Through in person user testing, the BBC found that 80% of BBC Sounds users turn up the brightness on devices when viewing a dark mode theme. This rebound effect results in more energy being used for dark mode interfaces.
Brazilian scientists have developed water-soluble glass microbeads that contain fertiliser nutrients that produce 70% more biomass growth over multiple harvests while reducing the amount of fertiliser used.
Pawprint published a post detailing that the carbon emissions of an emailImage:, as defined in Mike Berners-Lee’s book How Bad Are Bananas, is 0.3g CO2e. Adding an attachment can increase the amount of carbon emitted up to 50g CO2e.
The European Alternatives website lists European tech products across a number of categories such as web hosting, VPNs, website analytics, and email marketing.
The Doughnut Economics Action Lab released a new guide for cities and regions that want to implement Doughnut Economics, which includes 12 interesting case studies from places like Glasgow, Grenoble, Brussels, Barcelona, & Cornwall that have implemented Doughnut Economics.
Researchers from Aberdeen University & Universities in India have developed a method to help the people of the Ladakh region obtain melt water during the warmer spring and summer months. By piping glacier water from higher altitudes during winter to lower land levels and spraying the water in one place, an Ice Stupa can be created. The water can then be used when it melts for agricultural now that glacial meltwater on a larger scale cannot be relied upon as the glacier retreat due to climate change.
The Guardian published an interesting interactive map that shows the projected European population growth, or lack thereof, without migration by the year 2100, based on Eurostat projections.
Microsoft have developed a topological quantum chip based on Majorana zero modes, which uses braided anyons to implement quantum gates, rather than capturing and observing individual quantum atom states to represent qubits.
