Our food systems face new #risks from #ai not just through traditional pathways (energy, cyber, transport, markets) but through rapidly expanding #smartagricuture and AI controlled conflict ⁦@JahnResearch⁩ independent.co.uk/tech/ai-ar…

#Honduras An estimated 1.8 million people are likely facing high levels of acute food insecurity during the April–July 2026 lean season. This includes around 95,000 people in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), as households contend with depleted food stocks and persistently high food prices. Read more: ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_u…

IPC analyses released in May highlighted worsening food insecurity across several countries, with a risk of famine in 14 areas of Sudan, a deepening economic crisis in Yemen, a risk of Famine in Somalia's Burhakaba District, high levels of acute food insecurity due to conflict and wide-spread displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and high food prices and insecurity in Ecuador. Read the full reports below: Sudan: ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/… Yemen: ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/… Somalia: ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/… DRC: ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/… Ecuador: ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-anal… @theIPCinfo

In this study published today in Science Polasky et al. show that there are ways where we can be more efficient and address climate and biodiversity without bankrupting people science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

One week. Two countries identified at risk of Famine. In Sudan, 14 areas across Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan are at risk of Famine during the June–September 2026 lean season, in a plausible worst-case scenario where conflict intensifies, humanitarian access narrows further, and displacement continues to disrupt livelihoods. This risk continues through January 2026 for 13 of these areas. In Somalia, Burhakaba District is at risk of Famine through June 2026, in a plausible worst-case scenario in which the Gu season rains fail, food prices continue to rise, and humanitarian food assistance falls below expected levels. In line with IPC protocols, a risk of Famine indicates that Famine is likely to occur if conditions deteriorate beyond what is currently expected. Risk of Famine is, therefore, a way of highlighting the potential for a situation to deteriorate into Famine, even if it is not the central forecast. Read more: 🔗 Sudan: ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/… 🔗 Somalia: ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/… 🔗 Famine Fact Sheet: ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_u…

"Proximity to nuclear power plants was associated with elevated mortality from breast, colon, and lung cancers." nature.com/articles/s41370-0…

🎓 Congrats to Columbia Climate School Class of 2026! 💙 #Columbia2026 #ColumbiaClimate2026 "The work ahead is demanding, but you know what? So are we." —Annika Bellot, Class Day Student Speaker, MA Climate & Society 🎥 Watch our Class Day celebration: youtube.com/live/yFGqs8UPOXA…

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure politi.co/4nj5mWl via @politico

The Story of the Te-Amo Cigar Sign, a New York Icon

Recent IPC analyses show concerning trends across several regions, from the risk of famine in South Sudan, renewed conflict in Lebanon, mass displacement and severe hunger in Haiti, and drought in Kenya. Read the full reports below: South Sudan: ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/… Haiti: ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/… Kenya: ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/… Lebanon: ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_u… Tanzania: ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-anal… SADC: ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_u… @theIPCinfo

🎓 We're thrilled to announce that @Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa will deliver the keynote at our Class Day ceremony to celebrate Columbia Climate School 2026 grads! 💙 #Columbia2026 #ColumbiaClimate2026 Via State of the Planet: news.climate.columbia.edu/20…

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy sfgate.com/centralcoast/arti… via @SFGate

#SouthSudan Worsening food insecurity and malnutrition in South Sudan demand urgent action to protect lives and livelihoods. More on the latest IPC findings⬇️ @theIPCinfo

Deep space missions mean growing our own food — but what if a pathogen puts it at risk? @PurdueBPP professor Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi and PhD candidate Denise Caldwell study plant immunity in space to help @NASA grow food sustainably beyond Earth. 🚀🍅 #NationalSpaceDay

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Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule for job talks • Why jokes fail at the start 15 lessons on communication:

Students who took notes by hand scored ~28% higher on conceptual questions than laptop note-takers. Writing forces your brain to process and compress ideas instead of copying them.