Daniel Khent

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Solar farms with raised panels and native plantings tripled insect populations in a five-year Minnesota study. #Solarpunk #Rewilding #CleanEnergy https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-farm-built-electricity-beneath/23775/

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Scientists identified the first non-repeating biological clock. #biology #development #aging https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260604044236.htm

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Street trees reduce radiant heat by 18°C in Melbourne. #Solarpunk #UrbanEcology #ClimateAdaptation https://phys.org/news/2026-06-trees-greenery-cool-cities-18c.html

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Platypuses were absent from Royal National Park for over 50 years. #Rewilding #Platypus #Conservation https://phys.org/news/2026-05-platypus-population-australia-royal-national.html

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A Korean team converted CO2 directly into gasoline at pilot scale. Circular chemistry or lifeline for the fossil economy? #PostScarcity #CliFi #SyntheticFuels https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-gasoline-kilograms-day.html

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Computation through physical dynamics, not logic gates. #AnalogAI https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-silicon-oscillators-problems-thousands-years.html

[climatepositive]

 250 MILLION TREES! 

Ecosia, the nonprofit search engine, just hit a HUGE milestone just before Earth-Day: 250 million native trees planted worldwide. That makes them the largest planter of native trees on the planet.

Started in 2009, they’ve built a global network of 200,000+ local planters & 125 orgs. The concept ist simple:

Your clicks & searches = ad revenue = trees.

They’ve planted 1,600+ native species, including 144 endangered ones. No greenwashing, no profit, just a company legally set up so no one (not even the founder) can take dividends. The only shareholder? The planet.

They even have a CTPO (Chief Tree Planting Officer) the only company in the world with one.

Convinced to switch? I wouldn’t advertise if it wasn’t literally making the planet better. 

So yeah, ditch googleing and try ecosiaing. It costs nothing and grows forests. 🌲🌲🌲

more info: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/250-millionth-tree-planted-by-this-tree-planting-search-engine-just-ahead-of-earth-day/

how to set up as standard search engine: https://support.ecosia.org/article/657-installing-ecosia-on-your-desktop-device

[elpen0r]

let's see a billion

[danielkhentwriting]

Researchers built a water-based battery with 120,000 charge cycles and an electrolyte safe enough to compare to tofu brine. Still in the lab, but the direction is away from toxic supply chains.

New water battery could last until the 24th century — and it can be safely discarded in the environment

With no toxic elements to dispose of, the new aqueous battery design could dramatically improve the safety and longevity of battery energy-s

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The Gulf of Maine has warmed 4°F since 1982. Maine lobsters are now developing shell disease at record rates in the warmer water. The ocean is doing the pre-cooking. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042026/maine-lobsters-warming-waters/

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Scientists accidentally discovered a material that pulls drinking water from air. No energy input, no filters, no pipes. The infrastructure that makes water scarce just got harder to justify.

New class of materials passively harvest water from air | Penn Today

Researchers at Penn Engineering have discovered a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, which could enable

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AI doesn't end scarcity. It concentrates it. The constraints shift to whoever owns the infrastructure. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5924462

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Researchers at UCO built a functional battery from pistachio shells, replacing synthetic components with agricultural waste. https://www.uco.es/servicios/actualidad/ciencia/item/165565-cascara-pistacho-baterias?lang=es

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Scientists built a plastic that carries the seeds of its own destruction. Bacteria woven into the material break it down completely in 6 days, leaving no microplastics behind. https://phys.org/news/2026-04-plastic-destructs.html

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The Black Death killed half of Europe. Biodiversity crashed for 150 years. It only recovered when humans came back. https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/03/the-black-death-holds-a-surprising-lesson-humans-and-biodiversity-can-go-hand-in-hand/

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What's Behind the Push Toward Privatizing Water Systems?

About a dozen states have passed legislation to promote sales of water and wastewater utilities. Although private money can fund upgrades, e

73 million Americans now get their water from private companies. A dozen states have passed laws making public utilities easier to sell.

https://www.governing.com/infrastructure/whats-behind-the-push-toward-privatizing-water-systems

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Cli-Fi outsold traditional sci-fi for three straight quarters in 2026. https://www.bookzee.net/the-rise-of-cli-fi-why-2026s-most-popular-books-are-about-our-changing-planet/

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'For Phnom Penh to be a green utopia, it should first start with an idea, an imagination. It starts with the fiction that is our dream.' Cambodian artists are using Solarpunk to make that fiction visible. https://phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/young-artists-use-solarpunk-vision-to-reimagine-a-greener-phnom-penh/