The USDA’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center has been the go-to resource for American beekeepers for over a century. When 1.6 million bee colonies collapsed between June 2024 and March 2025, scientists there worked quickly to find out why. Six months later, they had an answer it was a viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites.

The Trump administration announced it was closing the lab. Their reasoning is the facility is “underutilized and redundant.” Bees pollinate roughly 80% of U.S. crops fruits, nuts, vegetables, cotton. The research happening at Beltsville isn’t “underutilized and redundant.” It’s what stands between a bad season and a food supply crisis. And the administration just shut it down right after it proved exactly why it exists.

Members of Maryland’s congressional delegation say the closure may be illegal without congressional approval. Farm groups are pushing back. But the administration is moving forward anyway.

This isn’t about budget efficiency. It’s about dismantling the federal science infrastructure that protects American agriculture one “redundant” lab at a time just like the Trump administration claimed about the forest service!

The USDA’s Beltsville... - Alt National Park Service
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Jestli se tohle skutečně potvrdí a ta výroba pojede jak oznamujou, tak to jsou imho velmi dobrý zprávy...grid storage za tuhle cenu vyřešenej, domácí baterky taky (s tou bezpečnostní navíc)

Volkswagen-backed Gotion launches "Gnascent" sodium-ion battery: up to 261 Wh/kg with mass production ready
https://carnewschina.com/2026/05/17/volkswagen-backed-gotion-launches-gnascent-sodium-ion-battery-up-to-261-wh-kg-with-mass-production-ready/

DZODZO: jako slovensti?

Vím o místě, které každý rok spláchla velký voda. Dělo se to nějakých 30 let co pamatuji.
Pak byla 3 roky pauza. Člověk to tam koupil a postavil si tam dům. Čtvrtý rok se velmi divil, že má vody po kolena. Další rok totéž.

“What the method does show is that no city could survive more than a few days in isolation; that many whole countries are running significant eco-deficits; and that the aggregate, mostly urban, human EF exceeds available global biocapacity by at least 78%. This means that humanity has vastly overshot the long-term carrying capacity of Earth; the growth and maintenance of the human enterprise today is being ‘financed’ by depleting stocks of essential bioresources (not to mention non-renewables) needed tomorrow. We are rapidly draining Earth’s battery and there are no near-by magical charging stations.”

Carrying capacity: The vinegar in economists’ wine
https://reeswilliame.substack.com/p/carrying-capacity-the-vinegar-in

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/21/un-vote-support-icj-world-court-climate-change-opinion

Abstaining were a bloc of 28 countries spanning emerging emitters and traditional petrostates, including India, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Nigeria, the Czech Republic and Turkey,

France just completed the world's largest agrivoltaic trial — installing solar panel canopies above 2,400 hectares of Provence vineyards, cereal fields, and vegetable plots, generating 500 megawatts of clean electricity from the same land producing full agricultural output.

The Sun'Agri program installs tilting solar panels on 5-meter-tall structures above crops, with panel angles controlled by sensors responding to crop water stress and solar irradiance.

Panels tilt to provide shade on hot days, reducing crop water needs by 30 percent and heat stress damage by 64 percent during heatwaves while generating electricity from diffuse light above the canopy. Crop yields in pilot vineyards increased 27 percent in drought years.

France loses 18,000 hectares of agricultural land to conventional ground-mounted solar annually.

Agrivoltaics eliminate this conflict entirely — 2,400 dual-use hectares replace lost food production while generating clean power.

Source: French National Institute for Agriculture INRAE, Sun'Agri France, French Ministry of Agriculture, 2025.

MURDOCH OWNS OUR GOVERNMENTS | Bad news for the solar sceptics-
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TADEAS:

R Hallam
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Four points on the "landmark" UK report on the elite's mass death project.

1. If it is a "landmark" report which points to the destruction of the British economy, its way of life, and the very existence of the country at 4C, why does it get two small lines in the middle of the news section of the world's main "liberal" newspaper that sells the idea that facts are "sacred"? The point being the liberal elites exist to smooth the journey to mass death being prepared for us by the business elites.

2. It's not the mean, stupid. What kills is the outlier. What we want to know is not that food production will go down by x% on average - we want to know that every 20 years an outlier probability is there will be destroyed crops two years running, leading to mass starvation of British people, from which they will not recover by the time the next outlier hits.

3. The unit of analysis of the "UK" is also beyond stupid. What will happen in the UK does not depend upon what happens in the UK but in the whole world. When outliers happen in other areas - war, famine, social breakdown, the world economy will collapse and UK living standards will collapse. Meaning poor people will starve and revolutions will happen.

4. The "climate" is not an event. So stopping pretending it is. It is not a matter of "if we get to 4C". It is a matter of if we get to 2C, feedbacks will send our kids to 3C and their kids to extinction at 4/5 and 6C. It's a ball rolling ever faster down the hill, not a bus stop.

XCHAOS: Můžeš prosím uvést jeden jediný konkrétní příklad, kdy nějakou pobřežní nemovitost spláchlo moře (ne prostřednictvím eroze nebo cunami, ale zvednutím hladiny světových oceánů) a majitel měl nezaplacenou hypotéku?
Je naprosto jasné, že na beachfront properties asi bude v budoucnu těžké sehnat hypotéku na 40 let, ale zatím ten "Tvůj model" fakt nefunguje. Pokud se zvyšování hladiny urychlí, tak banky prostě přestanou financovat hypotéky ve velmi nízkých nadmořských výškách a problém budou mít jiné firmy/lidé, ne banky.

