Environmental News

Many technological innovations have facilitated expansion of the Human Enterprise, among them, animal husbandry. (That's what it's called; do not infer that humans are husbands with subsequent ewww).

There have been negative consequences:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02165-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09192-8

 

Many reports here are doom and gloomy, and so when those to the contrary appear, I do try to include them. Here is another:

Global soil organic carbon levels on the rise due to climate change | EurekAlert!

TL;DR There is a lot of carbon stored in global soils and it is increasing. Beyond accounting, high-carbon soils benefit plants and critters living in them.

 

However ...

Other threads here about orbital-satellite problems focus on uncontrolled reentries that risk bonking something important. Orbital collision risks appear there, but they are not really the same thing. I extract one very surprising quote from:

Nearly everyone opposes Trump’s plan to kill space traffic control program - Ars Technica

“The military currently performs the spaceflight safety mission, providing up to a million collision warnings per day to give satellite operators a heads-up that their spacecraft will encounter another object …”

I added emphasis to that, because dang.

However the word "will" above is obviously wrong choice. No Kessler yet