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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
This is one of our favorites!
A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason
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Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
📽️ WATCH: Photographer @annie-flanagan.bsky.social went to Clairton, PA, where residents live in the shadow of the country’s largest coke plant. Coke is a product used to manufacture steel.
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
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NEW: Trump’s climate policies could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths by 2115, our analysis found.
“The sheer numbers are horrifying,” a climate advocate said. “These are people with lives, with families, with hopes and dreams.”
How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? The inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.
A seagull stands defiantly on top of a circular sign that shows a silhouette of a bird with a red slash through it, indicating "no birds allowed." The scene is humorous and ironic, as the seagull perches calmly above a sign that clearly forbids its presence. In the background, a soft sky fades into the horizon with buildings and trees below.
You can’t ban defiance!
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A nearly Connecticut-sized, oxygen-depleted area of ocean is decidedly abnormal. But the last 4 decades of annual measurements and failed efforts to stop chemical pollution flowing off midwestern farms and into the Gulf made this week’s announcement entirely predictable.
“We’re being treated like animals… I’m brown. If I go out they can stop me every day just cuz of my skin color.”
What are we doing? 🇺🇸 (from @rokhanna.bsky.social )
A black-and-white photograph of a young girl, Sadako Sasaki, is centered against a soft, pastel-colored background featuring gradients of blue, yellow, and green. Large, bold black text at the top reads: “For Sadako and all children harmed by war.” In the bottom right corner, there is a black origami crane icon next to the text: #CranesforOurFuture.
Sadako Sasaki was two when the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima. She was 12 when she died of leukemia caused by radiation. In her hospital bed, she folded 1,000 paper cranes for peace.
Today, we fold cranes in her memory & to build a safer world free from the threat of nuclear weapons. #CranesForOurFuture
There are historical cases, going back hundreds or thousands of years, of humans reacting quickly to climate change. And then there is the current case of humans both causing the climate change and refusing to react to it.
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“The fossil fuel industry was sent a powerful message by the court in this case — the health, well-being, affordability, and prosperity of our communities matters more than the industry’s profits and the hollowness of its fear mongering.” ~ Dawn Wells-Clyburn, executive director of PUSH Buffalo
A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
“We found an average of seven different pesticides per butterfly, including multiple insecticides that are highly toxic to insects.” ~ Staci Cibotti, lead author of the study and pesticide risk prevention specialist @xercessociety.bsky.social
This made us laugh… and cry. If you felt it too, here’s one way to help two agencies in the bunker 👇
“What makes our discovery groundbreaking is not just its greater depth – it’s the astonishing abundance and diversity of chemosynthetic life we observed... this community thrives like a vibrant oasis in the vast desert of the deep sea.” ~ Mengran Du, IDSSE, Chinese Academy of Sciences
“Oil and gas development in these fragile ecosystems would have devastating impacts on biodiversity, communities, land rights and the global fight against climate change.” ~ Anna Bebbington, research manager @earth-insight.org
Cooper's Hawk
(Astur cooperii)
Seward Park, Seattle, US
#Aves #Birds #Nature #Hawks #Photography
“Every child deserves the chance to grow and thrive. Yet over 190 million children under the age of 5 are affected by undernutrition... This robs them of the chance to live to their fullest potential.” Catherine Russell, executive director @unicef.org , @fao.org
“We are stretching the limits of how much ecological damage we can get away with." ~ @lewisakenji.bsky.social , @footprintnetwork.bsky.social
Federal investments in science have been an engine driving the development of life-saving technologies such as early warning systems for tsunamis & storms, diagnostic tests and vaccines, the early internet & cell phones. But the Trump admin’s budget proposal could take this engine out of commission.
