COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms? Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.

COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How Iron-Air Batteries Could Dethrone Lithium Iron-air batteries—made from rust, water, and air—are entering real-world trials and could revolutionize energy storage by delivering cheap, safe, long-duration power.

This could be huge: How Iron-Air Batteries Could Dethrone Lithium share.google/xmagwGjCXA2y...

World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide

World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#oceans #ClimateEmergency

Abrupt Antarctic climate shifts could lead to "catastrophic consequences for generations," experts warn A new study warns that irreversible changes happening in Antarctica, which are caused by climate change, could cause global oceans to rise by meters.

"Global warming to date [...] is fast approaching a threshold that would cause part of the ice sheet to generate at least three meters of sea level rise, flooding coastal areas inhabited today by hundreds of millions, the study said." #ClimateEmergency

www.cbsnews.com/news/abrupt-...

NEW BLOG: When Paper Beats Pixels – A Bikepacking Lesson in Effective Technology Use www.communitysense.nl/when-paper-b... #EffectiveUse #AppropriateTechnlogy #LessIsMore

'You Cannot Destroy a People Without First Destroying Their Healers': Israel’s War on Gaza's Medical System Palestinian health workers face a grim choice: serve and be targeted, or flee and abandon your patients to die.

The other hostage crisis, supported by our tax dollars & euros zeteo.com/p/israel-war... #GazaGenocide

Record marine heatwaves may signal a permanent shift in the oceans Fierce marine heatwaves were recorded globally in 2023 and 2024, and some researchers now believe they mark the start of a fundamental change with devastating consequences for life on Earth

"Fierce marine heatwaves were recorded globally in 2023 and 2024, and some researchers now believe they mark the start of a fundamental change with devastating consequences for life on Earth" #ClimateEmergency

www.newscientist.com/article/2489...

#CoMaps: a community-powered #GoogleMaps alternative

www.comaps.app/news/2025-07...

Earth and Environmental News, Videos and Images At Earth.com, our goal is to provide the internet with a homepage for anything and everything about our planet Earth and the environment.

Common sweetener found to significantly increase stroke risk - Earth.com share.google/BVckRpzsvMM6...

'Televised Slaughter': UK Doctor on the Devastation He Is Witnessing in Gaza Surgeon Tom Potokar in Khan Younis says he’s ‘sick and tired’ of describing the horror on the ground to international media while seeing no action from Western leaders.

'Televised Slaughter': UK Doctor on the Devastation He Is Witnessing in Gaza zeteo.com/p/televised-... #GazaGenocide

The world’s ice sheets just got a terminal prognosis, and coastlines are going to pay the price | CNN The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are on course for rapid retreat, even collapse, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise even if the world pulls off the miraculous and keeps global warming to...

"Multiple studies suggest 1.5 degrees of warming is “far too high” to prevent rapid ice sheet retreat that would be irreversible on human timescales."

#ClimateEmergency

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Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill at least 48, hospital says The hospital says 22 children and 15 women are among the dead after several homes in the Jabalia area were hit overnight.

Just another #GazaGenocide day

"The Indonesian hospital reported that 22 children and 15 women were among the dead after a number of homes in Jabalia town and refugee camp were hit."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Partnership formed to confront rise in illness, premature death in young Americans GoMo Health, ICSL form ForwardLiving Partnership to better support policyholders before they become critically ill.

American insurance agencies acknowledge the impacts of COVID on YOUNG people’s health and life expectancy - why can’t public health leaders? insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/p...

Maak van 4 mei geen herinneringsmachine met een valse moraal

We herdenken de doden, maar weigeren de levenden te beschermen. Esthetiek van herdenken zonder ethiek om te handelen.

www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

The Community (Platform) Recession – Breaking Free to Build Better Richard Millington from FeverBee Community Consultants shares some very interesting observations on how the field of community management may have entered a "community recession." He points to possibl...

