Agency hopes tens of thousands of people will log details of their flatulence on an app to help researchers better understand gut health
Finnaly I have something to offer my country!
A new study led by an international team of scientists highlights tire particles (TPs) as the leading contributor to microplastics and calls for urgent, targeted research to address their unique environmental and health risks.
>A new study led by an international team of scientists highlights tire particles (TPs) as the leading contributor to microplastics and calls for urgent, targeted research to address their unique environmental and health risks.
>Accounting for nearly one-third of all microplastics,
Russian Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning ‘Childfree Propaganda’ -
Russian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a controversial bill outlawing so-called “childfree propaganda,” as authorities ramp up efforts to both increase birth rates and promote “traditional values” among families.
Welp, will they come after this Lemmy sub? /s
Following on from this post
https://slrpnk.net/post/14377077
Pretty much , anyone remember the Florida hurricanes ? No ?, what about the 5 that have hit The Philippines in the last month ? No? What about the mega fires in Canada ? The mega fires in Australia 5 years ago ? Pakostan underwater ? No? And on and on
Like goldfish...
Well, the Italins just pressure the Swiss Government like the Fench did.
Plans to extend anti-protest laws in NSW labelled 'a rampage against free speech' by climate activists - ABC News
The NSW government is introducing legislation to expand laws that stop protesters blocking roads, bridges and ports in NSW to include railway lines. The laws would carry a maximum fine of $22,000.
Fcuk Labor, Vote Green!
I started my working life as a Trainee Surveyor back in the 80s and 90s with The Main Roads Dept of Qld. I walked 1000s of kms of roads doing surveys, and encountered many many thousands of dead animals, not just on the road, but the verge, the table drains etc. It was a constant stench of dead animal as I walked and cars roared past...
They greatest ecological crime we have ever commited as a species is the road.
Authorities impose restrictions on bike hire after huge group blocks a highway between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng in China, as night biking trend takes off
Central Queensland has become a koala refuge. But heavy traffic on one highway is threatening a vital population of these threatened marsupials
Elderly woman appeals licence suspension after incurring hundreds of penalty points in driving tests
An elderly woman loses an appeal to get her driver's licence back after failing two driving tests, including one where she amassed 182 penalty points — 160 more than a fail mark.
>In the woman's first driving test, in July 2023, the assessor noted she breached the road rules multiple times including by continuously driving in a bike lane, failing to give way, braking to a near stop in a 70km/h zone and obstructing other vehicles and driving at 38km/h in a 60 km/h zone.
>The decision noted the assessor had intervened when the woman started to turn in front of approaching vehicles without sufficient time or distance, and when she failed to give way as she moved off from a kerb.
She still thought she was hard done by and appealed?
Haha this is one of those i didn't know i needed this umtil I read it, thanks for that.
But seriously I'd kind of thought it would be nice but didn't even think to investigate getting it to work.
I don't agree with much of the article at all, he's approaching it complety from a philsiophical bent which i think is self defeating eg why does Monbiot propose producing vegan food in labs as the only way foward ? Becase farming has gone past a tipping point of sustainability. To then equate how we farm (mega industrial farming) to his litte plot of land is folly. As someone who does much the same its in no way able to sustain 8 Billion people, I don't even sustian myself, just supplement it. (My parter does lots of the work, i do the grunt work)
I'm not sure what the article even hopes to achieve?.
I do agree that no language is nonsese but I also agree with Diamond that agriculture was the worse of all mistakes, in hindsight..
For me anarchonprmitivism is the only sustainable system to live upon the planet, it's "perfect" in that respect.
But we only know that with hindsight We can see that for example the Australian First Nations peoples lived 60,000 years in balance. That doesn't mean no impact, as they killed mega fauna to the pont of extinction but the introduction of any top predator has that effect eg the domestic cat in Australia has sent countless species extinct.
In every society that survived millennia, inequaity was always the key.
A good segue is Tom Murphys series here on the cancer of modernity
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/07/metastatic-modernity-launch/
So, if they raised you well enough to survive into adulthood and you're not a sociopath, you're not going to let them starve in the street.
There's a huge diffeence between a healthy enegaged okder person and living on the street. Most aren't going to look after you and most aren't going to see you starve iwb the steeet. You'll get somethibg on between and basic care from most, it's why the kids ditch them into to aged care facilities in the developed world.
That's just an argument that democracy cant work. Because voyers are too feeble minded to discern the wheat from the chaff.
I'd give this some credence if it was a "fool me once" but that's not what this is.
If voters are gullible fools that we can be easily misled then that does explain why we're here and why it can never be anything else.
