Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide — GHG emissions are now fully tracked: A group of research NGOs, backed by former US Vice President and longtime climate activist Al Gore, unveiled Climate Trace, an online platform monitoring and publishing greenhouse gas emissions for the top 72k polluters worldwide, spanning across 20 sectors, according to a statement. The platform monitors power plants, steel mills, oil and gas fields, cement and aluminum producers, among other contributors to climate change across the world. Climate Trace offers the world’s first platform identifying and tracking the most prominent emission producers, using AI to help its fleet of experts analyze and calculate emissions that previously-used methodologies would have missed. The platform wants to fill in the gaps left due to a lack of transparency from nations and individual emitters. “As of the end of October, no nation has submitted a complete accounting of its emissions for 2021 to the UNFCCC. 52 countries have not submitted any emissions inventories covering the past ten years,” the statement read.

The data: Surprising no one, all the data is pointing the finger at oil and gas fields, which make up more than half of the 50 largest emission sources worldwide. Power plants made up more than half of the top 500 emitters worldwide, which collectively accounted for 14% of global emissions last year.

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Having trouble falling asleep, getting up on time, or staying awake? You might be suffering from social jet lag™: The fatigue and confusion you often feel on the first day of your work week may very likely be the result of social jet lag, which is characterized by irregular sleep patterns during the week and on the weekends, according to a new study from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Baylor University. Contrary to the severe symptoms of travel-related jet lag, social jet lag can be chronic and manifest itself in less evident ways. It is “more insidious, often hiding in plain sight though it may have an impact on our health” — increasing our chances of developing depression, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular issues, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing a UCSF psychologist. It’s also shown a correlation with poorer academic performance and less healthy eating habits.

Why is social jet lag so harmful? Inadequate sleep is detrimental for our health, but an irregular sleep schedule can be just as, if not more, problematic as “the circadian rhythms coordinate most physiological functions and most of the body’s cells have their own clock,” the WSJ says, citing sleep experts. In a recent large-scale analysis of 9k participants, 47% of US adults had social jet lag lasting two or more hours, which is equivalent to traveling one time zone, according to the WSJ citing the director of sleep medicine at Ohio’s University Hospital. The advent of daylight saving time last weekend could be seen as a form of widespread social jet lag that worsens existing circadian misalignment, according to a CDC National Health and Nutrition Examination survey.