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Fertilizer plants emit 100 times more methane than reported

Emissions of methane from the industrial sector have been vastly underestimated, researchers have found.

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Apparently parts of European internet traffic were routed via China for about two hours yesterday:

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/06/07/large-european-routing-leak-sends-traffic-through-china-telecom/

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The Census Adds the Citizenship Question

The Supreme Court is ruling on whether or not it’ll be included – and the consequences could be massive.

A Sporting Chance

The Trump administrationis expanding hunting and fishing rights in wildlife refuges.

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Jay Inslee Says He May Defy the DNC on a Climate Change Debate

Washington Governor Jay Inslee says he won’t rule out participating in a primary debate on climate change, a move that—if he followed through—could risk his being barred from participating in the formal Democratic National Committee’s sponsored debates.  “I cannot rule out any other debate that would highlight both the necessity of defeating the climate crisis and calling […]

Nobody Is Defending Phrenology Today

This popped into my Twitter timeline via Cory Doctorow: When I teach about phrenology in the context of racist Victorian justifications for colonization, students often stare at me as though I’ve lost it, certain that no one could ever have been that stupid. Turns out people are still that stupid today. https://t.co/5YLsJsy28E — Laura Seay […]

Did You Get a Text Inviting You to a Picket Line? It Might Be from Bernie Sanders.

As graduate student workers at the University of Chicago began a three-day work stoppage this week to demand union recognition, Sen. Bernie Sanders—one of the university’s most notable alumni—called on his army of supporters to join their picket lines through an email and text message blast.

New study identifies molecular aging 'midlife crisis'

Research provides a possible new reason why human disease burden increases so sharply from the sixth decade of life onward as health-protective mechanisms disappear.

Climate Change Is Our Generation's Chernobyl Moment to Tell the Truth
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Alzheimer's disease protein links plaques to cell death in mice

A new protein involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been identified by researchers. CAPON may facilitate the connection between the two most well-known AD culprits, amyloid plaques and tau pathology, whose interactions cause brain cell death and symptoms of dementia.

New findings on Earth's magnetic field

The well-known sources of the magnetic field that surrounds Earth are the deep inside core and Earth's crust. Earth's mantle, on the other hand, has been considered to be 'magnetically dead' for the most part. Now researchers show that a form of iron oxide can also retain its magnetic properties in Earth's mantle.

Outrageous raids on journalists in Australia and elsewhere threaten press freedom

Police entering ABC offices in Sydney

Australian authorities raided the home and electronic devices of journalist Annika Smethurst on Tuesday, and the headquarters of ABC News in Sydney on Wednesday. These incidents are the latest in a string of instances — in no way limited to Australia — of government targeting of journalists for their reporting.
Governments raiding journalists’ homes, newsrooms, and poring through their electronic devices not only endangers their confidential sources, but also threatens to make normal newsgathering activities a dangerous — or even criminal — activity.
The warrant for the raid on ABC — which even allows police to modify material on the newsroom computers — relates to the outlet’s 2017 reporting on unlawful killings by Australian special forces in Afghanistan, which was based on leaked Australian defense department documents. And Smethurst authored an explosive story last year that exposed secret government surveillance operations of the Australian public. But although authorities quickly dismissed her report as “nonsense," police opened a leak investigation.
The Australian Federal Police confirmed in a statement that the warrant for the raid on Smethurt’s home and devices “relates to the alleged publishing of information classified as an official secret, which is an extremely serious matter that has the potential to undermine Australia’s national security.”
Reporters obtain, publish, and report on confidential government information all the time. The public’s right to know would be severely inhibited if the press could only publish news that the government decides is not “secret.” In countries around the world, government documents are also frequently over-classified even when the information they contain is in the public interest, and not harmful to national security at all. Government claims that harm would result from unauthorized disclosures are often exaggerated to justify targeting the whistleblowers and journalists who expose them.
Sadly, similar incidents have cropped up in several other western countries, who claim to value press freedom, in recent weeks.
In France, journalists are facing up to five years in prison and a €75,000 ($84,000) fine for their handling of secret government documents. Their groundbreaking reporting revealed huge amounts of French, British, and American military equipment that was sold and then used in the war in Yemen. The journalists are accused of “compromising the secrecy of national defense” just for handling classified documents at all.
Here in the United States, San Francisco police recently raided the home of an independent reporter as part of an investigation into his source of a police report. And in what is perhaps the most significant and fundamental threat to press freedom in the 21st century, the Trump administration has charged WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange under the Espionage Act for obtaining and publishing classified government information related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Recent legislative efforts threaten to further endanger both journalists and their sources. Last year, Australia introduced new sweeping espionage laws that exacerbated penalties for whistleblowers — to potentially face 25 years, or even life in prison, for leaks.
In the United States, the Justice Department has vowed to revise the agency’s internal guidelines for surveilling and subpoenaing journalists. The Trump administration is currently on pace to shatter the record for the most prosecutions of journalistic sources, held by the Obama administration. And while not a legislative change, charging a publisher under the Espionage Act for publishing secret information is an unprecedented use of that law, and it could be weaponized against other journalists in the future if allowed to stand.
The targeting of journalists and newsrooms for reporting on secret government information in the public interest is a problem that is only getting worse. It is far from unique to Australia or France or the United States, but if these countries — which hold themselves up as bastions of democracy and press freedom — engage in these violations of core liberties, other governments will be empowered to do even worse, and journalists in every corner of the world will face the consequences.

Diabetics exposed to common household chemicals have lower heart disease rates, study finds

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deemed exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances -- a class of chemicals used in cookware, cleaning products and paint -- a public health concern. But new research explores how exposure to PFAS may be linked to lower heart disease rates in diabetic adults.

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Alabama Banned Abortions. Then Its Lawmakers Remembered Rapists Can Get Parental Rights.

A few months after Jessica Stallings’ 13th birthday, her uncle raped her for the first time. He was 20 years old, and he lived with Stallings and her mother in their Alabama home. He kept raping her, she claimed in court documents, and by the time she was 19, she had three children from the […]