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| =====Droughts tied to climate change are pushing water, food, and ecosystems to the brink=====
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| [https://www.dailyclimate.org/droughts-tied-to-climate-change-are-pushing-water-food-and-ecosystems-to-the-brink-2672839792.html by Juanita Swart 7/7/25 TheDailyClimate]
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| A new United Nations-backed report warns that climate-fueled droughts are becoming more deadly and far-reaching, intensifying hunger, displacing wildlife, and upending daily life from Africa to Latin America. | |
| =====Plant treaty: Farmers’ groups raise alarm over global talks that could open India’s seeds to corporations=====
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| [https://www.downtoearth.org.in/food/plant-treaty-farmers-groups-raise-alarm-over-global-talks-that-could-open-indias-seeds-to-corporations by Shimali Chauhan 7/7/25 DownToEarth]
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| Farmers’ groups, seed savers and environmental advocates across India have warned that a new international agreement could allow global corporations to access India’s traditional seeds without adequate safeguards for farmers’ rights.
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| =====Gut microbiome in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and associated hepatocellular carcinoma=====
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| [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41575-025-01089-1 by Harry Cheuk-Hay Lau nature reviews]
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| Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide, affecting billions of the global population. It can gradually progress to more severe diseases, including steatohepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
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| =====From Periphery to Frontline: Ethnic Minority Rights in Wartime Russia=====
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| [https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/07/07/from-periphery-to-frontline-ethnic-minority-rights-in-wartime-russia/ by ARAM TERZYAN 7/7/25 MODERNDIPLOMACY]
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| Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped not only international borders but also deepened domestic patterns of repression. Under the guise of patriotic unity, the Kremlin has launched a simultaneous internal offensive targeting the country’s ethnic minorities—reinforcing entrenched hierarchies and reviving imperial mechanisms of control.
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| =====DOE sets strategic goals for long-term biodiversity preservation=====
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| [https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/515327/DOE-sets-strategic-goals-for-long-term-biodiversity-preservation by TEHRAN 7/7/25 TEHRAN TIMES]
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| In this line, several meetings have been convened with the participation of faculty members, environmental experts, and managers, as well as NGOs, IRNA reported.
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| =====Earthjustice Applauds Significant International Human Rights Ruling on Climate Change =====
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| [https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/earthjustice-applauds-significant-international-human-rights-ruling-on-climate-change by Miranda Fox 3/7/25 EARTH JUSTICE]
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| The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights today, a historic milestone in the international response to the climate crisis.
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| ====='Never been found before’ – In one part of the world, the ocean is doing the opposite from everywhere else. Here’s why...=====
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| [https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/atlantic-blob by Melissa Hobson 7/7/25 DISCOVER WILDLIFE]
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| Scientists have discovered a new factor that contributes to the so-called ‘cold blob’ – an unusual area of cooling waters in the Atlantic Ocean
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| =====How climate change is intensifying hurricanes=====
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| [https://grist.org/extreme-weather/how-climate-change-is-intensifying-hurricanes/ by Amal Ahmed 7/7/25 Grist]
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| Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters increasingly strike out of season, break records, and hit places they never have before.
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| =====Charles Rice, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine: ‘It’s a crime that a drug exists that could cure everyone yet not everybody has access to it’=====
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| [https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-07-04/charles-rice-nobel-prize-winner-in-medicine-its-a-crime-that-a-drug-exists-that-could-cure-everyone-yet-not-everybody-has-access-to-it.html?outputType=amp by Manuel Ansede 4/7/25 EL PAIS]
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| This smiling man asking for a glass of water at a hotel bar has helped save the lives of millions of people, according to the Swedish committee that awarded him the Nobel Prize in Medicine. He is American virologist Charles Rice, who won the award five years ago for his role in the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a pathogen that silently destroys the liver and can develop into a deadly cancer.
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| =====‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/05/academics-leaving-us-scientific-asylum-france-trump by Ashifa Kassam 5/7/25 The Guardian]
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| For months, he had watched Donald Trump’s administration unleash a multipronged attack on academia – slashing funding, targeting international students and deeming certain fields and even keywords off limits. As his plane approached the US, it felt as though the battle had hit home, as Sandberg worried that he would face reprisals over comments he had made during his travels to the French media on the future of research in the US.
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| =====Virginia Tech researchers study link between large solar installations, property values=====
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| [https://cardinalnews.org/2025/07/02/virginia-tech-led-study-explores-large-solar-plants-impact-on-property-values/ by Matt Busse 2/7/25 CARDINAL NEWS]
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| Researchers analyzed millions of real estate transactions around thousands of utility-scale solar facilities nationwide.
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| =====Scientists make disturbing discovery on the deepest parts of the seafloor: "Not a single inch of it is clean"=====
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| [https://www.earth.com/news/human-plastics-waste-found-deepest-part-mediterranean-ionian-sea-calypso-deep/ by Eric Ralls 7/6/25 earth.com]
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| Videos of snagged sea turtles and bottle-strewn beaches have already ignited public concern, but those images barely hint at what sinks far below the reach of sunlight.
