Sometimes I think we're making progress in our attitudes to nature, and then I read an article like this which reminds me that we haven't moved on much at all 😒 www.westmeathindependent.ie/2026/09/25/s...

Silt removal will help river flow – ‘Boxer’ | Westmeath Independent

The removal of 1,100 tonnes of silt upstream of Lough Derg, between Banagher and Victoria Lock, will be of "enormous benefit" to an improved flow of the River Shannon, local OPW Minister Kevin 'Boxer'...

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We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad

Cornell University has serious problem with sexual misconduct on campus Its 2025 survey found 35% of undergraduate women who responded reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact at Cornell These are horrific numbers provost.cornell.edu/initiatives/...

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Bangkok declared disaster zone after more than 30cm of rain in 48 hours

Bangkok declared disaster zone after more than 30cm of rain in 48 hours

Bangkok has been declared a disaster zone after parts of the Thai capital saw more than 30cm (12 inches) of rain in 48 hours, causing flooding across much of the city.

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🌊 WMO welcomes the new United Nations General Assembly Declaration on Sea Level Rise. WMO stands ready to work with countries and partners to strengthen observations, early warning systems and climate information and services, helping communities better prepare. https://bit.ly/3Vgv7wy

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

Ireland is facing pressure for not cancelling their match with Israel. They shouldn't have to face this pressure, Israel should be banned, Russia have been banned for 4.5 years. Why aren't Israel banned?

The long game.

”Rivers are dammed, braided, frozen, or drained—with behaviors that hydrologic models struggle to capture” “Human-affected weird rivers dominate the global riverscape.” #Rivers www.science.org/content/arti...

Satellite reveals a world of ‘weird rivers’ shaped by humans

SWOT is exposing humans’ effects on rivers—and challenging flood prediction models

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Just had this amazing Beetle run across the road in front of me. A Devil’s Coach-horse Ocypus olens

Why electrification is inevitable: Heating costs as of Sept. 20th in France for a 100m2 home: Heating oil - €2300 Gas - €2100 Wood pellets - €1000 Heat Pump - €800 Only one of these technologies also let's you sleep during a heatwave.

The UN’s climate loss and damage fund needs to consider how to make decisions about finance fairly and quickly, without disadvantaging low-resource nations, says Uttam Babu Shrestha go.nature.com/4jnZvyX

Nepal’s floods expose issues with climate-disaster funding — firmer policies are needed fast

The UN’s climate loss and damage fund needs to consider how to make decisions about finance fairly and quickly, without disadvantaging low-resource nations.

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I guess they meant to say: How windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish tree plantations...

How windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish forests

Windthrow can reduce the climate benefit of forestry by removing trees that would have kept growing and disturbing the carbon-rich soils beneath them

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They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

Head-in-the-sand stuff from RTE. “Exceptional weather” = means months of climate-change-driven heatwaves, but somehow RTE seems baffled that trolley numbers are high. Extreme heat doesn’t stop being dangerous because we call it a “great summer”. This is climate denial by euphemism.

What will this winter trolley season bring?

On any given day, there remain hundreds of patents waiting for admission to a hospital bed, placed on a trolley, chair, or other area of a hospital.

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Moves afoot in Debrecen…

Found on LinkedIn

Outgoing UN secretary-general António Guterres talks about the urgency of the climate emergency, why he made it a top priority, and why he’s hopeful that the speed of renewable energy adoption and production will increase in response to the ongoing crisis in the Gulf. buff.ly/yDDZxdg

‘It’s my duty to tell the truth’: UN chief on the climate crisis, capitalism and reasons to be hopeful

Before his final general assembly, António Guterres speaks about why he put climate at the centre of his UN tenure

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"Ethics of science cannot be separated from who funds it" Goes for AI, goes for climate, of course, too. Spot on @financialtimes.com letter:

“First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gave me a high degree of confidence, because I know what I look like.” — Kash Patel

Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel

WASHINGTON—Despite carefully checking and double-checking the credentials of the man who reached out to him via email, FBI director Kash Patel was reportedly phished Friday by a scammer posing as FBI ...

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so we need thousands of staff for transport infrastructure, thousands of staff for nursing homes and thousands of young people are leaving the country... and we are turning away people who want to come to ireland to work, while making those who are here wait longer for citizenship. ok grand

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 3d ago

MetroLink bosses have been “going around Europe for the last year” on the hunt for workers and engineers on the multibillion euro project. It comes as transport chiefs warn of a "brain drain" across the public sector that will impact major works. www.thejournal.ie/metrolink-la...

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · yesterday

omg I got DOZENS of crows in front of the Moon, mostly like this shot. can't wait to go home and find the best one. tho. I can. because I need to buy some broth first. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

'More than six-in-ten voters (61 per cent) say that the building of data centres should be stopped “for the time being at least”, while 23 per cent disagree." www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Majority of people want data-centre construction to stop, Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll shows

More than two-thirds of respondents say they support Ireland’s ‘current model of neutrality’

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Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

An excellent&long overdue essay on British (lack of) resilience, explaining just how dependent the UK is on circumstances it cannot guarantee itself, and why protecting your security means a lot more than to just spend more money on arms (although that is necessary, too). www.ft.com/content/ba80...

How resilient is Britain?

As climate and geopolitical risks cast doubt on the UK’s ability to cope in a crisis, leaders are turning from ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’ as a governing philosophy

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