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The city of Harbin, China has started offering 10,000 yuan ($1,570 U.S.) to anyone who proactively comes forward to report their own covid-19 symptoms or a positive test, according to the South China Morning Post and Chinese state media....Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
He became a household name in the 90s, then disappeared from view. But he never stopped protesting. Now the man known as the human mole is busier than ever Dan works in forestry. Clare is a school counsellor. Recently, they took their...Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
The proportion of drivers in New South Wales illegally using their mobile phones has dropped fivefold since AI cameras began catching offendersWednesday, December 8, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
The long, dense texts we all agree to when shopping online are incomprehensible to the average person, but now an artificial intelligence can highlight the important bits for youWednesday, December 8, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Charity warns of ‘catastrophic’ increase in tree and plant disease because of climate breakdown At least 30,000 ash trees are due to be felled by the National Trust this year at a cost of £3m due to dieback, as the charity warns of a...Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Jake Fiennes is putting wildlife back into the farmed landscape, showing how nature can be at the heart of post-Brexit reforms From the driver’s seat of his pickup truck, Jake Fiennes points to the dark green strips of grass that betray...Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
WE GOT RID OF ONE SNAKE LAST YEAR AND NOW HERE IS ANOTHER WHAT IS GOING ON?! Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise...Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
They are Britain’s largest bird and, flying overhead, Theroux described them as sounding like ‘a couple making love in a hammock’ The mute swan is not so much a bird, more of a national treasure: the avian equivalent of Sir David...Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
From whoops to purrs, snaps to grunts, and foghorns to laughs, a cacophony of bizarre fish songs have shown that a coral reef in Indonesia has returned rapidly to health. Many of the noises had never been recorded before and...Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Vibrant soundscape shows Indonesian reef devastated by blast fishing is returning to health From whoops to purrs, snaps to grunts, and foghorns to laughs, a cacophony of bizarre fish songs have shown that a coral reef in Indonesia has...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Police in Oregon are trying to solve some recent fatal poisonings among the already-fragile gray wolf population. Authorities believe that at least eight wolves have been killed by poison this year, including five from a single pack....Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Tesla has gained its fair share of interest from regulators and safety advocates in recent months over the fraught deployment of its “Full Self Driving” beta system, but it has so far managed to largely avoid scrutiny over its decision...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
In warm weather, zebra finches sing heat calls to their unborn offspring, and this programs the nestlings to produce less heat inside their cellsTuesday, December 7, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
A year ago today, Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial. 12 months and billions of shots later, several countries are already on a third round of...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
After a recent screening of Don’t Look Up , the new Netflix original from writer/director Adam McKay , star Leonardo DiCaprio explained why he did this film. DiCaprio has long been an advocate for the environment and, for years, had been...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
As first reported by Axios , a collective of some 200 newspapers are currently suing Google and Facebook, alleging that the tech giants have unfairly manipulated the advertising market in ways that directly damage their publications....Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
A law intended to tackle anonymous trolls on social media is unlikely to stop online bullying, but it could allow Australian government ministers to continue a trend of suing their criticsTuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
For years now, reports have emerged of Myanmar’s military using Facebook as a key tool in its ongoing slaughter of the country’s Muslim Rohingya population. Investigations have found the platform’s been openly used to incite vicious...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Environmental Policy News -- ScienceDaily
While the Clean Water Act successfully regulated many obvious causes of pollution, such as the dumping of wastewater, it's done less to limit more diffuse types of pollution, such as 'nonpoint source pollution' that includes agricultural...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
People who regularly use cannabis may be more prone to sleep problems, new research suggests. The observational study found that self-described cannabis users were more likely to report trouble getting the optimal amount of sleep, both...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Activist investor Elliott Management is right – if SSE wants to be the UK renewables champion it needs green heavyweights on board Elliott Management’s open letters are improving. When the US activist hedge fund tried to take a pop at...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
You saw the new Dune movie. You loved the new Dune movie. You want to know what happens next . In this scenario, you probably think you have two options. One: wait until 2023 to see the next movie . Two: pick up Frank Herbert’s legendary...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Fifth Element cosplayer Elon Musk would like the government to knock it off with the whole trying to pass climate legislation thing. His beef with the Build Back Better Act? Among other things, subsidies for electric vehicles. Thus, Musk...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
