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🌎 Climate models rely heavily on carbon sinks, but last year trees and land stopped cleaning up after us and absorbed almost no CO2. If this continues, global heating is going to go much faster than we thought

You can now look at a home’s climate risk when browsing the real estate app, Zillow, which is great but take them with a grain of salt, because the data-models it uses aren’t accurate at an individual level — and these are community-level risks

Large-scale clean hydrogen hubs selected to receive $7 billion in federal grants in the US haven’t made much advancement in the past year

🌎 Carbon emissions from forest fires have increased 60% globally over 20 years

Only 5 out of the 17 “megadiverse” countries, which home 70% of the world’s biodiversity, have submitted plans to protect 30% of nature ahead of the COP16 biodiversity summit

News of bird flu outbreaks have been simmering in the background for months now. Are we on the brink of another pandemic or is it all hype? This risk is still low, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be taking outbreaks seriously

🌎 Low-dose naltrexone — a drug used for addiction — is being used in clinical trials to potentially help people with Long COVID and ME

Expanding access to Ozempic and similar medications could save thousands of lives in the US every year

The public health funding states received from the federal government during the pandemic is drying up, but the need for public health resources isn’t

Biotech investors are raking in money from investments in companies developing medicines for autoimmune diseases

🌍 Climate change is certainly going to impact crop yields, but the impacts across the world, and across types of crops, varies greatly

American households are responsible for 40% of total food waste, which has resulted in government initiatives to help people reduce less food — but there are challenges in measuring the effectiveness of these campaigns

🌎 The ongoing water crisis (drought, groundwater overuse, and changing rainfall patterns) presents an increasing risk to global economies, including threatening 8% of GDP in high-income countries

California is addressing it’s water scarcity problems by allowing highly treated wastewater to be recycled and distributed back to homes for drinking

The US government and Indigenous groups will be co-managing a new marine sanctuary off the coast of California

Big Tech, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, are all investing billions into nuclear energy as the answer to source emissions-free electricity for power-hunger AI

Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a benchtop robotic system to automate repetitive chemistry lab tasks using computer vision and an LLM to translate verbal cues from scientists

Charities are looking at AI too, as a way to enable them to focus on long-term problems

The days of remembering, and then forgetting, and then having to change your passwords are numbered as passkeys get more portable and easier to implement

🌎 Algorithms used to police France’s welfare system are facing legal challenges from human rights groups claiming bias has disproportionately affected single mothers

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