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The Built Environment
This podcast is about asking better questions about construction, design, sustainability, and how we live...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-built-environment/

• Fossil fuels were not mentioned in the key final decision – petrostates including Saudi Arabia and allies fought fiercely to keep that out.
• A commitment to a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels was not part of the formal deal
https://www.theguardian.c…

"Water firms in England could face harsher sewage fines under new Environment Agency powers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Water

No major banks have yet committed to stop funding new oil, gas and coal, research finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/no-major-banks-have-yet-committed-to-stop-funding-new-oil-gas-and-co…

Microsoft: Update außer der Reihe für Windows Recovery Environment
Ein ungeplantes Update für die Windows-Wiederherstellungsumgebung macht sie wieder bedienbar – auch mit USB-Keyboards und -Mäusen.
https…

Ministers tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications through | Environment Agency | The Guardian #UKPol

Select your desktop environment... IF YOU DARE
#CatsOfMastodon

To what extent is this on the radar of #EV advocacy groups in the US? I certainly wasn't conscious of the potential barriers until reading this article.

To what extent is this on the radar of #EV advocacy groups in the US? I certainly wasn't conscious of the potential barriers until reading this article.

Sometimes {renv} just isnt enough to ensure your environment is controlled. Maybe {slushy} could be an option? https://gsk-biostatistics.github.io/slushy/index.html

On yesterday's Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else podcast, I talked about AI's impact on the environment and classrooms—and argued that it isn’t reinventing education so much as exposing bad habits we should’ve let go years ago https://www.link…

A couple of months ago Bali experienced its worst floods in more than a decade.
-- They came at the peak of the dry season.
Instead of the empty wells farmers faced last year,
this time their crops were washed away;
roads turned into brown, swirling rivers;
houses collapsed in the torrents;
and 17 people were killed.
⭐️Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous country, faces a paradox.
Sometimes described as a sleeping giant, it is one of the …

The United States has released a new NOTAM for the entire Venezuelan Flight Information Region (FIR), warning of a potentially hazardous security environment amid worsening conditions and heightened military activity in and around Venezuela.
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/azintel.bsky.

Report Says Factory Farming is the World’s Biggest Cause of Food Waste https://vegconomist.com/sustainability-environment/report-factory-farming-worlds-biggest-cause-food-waste/

Report Says Factory Farming is the World's Biggest Cause of Food Waste - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new report by Compassion in World Farming has found that an additional two billion people per year could be fed if grain were not used to feed

There is variation in everyone, but society / context / environment makes that variation more burdensome for some than for others. “Neurotypical” is not a thing that anyone •is•, but rather an archetype that human systems are designed for / evolved around.
When we recognize that “neurotypical” is an archetype and not an actual person, we can reach the same insight that the Air Force reached: you don’t build things to some single optimal set of “normal” dimensions; you make things more adjustable, flexible, accommodating of variation.
/end

"Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country"
#Iceland #Mosquitoes #Climate

Effects of galactic environment on accretion dynamics onto a rotating centrally located black hole and on emergent analogue gravity
Ripon Sk, Sangita Chatterjee, Sankhasubhra Nag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18833

One of the rhythms BC Manjunath, Matt Davies and me will be exploring on the 8th November in Sheffield UK. It's going to be a lot of fun

Validation of a Reynolds-averaged numerical simulation environment to simulate high-pressure, auto-igniting hydrogen diffusion flames
N. Diepstraten, L. M. T. Somers, J. A. van Oijen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18841

U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/22/climate-summit-brazil-agreement/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYzNzg3NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY1MTY5OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjM3ODc2MDAsImp0aSI6Ijk1NGJhZGQ3LWE1OWQtNDM3NC1iY2E3LTAwYmRmMmNlOWQ1YiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjUvMTEvMjIvY2xpbWF0ZS1zdW1taXQtYnJhemlsLWFncmVlbWVudC8ifQ.A7GIY_0EDsMcI4WRM5XH7fHNTz_zZU7nFRRcRjXveLw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p58#a251122p58

@…
> I don't think this is normal installation method on linux
Correct. This is an installer I wrote to allow multiple side by side installs, that we use for testing
> and it's not complaint with free desktop standard.
Actually to some extent it is, I am registering with the desktop environment, which is why it has dock …

