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"Restored wetlands reap benefits for climate, drought-resilience after just one year, study shows"
#Wetlands #Climate #ClimateChange

Restored wetlands reap benefits for climate, drought-resilience after just one year, study shows
Reviving floodplain wetlands slashes carbon emissions by 39% and restores critical ecosystem functions in one year—without the methane spike typically seen in restored peatlands, a new study has found.

I realized I'm generally no longer replying to people vaunting the benefits of LLMs (online and IRL) the same way I'm no longer replying to people vaunting the benefits of killing somebody at winter solstice to ensure the sun returns.

I even remember the ones that bombed entire populations of Brown people on fabricated charges just to get at their oil. But, yeah, the original point stands. https://mastodon.social/@JoeD/114881976528681976

Patriots positioned to benefit most if Cowboys trade Micah Parsons https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/new-england-patriots/news/patriots-positioned-benefit-most-if-cowboys-trade-micah-parsons/c6…

🌮 Corn after soy: New study quantifies rotation benefits and trade-offs
#corn

Corn after soy: New study quantifies rotation benefits and trade-offs
While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to plant corn year after year. Although foundational research on the benefits of corn-soybean rotation goes back decades, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scientists are working to address remaining holistic questions about crop yield, environmental impacts, and economic returns under various crop rotation scenarios.

A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from stripping 19 mostly Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., of food stamp benefits funding unless the states hand over data on millions of people who receive them.
U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco said in a ruling late Thursday
that the states were likely correct that a federal law requiring them to safeguard information obtained from food stamp recipients bars them from d…

Restored wetlands reap benefits for climate, drought-resilience after just one year, study shows #wetlands

Restored wetlands reap benefits for climate, drought-resilience after just one year, study shows
Reviving floodplain wetlands slashes carbon emissions by 39% and restores critical ecosystem functions in one year—without the methane spike typically seen in restored peatlands, a new study has found.

sad news from the extended merry prankster family: sue kesey has departed, organic food pioneer & founder of the springfield creamery with ken's brother chuck (& co-organizer of the 1972 "sunshine daydream" benefit in veneta): https://www.…

TIL: There’s competitive sauna as a sport, aka “aufguss”
https://slate.com/life/2025/09/sauna-benefits-bathhouse-popularity-united-states.html

I Went to Watch the Steamiest Sport in the World. Now I’m Hooked.
Could aufguss catch on in the States, like so many Scandinavian phenomena before it?

Benefiting from Negative yet Informative Feedback by Contrasting Opposing Sequential Patterns
Veronika Ivanova, Evgeny Frolov, Alexey Vasilev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14786 ht…

Benefiting from Negative yet Informative Feedback by Contrasting Opposing Sequential Patterns
We consider the task of learning from both positive and negative feedback in a sequential recommendation scenario, as both types of feedback are often present in user interactions. Meanwhile, conventional sequential learning models usually focus on considering and predicting positive interactions, ignoring that reducing items with negative feedback in recommendations improves user satisfaction with the service. Moreover, the negative feedback can potentially provide a useful signal for more acc…