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🔥 Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/armed-groups-cattle-ranchers-drove-35-rise-in-colombias-deforestation-in-2024/

Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024
The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last year. The ministry announced that Colombia lost 1,070 square kilometers (413 square miles) of forest in 2024, a 35% increase from 2023, when deforestation hit 793 km2 (306 mi2). Former […]

Aaron Rodgers' Steelers deal draws 'worst-case scenario' reaction, comments from around NFL, former players

https://www.cbssports.com/n…

A transiting giant planet in orbit around a 0.2-solar-mass host star: #planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formation: https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/discovery_of_giant_planet_orbiting_tiny_star_challenges_theories_on_planet_formation and https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_20434166/en/a-giant-planet-around-a-tiny-star-a-discovery-that-challenges-planet-formation-theories

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Rifles:
🎵 Wall Around Your Heart
#NowPlaying #TheRifles
https://therifles.bandcamp.com/track/wall-around-your-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/2pkO2dQsVg2Wb3qywWTguo

CFP: Party Studies by Leland Masek & Jaakko Stenros
"Parties are interactive structures, featuring expectations and rules, meaning that humans can and do play around with these expectations. In this way we invite analyses of not just games in, around, or co-occurring with parties, but also contributions that understand parties as games and play. Thus, we call on scholars of games and play to turn their eye towards parties and partying."
Call:

Right-wing media solidify around "able-bodied" myth as Senate GOP weighs Medicaid cuts (John Knefel/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-solidify-around-able-bodied-myth-senate-gop-weighs-medicaid-cuts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p56#a250604p56

Also on my Bluesky, note some info on special broadcasts from Vatican News on tomorrow's beginning of #conclave 🇻🇦
The schedule is:
0755-0945z Holy Mass, also on 15565 in Portuguese, 17520 French, 17540 English
1410-1545z LIVE BROADCAST OF THE CARDINALS' ENTRANCE TO SISTINE CHAPEL, also on 17500 Portuguese, 17520 French, 17540 English
1600-1800z Special Conclave Re…

First-round NFL Draft picks who overcame bust status: Ravens' Rashod Bateman the latest to turn career around

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

Not really,
because the oceans around reefs aren't deserts
https://bsky.app/profile/gobyone.bsky.social/post/3lqwx35b4fs2f

Simon J. Brandl (@gobyone.bsky.social)
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

TIL this is a thing. i'm now nerdsniped and playing around with it, lol.
https://myscope.training/FIB_simulator.html
The quad layout, nav-cam, and stage design scream "~2010 or newer FEI dual beam, Versa/Helios family probably" to me, althouhg the softwa…