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"‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk" https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/31/climate-crisis-flood-risk-britain?CMP=share_btn_url

‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk
As rivers swell and homes are cut off, scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions

Climate change isn't gender-neutral. The 2023/2024 El Niño drought in Southern Africa didn't just destroy crops—it fueled gender-based violence and put women environmental defenders at risk.
COP30's new Belém Gender Action Plan tackles this head-on with gender-responsive budgeting and support for climate action that protects women.

COP30’s Gender Action Plan Needed to Address Climate-Induced Violence - African Climate Wire
Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, girls, and gender diverse people.

Ravens take big risk by doing what rest of the NFL would do: Firing John Harbaugh https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6952503/2026/01/08/john-harbaugh-fired-ravens-change-risk-stability/

If you ever wanted to know how these #AI datacenters can be financed, here is the explanation:
A creditworthy tech company (Meta, in this example) creates a "special purpose vehicle" #SPV, a box, where they put all the risk and all the debts coming with it.
Then they create a financia…

Without wanting to detract from the main thrust of the article, I find the usage "new species" interestingly anthropocentric.
A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-ne<…

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from three Indigenous and local associations guided a team of scientists from Peru and France on a series of expeditions to […]

@… sehen wir die gleichen Youtube-Videos oder wie kamst du ausgerechnet jetzt auf genau dieses Thema?
😄
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article

The rolling grasslands and rocky beaches of
"Vandenberg Space Force Base",
— home to more than a dozen at-risk species,
easily could pass for a peaceful nature preserve
— but that's an illusion.
The nearly 100,000-acre base was a testing ground in the 1960s for early-generation ballistic missiles,
and today it's a launch site for satellites, classified missions and other payloads key to a new type of war: one fought far above the Earth.

My neighbors definitely do not think this is more of the same. You don’t have to take my word for it. Look at how many Somali and Latin-American restaurants were thriving in November and now are closed, or getting almost no business if they are taking the risk of staying open. Look at how many kids are staying home from school — regardless of legal status, just because of the color of their family’s skin. Look at how many families are living in houses filled with dirty laundry because they won’t even take the risk of leaving the house to go to the laundromat.
My neighbors are living in •terror•.
If it’s more of the same, why did all of this suddenly change in the last two months?
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Long-term alcohol use linked to a sharp rise in rectal cancer #health

Long-term alcohol use linked to a sharp rise in rectal cancer
Drinking heavily over many years is linked to a higher risk of colorectal cancer, especially rectal cancer, according to new research tracking U.S. adults for two decades. People who drank heavily throughout adulthood faced sharply higher risks than light drinkers. Former drinkers did not show increased cancer risk and had fewer precancerous tumors. The results suggest that quitting alcohol may help lower long-term cancer risk.

#ClimateChange in the UK: ‘Homes may have to be abandoned’.
Not because of future developments, but because of the impact climate change is already heaving https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/31/climate-crisis-flood-risk-britain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Die #IDF möchte nicht mehr, dass deren höhere Ränge Smartphones auf Basis von #Android einsetzen.
Ab lieutenant colonel (hier etwa Oberstleutnant) muss ein #iPhone genutzt werden.
Es gab wohl eine Art Androi…

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

WhatsApp is spyware because its encryption is very questionable! The metadata being transferred openly reveals this very fell out over one. This is just marketing that their users should follow thoughtlessly.
»WhatsApp Rolls Out #Lockdown-Style Security Mode to Protect Targeted Users From #Spyware<…

WhatsApp Rolls Out Lockdown-Style Security Mode to Protect Targeted Users From Spyware
Meta is rolling out Strict Account Settings on WhatsApp and using Rust-based media code to protect journalists and high-risk users from spyware attack

An April 2025 study published in the prominent journal Nature found tantalizing evidence that the herpes zoster – or #shingles – #vaccine
👍could lower the risk of #dementia in the general population by as much as 20%❗️
A …

Vaccines hold tantalizing promise in the fight against dementia
A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.

En norsk studie som följt 37 elitlängdskidåkare under åtta år har i det här sammanhanget identifierat viktiga ledtrådar. Över 7 000 personveckor och 464 infektioner analyserades för att skilja ut vad som faktiskt ökar risken.
Resultatet var tydligt: Internationella flygresor gav nästan fem gånger ökad risk för infektion dagen efter.

Idrottsläkaren Per Andersson: Tumregeln för vila från träning efter förkylning
KOMMENTAR. Vi är mitt i en infektionsvåg. Många undrar hur man ska förhålla sig till träning. När vågar man träna? Hur intensivt? Och går det att förebygga infektioner? Låt elitidrottarna visa vägen.

