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2023-11-29 @ 7.18.19 ∈ In English
Rubbish bins designed with children’s drawings rejected by residents
The orange bin collected more than 2 kilograms of litter on average, while the gray one collected 1.5 kilograms, but the one with children's drawings only collected 0.5 kilograms. Therefore, the orange bin was four times more effective than the one with children's drawings.
2023-11-24 @ 10.26.38 ∈ In English
Moth found in West London is a new species from Australia
In 2021 an amateur moth-er living in Ealing, West London, opened her moth trap to find something she didn’t recognise. […] Detailed analysis of the moth, including both morphology and DNA, revealed that the insect was indeed a new species to science, but one that is native to Western Australia rather than Ealing.
2023-11-23 @ 17.06.38 ∈ In English
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Azolla event - Wikipedia
As [blooms of the fern] died and sank to the stagnant sea floor, they were incorporated into the [sediment]; the resulting draw-down of carbon dioxide has been speculated to have helped reverse the planet from the "greenhouse Earth" state of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal [Maximum] to the current icehouse Earth known as the Late Cenozoic Ice Age.
2023-11-22 @ 18.49.07 ∈ In English
Green mamba alert continues in Tilburg after escape - DutchNews.nl
A highly poisonous green mamba which escaped from its enclosure at a home in Tilburg on Monday still hasn’t been found, local council officials have said. The council is calling on people not to approach the snake if they spot it, or try to catch it, as its bite can be lethal.
2023-11-20 @ 18.46.12 ∈ In English
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
[Electric bikes and mopeds are] displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present, due to their staggering uptake in China and other nations where mopeds are a common form of transport.
2023-11-20 @ 16.33.07 ∈ In English
Opinion | I’m a Climate Scientist. I’m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore.
Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft. And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this.
2023-11-18 @ 13.58.40 ∈ In English
Dogs are coming down with an unusual respiratory illness in several US states
Veterinary laboratories in several states are investigating an unusual respiratory illness in dogs, and encouraging people to take basic precautions to keep their pets healthy as veterinarians try to pin down what’s making the animals sick.
