🦞🌯 Lobster Roll

You can find part one [here](https://rawhex.com/blogs/news/a-very-hacky-christmas-tree-part-1), that shows you how to get the basic lights working.

This is a really simple but really rewarding festive lights project that I've been meaning to put together for a while. In total, it takes about an hour to set up from components to building the board then setting up and programming the lights. Providing you follow the instructions it's hard to get ...

Researchers Have Discovered That Trees Are Growing in Size as a Result of Carbon Dioxide It is well known that trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, protecting people from some of the harshest consequences of climate change. A recent study demonstrates the extent to which forests have bee...

Ecologists Highlight the Importance of Preserving Ancient Trees A vital role in biodiversity and ecosystem preservation is played by ancient trees—those that are many hundreds, or even thousands, of years old—by providing stability, strength, and protection to at-risk environments. A team of ecologi...

The Historic Extremity of the Event Serves as a Warning for Other Regions During the summer of 2021, an unprecendented heatwave swept across western North America, affecting regions from British Columbia to Washington, Oregon, and beyond into other interior areas that typically experience a mild cli...

A new method for measuring carbon uptake in trees highlights the potential vulnerability of large trees to drought conditions. Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Rule of Trees’ for illustrating trees has been largely adopted by science when modeling trees and how they function. Now, researchers ...

Climate-driven isoprene emissions from trees could harm air quality, but pollution control offers a solution. It’s a simple question that sounds a little like a modest proposal. “Should we cut down all the oak trees?” asked Tom Sharkey, a University Distinguished Professor in the Plant Res...

A study has found that photovoltaic (PV) fields are more effective than afforestation in mitigating global climate change. While forests sequester carbon to mitigate climate change, PV energy reduces reliance on fossil fuels. However, both approaches increase the global heat load due to their darker...

Scientists flip the script, revealing trees in wetter regions are more sensitive to drought. This holiday season brings surprising news about your Christmas tree. Scientists just discovered that globally, trees growing in wetter regions are more sensitive to drought. That means if your tree hails fr...

Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. “We found that trees...

Recent genomic research suggests that baobabs originated in Madagascar and later dispersed to Africa and Australia. Factors like climate and sea level changes influenced their evolution. Rising sea levels threaten their expansion, necessitating urgent conservation. Some species may be reclassified a...

Climate change impacts tree migrations by disrupting essential symbiotic relationships with mycorrhizal fungi, necessary for nutrient exchange and survival in new habitats. As our planet warms, many species are shifting to different locations as their historical habitats become inhospitable. Trees a...

New research reveals that tree bark microbes absorb significant amounts of methane, increasing the climate benefit of trees by about 10%. This finding underscores the importance of trees in mitigating climate change and supports tree planting and forest conservation as key strategies in global metha...

A group of international scientists contends that planting trees at high latitudes will accelerate global warming rather than slow it down. Tree planting is often promoted as a cost-effective strategy to combat global warming, thanks to trees’ capacity to absorb significant amounts of atmospheric ca...

Blue growth rings in woody plant stems indicate years when cells failed to lignify properly due to summers that were too cold for normal growth. When temperatures drop, even tough trees face challenges in growing. Trees require a specific number of warm days during their growing season to develop pr...

The highest recorded elevations of Jeffrey pines provide new evidence of a warming climate in the High Sierra. UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for enjoyment in California’s High Sierra when he unexpectedly documented a new elevation record for the Jeffrey pine. His discovery, which may re...

In a surprising twist of nature, certain fig trees in Kenya are doing more than just bearing fruit—they’re capturing carbon dioxide from the air and turning it into stone. Scientists discovered these trees can form limestone-like deposits in their trunks and surrounding soil, locking carbon away in ...

Planting trees helps cool the planet, but not all locations deliver the same benefits. New research shows that tropical forests are the real climate champions — pulling in carbon, releasing cooling water vapor, and even helping to suppress fires. While planting at higher latitudes can sometimes trap...

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth. NGC 2264 is a vast region of space where new stars are actively forming, located about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the faint constellation Monoceros, also known ...

Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are making forests more uniform, with fast-growing species increasingly dominating the landscape. As native trees are displaced, biodiversity declines, resistance to disease weakens, and forests lose much of their ability to store CO₂. Trees are essent...

This was posted as a comment in [this thread](https://lobste.rs/s/esdf4i/mathematical_proof_lightning_network) and discusses the argument posed in that linked story, as well as a counterpoint.