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  • A_A@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Study Indicates Tar Sands Far More Pollutive.English
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    5 months ago

    There are stark differences in the observed concentrations when compared with that of urban areas.

    Well yes, I read enough of the article to understand this is what they meant but also that there was large unexplained variations (noise) so I just gave up. I don’t have the resources, knowledge and the time to conduct a good, complete analysis.

    Why shill for oil at the expense of your own health?

    Now this is a multi-billion dollar question and before they shut down the tar sands, many more studies will be made. So, it’s not for me to decide and we will have the opportunity to see more in this battle.

    Anyway, thanks for your interest, take care.

  • A_A@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Study Indicates Tar Sands Far More Pollutive.English
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    5 months ago

    Extracting tar from these sands amounts to cleaning them. So, this is not polluting : it is cleaning !
    …please change my mind because I am obviously completely wrong here 😋 ( I should also read the article )

    P.S. : Article say it creates bad air pollution … honestly, I was expecting severe water contamination lasting for decades …

    P.S.2 : Original paper :
    in the journal Science

    P.S.3 : Such a rabbit hole ! Reading the science paper what I understand is they sample air while flying a plane through the area downwind. Then, they heat this air sample to burn all those hydrocarbons and finally what they analyze is the carbon dioxide combustion product which is one PPM above the normal air concentration or 400 PPM so they measure 401 PPM and on top of this maybe they did this while in Canada there was those huge forest fire that change the air to orange smoke for many months … Well, I don’t know if this is good science or not but I have doubts.

  • A_A@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•An unprecedented flu strain is attacking hundreds of animal species. Humans could be nextEnglish
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    6 months ago

    TLDR : from Wa.Post :

    An unprecedented flu strain is attacking hundreds of animal species. Humans could be next.
    An avian flu panzootic — a pandemic among animals — has struck hundreds of bird and mammal species, including elephant seals.
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    By Dino Grandoni
    2024 January 15 at (…)
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    (( dramatical introduction ))…
    The beaches of … in Argentina, … nearly a whole season of seal pups dead, …
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    … pups seals died there last year of a strain of avian influenza, victims of an unprecedented panzootic — a pandemic among animals — that has struck at least 320 types of birds and dozens of species of mammals.
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    Over the past few years, a potent strain of H5N1 avian influenza … domestic and wild animal populations … , the world along birds’ migratory …
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    So far, cases of humans getting seriously sick from this strain of flu are rare. But the possibility of the quickly evolving influenza virus gaining the ability to be transmitted between from one mammal to another — and eventually, to humans — has scientists concerned about the pathogen turning into another pandemic. “Every year that this doesn’t happen,” Méndez said, “we’re being lucky.”
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  • A_A@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Woman pays £175 to have dead pet hamster stuffed and immortalised as a stripperEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Crazy and weird, so this belongs to “NotTheOnion” or “Funny”.
    But then, if some rationale existed, it could be something like this :
    (1) attachment to pets often involved anthropromorphization
    (2) anthropomorphized hamster would be standing upright
    (3) having an object for the stuffed pet to hold facilitates the taxidermy work
    (4) making the object slender would improve the visual access of the art
    On top of all this, the owner may wish to make a statement on the tune of : the stripper work is not to be consider shameful nor to be hidden.