In situ ionospheric observations near lunar south pole by the Langmuir Probe on #Chandrayaan-3 lander: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/542/4/2647/8223395?login=false -> Chandrayaan-3's RAMBHA-LP Instrument Delivers Critical 'Ground Truth' on the Moon’s Plasma Environment: https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3RAMBHALP_GroundTruth.html

On the BNG scam.
Biodiversity Net Gain: can developers be trusted?
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/biodiversity-net-gain-can-developers-be-trusted/

Biodiversity Net Gain: can developers be trusted?
Developers seem rather too fickle concerning their obligations to protect the environment, and the situation may be about to get worse

🧑‍🏭 It’s Still Possible to Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
#politics

It’s Still Possible to Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
Labor organizing can’t succeed at scale without a supportive legal and political environment, created by majoritarian coalitions that can win reforms, confront corporate power, and prove to skeptical workers that progressive governance delivers.

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Island:
Erstmals wurden in Island #Mücken nachgewiesen. Drei Exemplare der kälteresistenten Art Culiseta annulata wurden im Westen des Landes entdeckt.
Durch di…

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: A church.
GAN: A church?
BLAKE: Place of religious assembly.
GAN: Must be ancient.
BLAKE: The Federation had them all destroyed at the beginning of the New Calendar.
GAN: There's no sign of Kasabi?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/220

"World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer"
#Animals #Environment

‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is #ClimateBreakdown https…

Investigation Finds Over 300 Industrial Agriculture Lobbyists Participated In COP30 Climate Talks https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/industrial-agriculture-lobbyists-cop30-climate-talks/

Investigation Finds Over 300 Industrial Agriculture Lobbyists Participated In COP30 Climate Talks
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists attended this year’s COP30 event in Brazil, according to a new investigation

The Colorado River is on the verge of crisis.
No one has a solution.
Once again, the Colorado River is heading toward a crisis. This time, the way out appears murkier than ever.

For months, the seven states of the Colorado River basin have failed to reach an agreement on new rules to share the river’s dwindling supply of water.
The current rules that divvy up water among 40 million people in the West, including Los Angeles, Phoenix and farming regions that provide most o…

The Colorado River is on the verge of crisis. No one has a solution.
The Colorado River faces a crisis as seven states struggle to agree on water-sharing rules.

“Canada did not sign the letter, Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed to CBC News Friday.”
Canada is a problem.
A huge problem.
Our Prime Minister is in the Middle East instead of COP. That's all you need to know.
We're all so screwed right now... the world... all of us.
Our leaders in ‘developed' countries cannot extricate their minds from the Fossil Fuel industry and it's going to kill us all, or at least a very large proportion of us.
#COP30 #CanPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/cop30-showdown-9.6987443

Hey all, there are some photos from a hike in the #schwarzwald
Actually we thought that it would just take us less than an hour - but it wasn't simply a straight walk :-D
It was raining from time to time - which was indeed pretty cool. A) there was noone around except us and B) the colors were often just insane. Fully saturated green, the brown from the wood - and sometimes…

Moody Urbanity - Past II 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 II 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Residual Off-Policy RL for Finetuning Behavior Cloning Policies
Lars Ankile, Zhenyu Jiang, Rocky Duan, Guanya Shi, Pieter Abbeel, Anusha Nagabandi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19301

Residual Off-Policy RL for Finetuning Behavior Cloning Policies
Recent advances in behavior cloning (BC) have enabled impressive visuomotor control policies. However, these approaches are limited by the quality of human demonstrations, the manual effort required for data collection, and the diminishing returns from increasing offline data. In comparison, reinforcement learning (RL) trains an agent through autonomous interaction with the environment and has shown remarkable success in various domains. Still, training RL policies directly on real-world robots…

#UX is like a jester.
The real role of the jester is to point out when the king is doing something stupid.
But tech execs thought that the jester's role was just to bring the bells and whistles. They created an environment of "polite failure," ignored the warnings, bolted #AI onto ev…

AI Fatigue VS the Executive Echo Chamber
The backlash against "AI-in-everything" is rising. Only execs are surprised.

Judge blocks Trump's stop-work order on New England wind farm - a win for renewable energy progress. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Judge deals Trump’s war on wind its first major setback
The temporary injunction comes amid the administration’s broader assault on renewables that threatens the electricity supply as demand skyrockets.

