"Socioeconomic factors are becoming 'biologically embedded' in children's brains. The analysis of more than 2,300 9- and 10-year-olds found that environmental factors ranging from household income to education to neighborhood quality are associated with brain differences"
www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...
The accelerating collapse of the Thwaites Glacier will redraw many maps.
#ClimateSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL3R...
"A lot of ‘recycled’ plastic... gets shipped overseas... to lower- and middle-income countries, where open burning is a common way of dealing with excess waste... The result... is pronounced increases in toxic air pollution."
theconversation.com/a-lot-of-rec...
This news should be read together with the news about a move to give political appointees more power over federal grants.
"NSF watchdog unit is no longer investigating research misconduct."
#AcademicSky
www.science.org/content/arti...
"The world must treat it as the urgent #climate warning it is. #ElNiño conditions will pour fuel on the fire of a warming world. Impacts will hit even harder, travel even farther, and cross borders with devastating speed.” - UN Secretary-General António Guterres
www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
Amnesty International:"Generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment..Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems"
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
"The United Nations has issued a stark warning, urging countries to confront the escalating environmental costs of artificial intelligence (AI) as its rapid expansion intensifies demands on energy, water, and carbon emissions."
www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-arti...
5 [+ 2] ways data centers endanger their local communities & the country as a whole
Air pollution
Water consumption & pollution
Noise pollution
Land use & community well-being
Rising energy costs
Mass surveillance
Loss of critical thinking due to AI overuse
theconversation.com/5-ways-data-...
Denial, which is at the core of our civilization, is not a survival strategy.
"Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is set to lose its ice shelf this year... compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises."
#ClimateSky
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
UN Report: #ClimateChange, #Pollution Push Oceans to Tipping Point.
#ClimateSky
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As more countries ban waste imports, plastic waste generators like the US will need to find better solutions. A few states are putting more responsibility on producers.
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
AI data centres are energy-hungry and resource-intensive, requiring huge amounts of electricity generation, cooling systems, land and water supplies
www.the-independent.com
Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.
theconversation.com
West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises.
