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Your host in this episode is Ina Plodroch
And here is the most important information for you:
Large forest fires worry us. But are there really more fires and how much of it is natural or “our fault”?
Author Michael Stang
Copernicus is the European Union’s Earth observation programme, which also includes the European Forest Fire Information System:
“Fire weather” in Europe – result of a study in the journal Environmental Research Letters:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad5b09
Forest fires since 2003 – Study in NATURE Ecology & Evolution:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02452-2
Are you in a risk area? (Forest fire index of the German Weather Service)
https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/waldbrandinfo/waldbrandinfo.html
Click here for the forest fire warning sign
https://www.waldbrand-klima-resilienz.com/waldbrandwarnschild
Natural Climate Protection Action Programme of the Federal Environment Ministry:
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Social Media – How do I get out of my bubble?
Whether on Instagram, Tiktok or Twitter – the algorithms control our content and bubbles. Do we need to do something about it?
Author: Catha Velten
Here you can read how the Instagram algorithms work:
https://about.instagram.com/de-de/blog/announcements/instagram-ranking-explained
Here you can read more about what data Meta collects and uses from you:
Here you can read how the Tiktok algorithms work:
https://www.tiktok.com/transparency/de-de/german-state-treaty/
This study deals with the effect of “perceived closeness”:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103115300111
Here you can read where encryption can be turned on
https://de-de.facebook.com/help/instagram/1165835007222763
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