J Pecho
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Predstavte si 540 miliónov rokov klímy strednej Európy v jednej obrazovej sérii — od najstarších prvohôr až po to, ako môže naša krajina vyzerať o pár generácií.

Začneme v plytkom tropickom mori s trilobitmi (pred 520 mil. rokov). Pokračujeme do hustého uhoľného pralesa pri rovníku s 35-metrovými šupinatými stromami a vážkami s rozpätím krídel 70 cm (pred 310 mil. rokov). Stáda "raných" dinosaurov v polopúšti superkontinentu Pangea (pred 220 mil. rokov). Pravták Archaeopteryx krúžiaci nad tropickou bavorskou lagúnou (pred 150 mil. rokov).

V eocéne — pred 48 miliónmi rokov — bolo Nemecko ako Indonézia: palmy, krokodíly, prví primáti v korunách stromov. Bolo o 12 °C teplejšie ako dnes.

Potom dlhé ochladzovanie. Posledná doba ľadová pred 21 000 rokmi: mamutia step naprieč strednou Európou, stáda sobov a vlnatých nosorožcov, na fronte alpského ľadovca naši priami predkovia v kožiach. Pred 125 000 rokmi naopak medziľadová doba — teplejšie ako dnes, v Temži sa kúpali hrochy.

Po roztopení ľadovcov prví roľníci s drevenými dlhými domami ako ostrovy v mori hlbokých lesov. Stredoveké teplé obdobie okolo roku 1100 — anglické vinice, kvitnúce kláštory. Malá doba ľadová v 17. storočí — zamrznuté rieky, trhy priamo "na ľade".

A potom budúcnosť: +2 °C, +4 °C, +10 °C.

Najsilnejšia myšlienka? Posledný obraz série — Zem o 10 °C teplejšia okolo roku 2300 — stredná Európy vyzerá takmer identicky ako tá eocénna džungľa pred 48 miliónmi rokov. Palmy, tie isté krokodíly v rieke. More o 60 metrov vyššie. Panónska kotlina pod morom. A civilizácia? It´s gone (I suppose).

Paleoklimatológia nie je len o minulosti. Je to atlas našej budúcnosti — mapa, ktorú už raz Zem nakreslila. Stačí ju vedieť čítať.
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Obr. generované AI (Claude, gpt, ...)

Zdroje, z ktorých vychádza vizualizačná séria klímy strednej Európy:

Prvohory–druhohory
• Inglis G.N. et al. (2020). Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum, PETM, and latest Paleocene. Climate of the Past 16, 1953. (doi:10.5194/cp-16-1953-2020)
• Burke K.D. et al. (2018). Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates. PNAS 115, 13288. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1809600115)
• Scotese C.R. (PALEOMAP Project) — paleogeografické rekonštrukcie kontinentov pre celé fanerozoikum

Pleistocén a doba ľadová
• Petit J.R. et al. (1999). Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core. Nature 399, 429.
• Lüthi D. et al. (2008). High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present. Nature 453, 379.
• Annan J.D., Hargreaves J.C. (2013). A new global reconstruction of temperature changes at the Last Glacial Maximum. Climate of the Past 9, 367. (doi:10.5194/cp-9-367-2013)
• Kindler P. et al. (2014). Temperature reconstruction from 10 to 120 kyr b2k from the NGRIP ice core. Climate of the Past 10, 887. (doi:10.5194/cp-10-887-2014)
• Clark P.U. et al. (2012). Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation. PNAS 109, E1134.
• Lambert F. et al. (2008). Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core. Nature 452, 616.
• Batchelor C.L. et al. (2019). The configuration of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets through the Quaternary. Nature Communications 10, 3713.
• Leger T.P.M. et al. (2026). First Alps-wide reconstruction of LGM glacial sediment transport. Earth Surface Dynamics 14, 361. (doi:10.5194/esurf-14-361-2026) — GPU-modelovanie alpského ľadu pre vizualizáciu LGM.

Súčasná klíma a budúce scenáre
• IPCC AR6 WG1 (2021). Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Cambridge University Press. (ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1)
• Zemp M. et al. (2015). Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century. Journal of Glaciology 61, 745.
• EURO-CORDEX projekt — regionálne klimatické projekcie pre Európu (euro-cordex.net)
• CH2018 — Swiss Climate Change Scenarios — adaptačné scenáre pre Alpy

Referenčné monografie
• Gornitz V. (ed.) (2009). Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Springer.
• Ruddiman W.F. (2014). Earth's Climate: Past and Future (3rd ed.). W.H. Freeman.
• Anderson D.E., Goudie A.S., Parker A.G. (2013). Global Environments through the Quaternary. Oxford University Press.
• Burroughs W.J. (2005). Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos. Cambridge UP.

Globálna teplota a CO₂
• Westerhold T. et al. (2020). An astronomically dated record of Earth's climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years. Science 369, 1383. (doi:10.1126/science.aba6853)
• Foster G.L., Royer D.L., Lunt D.J. (2017). Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years. Nature Communications 8, 14845. (doi:10.1038/ncomms14845)
• Hansen J. et al. (2013). Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 371, 20120294. (doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0294)

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise | UK criminal justice | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may/23/anti-protest-sentences-rise-england-wales-political-prisoners

Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza, a report claims.

The research by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the protest group Defend Our Juries says that custodial sentences for acts of direct action or civil disobedience were once rare but are now being imposed with increasing length and frequency.