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@arXiv_csNI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-30 08:24:19

Impact of Environmental Factors on LoRa 2.4 GHz Time of Flight Ranging Outdoors
Yiqing Zhou, Xule Zhou, Zecan Cheng, Chenao Lu, Junhan Chen, Jiahong Pan, Yizhuo Liu, Sihao Li, Kyeong Soo Kim
arxiv.org/abs/2509.23125

Impact of Environmental Factors on LoRa 2.4 GHz Time of Flight Ranging Outdoors
In WSN/IoT, node localization is essential to long-running applications for accurate environment monitoring and event detection, often covering a large area in the field. Due to the lower time resolution of typical WSN/IoT platforms (e.g., 1 microsecond on ESP32 platforms) and the jitters in timestamping, packet-level localization techniques cannot provide meter-level resolution. For high-precision localization as well as world-wide interoperability via 2.4-GHz ISM band, a new variant of LoRa, …

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-15 11:00:39

"Study shows people have misconceptions about the environmental impact of everyday food"
#Environment #Food

Study shows people have misconceptions about the environmental impact of everyday food
A new study has given new insights into people's understanding of the environmental impact of the food they eat and shown that they often misperceive it, supporting the need for environmental impact labeling.

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-10-24 19:24:32

New Research Finds Soy Meat Analogues Comparable to Chicken in Protein Quality and Eco-Friendliness vegconomist.com/protein/new-re

New Research Finds Soy Meat Analogues Comparable to Chicken in Protein Quality and Eco-Friendliness - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A recent study has assessed the protein digestibility, amino acid composition, and environmental impact of soy-based meat analogues. The research aimed to

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-17 13:00:39

"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.

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-10-22 11:54:27

Interesting post on the CILIP website: 'AI Wars - The Libraries Fight Back' cilip.org.uk/news/712840/AI-Wa
Timed for Green Libraries Week, which is examining the environmental impact of AI …

AI Wars - The Libraries Fight Back
Open Fifth explains how library management systems are fending off the AI bot attacks… for now.

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-10-19 03:19:49

Looks like #inaturalist has released an update on their misguided "AI" efforts: Beyond their preliminary results being underwhelming they don't seem to really have learned from the criticism they got.
"People at the Center", "Openness with Care" etc. are all empty words if the results are preordained with zero control by their "community". Their "environmental impact assessment" is also disingenuous, counting their prompt-fondling but not the training…
#citizenscience

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-12-11 20:39:20

Some of the headlines about the impact of the current flu season don’t seem to be reflected in the UKHSA data?
I note that they’ve updated the dashboard today with additional seasonal data.
ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/sy

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-11-07 06:04:57

💡 First fully recyclable, sub-micrometer printed electronics could reshape how displays are made
techxplore.com/news/2025-10-fu

First fully recyclable, sub-micrometer printed electronics could reshape how displays are made
Electrical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the ability to print fully functional and recyclable electronics at sub-micrometer scales. The technique could impact the more than $150 billion electronic display industry and its environmental impact while providing a toehold for U.S. manufacturing to gain traction in a vital and quickly growing industry.

@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
2025-12-13 16:46:14
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I detest buying a new phone.

Besides the lower ethical impact, the lower coupling to US big tech surveillance and control (with /e/OS), the lower environmental footprint and buying European, I am looking forward to keeping the
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com
2025-12-13 16:46:14
@…

I detest buying a new phone.

Besides the lower ethical impact, the lower coupling to US big tech surveillance and control (with /e/OS), the lower environmental footprint and buying European, I am looking forward to keeping the
@rafa_font@mastodon.online
2025-12-01 07:49:41

How to grow a forest without planting a single tree
A collaboration between @… and Planet Wild youtube.com/@planet-wild)
It's happening in

Planet Wild
Planet Wild is a global community of people that deeply care about the planet. We're on a mission to bring back endangered species, clean up our waterways from plastic and to rewild entire forests to give them back to nature. How it works: 1. On a monthly basis, our team selects impactful environmental projects; 2. The contributions from our global community are used to fund these projects; 3. Community members get video reports from our environmental missions, seeing the impact that they are …

