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Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence‑based solutions are under political fire https://phys.org/news/2025-07-plastics-threaten-ecosystems-human-health.html

Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence‑based solutions are under political fire
Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations Environment Program announcing that the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution will reconvene in August.

"New global ruling says sovereign states are legally responsible for tackling climate change"
#Climate #ClimateChange

New global ruling says sovereign states are legally responsible for tackling climate change
Sovereign states are not only responsible for tackling fossil fuel damage, they have to make redress, according to a recent ground-breaking ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The ruling makes clear that the court believes states must actively prevent harm to the world's climate system. States that fail to act accordingly may have to pay compensation, restore damaged ecosystems, rebuild infrastructure or face further legal challenges.

There's this fascination with what science is discovering about unexpected ecosystems, coupled with dismay at the changes we are causing without intent, thought, or (unfortunately) care. Until it's too late to stop what we are doing, to our own detriment

There's this fascination with what science is discovering about unexpected ecosystems, coupled with dismay at the changes we are causing without intent, thought, or (unfortunately) care. Until it's too late to stop what we are doing, to our own detriment

AI Factories: It's time to rethink the Cloud-HPC divide
Pedro Garcia Lopez, Daniel Barcelona Pons, Marcin Copik, Torsten Hoefler, Eduardo Qui\~nones, Maciej Malawski, Peter Pietzutch, Alberto Marti, Thomas Ohlson Timoudas, Aleksander Slominski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12849

AI Factories: It's time to rethink the Cloud-HPC divide
The strategic importance of artificial intelligence is driving a global push toward Sovereign AI initiatives. Nationwide governments are increasingly developing dedicated infrastructures, called AI Factories (AIF), to achieve technological autonomy and secure the resources necessary to sustain robust local digital ecosystems. In Europe, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is investing hundreds of millions of euros into several AI Factories, built atop existing high-performance computing (HPC) super…

Uusi maailmanlaajuinen päätöslauselma sanoo, että suvereenit valtiot ovat laillisesti vastuussa ilmastonmuutoksen torjumisesta.
New global ruling says sovereign states are legally responsible for tackling climate change https://phys.org/news/2025-08-global-sove…

New global ruling says sovereign states are legally responsible for tackling climate change
Sovereign states are not only responsible for tackling fossil fuel damage, they have to make redress, according to a recent ground-breaking ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The ruling makes clear that the court believes states must actively prevent harm to the world's climate system. States that fail to act accordingly may have to pay compensation, restore damaged ecosystems, rebuild infrastructure or face further legal challenges.

New global ruling says sovereign states are legally responsible for tackling climate change https://phys.org/news/2025-08-global-sovereign-states-legally-responsible.html

New global ruling says sovereign states are legally responsible for tackling climate change
Sovereign states are not only responsible for tackling fossil fuel damage, they have to make redress, according to a recent ground-breaking ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The ruling makes clear that the court believes states must actively prevent harm to the world's climate system. States that fail to act accordingly may have to pay compensation, restore damaged ecosystems, rebuild infrastructure or face further legal challenges.

Science at Risk: The Urgent Need for Institutional Support of Long-Term Ecological and Evolutionary Research in an Era of Data Manipulation and Disinformation
Vincent A. Viblanc (UMR ISEM), Elise Huchard (UMR ISEM), Gilles Pinay (CEFE), Elena Orme\~no (CEFE), C\'eline Teplitsky (CEFE), Fran\c{c}ois Criscuolo (IGE), Dominique Joly (IGE), David Renault (IGE), C\'ecile Callou (IGE), Fran\c{c}oise Gourmelon (IGE), Sandrine Anquetin (IGE), B\'en\'edicte Augeard (OFB), Fabien…

Science at Risk: The Urgent Need for Institutional Support of Long-Term Ecological and Evolutionary Research in an Era of Data Manipulation and Disinformation
Planet Earth and the biodiversity it supports are in crisis. Human impact on terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems and the hundreds of thousands of organisms that inhabit them is global. To what extent can we push ecosystems before they collapse? Will species adapt to these changes and at what rate? What are the consequences, for the environment and humankind? These are some of the most pressing issues to date. Clear answers can only be addressed through long-term research programs that…

Global map shows where ocean plastics pose greatest threats #ocean

Global map shows where ocean plastics pose greatest threats
As plastic pollution emerges as one of the planet's most pressing environmental threats, Tulane University scientists have published the first global assessment of where plastics pose the greatest ecological risks to marine ecosystems.

Earth’s Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling - Inside Climate News
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"New Coral Reef Protection Technology to Transform Global Conservation"
#Coral #CoralReef #Environment

New Coral Reef Protection Technology to Transform Global Conservation | Happy Eco News
New coral reef protection technology will transform coral reef protection as an international partnership expands to cover 90% of the world's reefs. Saudi Arabia will direct the International Coral Reef Initiative and implementing advanced coral reef protection technology alongside proven conservation methods to safeguard these vital ocean ecosystems.

Ecological Cycle Optimizer: A novel nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization
Boyu Ma, Jiaxiao Shi, Yiming Ji, Zhengpu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20458

Ecological Cycle Optimizer: A novel nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization
This article proposes the Ecological Cycle Optimizer (ECO), a novel metaheuristic algorithm inspired by energy flow and material cycling in ecosystems. ECO draws an analogy between the dynamic process of solving optimization problems and ecological cycling. Unique update strategies are designed for the producer, consumer and decomposer, aiming to enhance the balance between exploration and exploitation processes. Through these strategies, ECO is able to achieve the global optimum, simulating th…

New study: 60% of the world’s land area is in a precarious state, putting at risk the ability of the plant world to acquire enough energy through photosynthesis to maintain the material flows of carbon, water and nitrogen that support the ecosystems.
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60 percent of the world’s land area is in a precarious state
15.08.2025 – A new study maps the planetary boundary of “functional biosphere integrity” in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds that 60 percent of global land areas are now already outside the locally defined safe zone, and 38 percent are even in the high-risk zone. The study was led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) together with BOKU University in Vienna and published in the renowned journal One Earth.

Eine neue Studie zeigt die negativen Auswirkungen menschlicher Aktivitäten auf die biologische Vielfalt für alle Arten und Ökosysteme.
Menschliche Aktivitäten treiben den Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt sowohl direkt, als auch indirekt voran.
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The global human impact on biodiversity - Nature
Key measures of biodiversity were quantified and found to be affected by human pressures that shifted community composition and decreased local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems.

Demonstrator Testbed for Effective Precoding in MEO Multibeam Satellites
Jorge L. Gonz\'alez-Rios, Liz Mart\'inez Marrero, Juan Duncan, Luis M. Garc\'es-Socarr\'as, Raudel Cuiman Marquez, Juan A. V\'asquez Peralvo, Jevgenij Krivochiza, Symeon Chatzinotas, Bj\"orn Ottersten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19657

Demonstrator Testbed for Effective Precoding in MEO Multibeam Satellites
The use of communication satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO) is foreseen to provide quasi-global broadband Internet connectivity in the coming networking ecosystems. Multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) digital signal processing techniques, such as precoding, emerge as appealing technological enablers in the forward link of multi-beam satellite systems operating in full frequency reuse (FFR). However, the orbit dynamics of MEO satellites pose additional challenges that must be c…

"Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt"
#Arctic #Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange