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Researchers have been eavesdropping on an unusual family of crows in Spain, collecting data on hundreds of thousands of different sounds the birds made. Small microphones recorded a variety of soft calls, far quieter than the familiar 'caws' people usually hear. The team then used AI to analyse the sounds and group them together. The researchers hope is to one day be able to understand the meaning of the birds' vocalisations and perhaps even try to speak their language.

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Study on their greenhouse gas emissions and climate commitments

With this study, we are providing for the first time a calculation of the GHG emissions from the ten surveyed slaughter and dairy companies in Germany, including discussing their general climate-related obligations – such as those from sustainability reporting in the course of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

We show, among other things, that the emissions of the ten most selling slaughter companies and the ten highest-grossing dairy companies in 2022 corresponded to around 61% of the emissions cast in Germany in Germany in the same year. If the opportunity costs are taken into account in the calculation, then the issues of the companies will even increase to 1.5 times the passenger car emissions.

We also take a closer look at previous climate protection-related self-discreet data from the two market leaders, Tönnies and DMK Deutsches Milchkontor, and we also come to the conclusion that these two companies in particular still have to improve significantly in terms of completeness, transparency and coherence.

PDF (DE): https://www.germanwatch.org/sites/default/files/germanwatch_super-emittenten_in_der_fleisch-_und_milchwirtschaft_0.pdf

New research from beneath the Thwaites Glacier suggests a more complicated picture than we ever imagined...

Chapters

0:00 The Doomsday Glacier

0:55 The History Of The Twaites Glacier

2:12 Why Is Thwaites So Dangerous?

4:33 Ad Read

5:35 How Bad is The Doomsday Glacier?

8:20 What We Discovered Below The Doomsday Glacier

13:22 What Do We Do About Thwaites?

Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.

World Bicycle Relief explains that its Buffalo bicycles are designed to be "extremely durable to serve the needs of people who travel long distances over rugged terrain with heavy cargo in some of the world's harshest environments." With that in mind, simplicity and ruggedness are absolutely critical, and the redundant chain system is designed to provide a high/low gear solution that involves as few breakable, externally mounted parts as possible. These bikes are being delivered to places that don't have access to bicycle shops or spare part overnighting, so making something that's as tough and easy to repair as possible is an essential part of WBR's job.