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9 votes
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Meet Kelpy, the deep tech startup swapping single-use plastics for seaweed
25 votes -
Norway approves nineteen oil and gas projects, saying the resulting investments are worth over $19 billion
13 votes -
Controversy over lack of renewable in plans to rebuild electrical grid in Puerto Rico
10 votes -
No, climate activists are not coming for New York City pizza
16 votes -
A giant wind farm is taking root off Massachusetts
12 votes -
Somalia faces worst drought in decades, leading to record number of displacements
Somalia faces worst drought in decades, leading to record number of displacements — Toronto Star Somalia is facing the worst drought in four decades, devastating floods and more than 30 years of...
Somalia faces worst drought in decades, leading to record number of displacements — Toronto Star
Somalia is facing the worst drought in four decades, devastating floods and more than 30 years of conflict, leading to a record number of displacements this year, with more than a million people fleeing their homes in just 130 days. This brings the total number of internally displaced people to nearly four million, which is close to a quarter of the country’s population. In desperation, some mothers are poisoning their babies with detergent and salty water to trigger illnesses and thus receive free food from health centers. This food, instead of being given to the sick child, is sold to provide for the whole family. Source
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Home weather stations - what's the weather like where you are?
I've been idly browsing for a home weather station for a while, hoping to contribute to the local sensor network for a region that's got lots of microclimate variation. I saw this one from Seeed...
I've been idly browsing for a home weather station for a while, hoping to contribute to the local sensor network for a region that's got lots of microclimate variation. I saw this one from Seeed Studio today, and was hoping for some reviews and advice. Seeed Studio devices are known for open source software, and I wouldn't mind playing with writing a tie-in for sprinkler system automation so we're not irrigating when it's about to rain. It wouldn't be situated so far from the house that we'd need to use the LoRaWAN feature, though.
Concurrently, we just had an inch of rain dropped on our house in the space of 15 minutes, with winds that were taking down tree branches. The weather report says "light rain", weather stations a mile away continue to indicate that everything is bone dry with quiet air. This rainstorm breaks a nearly month-long drought. I'm finding it nerve-wracking that climate change makes it impossible to use past local weather as a predictor of what to expect for gardening, home maintenance, and outdoor activities, and local weather reports are so inaccurate. So that's (hopefully) where the weather station might come into play.
That being said, any chat about your local conditions and reporting from your station is welcome.
21 votes -
World Meteorological Organization says Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world
11 votes -
Green energy is cheaper... so why aren't we using it?
24 votes -
What the hell happened to the California of the ’50s and ’60s?
12 votes -
Gas and propane combustion from stoves emits benzene and increases indoor air pollution
25 votes -
Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end
19 votes -
Rampant groundwater pumping has changed the tilt of Earth’s axis
34 votes -
Harnessing Iceland's geothermal energy for agriculture | Focus on Europe
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Seas of grass may be dark horse candidate to fuel the planet — or not
4 votes -
ERCOT will tap reserve power faster under system launched this week
9 votes -
Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining – growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel
10 votes -
The crop that’s sucking the Colorado River dry: Hay swallows triple the water used by everyone in the region to shower, water lawns, and do laundry
34 votes -
Finland is on the verge of becoming the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for the long term
12 votes -
Landmark ‘kids’ climate trial begins: how science will take the stand
13 votes -
‘Don’t Look Up’ director Adam McKay wants to win the climate information war — with memes
16 votes -
Geoengineering is shockingly inexpensive
15 votes -
Three more glaciers gone from Mount Rainier, scientist reports
35 votes -
Japan to invest $107 billion in hydrogen supply over fifteen years
24 votes -
The Huussi toilet in Finland's pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale disposes of waste without any water
7 votes -
Australian governments impose recycling rules after the packaging industry fails on waste
7 votes -
Greta Thunberg: ‘School strike week 251. Today, I graduate from school, which means I'll no longer be able to school strike for the climate’
@Greta Thunberg: School strike week 251. Today, I graduate from school, which means I'll no longer be able to school strike for the climate. This is then the last school strike for me, so I guess I have to write something on this day.Thread🧵 pic.twitter.com/KX8hHFDyNG
21 votes -
Smoke from Canadian wildfires engulfs East Coast, upending daily life
39 votes -
Finland's vast network of tunnels 400m underground will soon begin operating as the world's first spent nuclear fuel disposal facility
9 votes -
How Big Beef is fueling the Amazon's destruction
10 votes -
Phoenix area can’t meet groundwater demands over next century
10 votes -
We’re about to kill a massive, accidental experiment in reducing global warming (2018)
15 votes -
Europe has lost over half a billion birds in forty years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers
18 votes -
Respect existence or expect resistance – protests in Norway against wind farm on Sámi land
3 votes -
Rock flour produced by the grinding under Greenland's glaciers can trap climate-heating carbon dioxide when spread on farm fields
5 votes -
How Iceland became a geothermal powerhouse
5 votes -
How US Supreme Court’s EPA ruling might affect wetlands, clean water
5 votes -
Why do car companies keep so many bees?
5 votes -
The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue
5 votes -
The little-known unintended consequence of recycling plastics
15 votes -
Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
12 votes -
Nearly half of every pineapple you eat ends up in the trash. But now, companies across the globe are turning the inedible parts of the fruit into textiles, plates, soap, and more. | World Wide Waste
8 votes -
Denmark is getting off fossil fuels. Are there lessons for Canada?
5 votes -
Norway under pressure to scale back fossil fuel expansion plans – campaigners say development of huge Rosebank field in North Sea would drive climate breakdown
2 votes -
Iceland is a strange place to plant trees, but for us it is one of the most logical places to try and bring back forests
7 votes -
$25 million has been allocated to transfer more bison from federal to tribal lands and forge management agreements with tribes
5 votes -
Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a huge hole at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple of years
4 votes -
Westinghouse unveils small modular nuclear reactor
7 votes -
There is no climate tipping point
6 votes