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Table: Source: New Weather Institute What might sports look like in a warming world? When playing against the climate clock, make a new game plan. By Mark Harris January 16, 2025 in Anthropocene If you like home runs, you’ll love climate change. As the temperature rises, air resistance goes down. Researchers at Dartmouth College have…

Image: Collaborative management partnerships strongly decreased deforestation.  New research suggests the answer is yes. Logging rates are dramatically lower where governments in Sub-Saharan Africa partner with NGOs to run protected areas. By Warren Cornwall In Anthropocene magazine January 8, 2025 Efforts to save habitats around the world face this conundrum: Some of the most biologically…

Image: from Brittanica.com Scientists question whether these credits can deliver lasting conservation. By Warren Cornwall in ANthropocene magazine December 18, 2024 Having trouble finding that last minute holiday present for someone? Perhaps you could buy them some biodiversity. You might be wondering if I’ve sampled too much of my buddy’s legendary holiday eierlikör (look it…

Image from article: Biogenetic mosquito control. Published: 07 January 2025 Recombinant venom proteins in insect seminal fluid reduce female lifespan Samuel J. Beach & Maciej Maselko Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 219 (2025) Cite this article Abstract The emergence of insecticide resistance has increased the need for alternative pest management tools. Numerous genetic biocontrol approaches, which involve…

Image: from the 11th annual edition of the Imperva Bad Bot Report. CLICK to Download report The internet now makes up around 7.4 per cent of global emissions – with half of that made up of bots. But it’s possible to track the perpetrators of bot-related energy waste By Andrew Irvin and Maria Pia Dunne,…

Graph: from Fact-checking reduces the propagation of false news in social networks, Emeric Henry, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Sergei Guriev 21 May 2020 Mark Zuckerberg says time to ‘get back to our roots’ around free expression but opponents argue ‘ordinary citizens should be very concerned’ Dan Jervis-Bardy, Ben Doherty and Sarah Basford Canales Wed 8 Jan 2025…

Climate and Environmental Protest as a Percentage of all Protest and Response rates to such protest. Source: Data on climate and environmental protests, and response types was obtained via ACLED. Separate data on killings in absolute numbers was obtained from Global Witness. From Berglund, O., Franco Brotto, T., Pantazis, C., Rossdale, C. and Pessoa Cavalcanti,…

Image: Global EV outlook 2024 with EV sales set to reach 17 million from International Energy Agency report in evboosters. Australia still an outlier but new legislation and available new models will see a rapid uptake in 2025 [Ed]. By Mike Foley in the Brisbane Times January 6, 2025 The cost-of-living crisis rear-ended new car…

Image: UK how sustainable is your university rankings from people and planet.org survey University bans on big oil firms at recruitment fairs rise by 30% Survey finds post-1992 universities leading the way on sustainability and ethics Matthew Taylor Fri 20 Dec 2024 The Guardian More universities are banning fossil fuel companies from recruitment fairs in…

Graphic: Increasing insurance (un)natural disaster events, Source: Gallagher Re Let’s hope so. Shrinking coverage and rising temperatures are a risky combination. By Mark Harris A Financial Storm Is Brewing 1. A growing protection gap. Adding up losses from Nat Cats and subtracting the amount that was insured gives your “protection gap.” This intuitive interactive tool…

Article from We Don’t Have Time – Paid partnership with AgniTerra Accelerating the energy transition: Why next-generation geothermal is essential for a sustainable future The next generation of geothermal energy is cheap, clean, and effective – and can be implemented almost anywhere on earth. The problem? It’s not scaling nearly as quickly as needed. AgniTerra,…

Image: the cost to society from a ton of CO2—termed the social cost of carbon (SCC) – measures the economic and social effects of a change in climate. (from below article from UHN – University Health Network – Toronto, Canada. 2019) Date: December 17, 2024 Source: University of California – Davis Summary: The social cost…

From: Andrew J. Wilson, R. Daniel Bressler, Catherine Ivanovich, Cascade Tuholske, Colin Raymond, Radley M. Horton, Adam Sobel, Patrick Kinney, Tereza Cavazos, Jeffrey G. Shrader. Heat disproportionately kills young people: Evidence from wet-bulb temperature in Mexico. Science Advances, 2024; 10 (49) High heat is preferentially killing the young, not the old, new research finds In…

Image from Rakesh R. Nair et al. Leaftronics: Natural lignocellulose scaffolds for sustainable electronics. Sci. Adv. 2024. Fig. 1. Lignocellulose quasi-fractals and their coating. (A) Magnolia LS quasi-fractal structure at different magnifications. Scale bars from left to right: 20 mm, 5 mm, 1 mm, and 200 μm [scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image]. (B) Fabrication process…