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Centuries-old mercury pollution hidden in the ocean threatens Arctic wildlife #Arctic

Centuries-old mercury pollution hidden in the ocean threatens Arctic wildlife
Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published in Nature Communications by researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen reveals that ocean currents may be transporting legacy mercury pollution to the Arctic—posing a long-term threat to ecosystems and human health.

Decadal sink-source shifts of forest aboveground carbon since 1988
Zhen Qian, Sebastian Bathiany, Teng Liu, Lana L. Blaschke, Hoong Chen Teo, Niklas Boers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11879

Decadal sink-source shifts of forest aboveground carbon since 1988
As enduring carbon sinks, forest ecosystems are vital to the terrestrial carbon cycle and help moderate global warming. However, the long-term dynamics of aboveground carbon (AGC) in forests and their sink-source transitions remain highly uncertain, owing to changing disturbance regimes and inconsistencies in observations, data processing, and analysis methods. Here, we derive reliable, harmonized AGC stocks and fluxes in global forests from 1988 to 2021 at high spatial resolution by integratin…

Building a Media Ecosystem Observatory from Scratch: Infrastructure, Methodology, and Insights
Zeynep Pehlivan, Saewon Park, Alexei Sisulu Abrahams, Mika Desblancs-Patel, Benjamin David Steel, Aengus Bridgman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10942

Building a Media Ecosystem Observatory from Scratch: Infrastructure, Methodology, and Insights
Understanding the flow of information across today's fragmented digital media landscape requires scalable, cross-platform infrastructure. In this paper, we present the Canadian Media Ecosystem Observatory, a national-scale infrastructure designed to monitor political and media discourse across platforms in near real time. Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) data infrastructure features custom crawlers for major platforms, a unified indexing pipeline, and a normalization layer that harmonizes he…

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Do Generative AI Tools Ensure Green Code? An Investigative Study
Samarth Sikand, Rohit Mehra, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08790

Do Generative AI Tools Ensure Green Code? An Investigative Study
Software sustainability is emerging as a primary concern, aiming to optimize resource utilization, minimize environmental impact, and promote a greener, more resilient digital ecosystem. The sustainability or "greenness" of software is typically determined by the adoption of sustainable coding practices. With a maturing ecosystem around generative AI, many software developers now rely on these tools to generate code using natural language prompts. Despite their potential advantages, there is a …

‘Ticking Time Bomb’ of Ocean Acidification Has Already Crossed Planetary Boundary, Threatening Marine Ecosystems: Study https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-acidification-planetary-boundary.html

‘Ticking Time Bomb’ of Ocean Acidification Has Already Crossed Planetary Boundary, Threatening Marine Ecosystems: Study
A new study has found that ocean acidification is not only getting worse, but crossed its “planetary boundary” roughly five years ago.

Network Digital Twin for 6G and Beyond: An End-to-End View Across Multi-Domain Network Ecosystems
Dinh-Hieu Tran, Nazar Waheed, Yuris Mulya Saputra, Xingqin Lin, Cong T. Nguyen, Tedros Salih Abdu, Van Nhan Vo, Van-Quan Pham, Madyan Alsenwi, Abuzar Babikir Mohammad Adam, Symeon Chatzinotas, Eva Lagaunas, Hung Tran, Tu Ho Dac, Nguyen Van Huynh
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Network Digital Twin for 6G and Beyond: An End-to-End View Across Multi-Domain Network Ecosystems
With the rapid development of technology, the number of smart mobile users is increasing, accompanied by growing demands from applications such as virtual/augmented reality (VR/XR), remote surgery, autonomous vehicles, and real-time holographic communications, all of which require high transmission rates and ultra-low latency in 6G and beyond networks (6G+). This poses enormous challenges in efficiently deploying large-scale networks, including network design, planning, troubleshooting, optimiz…

37 Countries Commit to Tackling ‘Invisible Yet Powerful Threat’ of Ocean Noise Pollution #ocean

37 Countries Commit to Tackling ‘Invisible Yet Powerful Threat’ of Ocean Noise Pollution
At UNOC, a coalition from 37 countries launched an effort to reduce underwater noise pollution that harms marine biodiversity and ecosystems.

Towards a Knowledge Base of Common Sustainability Weaknesses in Green Software Development
Priyavanshi Pathania, Rohit Mehra, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08812

Towards a Knowledge Base of Common Sustainability Weaknesses in Green Software Development
With the climate crisis looming, engineering sustainable software systems become crucial to optimize resource utilization, minimize environmental impact, and foster a greener, more resilient digital ecosystem. For developers, getting access to automated tools that analyze code and suggest sustainabilityrelated optimizations becomes extremely important from a learning and implementation perspective. However, there is currently a dearth of such tools due to the lack of standardized knowledge, whi…

Collaborative Agentic AI Needs Interoperability Across Ecosystems
Rishi Sharma, Martijn de Vos, Pradyumna Chari, Ramesh Raskar, Anne-Marie Kermarrec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21550

Collaborative Agentic AI Needs Interoperability Across Ecosystems
Collaborative agentic AI is projected to transform entire industries by enabling AI-powered agents to autonomously perceive, plan, and act within digital environments. Yet, current solutions in this field are all built in isolation, and we are rapidly heading toward a landscape of fragmented, incompatible ecosystems. In this position paper, we argue that interoperability, achieved by the adoption of minimal standards, is essential to ensure open, secure, web-scale, and widely-adopted agentic ec…