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-11-28 04:00:43

If you want to see what is possibly the most dangerous “maritime cross roads” in Canada in terms of weather, geography, traffic, environmental impact, and all the rest:
I have annotated a map near Gill Island.
We don’t know the pipe route. If it’s Kitimat rather than Rupert because a route exists, this is where tankers would go.
#canpoli #northcoast #BC #BCPoli #cdnpoli #climatechange #hecatestrait #haidagwaii #coastalFirstNation #abpoli #MOU #carney #daniellesmith
mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/1

@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-08 08:14:09

Integrating Weather and Land Cover Data into Geospatial Impact Evaluations
Elinor Benami, Mike Cecil, Anna Josephson, Gina Maskell, Jeffrey D. Michler
arxiv.org/abs/2510.05108

Integrating Weather and Land Cover Data into Geospatial Impact Evaluations
Integrating gridded weather and earth observation data into impact evaluations holds great promise. It allows researchers to capture environmental context, external shocks, and even to measure outcomes (e.g., land cover change, agricultural production) that surveys might miss due to spatial or temporal data collection constraints. However, with great power comes great responsibility: the increasing ease of extracting time series from these datasets belies potentially complex geospatial and meas…

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-12-15 13:58:07

The environmental sciences have been modeling pollution for over 100 years, creating a large set of mathematical tools to model and understand pollution and its impact on the environment.
A famous example is the Streeter-Phelps equation, made to study the pollution of of the Ohio River and that has helped understand if or how a stream can support life at different times/distances from the pollution.
Is there an equivalent for digital pollution?
🧵 4/X
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streeter

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-10 10:59:09

FuelCast: Benchmarking Tabular and Temporal Models for Ship Fuel Consumption
Justus Viga, Penelope Mueck, Alexander L\"oser, Torben Weis
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08217

FuelCast: Benchmarking Tabular and Temporal Models for Ship Fuel Consumption
In the shipping industry, fuel consumption and emissions are critical factors due to their significant impact on economic efficiency and environmental sustainability. Accurate prediction of ship fuel consumption is essential for further optimization of maritime operations. However, heterogeneous methodologies and limited high-quality datasets hinder direct comparison of modeling approaches. This paper makes three key contributions: (1) we introduce and release a new dataset (https://huggingface…

@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-02 09:20:20

When Silence Matters: The Impact of Irrelevant Audio on Text Reasoning in Large Audio-Language Models
Chen-An Li, Tzu-Han Lin, Hung-yi Lee
arxiv.org/abs/2510.00626

When Silence Matters: The Impact of Irrelevant Audio on Text Reasoning in Large Audio-Language Models
Large audio-language models (LALMs) unify speech and text processing, but their robustness in noisy real-world settings remains underexplored. We investigate how irrelevant audio, such as silence, synthetic noise, and environmental sounds, affects text reasoning tasks where audio is unnecessary. Across three text-based benchmarks, we find that even non-informative audio reduces accuracy and increases prediction volatility; the severity of interference scales with longer durations, higher amplit…

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-11-09 21:07:28

Low-income areas in England and Wales face worst air pollution, analysis finds theguardian.com/environment/20

Low-income areas in England and Wales face worst air pollution, analysis finds
Exclusive: Experts say impact on people of colour and those who do not drive is ‘grave environmental injustice’

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-10 17:00:55

"Kenya court upholds cancellation of 1,050 MW coal plant license"
#Kenya #FossilFuels #Energy

Kenya court upholds cancellation of 1,050 MW coal plant license
Kenya’s Environment and Land Court has upheld a 2019 ruling that revoked the environmental license for the proposed 1,050-megawatt Lamu coal-fired power plant, effectively halting the controversial project. Justice Francis Njoroge dismissed an appeal from the Amu Power Company, finding the project’s environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) was inadequate and public participation deficient. The […]

