#environmental-impact — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #environmental-impact, aggregated by home.social.
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Splash-free urinals for global sustainability and accessibility
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745?login=false
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597895
#HackerNews #sustainability #accessibility #urinals #innovation #waterconservation #environmentalimpact
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576986
#HackerNews #foreverchemicals #environmentalimpact #secrecy #healthrisks #PFAS #3M
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Scientists Could Soon Lose a Key Tool For Studying Antarctica’s Melting Ice Sheets As Climate Risks Grow
James Yungel / NASA file This summer, the U.S. and much of the world have been pummeled by floods, fires and heat waves. Knowing what climate risks come next depends, to a large extent, on what happens in the most desolate place on Earth: Antarctica. But there’s a new obstacle to understanding the changing continent and how it’s affecting weather patterns throughout the world. National Science Foundation plans to decommission its only research icebreaker, the RVIB Nathaniel B. […] -
Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498978
#HackerNews #Europe #Drought #Desertification #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalImpact
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Is the environmental impact of datacentres finally cutting through? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/is-the-environmental-impact-of-datacentres-finally-cutting-through #BanDataCenters #AI #BanAI #RegulateAI #environment #EnvironmentalImpact
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Environmental Crisis: The Unseen Threat to Our Planet
📰 Original title: Mission impossible? Quantifying military emissions
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/environmental-crisis-the-unseen-threat-to-our-planet.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
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The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement
https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/the-dutch-are-filling-gas-wells-with
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461608
#HackerNews #DutchGasWells #CementIndustry #EnvironmentalImpact #EnergyTransition
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A Submarine Explores a Remote Atlantic Site and Finds 200,000 Radioactive Waste Barrels Hidden for Decades
https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/08/atlantic-radioactive-waste-barrels/
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🛢️ Oh joy, another oil slick graces the pristine Iranian coast—clearly Mother Nature needed a new moisturizer! 🙃 The ship strike is just a cherry on top of this black gold sundae. 🌊 Bravo, #humanity, for this new level of "progress"! 🎉
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7kpdkg13zo #oilspill #environmentalimpact #coastalpollution #progress #HackerNews #ngated -
It’s Such a Blessing: The Farmers Embracing Solar Arrays
Dowell / Getty Images The solar farm where Jess Gray’s sheep were giving birth was only four miles away but after a February ice storm this year, it took her more than an hour to get there in her pickup truck. Fallen trees and power lines littered the roads. Ice coated the ground and encrusted the wires of the chain link fence enclosing her flock. Gray was anxious to see if any had survived. “I got to the farm and my sheep were lambing in the middle of it,” she recalled. “Lambs […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/08/13/its-such-a-blessing-the-farmers-embracing-solar-arrays/
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Methane Leaks Multiplying Beneath Antarctic Ocean Spark Fears of Climate Doom Loop
Leigh Tait – Earth Sciences NZ A potent greenhouse gas has begun seeping out of the Antarctic seafloor in dozens of places, scientists have discovered. Researchers documented the emergence of these methane seeps in shallow regions of the Ross Sea, a bay off the southern coast of Antarctica. The patches of leaking gas could be caused by global warming, and they could also threaten to accelerate it further, according to a new study published Oct. 1 in the journal Nature […] -
The Water Footprint of AI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2026.125866
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254351
#HackerNews #WaterFootprint #AI #Sustainability #Tech #EnvironmentalImpact
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96% Of Oceans Worldwide Had Extreme Heatwaves In 2023
Zhenzhong Zeng In 2023, global marine heatwaves were the biggest, most intense and most persistent on record, a new study reveals. The researchers suggest that these heat waves were driven by climate change and may signal a climate tipping point. Global marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged periods of unexpectedly warm ocean temperatures. These warm periods can critically threaten marine ecosystems………Continue reading….. By Perri Thaler Source: Live Science . Critics: A […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/08/08/96-of-oceans-worldwide-had-extreme-heatwaves-in-2023/
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AI data centres do not need environment clearance, Centre tells Parliament
> The environment ministry, however, said prior clearance will be required for AI data centres if they are proposed as a part of a building and construction project.
https://theprint.in/environment/ai-data-centres-environment-clearance-centre-parliament/3007640/
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@aggyanubis Please don't share #AISlop. It destroys our climate and drinking water and is more dangerous for our future than meat!
Therefore, it makes you absolutely lacking credibility. If you want to fight for a better world, do it without being part of that destruction of the environment!