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Aviation emissions' impacts on air quality larger than on climate, study finds

New research has quantified the climate and air quality impacts of aviation, broken down by emission type, altitude and location. The team found that growth in aviation causes twice as much damage to air quality as to the climate.

Cheerios Picket Line Averted: After Strike Threat, General Mills Workers Win Tentative Agreement

On Friday, over 500 workers narrowly avoided a strike at General Mills’ production facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Australia's Terrifying Bushfires Remind Us Climate Change Is Here
https://earther.gizmodo.com/australias-terrifying-bushfires-remind-us-climate-chang-1839718885 #climatechange #climatecrisis

I suspect that Mastodon is going to be under attack any time soon. We better be ready and defend the users that need and deserve defending

Golden Sunset

Nationalist political party Golden Dawn is on trial in Greece for inciting fascist violence. Other countries with a dangerous far-right should be taking notes.

These Boots Were Made For Lickin’

Why are we defending billionaires again?

Pesticide management is failing Australian and Great Barrier Reef waterways

Scientists say a failure of Australian management means excessive amounts of harmful chemicals -- many now banned in countries such as the EU, USA and Canada -- are damaging the country's waterways and the Great Barrier Reef.

Study: Actually, potted plants don't improve indoor air quality

Plants can help spruce up a home or office space, but claims about their ability to improve the air quality are vastly overstated, according to new research. A closer look at decades of research suggesting that potted plants can improve the air in homes and offices reveals that natural ventilation far outpaces plants when it comes to cleaning the air.

Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will be marching towards extinction

Emperor penguins are some of the most striking and charismatic animals on Earth, but a new study has found that a warming climate may render them extinct by the end of this century.

UK needs to act to prevent electric vehicle battery waste mountain

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study.

Stressed to the max? Deep sleep can rewire the anxious brain

Researchers have found that the type of sleep most apt to calm and reset the anxious brain is deep sleep, also known as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) slow-wave sleep, a state in which neural oscillations become highly synchronized, and heart rates and blood pressure drop.

How hot (and not-so-hot) compounds in chili peppers change during ripening

Anyone who has tasted a hot chili pepper has felt the burn of capsaicinoids, the compounds that give peppers their spiciness, as well as possible health benefits. Related pepper compounds, called capsinoids, have similar properties, minus the heat, so they are attractive as potential functional food ingredients and supplements. Now, researchers have measured amounts of both compounds in three types of chili peppers as they ripen.

Pharmacy in the jungle study reveals indigenous people's choice of medicinal plants

In one of the most diverse studies of the non-random medicinal plants selection by gender, age and exposure to outside influences from working with ecotourism projects, researchers worked with the Kichwa communities of Chichico Rumi and Kamak Maki in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They discovered a novel method to uncover the intracultural heterogeneity of traditional knowledge while testing the non-random selection of medicinal plants and exploring overuse and underuse of medicinal plant families in these communities.

Go with the flow: Scientists design new grid batteries for renewable energy

Scientists have designed an affordable 'flow battery' membrane that could accelerate renewable energy for the electrical grid.

The #radicale project (selfhosting carddav/caldav solution) is currently looking for some new core maintainers.

If you would like to work on an awesome #opensource project and (in best case) you are familar with #python please join us.

https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/issues/997

Please re-toot and share it in your community if you want to help.

The Real America

Join us as we take a journey to the HEARTLAND to talk to some REAL voters!

Facebook's 2020 Election Plan Is What George Orwell Warned Us About

With its 2020 election policy, Facebook is shaping up to be the Big Brother George Orwell warned you about in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

https://www.ccn.com/is-facebooks-2020-election-plan-orwellian/ #DeleteFacebook

Solar and wind energy preserve groundwater for drought, agriculture
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191106083624.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis

Why is Australia trying to shut down climate activists?

A surge of climate activism is flooding Australia as the country falls behind on its promise to reduce emissions — effectively ignoring the Paris Agreement the Trump administration just abandoned. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is arguing that the government should outlaw “indulgent and selfish” efforts by environmental groups to rattle businesses with rallies and boycotts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/world/australia/australia-climate-protests-coal.html #climatechange #climatecrisis

Started training a bot that tries to analyze and identify hate-speech on Twitter.

A few things became quite apparent after only a few days:

1. There are huge networks of (seemingly) fake accounts that like and retweet each other's posts. Someone is operating this at a _massive_ scale.

2. Reporting and banning fake accounts seems futile. You're fighting a hydra that spawns new accounts quicker than one can report them.

3. I'm feeling sick to my stomach just browsing through the logs.