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-03 10:27:51

Product Digital Twin Supporting End-of-life Phase of Electric Vehicle Batteries Utilizing Product-Process-Resource Asset Network
Sara Strakosova, Petr Novak, Petr Kadera
arxiv.org/abs/2510.02167

Product Digital Twin Supporting End-of-life Phase of Electric Vehicle Batteries Utilizing Product-Process-Resource Asset Network
In the context of the circular economy, products in their end-of-life phase should be either remanufactured or recycled. Both of these processes are crucial for sustainability and environmental conservation. However, manufacturers often do not support these processes enough by not sharing relevant data. This paper proposes use of a digital twin technology, which is capable to help optimizing the disassembly processes to reduce ecological impact and enhance sustainability. The proposed approach …

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-12-13 11:48:38

«A generation of young scientists were being trained to think of genetics and genomics as the default place to look for answers. “I characterize science as a bunch of 5-year-olds playing soccer,” says another researcher. “They all go where the ball is, running around the field in a herd.” And the ball was decidedly not environmental health.»
A good piece about the impact of pollution in causing disease and how the genomics hype held research back.
archive.vn/ZpiKS
/HT @…

@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 08:53:00

Understanding How Synthetic Impurities Affect Glyphosate Solubility and Crystal Growth Using Free Energy Calculations and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Alejandro Castro, Nuria H. Espejo, Ignacio Sanchez-Burgos, Adiran Garaizar, Giovanni Maria Maggioni, Jorge R. Espinosa
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09413

Understanding How Synthetic Impurities Affect Glyphosate Solubility and Crystal Growth Using Free Energy Calculations and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide worldwide, crystallizes through complex intermolecular interactions that are strongly influenced by synthesis-derived impurities. Understanding this process at the molecular scale is critical for optimizing production, ensuring product quality, and assessing environmental impact. Here, we employ direct coexistence molecular dynamics simulations and free energy calculations to elucidate how glycine-a prevalent synthesis byproduct-modulates glyphosate so…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-08 18:08:12

😮‍💨 Carbon credits have little to no effect on making companies greener, study reveals
#climatechange

Carbon credits have little to no effect on making companies greener, study reveals
Many companies across the world use carbon credits as part of their climate strategies to offset emissions. A carbon credit is a certificate that represents the reduction, avoidance or removal of one ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. While organizations claim these credits help them reduce their environmental impact, there is debate about whether companies that buy credits decarbonize faster. However, an in-depth study of 89 multinationals, published in Nature Communications, reveals t…

@arXiv_mathNA_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-07 10:53:52

Efficient structure-preserving scheme for chemotaxis PDEs with singular sensitivity in crime and epidemic modeling
Rui Wang, Yunfeng Xiong, Zhengru Zhang
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04826

Efficient structure-preserving scheme for chemotaxis PDEs with singular sensitivity in crime and epidemic modeling
The system of chemotaxis PDEs with singular sensitivity was originally proposed by Short et al. [Math. Mod. Meth. Appl. Sci., 18:1249-1267, 2008] as the continuum limit of a biased random walk model to account for the formation of crime hotspots and environmental feedback successfully. Recently, this idea has also been applied to epidemiology to model the impact of human social behaviors on disease transmission. In order to characterize the phase transition, pattern formation and statistical pr…

@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-07 09:44:22

Performance and long-term aging studies on Eco-Friendly Resistive Plate Chamber detectors
D. Ahmadi (on behalf of the RPC ECOGAS@GIF Collaboration), M. Tytgat (on behalf of the RPC ECOGAS@GIF Collaboration)
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04777

Performance and long-term aging studies on Eco-Friendly Resistive Plate Chamber detectors
Resistive Plate Chambers detectors are extensively used in several domains of Physics. In High Energy Physics, they are typically operated in avalanche mode with a high-performance gas mixture based on Tetrafluoroethane (C2H2F4), a fluorinated high Global Warming Potential greenhouse gas. The RPC EcoGas@GIF++ Collaboration has pursued an intensive R\&D activity to search for new gas mixtures with low environmental impact, fulfilling the performance expected for the LHC operations as well as for…