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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 1w ago
California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. On its hottest day this year, 26 August 2026, renewables outproduced fossil gas for most of the peak. Inside Climate News https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10092026/inside-clean-energy-california-transitions-away-from-natural-gas/ #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 1mo ago
Surgeons in Turin restored a woman’s sight by moving tissue from one eye to the other. Elena, 67, lost her sight in a car crash 5 years ago — her left eye’s optic nerve was destroyed but its tissues were intact, her right eye was the opposite. Michele Reibaldi’s team performed what they say is the 1st transplant of the macula (central retina), & Elena is gradually recovering her vision Her guide dog Joe was allowed to stay in the ward with her throughout https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2026/07/26/news/autotrapianto_occhio_cornea_vista_molinette-15699763/ #ShareGoodNewsToo
Autotrapianto della retina centrale, intervento eseguito per la prima volta al mondo alle Molinette
La Stampa

Autotrapianto della retina centrale, intervento eseguito per la prima volta al mondo alle Molinette

L’operazione apre nuove frontiere nella chirurgia oculistica, fin’ora il trasferimento della macula era considerato un limite insormontabile. Elena, 67 anni, h…

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 1mo ago
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New Mexico flipped from fossil fuels to renewables in five years. In July 2021 its largest utility drew 83% of its power from coal and gas; this July, renewables supplied 62%. Solar carries the scorching days, batteries release stored sun through the evening, and wind picks up after dark. The cost of electricity has stayed below the US average the whole time. Yale Climate Connections https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/07/new-mexicos-clean-energy-success-story/ #ShareGoodNewsToo
New Mexico’s clean energy success story » Yale Climate Connections
Yale Climate Connections

New Mexico’s clean energy success story » Yale Climate Connections

In just five years, solar, wind, and batteries overtook fossil fuels, keeping air conditioners running while slashing pollution.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
Water is returning to the African Sahel. After the catastrophic droughts of the late 20th century, aquifers from Senegal to Ethiopia are refilling, water tables in Niger have risen four metres, and Lake Chad has swollen to ten times its mid-1980s size. Near-extinct scimitar-horned oryx now number over 600, and farmers have nurtured 200 million trees back onto once-bare fields. Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/sahel-groundwater-climate-monsoon #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
Heat pumps are winning Americans over. In the first quarter they outsold fossil-fuel furnaces by 32%, the fourth year running that manufacturers have shipped more heat pumps than furnaces. Nearly half of new US homes built in 2024 came with one. Grist https://grist.org/energy/the-us-may-be-hitting-a-tipping-point-for-heat-pumps/ #ShareGoodNewsToo
The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps
Grist

The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps

In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
The United States just approved its first new sunscreen ingredient since 1999. Europe has used it since 1999. Bemotrizinol blocks both UVA and UVB rays, breaks down more slowly than existing chemical sunscreens, and is absorbed less into the bloodstream than those same sunscreens. NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/06/13/nx-s1-5856385/sunscreen-skin-protection-bemotrizinol #ShareGoodNewsToo
4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved
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4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new sunscreen ingredient in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years. It's been used for decades in Europe and Asia.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
The largest digital camera ever built has started filming a 10 year movie of the universe. From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 3,200-megapixel camera is now photographing the entire southern sky every few nights, producing roughly ten terabytes of data per night. The goal is an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse of the cosmos: pulsating stars, supernova explosions, asteroid orbits, & clues to dark energy and dark matter https://rubinobservatory.org/explore/how-rubin-works/technology/data #ShareGoodNewsToo
Data | Rubin Observatory
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Data | Rubin Observatory

Rubin Observatory will generate more data in ten years than everything humans have ever written. Learn how scientists will manage the deluge of data.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
Australia’s numbat is off the endangered list. The striped, termite-eating marsupial has been downlisted by the IUCN to near-threatened, capping a 40-year recovery. Sustained fox and cat control lifted numbers from about 300 in the late 1970s to around 3,000 today. Mongabay https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/once-endangered-australias-numbat-is-making-a-hopeful-recovery/#ShareGoodNewsToo
Once endangered, Australia's numbat is making a hopeful recovery
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Once endangered, Australia's numbat is making a hopeful recovery

The animal emblem of Western Australia, the numbat, is recovering after decades of conservation efforts, according to the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. For decades, the numbat or banded anteater (Myrmecobius fasciatus) was listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List. It has now been moved to the lower threat category of near threatened. […]

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bignose @bignose@fosstodon.org
· 2mo ago

Thank you to @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de members for this clear decision to ban #GenAI #VibeCoding projects in their service.

  1. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools […]. Such projects having an unclear copyright status […] and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code […].