«Peering into Goonworld’s darkest corners has convinced me that what we are dealing with here may well be a structural flaw of networked communication itself. Is there a timeline, a regulatory environment, in which the internet does not turn into a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults?»
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/

Noem’s review leaves $900M waiting at FEMA
https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/5657900-noems-review-leaves-900m-waiting-at-fema/

"Global peatlands revealed as critical frontier in fight against climate change"
#Peatlands #Environment #Climate

Global peatlands revealed as critical frontier in fight against climate change
Global peatlands—huge expanses of partially decayed vegetation—store more carbon than is naturally present in the atmosphere but are under pressure from drainage-based agriculture. New research from Murdoch University reveals that peatlands present a major opportunity to arrest natural greenhouse gas emissions.

really great that we have a government made up of criminals who purposefully completely ignore this for personal gain https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-peril-in-maps-and-charts

What did countries agree to at COP30? #environment

What did countries agree to at COP30?
The COP30 climate summit has drawn to a close after two weeks in the Amazonian city of Belem where protests, street marches and even a fire caused unexpected moments of drama.

Cyclability in London: Associations between the quality of the local cycling environment, cycling participation, and perceptions of the cycling environment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692325004004

Cyclability in London: Associations between the quality of the local cycling environment, cycling participation, and perceptions of the cycling environment
Increasingly, researchers are exploring how multiple factors affect the quality of the cycling environment (here “cyclability”), relating this to perc…

"Windows Broken Into Become Earrings in One Woman’s Quest to Keep Glass Out of Landfills"
#Landfill #Environment

Windows Broken Into Become Earrings in One Woman's Quest to Keep Glass Out of Landfills
She takes advantage of safety glass' crystalline structure to quickly turn the broken pieces into floral-themed earrings of jade green.

⚡ Multiple modes: edit files in-place, encrypt/decrypt stdin/stdout, exec-env for secrets in environment variables
📋 Configuration via .sops.yaml with path-based rules for automatic key selection per environment (dev/prod)
🔗 Integrates with #HashiCorp Vault transit backend for enterprise key management
📊 Key rotation, auditing to PostgreSQL, and publishing to S3/GCS/Vault …

This job advert is absolutely mindbogglingly batshit crazy from the first line all the way down to the salary.
https://jobs.tutors.international/advert/612

London, England
A family based in north London seeks an extraordinary and experienced Tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman. The Tutor must be an Early Years specialist, committed to fostering a quintessentially English, culturally enriching learning environment that promotes early academic development.

As Donald Trump and his administration have rolled back rights, cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and ignored or failed to comply with court orders,
new demographics are being activated to join a broader coalition of people fighting for education, racial justice, gun control, science, the environment, immigration and the LGBTQ community.
From local grassroots efforts to nationwide groups, today’s organizers are breaking down barriers and creati…

Report: We're reaching Earth's climate tipping points, and more are on the way #environment

Report: We're reaching Earth's climate tipping points, and more are on the way
Large areas of the world could soon become unrecognizable if global temperatures continue to rise.

"Scientists develop sunscreen made from pollen that doesn’t harm corals"
#Suncream #CoralReef #Environment

Scientists develop sunscreen made from pollen that doesn’t harm corals
Scientists have invented a pollen-based sunscreen, which their results suggest is as effective in blocking harmful ultraviolet rays as sunscreens containing chemicals that contribute to coral bleaching and pollution in oceans. In a recently published study, the researchers also showed their pollen sunscreen doesn’t harm corals. They added 1 milliliter (0.034 ounces) of both their […]

Scientists warn heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years even after net zero #environment

Scientists warn heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years even after net zero
New climate modeling shows that heatwaves will keep getting hotter, longer, and more frequent for centuries—even after the world hits net-zero emissions. Delays of just a few years dramatically increase the likelihood of extreme, once-rare heat disasters, especially for countries near the equator. The research reveals that even reaching net zero by mid-century won't reverse the trend, and some regions will continue to see worsening heatwaves for a thousand years.