In a big reshuffle, Samsung announced on Tuesday plans to merge its mobile and consumer electronics divisions in an effort to consolidate its structure to focus on chip production. Read more...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Those fans who have been patiently awaiting the long-anticipated crossover between Riverdale and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina need to wait no longer. Tonight’s episode will finally see Keirnan Shirpka’s teenage witch meeting her...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Dark matter is the invisible something that gloms together galaxies like cosmic duct tape. But a team of researchers say they’ve found a distant galaxy entirely devoid of dark matter, a finding that could shake up understandings of both...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the engine that powers many of the internet’s most-trafficked websites and apps, appears to be experiencing a widespread outage that is bringing down several popular services. Read more...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Way back in the early 1980s, Star Wars put movie-themed action figures on the map. The toys were so successful, they basically created a whole new industry, and to this day, the link between Star Wars and toys remains one of the...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Hawaii has been home to the wildest weather in the U.S. The island chain saw rare blizzard warnings as a powerful storm system moved across the island chain over the weekend and into the early part of the week. Read more...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
In 1479 beetles were put on trial for ‘creeping secretly in the earth’ If you hold a Christmas beetle – small, brown, mechanical – in the palm of your hand, it moves as though under a spell. The spell commands it to keep walking, to...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Wearing protective suits to guard against toxic chemicals, a small team of mission specialists has completed the 10-day fueling of the upcoming Webb space telescope. For what seems like the first time ever, the long-delayed mission is...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Between The Amazing Spider-Man 2 's so-so plot and unwieldy embarrassment of characters, it’s surprisingly easy to find one’s self unable to recall many of the movie’s finer details . But there’s no way of seeing the 2014 film...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
At higher latitudes, traditional GPS navigation is not reliable, but muons produced when cosmic rays hit Earth’s atmosphere could be used to navigate in the Arctic, as well as underground or in the waterTuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Wireless earbuds could soon be small enough to be completely unnoticeable when worn thanks to a new design for a microspeaker made entirely from silicon. This approach replaces traditional speaker designs relying on magnets and moving...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
A series of extraordinary superspreader events at festive celebrations across Europe suggests the omicron coronavirus variant dramatically increases the risk of being infected at social eventsTuesday, December 7, 2021 from Daily Express :: Nature Feed
NEARLY all children in the UK are exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution outside school, an investigation by the Daily Express can reveal.Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
A monolithic data storage site and art installation called “Earth’s Black Box” is slated for construction in Australia. Akin to a flight recorder, the device is meant to chronicle Earth’s journey toward environmental destruction, but it...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
Rocks that formed in a swamp in what is now Spain 110 million years ago contain both dinosaur bones and amber rich in invertebrate fossilsTuesday, December 7, 2021 from Carbon Brief
Peatlands cover just 3% of the world’s land area, but store twice as much carbon... The post Guest post: Are the world’s peatlands better protected after COP26? appeared first on Carbon Brief .Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
How will we interact with devices in the future? Some believe we’ll use our voices for everything, while others assume our eyes will be able to navigate complicated UIs on smart glasses. Prelonic Technologies foresees an entirely...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
President Joe Biden has pitched himself as a presidential version of Captain Planet . His campaign climate plan included “banning new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.” But a new report shows he’s approving fossil fuel...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Of course a third Venom movie is on the way. New Spider-Man: No Way Home footage gives a better glimpse at its multiversal menaces. A former Power Ranger heads behind the camera on Superman & Lois to give us a look at Clark’s updated...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
The travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has published its annual northern lights photographer of the year collection with stunning images from 25 photographers. Coinciding with the northern lights season at the end of the year, it...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
I’m a huge Tamagotchi fan ( Exhibit A , B , and C ), but after a week with the R2-D2 Tamagotchi, I realize I just spent $20 on something too extreme even for me. Read more...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
The reliability of early-stage cancer biology research is called into question by an investigation that concludes more than half of experimental results can’t be replicated by independent scientistsTuesday, December 7, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Food and Agriculture Organization says most plastics are burned, buried or lost after use The “disastrous” way in which plastic is used in farming across the world is threatening food safety and potentially human health, according to a...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
Google Maps continues to get new features and updates more often than you’d think, and if you haven’t been paying attention, you might have missed a number of changes that can make getting around a lot easier. Read more...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from Earther
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked the idea of mailing out free covid-19 tests to every American household on Monday, in just the latest sign that President Joe Biden’s lack of imagination is making the pandemic worse. Read...Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemicTuesday, December 7, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Leaders say Adani Group, a major operator of coal mines, is responsible for land destruction Indigenous leaders on the frontline of the climate crisis are calling on the Science Museum to cancel its sponsorship deal with a company they...