Arctic rivers are sending a warning. Climate change is changing the type of nitrogen they carry. This shift matters because marine life depends on a specific form of nitrogen to survive.

A new study led by Bridger J. Ruyle atNYU Tandon reveals what’s going wrong. His team tracked the six largest Arctic rivers for 20 years. What they found: these rivers now deliver much less of the usable, inorganic nitrogen. Instead, they carry more of the harder-to-use, organic kind.

As corporate interest in ocean carbon removal grows, researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are testing the safety and effectiveness of one such technique in the Gulf of Maine.

Or you know, abolish capitalism.

Totalitarist capitalism is not my cuppa tea, but suit yourself ;)

bakers, builders, hot tub lobbyists, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

Unlikely coalition indeed!

Probably lucky he didn’t get disappeared. Actually he lowkey did, but they released him after.

In any case, fuck Billionaires (but also fuck totalitarian governments like the CCP).

Ah, me a pillar of my insanity.

That’s kind of you.

There’s not much unfortunately. If you have a couple bucks free you could donate to one of the better labs. Ie. this excellent genetics team. But I realise that isn’t feasible for most people.

Otherwise just maybe reading a short article about how politically marginalised the illness is could be helpful. In having more people “woke” on this issue. This article by Monbiot is short and works quite well.

:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myalgic_encephalomyelitis/chronic_fatigue_syndrome?wprov=sfti1

Most underfunded illness per burden in the US (and most of rest of world). src

The US day tends to have more politics because the US politics posts get bigger.

This is generally a good article, but unfortunately downplays the locals agency and gives a bit of “humanitarian saviour” vibes.

Kua ni vakacalai ena veika lailai ni “loloma”, mai na veimatanitu ka vakavuna na leqa oqo. Vakasalavata kei ira era vakaleqai.

The archive link still hasn’t loaded unfortunately.

Edit; Here’s one that does work https://archive.is/20250809160259/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/08/fiji-climate-change-village-relocation/

Paywall…

And for the USians joining us, “States” here means “countries”. Not regional governments like “States” in the US sense.

Edit: Are you from the US? Because sometimes in the US they refer to “social liberalism” as liberalism. If so then the arguments you are trying to make make far more sense. Vis à vis social liberalism. From Wikipedia

In Europe and North America, the establishment of social liberalism(often called simply liberalism in the United States)

Previous comment: Oh my god. No it isn’t. Liberalism is a political philsophy based on enlightenment ideals.

Like Locke’s social contract theory, hence the idea (that often fails in practice) of “consent of the governed”.

Liberalism did give us the declaration of human rights. It also gave us capitalism. It’s a complex ideology that has been dominant in the west for the past couple centuries. It is not synonymous with “Human rights”, and it is not the only ideology that claims to promote them.

Plenty of anti-capitalist ideologies arguably promote them more.

And famous liberals throughout history have been slave owners. So please please learn nuance.

Dude when did I ever say I’m anti human rights???

This conversation is so frustrating its like talking to a wall.

I have a hard time believing your good faith. Are you seriously arguing there’s no pro-human rights ideology except liberalism?

Liberalism ≠ Human Rights

If so please please learn about political philosophy. There’s a lot more than “liberals” and “conservatives”.

Liberalism promotes capitalism. Which isn’t great for human rights.

So no, criticising liberalism as an ideology, built upon capitalist and statist-nationalist ideals does not make me an evil person trying to “catch the smurfs”.

Arguable that things have improved for poor people in the last 50 years. In relative terms they are objectively far worse off. And native Americans were arguably better off in the early colonial days pre-manifest destiny. I know US liberalism loves the myth of linear progress. But I think it isn’t necessarily accurate.

It really sucks. And like every second post is an add. Urgh

Try nextdns (ie. Addblock at the DNS level). It won’t work for facebook. But works for most apps.