Application Management in C-ITS: Orchestrating Demand-Driven Deployments and Reconfigurations
Lukas Zanger, Bastian Lampe, Lennart Reiher, Lutz Eckstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18793

Application Management in C-ITS: Orchestrating Demand-Driven Deployments and Reconfigurations
Vehicles are becoming increasingly automated and interconnected, enabling the formation of cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) and the use of offboard services. As a result, cloud-native techniques, such as microservices and container orchestration, play an increasingly important role in their operation. However, orchestrating applications in a large-scale C-ITS poses unique challenges due to the dynamic nature of the environment and the need for efficient resource utilization. In…

💸 UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/02/uk-charging-industry-could-face-100m-bill-under-business-rate-changes

UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes
Industry bodies say proposals will force site closures, slow investment and cost drivers up to £300 a year more

EPA, state lawmakers could consider regulating abortion pills as pollutants in 2026 • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/12/20/repub/environment-abortion-pills/

"‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm"
#CoralReef #Environment

'We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’
Brazilian president Lula tells the Cop30 summit
Turkey is set to host next year’s summit
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/…

"Indoor air pollution from New Zealand’s 523,000 wood burners was estimated to account for 446 hospital admissions for heart and lung problems, and 101 early deaths annually, in a country with a population of just over 5 million people. "
Wood burning and gas cooking hugely costly to healthcare systems, New Zealand study finds | Environment | The Guardian

CO2 is #JunkFood for plants.
Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide
https://www.theguardi…

CO2 is #JunkFood for plants.
Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide
https://www.theguardi…

"‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

"China doesn’t want to lead alone on climate policies, senior adviser warns"
#China #Climate #ClimateChange

"Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Climate

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/14/millions-more-homes-in-great-britain-at-risk-of-flooding-investigation…

The people who succeed in the new media environment
are the people who figure out how to work its mechanics,
which selects for skills that are only loosely correlated with genuine intellectual originality.
🔸You need to be good at social media,
🔸good at building a personal brand,
🔸good at identifying topics that will generate engagement.
These are real skills,
-- but they're not the same skills that lead to developing genuinely new ideas.

"Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows"
#HeatPumps #Energy

Report shows climate change is fueling extreme wildfire seasons across the Earth #environment

Report shows climate change is fueling extreme wildfire seasons across the Earth
Climate change is driving extreme wildfire events worldwide, finds a new global report revealing a stark picture of increased fire events across multiple continents.

"Government aims to create 400,000 jobs through UK national green energy plan"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

The ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which oversees public buildings,
is investigating leadership at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for what he says are
"millions in lost revenue, luxury spending, and preferential treatment for Trump allies."
The committee's ranking member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter outlining the claims to Kennedy Center president, Richard Grenell.
Gre…

"Government aims to create 400,000 jobs through UK national green energy plan"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz3vv62pgo?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat
Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-per…

Employers slashed more than 150,000 jobs in October,
the largest wave of layoffs in more than 20 years,
a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Nov. 6.
From tech to Hollywood, retailers and utilities,
U.S. companies are intensifying job cuts and workforce reductions that began in 2024,
as they focus on cost savings and leaner operations amid a challenging economic environment.
Firms have pointed to a myriad of causes for their layoffs,
fr…

Layoffs are hitting. See the major companies cutting jobs in 2025.
Verizon, Amazon, Target and Paramount are just a few of the many companies to have announced layoffs in 2025.

"Reduced car commuting is linked to residential environment, health status and health behaviors"
#Cars #Vehicles #Environment

Reduced car commuting is linked to residential environment, health status and health behaviors
A recently published Finnish study shows that residential environments, health status and health behaviors are associated with reduced car commuting. However, these factors explained only a small proportion of the overall modal shift toward active and sustainable commuting over a two-year follow-up.

‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/16/no-water-no-life-iraqs-tigris-river-in-danger-of-disappearing

"World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange

Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/met-office-2026-will-bring-heat-more-than-14c-above-preindustrial-levels

"Wood burning and gas cooking hugely costly to healthcare systems, New Zealand study finds"
#NewZealand #Energy #Health

"More than 80 countries at Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Report reveals 25% surge in global water use over two decades #environment

Report reveals 25% surge in global water use over two decades
The world is rapidly losing its water supply, according to the World Bank's Global Water Monitoring Report. This global report, titled Continental Drying, highlights the water crisis using unprecedentedly detailed data. Researchers from the University of Twente made a key contribution to the section that reveals how much water we use, where it goes, and how we can use it more wisely.

Methane pollution still rises, but UN reports hope for near future reductions #environment

Methane pollution still rises, but UN reports hope for near future reductions
Global efforts to curb emissions of the potent but short-lived heat-trapping gas methane are doing about as poorly as the more prevalent carbon dioxide, but there's hope for the next five years, U.N. officials said Monday.

