Arbma Cip
@arbmacip.bsky.social
Environment, water, climate change, microbio, food and energy
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Data centers popping up on Indigenous lands everywhere, but especially perilous to us desert tribes where water availability for crops and for communities have new competition.
The data center boom in the desert
The AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world's largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state.
www.technologyreview.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Data centers popping up on Indigenous lands everywhere, but especially perilous to us desert tribes where water availability for crops and for communities have new competition.
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"The Trump administration is claiming that they're doing this to help save costs for the American family, but they’re really only focused on the cost savings to the regulated entities [corporations/polluters].”
www.eenews.net/articles/thi...
www.eenews.net/articles/thi...
Think tank flips the script on Trump EPA’s economic analyses
The NYU School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity says the costs of deregulation far exceeds the benefits.
www.eenews.net
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"The Trump administration is claiming that they're doing this to help save costs for the American family, but they’re really only focused on the cost savings to the regulated entities [corporations/polluters].”
www.eenews.net/articles/thi...
www.eenews.net/articles/thi...
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I'm really glad renewable technology development doesn't depend on the COP negotiations.
Petrostates, fossil fuel companies, and their lackeys can sabotage diplomacy, but it's becoming increasingly transparent what they do is simply evil, while we will ditch fossil fuels anyway.
Petrostates, fossil fuel companies, and their lackeys can sabotage diplomacy, but it's becoming increasingly transparent what they do is simply evil, while we will ditch fossil fuels anyway.
COP30 BREAKING NEWS: The likely final text of the "global mutirão" has been published, ahead of the closing plenary
Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
unfccc.int/sites/def...
Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
unfccc.int/sites/def...
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I'm really glad renewable technology development doesn't depend on the COP negotiations.
Petrostates, fossil fuel companies, and their lackeys can sabotage diplomacy, but it's becoming increasingly transparent what they do is simply evil, while we will ditch fossil fuels anyway.
Petrostates, fossil fuel companies, and their lackeys can sabotage diplomacy, but it's becoming increasingly transparent what they do is simply evil, while we will ditch fossil fuels anyway.
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ScienceGuardians, Ghosts of Integrity
A group of anonymous activists has been working for nearly a year to
follow, or even legally threaten, detectives of scientific integrity.
Chronicles of an invisible war.
@lucileveissier.bsky.social for The MetaNews
themeta.news/les-scienceg...
A group of anonymous activists has been working for nearly a year to
follow, or even legally threaten, detectives of scientific integrity.
Chronicles of an invisible war.
@lucileveissier.bsky.social for The MetaNews
themeta.news/les-scienceg...
Les ScienceGuardians, fantômes de l’intégrité — TheMetaNews
Un groupe d’activistes anonymes s’emploie depuis près d’un an à suivre, voire à menacer juridiquement, les détectives de l’intégrité scientifique. Chroniques d’une guerre invisible.
themeta.news
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
ScienceGuardians, Ghosts of Integrity
A group of anonymous activists has been working for nearly a year to
follow, or even legally threaten, detectives of scientific integrity.
Chronicles of an invisible war.
@lucileveissier.bsky.social for The MetaNews
themeta.news/les-scienceg...
A group of anonymous activists has been working for nearly a year to
follow, or even legally threaten, detectives of scientific integrity.
Chronicles of an invisible war.
@lucileveissier.bsky.social for The MetaNews
themeta.news/les-scienceg...
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That countries want to be shielded from vulnerable dependence on e.g. China for their energy is understandable.
But the focus should not be on commodities like raw materials, solar panels, or battery cells, but on the energy management software (EMS) that steers these assets.
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But the focus should not be on commodities like raw materials, solar panels, or battery cells, but on the energy management software (EMS) that steers these assets.
🧵
**NEW CHINA SOLAR EXPANSION STORY**
China has doubled the export of solar cells+wafers to assemble abroad in the last several months.
It still exports about the same amount of solar panels.
In October - for the first time - it exported more cell+wafers than panels 🧵
China has doubled the export of solar cells+wafers to assemble abroad in the last several months.
It still exports about the same amount of solar panels.
In October - for the first time - it exported more cell+wafers than panels 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
That countries want to be shielded from vulnerable dependence on e.g. China for their energy is understandable.
But the focus should not be on commodities like raw materials, solar panels, or battery cells, but on the energy management software (EMS) that steers these assets.
🧵
But the focus should not be on commodities like raw materials, solar panels, or battery cells, but on the energy management software (EMS) that steers these assets.
🧵
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The talk starts with a video about PFAS (toxic chemicals) leakage from a chemical plant near Jervis Bay.
