Don't let be governed by artificial intelligence
To safeguard human rights, protect personal data and monitor the risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence more than one hundred and twenty countries have decided in a document that it is preferable to choose to govern artificial intelligence rather than let be governed by it. Improper use, the planning of malicious attacks, the development of artificial intelligence applications could undermine the promotion and enjoyment of fundamental rights and basic freedoms; then there is the risk of weakening the security of countries and their protection systems, of influencing elections, of depriving entire social classes of their jobs. It is one of the attempts to control a technology that does not seem to be very human-scale, but almost made to replace human intelligence, the imagination and creativity.
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Date: Mar 23, 2024
n°: 5602
Jump in average sea level rise
Due to the global "El Nino" current and a warmer climate (perhaps more the second factor), the researchers argue that from 2022 to 2023 the average rise in global sea level would have increased almost four times compared to the previous year; so we are talking about a significant jump especially taking into account the data that were monitored in 1993 that show how much the pace of sea rise has increased. In practice by 2050 it will be necessary to add another twenty centimeters of sea rise, provided that the percentage of acceleration remains the current one with consequences that are already disastrous. As a result of the global El Niño current rainfall is generally more intense and much of this rain falls on the seas causing it to rise, but there is also a clear human imprint in this accelerating trend.
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Date: Mar 22, 2024
n°: 5601
Can't live without being able to breathe good air
Last year only ten countries and nine percent of cities in the world would have air of quality judged breathable based on the quantities of ultrafine PM2.5 particulate matter present, considered very harmful to health (it seems to kill more people than any other pollutant in general and in 2021 the guidelines recommended cutting the average from ten to five micrograms per cubic meter); according to the researchers can live on average two months without food, three days without water, but only a few minutes without air which is evidently essential for life. Fine dust enters directly into the bloodstream and then into various organs, can irritate the lungs and respiratory system and reduce the well-being of the body without considering that they are responsible for heart attacks, strokes, tumors, Parkinson's, cause oxidative stress and damage cells at a faster rate than reparative.
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Date: Mar 21, 2024
n°: 5600
Breaking all negative climate records
Yet another red alert from international organizations regarding the climate data collected during 2023, in particular regarding ocean warming and ice melting in the polar ice caps especially that of Antarctica (one million square kilometers below the previous negative record, an area almost equivalent to the size of Egypt). Global average temperatures are now dangerously close to the one and a half Celsius degree increase established in the 2015 Paris Agreement as a limit not to be exceeded and these are negative records since temperatures were monitored one hundred and seventy-four years ago, then the rise in sea levels is really worrying. To be reported changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues a cloudburst with consequent flooding of water and mud in the city of Duhok in Iraq, there is talk of two victims as well as damage and inconvenience.
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Date: Mar 20, 2024
n°: 5599
An eco-tax for the global shipping industry
Ways to curb polluting emissions from the global shipping industry have long been sought, and now a document is being discussed by an international maritime organization to impose a tax on every ton of greenhouse gases that the industry produces (the European Union, Canada and vulnerable Pacific island states are participating). This tax could finance sea transport with low-polluting ships and the transition to greener shipping for poor emerging countries, but some opponents argue that this would penalize these economies even though it is well known that the costs of compensating for the damage of global climate change are now higher than those produced by entire advanced economies. It is estimated that the nautical sector accounts for about three percent of CO2 emissions, increasing for the next few decades without action.
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Date: Mar 19, 2024
n°: 5598
State of emergency on the Reykjanes Peninsula
The fourth eruption since December affected the Reykjanes peninsula in southeastern Iceland, there is talk of a missing and state of emergency for the localities of Grindavik (a town evacuated for some time) and Blue Lagoon; the incandescent magma emerges from a fissure about three kilometers long and advances past the barriers of earth and rock that have been prepared to deflect and control the spectacular magmatic flow. Researchers had already widely predicted the eruption because volcanic activity in the subsurface remained quite high. It is worth mentioning changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues a legislation recently approved in France to regulate extremely low costs fashion with a high environmental impact, the entire textile sector seems to be responsible for ten percent of climate-altering gas emissions as well as being a major polluter of water.
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Date: Mar 18, 2024
n°: 5597
Ohio in U.S. devastated by tornadoes
Violent tornadoes in succession have hit the Ohio state in the United States leaving a trail of destruction, there is talk of several victims and injuries while trying to rescue all the people affected by the strong vortices that have devastated homes, overturned cars and uprooted trees as well as swirling debris of all kinds. Violent tornadoes also occurred in Indiana with many injured, then the series of vortices also affected Kentucky. Of note changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues the alarm of researchers on colonies of emperor penguins (a species in danger of extinction) due to the H5N1 avian flu that is spreading in Antarctica; this is a highly pathogenic influenza also found in cormorants and since the animals tend to stay very close together this could increase the percentage of transmission between the colonies.
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Date: Mar 16, 2024
n°: 5596
Heavy rainfall in Argentina with flooding
Soybean fields in Argentina would have been affected by heavy rainfall and there are fears that the harvest for the 2023-24 season could suffer serious consequences (while the wheat harvest for the 2024-25 growing season could perhaps be fine); there is talk of flooding in some areas of the city of Buenos Aires as well as a kind of lightning storm with flashes every second. It will be necessary to deal with the high humidity rate so as not to compromise the health of the plants from any fungi and pathogens, although it is generally better that it rains in abundance rather than the drought experienced previously. Shifting attention to other scenarios, it is worth mentioning the copious snowfall that affected large areas of Colorado in the United States with thousands of homes left without electricity supply and inevitable inconvenience for the population.
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Date: Mar 15, 2024
n°: 5595
A European law on artificial intelligence
A European regulation would have been approved [still not came into force] that seeks to regulate applications based on artificial intelligence that violate the rights of citizens, for example not to be recognized by facial images taken with cameras and processed by algorithms, then the analysis of biometric and sensitive data; this is the first time that action has been taken in this thorny area. In the meantime artificial intelligence developers continue to strengthen the sector with agreements with important and authoritative French and Spanish media, but there is no shortage of controversy over possible copyright abuses with articles used without consent, not to mention that even a company that builds chips that support artificial intelligence was recently accused of using books to train neural networks without consent.
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Date: Mar 14, 2024
n°: 5594
Particulate matter more harmful for children
Children have an organism that has yet to develop and is therefore more susceptible to damage caused by fine particulate matter, then they breathe more frequently and therefore inhale a greater amount of pollutants; at least according to a Thai study that shows that schoolchildren who enjoy better health at school will have better results that they will give back to societies in the future. Thailand has one of the most polluting cities in the world and children would be at great risk of long-term damage to their respiratory system, especially due to PM2.5 particulate matter that is so small that it enters the bloodstream (not to mention that in traffic for example children are closer to car exhausts). Generally children do not understand what happens when they inhale pollutants and simply wonder why their throats burn and cough often.
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Date: Mar 13, 2024
n°: 5593
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