"German City Wins European Green Capital Title With Bold Environmental Vision"
#Germany #Environment
https://hap…

German City Wins European Green Capital Title With Bold Environmental Vision | Happy Eco News
Heilbronn wins European green capital award for 2027 with 600,000 euros in funding. Learn how the German city's innovative environmental planning beat competitors across the continent.

"Putting less meat and more legumes in school menus reduces environmental impact by up to 50%"
#Food #Environment #Environment

Putting less meat and more legumes in school menus reduces environmental impact by up to 50%
The transition to healthy diets with a low environmental impact is crucial to achieving sustainable food systems and reducing health problems. In this context, dietary guidelines for schools can encourage eating behaviors among pupils to reduce their environmental footprint.

In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-the-amazon-political-systems-fail-to-prioritize-the-environment/

In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment
Realizing the goals of sustainable development and environmental conservation in the Pan Amazon will require profound changes in the region’s legal and economic framework. This type of change can only be obtained via the political process. Fortunately, there is broad support within Amazonian nations for a change in the policies that drive deforestation and unsustainable […]

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/14/dismal-health-of-worlds-forests-is-threat-to-humanity-report-warns

"Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

"Pakistan declares its third marine protected area, but has a long way to go"
#Pakistan #Environment #Oceans

Pakistan declares its third marine protected area, but has a long way to go
KARACHI — On Sept. 2, the government of Balochistan province in Pakistan declared the country’s third marine protected area, around Miani Hor Lagoon on the country’s central coast. The biodiversity-rich lagoon hosts a lush mangrove forest, numerous bird species and threatened marine mammals. With the declaration of the Miani Hor Marine Protected Area (MPA), Pakistan […]

"'I Go Green': Children in Cyprus schools lead the way in environmental protection"
#Cyprus #Environment #Education

Cyprus schoolchildren lead the way in environmental protection
The programme is starting to deliver results, with Cyprus school children at the forefront of the effort

"Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’"
#Africa #Guinea #Environment

Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’
For Mariame Condé, the seed-collecting work came at a critical time. In January 2022, she was pregnant and nearly out of food. Her husband had left their village to search for gold in Sigiri, a mining area, and their harvest was almost gone, she told Mongabay in a WhatsApp message. That year, Condé collected 20,000 […]

"Abandoned oil refineries are becoming unlikely havens for wildlife"
#Wildlife #Environment

Abandoned oil refineries are becoming unlikely havens for wildlife
From southeast England to California, decommissioned oil refineries are being reclaimed by nature, prompting calls to protect them

"Regulators overlooking toxic Pfas found around Lancashire chemicals plant"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

"Biodegradable wet wipes remain in rivers for more than five weeks"
#WetWipes #Environment
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Biodegradable wet wipes remain in rivers for more than five weeks
Scientists have tested, for the first time, how biodegradable wet wipes break down when flushed rather than composted, discovering that most wipes remain after five weeks—a finding the research team say challenges the marketing of these products.

"Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?"
#Environment #Trees #Environment

Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?
We are still logging and degrading global forests at terrifying speed. How can we slow this destruction, including in Australia?

"Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover"
#Cambodia #Environment #Oceans

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover
A recent study provides the first detailed map of Cambodia’s coastal seafloor habitats and finds that simple, low-cost anti-trawling structures are helping seagrass meadows recover and support small-scale fishers in the Kep Marine Fisheries Management Area in the Gulf of Thailand. The study was published in Frontiers in Marine Science by researchers from Marine Conservation […]

"South Korean decision to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040 sounds alarm for Australian exports"
#SouthKorea #FossilFuels #Energy

"France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban"
#France #Pesticides #Bees

"Three sugar cubes worth of plastic enough to kill a puffin, study finds"
#Plastic #Plastics #Birds

"‘Damned if we do but completely stuffed if we don’t’: heatwaves will worsen longer net zero is delayed"
#NetZero #Climate #ClimateChange

"Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source"
#Australia #Trees #Climate

"Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks"
#Methane #Satellites #Environment

Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks
Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short term. The same satellite technology that has transformed methane monitoring in the oil and gas sector is now being turned toward another major source—landfill sites.

"Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end"
#Amazon #Trees #Environment

Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end
A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38% of the Amazon rainforest by the end of the 21st century.

"‘Serious gaps’ in Labor’s environment laws undermine attempt to fix broken system, integrity experts say"
#Australia #Environment