More background: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
Leading organizations did not use a lot of systematic reviews about environmental hazards.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMOS2025
More background: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
Leading organizations did not use a lot of systematic reviews about environmental hazards.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMOS2025
A review of methods used for hazard identification and risk assessment of environmental hazards
Approximately one quarter of all deaths globally are attributed to living or working in an unhealthy environment, with household and ambient air pollu…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The talk starts with a video about PFAS (toxic chemicals) leakage from a chemical plant near Jervis Bay.
More background: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
Leading organizations did not use a lot of systematic reviews about environmental hazards.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMOS2025
More background: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
Leading organizations did not use a lot of systematic reviews about environmental hazards.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMOS2025
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New online! Insights into terrestrial carbon and water cycling from the global eddy covariance network
Insights into terrestrial carbon and water cycling from the global eddy covariance network
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 20 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00743-1Long-term monitoring is essential to characterizing the responses of carbon and water fluxes to global environmental change drivers. This Review synthesizes the insights gained into these changes from a global flux tower network.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
New online! Insights into terrestrial carbon and water cycling from the global eddy covariance network
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OK, this is super cool. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Moss in space: spores survive nine-month ride on outside of ISS
Scientists say plant’s resilience suggests it could help with oxygen generation or soil formation on space missions
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
OK, this is super cool. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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“We need to start, now, to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, by at least 5% per year. This must happen in order to have a chance to avoid unmanageable & extremely costly climate impacts affecting all people in the world.” PIKs J. Rockström @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30: Scientists warn countries must act decisively to protect people and life or risk ‘suffering for billions’ – as it happened
As president Lula tries to find common ground between negotiating countries, planetary scientists say emissions must be urgently cut
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“We need to start, now, to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, by at least 5% per year. This must happen in order to have a chance to avoid unmanageable & extremely costly climate impacts affecting all people in the world.” PIKs J. Rockström @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Plastics without fossil fuels...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Chinese scientists make rubber and plastic without having to rely on fossil fuel
Iron-based catalyst found to enhance efficiency of alternate, more sustainable reaction
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Plastics without fossil fuels...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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This is what climate change looks like - more hot drought, more people going hungry.
reliefweb.int/report/somal...
reliefweb.int/report/somal...
Somalia: Only one in three people in need get food support as drought-induced hunger crisis worsens - Somalia
News and Press Release in English on Somalia about Food and Nutrition, Health and Drought; published on 19 Nov 2025 by Save the Children
reliefweb.int
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is what climate change looks like - more hot drought, more people going hungry.
reliefweb.int/report/somal...
reliefweb.int/report/somal...
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This is what climate change looks like - seriously threatened water supplies. Images from Iran look similar to those of the Colorado River in the US, now in 26th year of hot drought.
www.intellinews.com/iranian-dam-...
www.intellinews.com/iranian-dam-...
Iranian dam effectively shut down due to ongoing drought
Iran's Amir Kabir Dam, commonly known as the Karaj Dam, has reached its dead storage level, leaving no safe capacity for further water extraction, ...
www.intellinews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is what climate change looks like - seriously threatened water supplies. Images from Iran look similar to those of the Colorado River in the US, now in 26th year of hot drought.
www.intellinews.com/iranian-dam-...
www.intellinews.com/iranian-dam-...
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We've responded to the researchers in the journal where they published their original article. Here we raise further ethical concerns based on the verdict from the research integrity comittee. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We've responded to the researchers in the journal where they published their original article. Here we raise further ethical concerns based on the verdict from the research integrity comittee. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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Your daily reminder: Blockchain Capital, the VC fund that poured $15m into Bluesky, is also a major investor in this orb bullshit
Bluesky's technology needs to be made *actually* decentralised, to take power away from Bluesky's current owners
www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/bluesky...
Bluesky's technology needs to be made *actually* decentralised, to take power away from Bluesky's current owners
www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/bluesky...
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Your daily reminder: Blockchain Capital, the VC fund that poured $15m into Bluesky, is also a major investor in this orb bullshit
Bluesky's technology needs to be made *actually* decentralised, to take power away from Bluesky's current owners
www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/bluesky...
Bluesky's technology needs to be made *actually* decentralised, to take power away from Bluesky's current owners
www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/bluesky...
