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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 17:31

Nature’s best lawnmower: How solar grazing is changing the photovoltaic landscape

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/01/20/solar-grazing-changing-the-photovoltaic-landscape

Farmers in the USA are waking up to the benefits of keeping sheep on solar farms, but Europe’s been doing this for ages.

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 16:54

All the hurdles to jump through if state pension is means tested

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/hurdles-state-pension-means-tested-3490488

Scami Badenoch said the Conservatives want to explore further means-testing of government support - but this could prove contentious.

Why should the state pension be means tested!?! 🤬

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 15:54

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/european-federation-of-journalists-to-stop-posting-content-on-x-386598/

The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on Melon Husk’s social media platform, X, from January 20th, 2025, when Donut tRump will officially become the 47th president of the United States.

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 14:57

Are Scotland and Italy protecting their threatened seas?

https://theferret.scot/scotland-italy-seas-marine-protection/

For the past year now, @theferret has been investigating the health of Scotland’s seas.

The Scotland’s Seas in Danger project – funded by Journalismfund Europe – is a collaboration with Fada Collective and the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI).

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 14:55

‘Net zero hero’ myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/19/net-zero-hero-myth-unfairly-shifts-burden-of-solving-climate-crisis-onto-individuals-study-finds

Shifting responsibility to consumers minimises the role of energy industry and policymakers, University of Sydney research suggests

Original research paper here https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07439156241300997 (pay walled)

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 13:26

A new vision for how evolution works is long overdue

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00054-x

The idea that evolution is driven by an organism’s development — not just the natural selection of its genes — challenges a dearly held orthodoxy among evolutionary biologists.

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 13:08

How hosting Ukrainian scientists offers a template for supporting other scholars at risk

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04024-7

Ahead of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, displaced academics describe their experiences settling into UK universities.

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 13:01

Watch West Bank joy as 90 freed Palestinian prisoners return

https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/01/20/watch-west-bank-joy-as-90-freed-palestinian-prisoners-return

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 13:00

Octopus Arms Are Controlled by a Nervous System That's Like No Other

https://www.sciencealert.com/octopus-arms-are-controlled-by-a-nervous-system-thats-like-no-other

Original research paper here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55475-5

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 12:47

With this ceasefire, let Gaza’s kids finally return to their childhoods

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/gaza-ceasefire-mental-health-trauma-psychiatrist-children-childhood/

"I’m a children’s psychiatrist in Gaza. I believe we will survive, now that we can begin processing this immeasurable trauma"

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 12:10

Good point

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 12:07

The Witcher and survival simulation: How Polish gaming companies achieved international success

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/19/the-witcher-and-survival-simulation-how-polish-gaming-companies-achieved-international-suc

The coronavirus pandemic, although an economic disaster for most businesses, became a source of success for many Polish gaming companies. But how did they do it?

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 12:04

German prosecutors: Magdeburg Christmas market car ramming not a terrorist attack

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/20/german-prosecutors-magdeburg-christmas-market-car-ramming-not-a-terrorist-attack

Is this because the perpetrator is known to be an AfD supporter?

More info here https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/21/who-is-the-suspect-behind-magdeburg-christmas-market-attack

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 12:01

Paleo Diet Debunked: Ancient Humans Ate Plants, Study Shows

https://www.sciencealert.com/paleo-diet-debunked-ancient-humans-ate-plants-study-shows

Original research paper here https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2418661121

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 11:39

Songbirds Have In-Flight ‘Conversations’ With Other Species During Migration, Study Shows

https://www.ecowatch.com/songbirds-migration-conversations.html

“Songbirds may converse with other species during their long migrations, forming social bonds and possibly exchanging information about the flight, according to a new study led by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).”

Original research paper here https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)01701-9

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 11:30

'Ghost' Island Emerges From Ocean – And It's About to Vanish Again

https://www.sciencealert.com/ghost-island-emerges-from-ocean-and-its-about-to-vanish-again

A 'ghost' island that suddenly appeared in the Caspian Sea in early 2023 is playing a centuries-long game of peekaboo with scientists, and it's about to vanish once again – if it hasn't already slipped beneath the waves.

Images from two NASA satellites show a time-lapse of the island's disappearing act, from its sudden emergence between Jan and Feb of 2023 to the tiny fragment left at the end of 2024.

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 11:27

Adorable Baby Crab Stuns The World With Its Spiky Charm

https://www.sciencealert.com/adorable-baby-crab-stuns-the-world-with-its-spiky-charm

The most adorable, silly-looking baby king crab, accidentally collected by NOAA researchers in the Gulf of Mexico, has rightfully become an instant online sensation.

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 10:57

Urgent warning to anyone who uses a hot water bottle

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hot-water-bottle-age-warning-burns-b2682678.html

Hot water bottles perish over time so experts recommend you change them every two to three years

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-20 at 10:42

Iranian pop star Tataloo sentenced to death for ‘blasphemy', Iranian media report

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/01/20/iranian-pop-star-tataloo-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy-iranian-media-report

Several Iranian media outlets have reported that Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, better known as Tataloo, has been sentenced to death. Contradictory accounts, however, have left uncertainty about the outcome of the pop star’s trial.

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Written by kim_harding ✅ on 2025-01-19 at 20:12

French group encourages mass departure from Melon Husk's X platform on US inauguration day

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/01/15/french-group-encourages-mass-departure-from-elon-musks-x-platform-on-us-inauguration-day

The French Human Rights League (LDH) is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of X, formerly Twitter, on January 20.

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