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“By 2028 the power going to AI-specific purposes will rise to between 165 and 326 terawatt-hours per year…That could generate the same emissions as driving over 300 billion miles—over 1,600 round trips to the sun from Earth.” MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

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Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Finally, the photo artist Franco Fontana at the age of 91, is recognized as a national treasure. Well done #Italy, and well done Franco Fontana. Franco Fontana. Retrospective Museo dell'Ara Pacis Until 31/08/2025 Highly recommended. Thx harbel.substack.com 📷 substack.com/@harbel/note...

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Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim: ⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C ⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade ⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance ⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2 essd.copernicus.org/...

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Never forget, Paris wasn’t “always this way.” This is still pretty recent. The change wasn’t magic. It’s about different priorities, and smart infrastructure done fast. It took clear vision and determined leadership. Your city could choose that kind of leadership too if you actually wanted to.

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Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems. Decreasing CO2 emissions globally is essential but conservation efforts ‘could and should’ focus on most vulnerable regions and species #conservation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A catchy tune explains the world’s ‘isms’ – according to your mum doing the laundry – aeon.co/videos/a-cat... via @aeonmag

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headline construction masterclass

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More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

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STATEMENT | The Elders call for collective action to end Palestinian suffering in Gaza “Political leaders have stood by for too long watching the atrocities that the current Israeli government is committing against the Palestinian people.” Our statement ⬇️ theelders.org/news/elders-...

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🚨 Congress just approved the "largest upward transfer of wealth in American history" while hummingbirds quietly evolved new beaks at your bird feeder. The contrast is striking → Read today's Daybreak Notes & Beans ☕️

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Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Move to Bar International Students Less than 24 hours earlier, the Trump administration had said it would block current and future international students from attending the university 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

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A sad day as the world loses one of the great photographers and environmentalists. RIP Sebastião Salgado www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Uruguay’s former president was a man who fought for social justice and role modelled humility…a great loss at a time when the world needs leaders with empathy and a moral compass english.elpais.com/internationa...

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This graphic visualises how rapidly measles spreads with a small drop in vaccination rates www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

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And here is piece about the abrupt dismissal in the Guardian if you’re not able to access Washington Post www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Disgraceful, disgusting, abominable, cowardly. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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Lots of urban coyotes come here looking for wifi.

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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

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Reading to children & teens at home and school for pleasure is one of the most important ways to nurture a love of reading. It’s as important to develop the will as the skill-the more kids enjoy reading the more they read, the more they read the better they get… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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The EPA canceled 781 grants worth billions of dollars aimed at helping people and communities deal with the impacts of climate change.

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Trump’s first 100 days supercharged a global ‘freefall of rights’, says Amnesty in annual report. Global inaction eg in Sudan —currently ravaged by civil war and atrocities —and failures to uphold international humanitarian law as in Gaza, also cited as concerns www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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People in cities think nothing dramatic ever happens in villages but that’s not true. In our village the summer before last the cattle pushed over a fence and escaped from John and Rita’s field and lots of people still talk about it to this day and some of those people don’t even live in the village

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I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

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How Atlas Network amassed a global network of free market think tanks and reached into Australia and New Zealand www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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This ultra-small generator is designed to harness energy from even the smallest rivers, like those flowing through urban areas between homes. It can power street lights, offering a sustainable solution for remote or urban communities to generate their own electricity.

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I'm keeping the paywall off this piece I wrote about the amazing art my mum and dad have been coming up with in their 60s and 70s, which is also about the general idea of late-blooming creativity: tomcox.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

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An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

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On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival announced it would screen a documentary featuring Fatima Hassouna, a Palestinian photographer in Gaza who has been steadily documenting the genocide since Oct 2023. Israel assasinated her after the announcement, with her entire family.

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Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business. Nature is us.

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Tom Friedman has a better grasp of modern geopolitical history than most scholars. This article puts in stark & sobering terms what a mad man America voted into office. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

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Perhaps the big question is, when all is said and done: Of all the phenomenal technological progress that has occurred during the last couple of centuries, has any of it awarded us anything even half as thoroughly fantastic as moss?

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Last week, saw this "red morph" kākā at Zealandia sanctuary. Never knew such a colour variant existed until we saw this one! So cool! Based on what I've found, it is rarely seen. Feel lucky. #birds 🪶 #Wellington #Aotearoa #AoNZ

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Robyn Kahukiwa leaves us

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Need cheering up? This is one of many brilliant Tiny Desk gems www.npr.org/2021/04/20/9...

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In 2024 Pakistan imported 22GW of solar: “Warehouses, textile mills, farms-anything with a flat roof and a balance sheet. The government barely needed to nudge the market. It just removed tariffs, approved net metering, and got out of the way. Good governance.” cleantechnica.com/2025/04/04/p...

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A coalition of 21 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal agency charged with supporting the nation’s libraries.

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Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

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In such times a villain may redeem themselves.

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Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That’s exactly what Trump wants. My latest for The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/americans-dissent-fear-trump

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