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434

#AISlop #BanAI #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Proposal Assembly 2026: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions

Here is the proposed addition for the ToU that @Gusted and I agreed on post-assembly for the upcoming membership vote. 🙏 The discussion for this proposal is available for Codeberg e. V. members in the forum: https://forum.codeberg.org/d/139-resolutions-for-assembly-on-codeberg-taking-a-stand-a...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
Three years after Raja Ampat’s walking shark won full legal protection, researchers off Sawinggrai village counted 2,462 per square kilometre, the densest population ever recorded for the genus. These reef-crawlers barely move, which makes them easy to wipe out but quick to recover where habitat holds and local villagers wade out to count them. Oceanographic https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/new-walking-shark-discovered-as-protected-indonesian-population-booms/ #ShareGoodNewsToo
New walking shark discovered as protected population booms
Oceanographic

New walking shark discovered as protected population booms

Researchers discovered the new, and already endangered shark in Papua New Guinea, while a study shows strong habitat allows them to thrive

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
A global trial has identified a better antibiotic for deadly staph infections. Published in NEJM, the trial, now involving over 6,000 people across 150 hospitals, found that cefazolin and, in some cases, penicillin, worked at least as well as flucloxacillin, the current standard treatment, but saw fewer deaths within 90 days and fewer cases of acute kidney injury. This is huge: staph infections kill up to 1 in 4 patients within three months. UCL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/jun/global-trial-shows-safer-antibiotic-option-staph-blood-infection #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
Adding fish to rice paddies fights a horrible parasitic disease. In a schistosomiasis hotspot in Senegal, researchers stocked rice fields with two native species, African bonytongue and Nile tilapia, that eat or outcompete the freshwater snails carrying the parasite. Fields with both fish held fewer snails, and yields rose more than 25%, with the harvested fish offering a second stream of income. Stanford https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/06/rice-fish-farming-tropical-disease-schistosomiasis-research #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
A Roman scroll that should be ash has just been read without being opened. In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius buried the Roman town of Herculaneum under metres of ash. In one villa, a library of papyrus scrolls was buried too. The scrolls didn’t burn, but were charred: turned into fragile, cigar-shaped lumps of carbon. For 2,000 years they’ve been unreadable. Researchers with a project called the Vesuvius Challenge have read an entire scroll without opening it. https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll #ShareGoodNewsToo
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
The International Labour Organisation has adopted the first binding global labour standards for gig workers. Backed by 406 members, the new convention sets protections for platform workers in ride-hailing, food delivery and other app-based jobs, including measures on occupational safety, minimum pay and protection from unjustified termination. The standards will need ratification by individual countries before enforcement can begin. Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/un-labour-organization-adopts-convention-set-employment-standards-gig-workers-2026-06-12/ #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
Paris turns the Seine into a giant air conditioner. Beneath the city, 100 km of pipes now channel river water through heat exchangers to cool 800 buildings - including the Louvre and Grand Palais! The way the system works is by transferring heat through closed loops, room by room, until it disperses back into the Seine. The plan is to triple the network by 2042, reaching all arrondissements and 3,000 sites as heatwaves intensify. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/underground-revolution-seine-cooling-network-paris-buildings-heat #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 2mo ago
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Oregon’s campaign against pesticide-related bee deaths hits 100% success. In 2013, following a spate of high-profile pesticide-related bee deaths, the state of Oregon set up a Pollinator Health Task Force. In the years since, around 13,000 licensed pesticide applicators have been trained to spot high-risk conditions and change how they work around bees. The state has not recorded a confirmed pesticide-related bee kill since 2020. Jefferson Public Radio https://www.ijpr.org/podcast/the-jefferson-exchange/2026-06-10/oregon-bee-pesticide-poisonings-decline #ShareGoodNewsToo
How Oregon cut pesticide-related bee deaths
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How Oregon cut pesticide-related bee deaths

Oregon has not recorded a confirmed pesticide-related bee kill since 2020. Oregon State University researchers discuss the education, research and conservation efforts helping protect pollinators.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer@wandering.shop
· 3mo ago
China’s deserts are shrinking. Like, really shrinking. Official figures claim that more than 120,000 km² of desertified land was restored during the 14th Five-Year Plan, from 2021 to 2025. That’s part of a longer reversal: in the late 1990s, desertified land was expanding by 3,433 km² a year; today, officials say it is shrinking by 6,666 km² annually. China Daily https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202606/17/WS6a32705aa310986e2b460906.html #ShareGoodNewsToo
China restores over 10m hectares of desertified land in 14th FYP
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China restores over 10m hectares of desertified land in 14th FYP

China restored over 10 million hectares of desertified land and almost 2 million hectares of rocky-desertification land during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), according to a media release from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Tuesday, which marked the 32nd World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

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