NEW BLOG POST: The Community (Platform) Recession – Breaking Free to Build Better www.communitysense.nl/the-communit... #CommunityBuilding #CommunityManagement #platforms

A recent Dutch study was published which claims that turmeric/curcumin cannot... Current research provides strong evidence that curcumin supplements can reduce chronic inflammation, despite bioavailability challenges. The scientific...

Het onderzoek lijkt waardevol, maar beperkt. Doet geen recht aan de - serieuze - onderzoeksliteratuur die wel degelijk effectieve werking suggereert, o.a. via lokale ontstekingsremmende effecten in de darm, bioactieve metabolieten en synergistische supplementen www.perplexity.ai/search/a-rec...

Oud-ministers roepen premier Schoof op om op te staan tegen Israël ‘De kans verglijdt om aan de goede kant van de geschiedenis te gaan staan’, stellen meerdere oud-ministers en oud-diplomaten in een brandbrief aan premier Schoof. Ze roepen hem op de ‘misdaden’ van Is...

"De oud-ministers stellen dat Israël alle ‘schijn van een beschaafd land heeft laten varen’ en gesteund door de Amerikaanse regering ‘weerloze burgers doodt en werk maakt van hun verdrijving’." #GazaGenocide

www.trouw.nl/opinie/oud-m...

In Amsterdam against fascism

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing...

“The more new-fashioned and evidence-based idea is that, although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives.” #LongCovid

www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Augmenting Human Intelligence – How Generative AI Conversational Audio Extends Human Dialogue In 2017, my friend and fellow mapmaker Christine Capra from consultancy company Greater than the Sum, interviewed me about my work on participatory community network mapping as collective sensemaking....

NEW BLOG Post: Augmenting Human Intelligence – How Generative AI Conversational Audio Extends Human Dialogue www.communitysense.nl/augmenting-h... #NotebookLM #blogs

Chris Hedges : Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order YouTube video by mediasanctuary

Pullitzer winner Chris Hedges gave a powerful, moving & insightful speech at mediasanctuary.bsky.social on March 7, explaining some of the interlinked root causes of the New World Disorder, from #colonialism & #genocides to #ClimateChange

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1iW...

It's gorgeous!

Subliem! 🙏

The Body Snatching Years Something happened and we could all feel it.

Powerful must read by @natebear1.bsky.social

"It was a betrayal. We hardened.

But the taboo meant we couldn’t talk about it, not in real life. This anger, trauma, grief and betrayal.

So we all went on in the internet.

And this is what radicalised us."

www.donotpanic.news/p/the-body-s...

NEW BLOG POST: No pain, no gain? Does #generativeAI make students bypass the peaks of #education? www.communitysense.nl/no-pain-no-g...

The burning of USAID knowledge by the White House

NEW BLOG POST: The Epistemicide of #USAID: A Call to Action for Global Knowledge Communities www.communitysense.nl/the-epistemi...

Palestinian children being taught in the Edward Said Public Library by Mosab Abu Toha

Heartbreaking memory shared by Palestinian poet, writer, scholar, and librarian Mosab Abu Toha on the app whose name shall not be mentioned here. #GazaGenocide

Impressive and harrowing testimony, Gladys. You're so right about the normalization of what shouldn't be normalized. The ease with which people eagerly embrace and accept injustice as the natural state of affairs is indeed the breeding ground for authoritarianism and beyond.

🕵🏼‍♀️✅ Fact-checking’s future: can social media handle the truth? Who should decide what’s true online?

Useful thoughts on the future of fact-checking and #misinformation on social media @newpublic.substack.com

TLDR: there isn't a panacea.

newpublic.substack.com/p/fact-check...

Catastrophic tipping point in Greenland reached as crystal blue lakes turn brown, belch out carbon dioxide Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon dioxide.

Paul Beckwith

Catastrophic tipping point in Greenland reached as crystal blue lakes turn brown, belch out carbon dioxide 😪😪😪

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...