Climate change causing albatross divorce according to a new study, as reported by Manish Pandey for BBC News. Environmental variability directly affects the prevalence of divorce in monogamous albatrosses by Francesco Ventura, et al.
“Hazelnuts were from before.”
Vivid imagery about the future of our relationship with ecological surroundings in these three melancholy speculative stories. “The Wild Inside” by Angela Penrose: “We had to close up another building that day—bolt the doors shut, board over the window…
Taking to the Skies
Bike trials legend Danny MacAskill (previously, previouslier) visits a wind turbine factory, while content creator Danny MacAskill shows the youths how much energy is generated by renewable sources.
“You ever see that movie Mad Max? Yeah, that was kinda like us.”
The Intersection is a short film (YouTube, 16:25) (also Vimeo) that journeys from a violent present to a cooperative future. Commissioned by the Omidyar Network, produced by Superflux, screenplay by Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail.
“The quiet of the aftermath pressed down on us”
Two scifi stories about people finding tendrils of human connection while confronting modern grief. “A Glut of Nothing, and Yet… Something” by Monte Lin: “”The Singularity had come, but not the one people wanted…. the Glut: a grayed-out area that e…
A wasp inside a wasp inside a butterfly
“The reintroduction of endangered species comes from the heart, a good place, but we have a lot to learn about the species we are reintroducing and the habitat where we want to reintroduce them before we do so…”Butterflies released in Finland contain…
dejaqueveas / waitilyousee
Eleven Poetry Recommendations for Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month. To highlight just three… Raquel Salas Rivera reads “dejaqueveas / waitilyousee.” Valerie Martínez reads from the just published Count, a book-length poem on the heartbreaking reali…
Scottish nightclub to generate power from dancers’ body heat
The venue will save an estimated 70 tonnes of carbon per year
It’s spooky season for the Biden agenda
High drama on Capitol Hill this week as the slim Democratic majority struggles over President Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan. On one side: the $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF!), exhaustively hashed out this summer by a cross-part…
Let them eat chipboard
Deadwood Releasing 10.9 Gigatons of Carbon Every Year – More Than All Fossil Fuel Emissions Combined See also
The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition
Diseased Trees May Be a Significant Source of Methane that Causes Clima…