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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Forests, which cover a third of Earth's land surface, are pivotal in carbon storage and the water cycle, though the full scope of their impact remains to be fully understood. In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Stockholm University and international colleagues provide new insights into the complex role forests play in the climate system and water cycle.…

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. The amazing Mary Ann Azevedo was out this week, so Kirsten Korosec, Karyne Levy and Alex Wilhelm took to the mics to chat through the most important tech news of the week. And if you haven’t already, head here to listen to our interview with founder and former VC Anshu Sharma about building competitive products and defining new markets.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Getting people to cycle isn't just about building more and better cycle lanes, to include more demographics, urban planners need to consider factors other than infrastructure, says a Malmö University researcher. "For environmental reasons, among others, we want more people to cycle, but today urban planning focuses…

A consumer protection group alleged Starbucks’ mobile app traps users in a vicious cycle of beverage buying in a December complaint to Washington’s Attorney General. The coffee chain’s mobile app allegedly uses “dark patterns” to make low funds on a Starbucks Card unusable, forcing you to add $10 or lose that money altogether.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox Controller“The Starbucks Payment Platform involves unfair and deceptive digital dark patterns that effectively trap its customers into prepaying for the company’s…

Dedicated Starbucks customers know that the use of the company’s mobile app and digital payment cards to pay for coffee and other goodies comes with restrictions.You can only add money to the card in $10 increments and must choose a tip from predetermined choices. That means no loading an exact amount for a single purchase or giving an odd tip amount to get your balance down to zero.And you can’t split a payment between two cards if one doesn’t have enough money on it to cover your purchase, unless you complete the…

(spoilers within for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty; TW: discussion of suicide)Two fugitives are riding a monorail. They've escaped capture. They're home free. Both of them are tired, bloody, bruised, but hopeful. The monorail is about to take them to freedom, to a place where none of their immeasurable crimes matter, where life can have value again, where they can both start anew. You need a javascript enabled browser to watch videos.Size:640 × 360480 × 270 Want…

The Dutch love to cycle. So much so that there are more than 35,000 km (over 56,000 miles) of cycle paths snaking through the Netherlands. Two of those bike routes have now been topped with photovoltaic cells to produce renewable energy while they face skyward.Construction company the BAM Royal Group and the Colas Group's Wattway subsidiary have joined forces to install the latter's Wattway Pack panels on 1,000 m2 of bike paths in the North Holland province and another 1,000 m2 in the North Brabant area.Unlike the…

Two solar cycle paths came online in the Netherlands, and they’re the country’s first to have 1,000 square meters (10,764 square feet) of solar surface area each. Solar cycle paths Colas Group’s company Wattway and Dutch construction company BAM Royal Group installed the solar cycle paths in the North Holland and North Brabant provinces. Wattway makes solar road surfaces that produce clean electricity while bearing vehicle traffic. Wattway, which claims to be the world’s first solar road…

The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, as shown in this illustration, is the first global mission surveying Earth’s surface water. SWOT’s high-resolution data helps scientists measure how Earth’s bodies of water change over time. Credit: JPL/CNES Google’s “A Passage of Water” Brings NASA’s Water Data to Life This immersive experience leverages satellite data to illustrate how climate change is impacting Earth’s water cycle. As part of the long-standing partnership between NASA and Google,…

Publisher Daedalic Entertainment has revealed the Early Access release date for developer Core Engage’s debut title New Cycle. Now scheduled to release on January 18, 2024, New Cycle tasks players with building a new bastion for humanity on a post-apocalyptic Earth ravaged by solar flares. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNgXvRMmdv4 An old new world Players take on the role of leading a small group of settlers seeking refuge after a catastrophic solar flare decimated Earth. In the dieselpunk-inspired…