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Mexico wipes out farm debts for tens of thousands of small producers. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government will forgive or restructure debts owed by small farmers, fishers and rural producers to Mexico’s former agricultural finance agency, clearing liabilities for 99.5% of debtors. Peoples Dispatch […]
A modified algae grabs microplastics out of water like a magnet. University of Missouri researchers engineered the algae to produce limonene (orange-scented oil) which makes it water-repellent and attractive to other water-repellent particles. Microplastics are water-repellent too, so they and […]
Just turned in final revisions on "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON"
It's going to exist at last, everyone!!! ❤️🔥
Big, deeply-built, intricate Norse myth fantasy.
Book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME"
Coming from Tor Books Summer 2027
The Ocean Census discovered 1,121 new species this year, pulled from depths down to 6,575 metres: highlights including a ghost shark, corals, crabs, and a bristle worm nesting inside the glassy skeleton of a sponge. https://oceancensus.org/
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A Tokyo team has a kidney treatment that’s helping cats live longer. Most mammals carry a blood protein, AIM, that works like a cleanup crew: when kidney cells die and clog the tubules, AIM flags the debris so other cells clear it. A cat’s AIM isn’t built to do this, which is part of why cats […]
The UN General Assembly just voted 141-8 to endorse last year’s landmark International Court of Justice climate opinion, which says countries violate international law if they fail to protect people from climate harm. The resolution is non-binding, but it calls for stronger national climate […]
Local organisations are reviving self-sufficient food systems on Hawai‘i. On O‘ahu, non-profit Paepae o He‘eia has spent 26 years restoring a traditional 600-year-old pond known as kuapa, removing invasive mangrove and rebuilding a 2.1 km wall so the kuapa can once again “give back to the sea.” […]
Europe removes 603 river barriers, setting a record for the fifth year running. Sweden led with 173 removals, while Iceland and North Macedonia joined the movement for the first time. Overall, Europe reconnected more than 3,740 km of rivers last year, but with 1.2 million barriers still […]
Egypt upgrades another 763 kilometres of railway. The $440 million RISE project is modernising the Alexandria–Cairo–Nag Hammadi line, upgrading 70 signalling towers and lifting train punctuality from 75% to 90%, with the busiest routes reaching 95%. For more than 1 million weekday passengers […]
Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer
British beavers stop underground station flooding. Until two years ago, West London’s Greenford Tube station used to flood whenever it rained heavily. Then the Ealing Beaver Project got a licence to resettle a family of five beavers in Paradise Fields, an urban-forested park near the Greenford […]
