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Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't

Hacker News Top · 15h ago Cached

The article recounts the 2013 debut of the first lab-grown burger and examines the subsequent growth and challenges in the cellular agriculture industry, questioning its potential to revolutionize food production.

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Rivian’s R2 beat its own climate goals four years early

The Verge · yesterday Cached

Rivian's R2 vehicle achieved a 50% reduction in lifetime carbon emissions compared to its R1 models, meeting its climate goal four years early through sustainable materials and efficiency improvements.

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Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

Wired · 4d ago Cached

New research reveals that tiny hairs (cilia) help corals breathe by generating water vortices, but warming oceans may cause them to malfunction, leading to suffocation and potential coral die-offs.

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It Still Feels Like Summer in Parts of the US. Blame El Niño

Wired · 6d ago Cached

Prolonged summer-like temperatures in the US are attributed to El Niño and climate change, with forecasters predicting above-normal heat through September.

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Al Gore says the real AI risk isn’t data centers — it’s what industry leaders are warning about

TechCrunch AI · 2026-09-16 Cached

Al Gore argues that the real AI risk isn't data center emissions but warnings from industry leaders about job losses and societal threats, advocating for renewable energy adoption.

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Why It Seems Like Great White Sharks Are Overrunning Maine

Wired · 2026-09-16 Cached

This article explains the increase in great white shark sightings off Maine's coast, highlighting how conservation efforts and acoustic telemetry technology for tracking have contributed, rather than climate change alone.

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What if superintelligent AI decides the billionaires are the problem?

Reddit r/singularity · 2026-09-15

The article explores a hypothetical scenario where a superintelligent AI, created by tech billionaires, might target the very billionaires who created it to address global threats like climate change and inequality, seeing them as risks to its own survival.

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Land Art as a Big-Data Climate Sensor

arXiv cs.LG · 2026-09-15 Cached

This paper uses 1,744 Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite images of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty to compute multi-feature complexity signatures, revealing that image complexity acts as a leading indicator of lake elevation and climate metrics over 40 years.

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@Solaawodiya: I don't blame him. This sounds like Climate Change 2.0

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-09-14 Cached

A Twitter user comments that President Trump's dismissal of AI existential risks as a hoax is reminiscent of climate change denial, based on a quote from MTS.

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Automated Detection and Structuring of Social Tipping Point Evidence in Climate related Documents: A Modular AI Framework

arXiv cs.CL · 2026-09-14 Cached

This paper introduces an open modular transformer-based framework for detecting and structuring social tipping point evidence in climate documents, utilizing models like DistilBERT, RoBERTa, Mistral 7B, and LLaMA 3.2 3B, with evaluation on expert-labeled benchmarks.

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AI models don't kill people – people kill people

Hacker News Top · 2026-09-13 Cached

The article argues that AI models themselves are not the primary threat; responsibility lies with companies deploying them. It discusses existential AI risk concerns from Anthropic researchers but contrasts these with other human-caused dangers like climate change.

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Global Glacier Extinction Explorer

Hacker News Top · 2026-09-11 Cached

This study shifts focus to individual glacier extinction, using multiple climate models to predict disappearance years under various warming scenarios, with results presented via an interactive web application.

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August 2026 Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded: Copernicus Data

Wired · 2026-09-10 Cached

August 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Copernicus data, highlighting the impacts of climate change and El Niño on global temperatures.

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This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

MIT Technology Review · 2026-09-10 Cached

A nonprofit named Reflective has published a roadmap outlining the experiments, studies, and infrastructure needed to make informed decisions about deploying solar geoengineering, specifically stratospheric aerosol injection, to address climate change.

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@GoogleDeepMind: From tracking hurricanes to optimizing renewable energy grids, @PeterWBattaglia and @fryrsquared explore how WeatherNex…

X AI KOLs · 2026-09-09 Cached

In this podcast episode, Peter Battaglia and Fry explore WeatherNext 3, an AI model for weather forecasting, discussing its applications in hurricane tracking and renewable energy grid optimization, along with probabilistic forecasting and future outlooks.

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Google Tests AI-Powered Contrail Avoidance on Long-Haul Flights (1 minute read)

TLDR AI · 2026-09-08 Cached

Google is testing AI-powered contrail avoidance in partnership with Cathay Pacific to reduce the climate impact of flights in Asia-Pacific, achieving an estimated 40% reduction in contrail warming impact during initial trials.

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The 2026 El Niño Is Being ‘Supersized’ as Impacts Worsen

Wired · 2026-09-03 Cached

The World Meteorological Organization has issued an unprecedented forecast for a 'supersized' El Niño in 2026, with nearly 100% certainty of its persistence, potentially making it the strongest on record and causing global extreme weather and record temperatures.

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Tim Cook did alright by the environment — but AI could upend his climate legacy

The Verge · 2026-09-01 Cached

Tim Cook leaves a positive environmental record at Apple, but the energy demands of AI pose a threat to the company's climate goals set during his leadership.

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El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

Ars Technica · 2026-08-31 Cached

A study reconstructs El Niño's history over the past millennium using fossilized coral records, revealing that recent events are stronger than any in the last 1,000 years due to global warming.

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Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-30 Cached

Extreme drought in Europe is leading to desertification and threatening ecosystems and industries, with fish farming suffering severe economic losses due to water shortages and high temperatures.

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