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| =====The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation=====
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| [https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit by Chloe Hadjimatheou 5/7/25 National]
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| A heartbreaking “true” story of two people in their early 50s forced out of their rural home in Wales and weighed down by a sudden diagnosis of Moth’s terminal illness, The Salt Path went straight to the top of the bestseller charts, selling more than 2m copies worldwide since its publication in 2018.
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| =====New ‘Princes’ exhibit at MAH embraces the whole of Santa Cruz’s history of surfing=====
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| [https://lookout.co/new-princes-exhibit-at-mah-embraces-the-whole-of-santa-cruzs-history-of-surfing/story by WALLACE BAINE 6/7/25 Lookout]
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| There are plenty of people who have never been within a thousand miles of Santa Cruz but who can still tell you that this place is all about surfing. It’s no secret that surf culture is Santa Cruz’s brand, much like beer in Milwaukee or cheesesteaks in Philadelphia.
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| [[Free Expression-Hobbies]]
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| =====New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/childcare-new-mexico-poverty by Cecilia Nowell 11/4/25 The Guardian]
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| Even with support from the state, she and her husband were paying $800 a month – about half of what Sanchez and her husband paid for their mortgage in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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| =====The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work?===== | | =====Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing===== |
| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/reverend-william-barber-moral-movement by Adam Harris 5/7/25 The Guardian] | | [https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding by Matt Krupnick 3/6/25 PROPUBLICA] |
| On 2 June, at St Mark’s Episcopal church in Washington DC, people packed the sanctuary – elders in denim jackets, seminarians in collars, organizers clutching clipboards. Some had come in from North Carolina; others walked from their homes just a few blocks away. The seats were full, so the crowd lined the aisles and leaned against the red-brick walls beneath stained-glass windows that cast streaks of light across the floor. | | The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. |
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| =====Kabul On Course To Be World's First Capital To Run Out Of Water=====
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| [https://www.rferl.org/a/kabul-water-crisis-running-out-of-water-afghanistan-2025/33461892.html by Farangis Najibullah 6/7/25 RadioFreeEurope]
| | =====Scenic forest trails near Santa Cruz to open to the public for the first time===== |
| Kabul could become the world’s first capital to run out of water completely, experts say, blaming the crisis on rapid population growth, climate change, and mismanagement.
| | [https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/scenic-forest-trails-santa-cruz/3884608/?amp=1 by Joe Rosalito 4/6/25 NBC] |
| [[Environment-Water and Air Quality]] | | The one-time dairy-turned-national monument sits nine miles north of Santa Cruz at the edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking the ocean. Its opening this summer will cap years of fundraising and labor to convert the scenic landscape into a public recreational destination. |
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| =====Ben Franklin Declared His Independence from his Inheritance of Nasty Superstitions and Became an Enlightenment Man=====
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| [https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/ben-franklin-declared-his-independence by ANDY CRAIG 4/7/25 The UnPopulist]
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| In 1692, Salem, Mass. was in the throes of its infamous witch trials. In courtroom scenes which seem so inexplicably absurd to us, human beings were sent to the gallows on the basis of “spectral evidence”—invisible proof of alleged witchcraft that only the accusers, mostly young girls, could see or experience. Many would collapse into screaming fits in front of the judges, alleging that they were being tormented in that very moment by the bewildered defendants. But not all such accusers were impressionable children, as it’s often remembered. One was a woman around the age of 40.
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| =====One Big Deadly Bill=====
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| [https://www.thebulwark.com/p/one-big-deadly-bill-bbb-medicaid-obamacare-insurance by JONATHAN COHN 3/7/25 THEBULWARK]
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| But a series of recent studies have gone a long way toward proving that link. One such paper, which came out in May, was from Angela Wyse at Dartmouth and Bruce Meyer at the University of Chicago, and got the economics establishment talking because of how it used a clever design—linking up census and tax data—to show that the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion saved about 27,000 lives between 2010 and 2022.
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| =====Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump=====
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| [https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-homeland-security-report-antifa-portland-1849718673 by Dell Cameron 5/11/22 G]
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| The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting.
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| =====US military cuts climate scientists off from vital satellite sea-ice data=====
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| [https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/us-military-cuts-climate-scientists-off-from-vital-satellite-sea-ice-data by Keith Cooper 6/7/25 SPACE.com] | |
| Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive barometer of climate change — as the U.S. Department of Defense announces plans to cancel processing of the data for scientific research.
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| =====Heat and wildfire smoke affect birth outcomes, according to a new study=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2025/07/05/nx-s1-5455842/heat-and-wildfire-smoke-affect-birth-outcomes-according-to-a-new-study by Alejandra Borunda 5/7/25 npr]
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| BORUNDA: DeNicola is an environmental health expert with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He says, that's like adding a two-liter soda bottle of blood to your body. And the heart remodels itself to pump all that extra blood.
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| [[Health Care-Environmental Factors]]
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| =====There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away.=====
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| [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/climate/china-clean-energy-power.html?smid=bsky-nytimes&smtyp=cur by David Gelles 30/6/25 The New York Times]
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| In China, more wind turbines and solar panels were installed last year than in the rest of the world combined. And China’s clean energy boom is going global. