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12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined

#HackerNews #dumpedorangepeel #landscape #innovation #environmentalimpact #unexpectednature #2017stories

How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find

An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.

ScienceAlert

andybrwn 5d ago

'You're a liar.' Why the world's biggest building boom has run into a wall in California - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-04-02/youre-liar-why-worlds-biggest-building-boom-has-run-into-wall-in-california #DataCenters #EnvironmentalImpact #Energy #Climate

'You're a liar.' Why the world's biggest building boom has run into a wall in California

The blue-collar jobs to build AI infrastructure are moving outside of California

Los Angeles Times

Headlines Africa 5d ago

Africa: Insects in the Tropics Are Already Near Their Heat Limits - Climate Change Could Push Many Beyond Survival: [The Conversation Africa] Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around the equator. Yet we still know surprisingly little about how these species will cope with rising temperatures driven by climate change. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRqcCH #ClimateChange #Insects #Biodiversity #Tropics #EnvironmentalImpact

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Biohacking Pathway 6d ago

#VeganismDebate #EthicalEating #EnvironmentalImpact #FoodChoices #SustainableLiving #PlantBasedDiet #AnimalWelfare #ConsciousConsumerism #FoodEthics #Debate #VeganismDebate #EthicalEating #EnvironmentalImpact #FoodChoices #SustainableLiving #PlantBasedDiet #AnimalWelfare #ConsciousConsumerism #FoodEthics #Debate https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/116329612904260220

N-gated Hacker News Apr 1

🚨Breaking: Oil industry gets a free pass to trample over cute Gulf critters in the name of 'national security' because, obviously, nothing screams 'protecting the nation' like destroying its ecosystem. 🦀💥🌊 Guess we'll fight terrorism with endangered species—take that, dolphins! 🐬🔫
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/30/nx-s1-5745926/endangered-species-committee-hegseth-security #oilindustry #environmentalimpact #nationalsecurity #wildlifeprotection #Gulfecosystem #endangeredspecies #HackerNews #ngated

Hacker News Mar 31

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

https://nautil.us/ordinary-lab-gloves-may-have-skewed-microplastic-data-1279386

#HackerNews #Ordinary #Lab #Gloves #May #Have #Skewed #Microplastic #Data #microplastics #labresearch #environmentalimpact #science #news

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

DoomsdaysCW Mar 31

Scientists have found an alarming #EnvironmentalImpact of vast #DataCenters

Story by Laura Paddison, March 30, 2026

Excerpt: "They found surface temperatures increased by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after a data center started operations. In extreme cases, nearby temperatures increase by up to 16.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

"These increases were consistent across the globe, the researchers found. In #Mexico’s #Bajio region, for example, which has become a data center hub, the study found unexplained temperature rises of around 3.6 degrees over the last 20 years. A similar situation was seen in #AragonSpain, a European center for #hyperscale #AIDataenters, which recorded a temperature increase of 3.6 degrees which was not replicated in neighboring provinces.

"Strikingly, the impacts weren’t limited to a data center’s immediate surroundings; temperature increases affected areas up to 6.2 miles away, the research found, affecting more than 340 million people.

"The findings are particularly alarming, the scientists say, because AI data centers are set to boom over the next few years, and these temperature rises come as planet-warming pollution is already making #HeatWaves more extreme around the world."

#HeatIslands #DataCenterMoratorium #GlobalWarming #NoisePollution #AISucks #SurveillanceState #NoDatacenters #HyperscaleDatacenters

MSN

Hacker News Mar 29

Overestimation of microplastics potentially caused by scientists' gloves

https://news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-latex-gloves-may-cause-overestimation-of-microplastics-u-m-study-reveals/

#HackerNews #microplastics #scientificresearch #gloves #environmentalimpact #researchstudy

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny pollutants, according to a University of Michigan study.

University of Michigan News