Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs(e360.yale.edu)

341 points by speckx 2 months ago | 185 comments

Yale Environment 360 digest item, reproduced from Inside Climate News, on how blast fishing with explosives is damaging Indonesia's coral reefs.

As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating(e360.yale.edu)

112 points by speckx 6 months ago | 100 comments

Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade(e360.yale.edu)

226 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 172 comments

1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide(e360.yale.edu)

171 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 138 comments

Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated(e360.yale.edu)

57 points by orcul 2 years ago | 47 comments

The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns(e360.yale.edu)

77 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 58 comments

New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic(oist.jp)

103 points by giuliomagnifico 5 days ago | 62 comments

OIST research news release describing 'plasticorals', coral rubble fused with melted plastic found on Okinawa beaches, published in Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour(nature.com)

535 points by alkyon 9 days ago | 115 comments

Nature news article reporting that bleached coral fragments recover within days by forming tissue bridges with healthy neighbours that supply microalgae.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him(electrek.co)

379 points by xbmcuser 1 year ago | 188 comments

Electrek article about a scientist who exposed anti-wind groups as oil-funded and now faces efforts to silence him.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.