed You'
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins gave a candid message to Americans about the shutdown – a little too candid for the House speaker.

Rethinking Layer-wise Model Merging through Chain of Merges
Pietro Buzzega, Riccardo Salami, Angelo Porrello, Simone Calderara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21421 https://

Rethinking Layer-wise Model Merging through Chain of Merges
Fine-tuning pretrained models has become a standard pathway to achieve state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of domains, leading to a proliferation of task-specific model variants. As the number of such specialized modules in-creases, merging them into a unified model without retraining has become a critical challenge. Existing merging techniques often rely on interference heuristics,importance weighting, or activation matching while treating each layer independently, thereby failing…

On The Road - To Xi’An 🪭
在路上 - 去西安 🪭
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking
Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero, Ana Cristina Murillo, Eduardo Montijano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24921

CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become powerful tools across domains-from industry to the arts. In documentary filmmaking, they offer dynamic, otherwise unreachable perspectives, transforming how stories are told. Wildlife documentaries especially benefit, yet drones also raise ethical concerns: the risk of disturbing the animals they aim to capture. This paper introduces CineWild, an autonomous UAV framework that combines robotics, cinematography, and ethics. Built on model pr…

Unresolved Feeling, Fragments of Belonging: Emotion Across Text and Screen
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Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
Abhilash R. Sarwade, Ankur Kushwaha, M. C. Ramadevi, Monoj Bug, Kiran Lakshmipathaiah, Smrati Verma, Vaishali Sharan, K. Sankarasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26292

Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
The Solar Low-Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS) on board India's Aditya-L1 mission was launched on 2 September 2023 and commenced solar observations on 13 December 2023 following successful aperture cover deployment. Operating from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, SoLEXS has been providing continuous Sun-as-a-star soft X-ray spectroscopy across 2-22 keV with 170 eV resolution at 5.9 keV and 1-second temporal cadence since 6 January 2024. The instrument employs two Silicon Drift Detectors with …

A pleasant read, about a place I know a (very) little:
https://notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/finding-ghosts/

Finding Ghosts
Early in October, after a big storm, we crossed the Minch to the Outer Hebrides. The ferry sailed across a peppermint ice-cream sea, rising and falling in great stomach-churning swoops, as waves sw…