Honestly a little disappointed

"WHY": It can help you plan for the best places to sit, take photos, etc.

A friend is planning an event this summer and wanted to find a shady spot in a large park for people to sit. I remembered seeing this project, and it helped in my use case

Here is the website: https://shademap.app/

Here is the developer's GitHub with some code, API, and sample projects: https://github.com/ted-piotrowski

Here is an article I found by Bellingcat talking about the features: https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/shademap

There is also this other tool ShadowMap (app.shadowmap.org), but the data quality wasn't great for the places that I tried.

On May 2, Health Canada announced a recall of Arooj Henna Cones due to a chemical hazard, as the product may contain phenol, a prohibited ingredient on Canada’s Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist.

“Phenolic compounds are known skin sensitizers and can produce chemical burns (corrosive action) to the skin,” reads the statement. “Immediately stop using the recalled products and dispose of them in regular household garbage.”

According to Health Canada, as of May 27, one incident has already been reported due to the recalled product.

As the Arctic continues to warm faster than anywhere else on Earth, the temperature shift is driving changes in plant life, which can have huge effects on ecosystems — including important wildlife like caribou. Our science communicator Darius Mahdavi met with tundra researchers to learn more.

From their release notes:

A few highlights ✨:

• Keep sort and order criteria during navigation
• Implement loading spinner for marking as favourite/read
• Many bug fixes

The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific name, C. hominivorax, translates to “man-eater.”) Larvae of the parasitic fly chew through flesh, transforming small nicks into big, gruesome wounds. But in the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture laid the groundwork for a continent-wide assault. Workers raised screwworms in factories, blasted them with radiation until they were sterile, and dropped the sterile adult screwworms by the millions—even hundreds of millions—weekly over the U.S., then farther south in Mexico, and eventually in the rest of North America.

The sterile flies proceeded to, well, screw the continent’s wild populations into oblivion, and in 2006, an invisible barrier was established at the Darién Gap, the jungle that straddles the Panama-Colombia border, to cordon the screwworm-free north off from the south. The barrier, as I observed when I reported from Panama several years ago, consisted of planes releasing millions of sterile screwworms to rain down over the Darién Gap every week. This never-ending battle kept the threat of screwworms far from America.

But in 2022, the barrier was breached. Cases in Panama—mostly in cattle—skyrocketed from dozens a year to 1,000, despite ongoing drops of sterile flies. The parasite then began moving northward, at first slowly and then rapidly by 2024, which is when I began getting alarmed emails from those following the situation in Central America. As of this month, the parasite has advanced 1,600 miles through eight countries to reach Oaxaca and Veracruz in Mexico, with 700 miles left to go until the Texas border. The U.S. subsequently suspended live-cattle imports from Mexico.

Central America is shaped like a funnel with a long, bumpy tail that reaches its skinniest point in Panama. Back in the day, the USDA helped pay for screwworm eradication down to Panama out of not pure altruism but economic pragmatism: Establishing a 100-mile screwworm barrier there is cheaper than creating one at the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Even after screwworms began creeping up the tail of the funnel recently, the anti-screwworm campaign had one last good chance of stopping them at a narrow isthmus in southern Mexico—after which the funnel grows dramatically wider. It failed. The latest screwworm detections in Oaxaca and Veracruz are just beyond the isthmus.