As Orwell opined in an essay in 1937, democracies always tend to fascism if times are tough. Even relatively tough, with the poorest American being better off then the poorest 50% of the planet.
Centrelink claims are being processed faster and Aussies are spending less time on wait, new data has revealed.
Good on them, I assume it was years of LNP attrition that it had gotten this bad ? But happy to be corrected if my assumption was incorrect ?
Grumpy young boomers
Get off my internet!
Housing affordability, lifestyle key reasons people are increasingly opting for remote Australia
In a rising cost-of-living crisis, housing affordability and lifestyle factors are increasingly popular reasons why some people move beyond Australia's big cities.
I am suprised at the number of young families in my tiny regional village here in NE Tassie. The primary school even expanded and built a new extension just 10 months ago.
Sustainable Plastic Solutions becomes world leader in farm waste recycling
Before food even gets to the grocer, tonnes of plastic have been used to produce it on the farm. Now, Victorian farmers have built a recycling plant to tackle the issue — and it all started in the local pub.
Around me here in NE Tassie, they just burn it :(
William Hoesch, 71, is suing Columbia River fire and rescue department for $1m for injuries and medical expenses
Lol, wtf ? :)
When the travel starts to bottom out on my hydraulic disk brakes, that typically means it's time for new brake pads.
Just replaced the brake pads (front an back) on my parters MTB (hydraulic) after we'd finished (she did most of tje work while i mansplained ) I told her to test ride and be careful jamming the brakes on as you'll notice a difference. She came back "jesus fcukibg christ they nearly sent me over the bar!". She'd been used to pulling them on further as the pads were well worn.
How are you finding the 13? I keep flip flopping between the 13 and the 16 and then do nothing.
How heavy is it ? I have been thinking about one but have a desktop, so thought maybe a 13 and ditch the desktop and add a dock ? If ibtrabek ia tyw 16 going t be too bulky?
Im on Australia thiigh, so supoort will be worse I imagine.
Maybe the buses are trees and they plan to put seating under as they grow ?
Interesting related article here.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/warn-valencia-government-flooding
Same here, i gave up trying to point this out.
Chris Hedges did a good take on it way back when Biden won.
I have been considering th 16 but open to the 13, can i ask why you went to the 16?
Australian Vanadium has kicked off Project Lumina, seeking to build a modular 100MW Vanadium Flow Battery (VFB) for use in Australia.
Red flows Zinc Flow batteries just went bankrupt unfortunately, maybe this will be a goer ? Vanadium Flow batteries seem to be chemically superior... I think?. A comment from somone more in the know would be appreciated
Slaying some of the biggest passive investing bogeymen
While not Aus specific it's a good look at ETFs for those interested. Paywalled link below, non paywalled link above.
https://www.ft.com/content/22663af0-7e17-4477-9dde-71354042b6ef
Output from gas plants up 29% on average from a year earlier, Aemo says, even though price was up by a fifth over same period
>Greenhouse gas emissions from Australia’s main electricity grid increased for a third quarter in a row as higher power demand drove more use of black coal and gas plants, the Australian Energy Market Operator says.
Vote Green :(
BOM and CSIRO State of the Climate report 2024 predicts more extreme weather as warming increases
Australia has warmed by 1.51 degrees as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. The BOM and CSIRO State of the Climate report shows it has fuelled extreme heat events over land and oceans, longer fire seasons and more intense heavy rainfall.
>The report has a clear message – the world is sick, it's addicted to fossil fuels and the only way to bring the temperature down is to get off them
Vote Green ffs
What’s the point of preserving masterpieces for a future being destroyed by fossil fuel companies? says Margaret Reid, Just Stop Oil activist and former museum professional
I can only agree
Western Australia is tearing up environmental protections – and taking a bet the rest of the country won’t notice
The state Labor government is steering Australia’s climate policy, letting emissions soar unbridled as it paves the way for massive fossil fuel projects
People could face fines of up to 400,000 rubles, as data suggests birthrate has slid to lowest level in quarter of a century
New evidence says gas exports damage the climate even more than coal. It’s time Australia took serious action
New evidence shows gas exports damage the climate even more than coal. It’s time Australia took serious action
>Once all upstream stages were factored in – extraction, piping to a processing facility, compression from gas into liquid form, shipping, decompression back to gas and burning for energy – he estimated the total climate pollution from LNG was 33% greater than that from coal over a 20-year period.
>This is not an entirely new idea – previous studies have suggested the gas industry is dirtier than often claimed – but it is nevertheless a potentially extraordinary finding