Huge respect to @… for taking the necessary risk with his 3 million subscribers by telling it like it is with the political landscape in the US, at the end of his latest video.
(linked video at the start of the "Who the liars are and what we need to do about them" section, but the whole video is worth watching for other reasons)

Badly played Heather. I've somehow allowed the situation to arise where the cats have got into the same bag as my #knitting 😱 Tails is sitting on it now so I risk making things far worse if I try to rescue it. It'll be treat time soon so I'll rescue it then.

The #glyphosate study published in 2000, on which probably most glyphosate regulations are based, has been retracted.
1️⃣ There are indications that #Monsanto (the manufacturer of #Roundup,…

TIL this song was banned from space but loved by David Bowie.
Listen at your own risk.
https://youtu.be/9EEZAivzl1Q?si=PUgne2NLRF0W_8Tu

Just my luck to be visiting Antigua and Dominica on day #Drumpf admin declares the two islands as subject to US Travel Ban?
https://www.imidaily.com/north-america/ant

Antigua and Dominica PMs Respond to US Travel Ban - IMI Daily
Antigua PM calls US travel ban an error, says program presents no risk whatsoever to security. Dominica seeks urgent clarity.

At San Francisco City Hall rally protesting Blue Shields denial of coverage recommended by physicians to treat a retired firefighter for cancer.
Remember when #GOP was warning us of the risk of death panels? Well, what we have now are private death panels.

At San Francisco City Hall rally protesting Blue Shields denial of coverage recommended by physicians to treat a retired firefighter for cancer.
Remember when #GOP was warning us of the risk of death panels? Well, what we have now are private death panels.

How the global fish trade is spreading 'forever chemicals' around the world #AnimalRights

How the global fish trade is spreading 'forever chemicals' around the world
Eating fish may well be good for you, but it carries a hidden risk of exposure to so-called "forever chemicals." A new study published in the journal Science has revealed that the global seafood trade is acting as a massive delivery system for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), industrial pollutants that persist in the environment for decades.

Good Morning #Canada
This has been quite the roller-coaster year for my wife and I. If there was one thing that I would be thankful for it would be our much maligned #Healthcare system. Through early testing, in April 2025, both our daughters were diagnosed with a genetic defect that significantly increases risk of cancer. Breast cancer was found in our oldest daughter and her treatment included surgery, chemo, and radiation. The prognosis for a longer life is now excellent. The youngest is facing potential preventative surgery to reduce her risk. After diagnosis the medical response was immediate and both daughters have numerous stories about caring individuals that have provided treatment, counseling, and empathy.
One man had a huge impact on Canada’s status as an important centre for genetics research - Dr. Lou Siminovitch. Here is his story about how he helped establish 4 different research organizations in Toronto.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/dr-lou-siminovitch-the-force-behind-early-genetics-research-in-canada-dies-at-age-100-1.5981522

“I love A.I.”
For Donald Trump, there is no risk, only reward, posed by the dawning and disruptive new age of computing.
Over the past year, the president and his top aides have fully embraced A.I.,
and showered its leading corporate backers with money and regulatory support,
as the administration looks to supercharge one of the primary areas of growth in an otherwise precarious U.S. economy.
That optimism was on display on Tuesday, after the federal government …

Trump Administration Downplays A.I. Risks, Ignoring Economists’ Concerns
The administration has downplayed concerns — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as President Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.

Currently side-by-side on the CBC.ca news website listings are these two articles titled:
"More Oil Production in Venezuela could hurt Canada's oilpatch”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Oil #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #Venezuela #Canada #USA #Alberta #ABPoli #Pipelines

Kash Patel has reportedly assigned a security detail of SWAT agents to guard his country singer girlfriend,
in the latest chapter of the FBI director’s blatant misappropriation of bureau resources.
A group of elite agents from the FBI Field Office in Nashville have been assigned to protect Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins.
The sources added that those agents, who are typically charged with responding to high-risk situations, would likely be unable to respond in the event o…

Kash Patel Assigns FBI SWAT Team to Protect 26-Year-Old Girlfriend
The latest episode in questionable uses of government resources

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.
Since researchers first established the link between #diet, #cholesterol and #heart #disease

How C-reactive protein outpaced ‘bad’ cholesterol as leading heart disease risk marker
C-reactive protein – a marker of inflammation – is as easily measured with blood work in a doctor’s office as cholesterol.