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Crop droughts set to worsen—even as rainfall increases #environment

Crop droughts set to worsen—even as rainfall increases
Europe and western North America will experience more frequent and severe crop droughts as Earth warms, even in places where yearly rainfall increases.

Environmental orgs sue feds over comment removal on reviews of public lands | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/environmental-orgs-sue-feds-over-comment-removal-on-reviews-of-public-lands/

Immer mehr #Kommunen arbeiten an ihrer gesetzlich geforderten #Wärmeplanung.
Bis Juni 2026 müssen alle Großstädte ihren Plan vorlegen, kleinere Städte haben bis 2028 Zeit. Auf diese Weise soll Klarheit über künftige

Städte müssen bis Sommer liefern: Kommunen kommen bei Wärmeplanung in die Gänge
Angesichts der geplanten Abkehr vom russischen Gas muss das deutsche Wärmenetz neu gedacht werden. Die Ampel verlangt Städten und Kommunen eine Wärmeplanung ab. Das Planungstempo nimmt zuletzt deutlich zu. Vor allem die Städte haben allerdings nicht mehr viel Zeit.

CDFW: 'Salmon Everywhere' One Year After Klamath River Dam Removal
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/19/2354554/-CDFW-Salmon-Everywhere-One-Year-After-Klamath-River-Dam-Removal

@… the slop removal is sloppy!

Nigeria is advancing its renewable energy goals by investing in local solar panel production, aiming to generate 30% of its electricity from renewables by 2030.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/17/african-nations-promote-locally-produced-solar-pan…

African Nations Promote Locally Produced Solar Panels - CleanTechnica
Solar manufacturing is beginning to take place in many parts of Africa as local companies leverage the transfer of technology.

Continuing work on the PIC12F683 video. Ripped out all of the early rambling guesswork floorplan analysis I did on the top metal and replaced it with a much more in-depth floorplan discussion looking at the substrate-level floorplan.
Video is now just shy of an hour 20 in length and I still need to add:
* Quick intro to digital CMOS layout and standard cells (planning to film this tonight)
* Deep dive on SRAM
* Deep dive on flash
* Deep dive on fuses/configuration…

The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China (Karl Bode/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…

Trotz stark gesunkener Kosten für #Solarenergie plant die Türkei, bis 2030 rund 8,7 Milliarden US-Dollar in inländischen #Kohlekraftwerke zu verschwenden.
Diese Förderung liegt deutlich über den tatsächlichen

$8.7 billion coal subsidy contradicts Türkiye's renewable goals | Ember
Redirecting the $8.7 billion allocated for coal over four years to modernising the grid could enable new capacity for wind and solar investments in Türkiye.