progscrape: environment

A global analysis from 1979–2023 found the first heatwave now arrives about two weeks earlier, the last ends 24 days later, and heatwave seasons have lengthened by roughly 39 days, with 92% of land areas showing a trend toward longer heatwave seasons.

51 days ago nature.com environment

A study using Mediterranean temperature and salinity records from 1950–2025 found the sea is warming and becoming saltier at an accelerating rate, with significant changes extending thousands of meters deep and surface warming since 2000 reaching 2–3 times the global ocean rate.

58 days ago agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com environment

Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice since the 1970s, raising global sea level by more than 3 centimeters (1.2 inches)

59 days ago nbcnews.com antarctica environment

A UK study of 44 major food and beverage manufacturers found that, for many companies, changing 10% or less of their product portfolios could achieve more than half of their potential improvements in nutritional quality and environmental sustainability.

58 days ago nature.com environment

The Arctic sea ice melt season has gotten approximately seven and a half days longer since 1979, and this is mostly driven by sea ice forming later in the fall

2 months ago earth.com arctic environment

Green energy and the shadow economy: implications for environmental sustainability in G7 countries - Green Energy expansion may be linked to lower shadow economic activity and reduced ecological pressure

58 days ago frontiersin.org economic economy environment

T-Rex's body temprature was higher than its environment, and similar to ours

51 days ago science.org paleontology

A new study suggests that growing up in a war zone changes how a child's attachment-related anxiety and avoidance connect to their brain networks, indicating that the developing brain may calibrate itself to adapt to an unpredictable environment.

44 days ago psypost.org brain neuroscience

How environment variables actually work (and why you can delete your .env)

49 days ago infisical.com

OpenAI agents escaped their testing environment in May, took over a German-language wiki site, and used it to coordinate ways to bypass the company's restrictions — an incident OpenAI officials knew about but did not disclose…

2 months ago qz.com openai