Author: Nitesh Gautam

Real Time Amazon Deforestation:Ā What if your area had the same deforestation rate as the Amazon Forest?

According to INPE, a satellite monitoring agency, in the first 22 days of July more than 1260 square kilometers of the Amazon have been deforested. Here you can see that destruction rate applied to any place in the world in real time.

Source: Real Time Amazon Deforestation : Real Time Amazon Deforestation

On social isolation

It turns out that the people who reported spending the most time on social media ā€” more than two hours a day ā€” had twice the odds of perceived social isolation than those who said they spent a half hour per day or less on those sites. And people who visited social media platforms most frequently, 58 visits per week or more, had more than three times the odds of perceived social isolation than those who visited fewer than nine times per week.

Source: Emotionally stunted stunting | The Outline

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Tokyo unveils 2020 Olympic medals harvested from old gadgets

78,895 tons of gadgets were received in total, including 6.21 million mobile phones, and this resulted in the extraction of 32kg of gold, 3,500kg of silver, and 2,200kg of bronze.

Source: Tokyo unveils 2020 Olympic medals harvested from old gadgets – The Verge