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In our new review in WIREs WATER, we synthesize knowledge on ecosystem (dis)services, multifunctionality, and trade‐offs in urban ponds and highlight garden ponds as a specific subtype that deserves more attention
🏙️🔵🏡
doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
@epcn.bsky.social
🏙️🔵🏡
doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
@epcn.bsky.social
Urban Ponds and the Emerging Role of Garden Ponds: Ecosystem Services and Disservices, Multifunctionality, and Trade‐Offs
Urban ponds and garden ponds—a specific subset of the former, usually located in private gardens—are both typical examples of ponds in the urban landscape. They deliver multiple ecosystem services bu...
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
In our new review in WIREs WATER, we synthesize knowledge on ecosystem (dis)services, multifunctionality, and trade‐offs in urban ponds and highlight garden ponds as a specific subtype that deserves more attention
🏙️🔵🏡
doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
@epcn.bsky.social
🏙️🔵🏡
doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
@epcn.bsky.social
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⚒️ Article: Extreme daily precipitation events over land could increase by 41% by 2100 with an increase in mesoscale moisture convergence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Future extreme precipitation amplified by intensified mesoscale moisture convergence - Nature Geoscience
Extreme daily precipitation events over land could increase by about 41% by 2100 under a high-emissions scenario with an increase in mesoscale moisture convergence, according to an ensemble of climate...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
⚒️ Article: Extreme daily precipitation events over land could increase by 41% by 2100 with an increase in mesoscale moisture convergence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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💙 Insieme per resistere – Sostieni l'edizione 2026 di Valigia Blu
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Il crowdfunding per sostenere l'edizione 2026 di Valigia Blu
In cammino per capire il mondo. Valigia Blu: basata sui fatti, aperta a tutti, sostenuta dai lettori.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
💙 Insieme per resistere – Sostieni l'edizione 2026 di Valigia Blu
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We recently published a report that serves as a warning to humanity that we are hurtling towards climate chaos. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM
We recently published a report that serves as a warning to humanity that we are hurtling towards climate chaos. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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Great news coming out of China!
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
China's diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand
China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Great news coming out of China!
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
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🚨🚨Elon #Musk is a real venom and a very dangerous person having the powers to completely subvert our informational space. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/holo...
www.politico.eu/article/holo...
French authorities probe Holocaust denial on Elon Musk’s AI platform
The League for Human Rights also announced it was filing a complaint.
www.politico.eu
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🚨🚨Elon #Musk is a real venom and a very dangerous person having the powers to completely subvert our informational space. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/holo...
www.politico.eu/article/holo...
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The three worst English harvests in order - 2020, 2025, 2024
One year's worth of bread has been lost in the last 5 years
Not hard to see how shortages and ultimately rationing will become evident as climate breakdown bites ever harder
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2553206...
One year's worth of bread has been lost in the last 5 years
Not hard to see how shortages and ultimately rationing will become evident as climate breakdown bites ever harder
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2553206...
Drought and heatwaves lead to second worst harvest on record, analysis shows
England has suffered its second worst harvest on record after a year of heatwaves and drought, according to ECIU analysis of Defra figures.
www.edp24.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The three worst English harvests in order - 2020, 2025, 2024
One year's worth of bread has been lost in the last 5 years
Not hard to see how shortages and ultimately rationing will become evident as climate breakdown bites ever harder
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2553206...
One year's worth of bread has been lost in the last 5 years
Not hard to see how shortages and ultimately rationing will become evident as climate breakdown bites ever harder
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2553206...
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‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
- by @readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- by @readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
One expert says he is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
- by @readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- by @readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"The impact was dramatic. Water use fell by more than 55% in under two years, from 1.2 billion liters per day to about 500 million.When rains finally returned in 2018, the reservoirs refilled. But the deeper lesson endured: transparent, collective action can shift behavior on a massive scale"
Can Tehran use the Cape Town model to escape a water crisis 'Day Zero'?
As Iran’s capital Tehran endures its worst water crisis in living memory, few recent global cases offer clearer lessons than Cape Town in South Africa in 2018.
www.iranintl.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"The impact was dramatic. Water use fell by more than 55% in under two years, from 1.2 billion liters per day to about 500 million.When rains finally returned in 2018, the reservoirs refilled. But the deeper lesson endured: transparent, collective action can shift behavior on a massive scale"
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French conspiracists Aberkane and Azalbert (and perhaps Raoult himself?) will be talking about me tonight.
What a tremendous honor! /s
HT: @lonnibesancon.bsky.social
What a tremendous honor! /s
HT: @lonnibesancon.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
French conspiracists Aberkane and Azalbert (and perhaps Raoult himself?) will be talking about me tonight.
What a tremendous honor! /s
HT: @lonnibesancon.bsky.social
What a tremendous honor! /s
HT: @lonnibesancon.bsky.social