"We find that pasture-finished operations have 20% higher production emissions and 42% higher carbon footprint than grain-finished systems." In other words, as some of us have long argued, grass-fed beef is *even worse* than intensively-reared beef. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Beef production accounts for the largest share of global livestock greenhouse gas emissions and is an important target for climate mitigation efforts. Most life-cycle assessments comparing the carbon ...
We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵in comments blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/i...
Precisely as you say. One typo - it's "faze" not phase!
An exciting development for a new Covid vaccine: inhaled single dose induces strong mucosal immunity and protection in multiple species, including non-human primates, and prevents transmission across all variants assessed nature.com/articles/s41...
With both poles observing unusually low sea ice conditions, global sea ice extent is the 2nd lowest on record (after 2016) for today's date... + More sea ice graphics available at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
The COP system is crocked. Utterly and fatally crocked. It has been crocked since 1994: failure has been predestined throughout. This is why we need a completely different way of negotiating climate issues. A few options suggested here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Really exciting research that could lead to development of new anti-virals effective against Sarscov-2 and other coronaviruses that target ace2 on host cells to infect the host. By directly targeting how ace2 stabilises by using an inhibitor they could prevent infection with SarsCoV2 in mice.
