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📉 Sensors reveal surprising drop in methane emissions after flooding in coastal wetlands
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Sensors reveal surprising drop in methane emissions after flooding in coastal wetlands
University of Toledo environmental researchers trooped through the woods and wetlands of the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge for a week in early June. Their mission? To outfit an approximately 16-acre site with nearly 300 sensors that will constantly monitor a slew of metrics related to the soil, water and plants, including the flow of sap through trees.

Trump has declared war on the transgender community, leaving Americans to seek asylum — from America. Four trans Americans claiming refuge abroad tell US reporter Io Dodds from „Independent“ why they no longer feel safe in their home country, from fears of martial law to being arrested in changing rooms

"#Duluth as a climate refuge" #Minnesota (from 2021)
Opinion: As people flee climate change on the coasts, this Midwest city is trying to become a safe haven | CNN

As people flee climate change on the coasts, this Midwest city is trying to become a safe haven
After visiting Tracy, a woman in California who is ready to flee her dream house to escape wildfires and other effects of climate catastrophe, John Sutter traveled halfway across the country, to Duluth, Minnesota to try to answer her question: Where can she go? Is anywhere safe? It turns out, Tracy isn’t alone in asking the question.

Modeling Adaptive Tracking of Predictable Stimuli in Electric Fish
Yu Yang, Andreas Oliveira, Louis L. Whitcomb, Felipe Pait, Mario Sznaier, Noah J. Cowan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15344

Modeling Adaptive Tracking of Predictable Stimuli in Electric Fish
The weakly electric fish \emph{Eigenmannia virescens} naturally swims back and forth to stay within a moving refuge, tracking its motion using visual and electrosensory feedback. Previous experiments show that when the refuge oscillates as a low-frequency sinusoid (below about 0.5 Hz), the tracking is nearly perfect, but phase lag increases and gain decreases at higher frequencies. Here, we model this nonlinear behavior as an adaptive internal model principle (IMP) system. Specifically, an adap…

The 'Great dismal swamp national wildlife refuge' - just spotted that on a map in the US; are there any less welcoming place names?

One of SF's last live #punkrock music havens #TheeParkside threatened with closure as new #landlord bids $300k over bar's attempt to buy its shedlike building structure along 17th St. across from Jackson Playground at fo…

Unprecedented heat in North China: How soil moisture amplified 2023's record heat wave #China

Unprecedented heat in North China: How soil moisture amplified 2023's record heat wave
This summer, much of North China has endured widespread temperatures above 35°C. Even typically cooler, high-latitude summer retreats like Harbin in Northeast China—usually a refuge from the heat—saw temperatures soar past 35°C in late June and July. As climate change accelerates, extreme heat events will become increasingly frequent.

In life, much like in a tide pool, freedom often comes from the refuge of a nurturing enclosure rather than boundless openness. full article @ #activism

Tide Pool Thinking
How Structure Makes Space for Imagination to Breathe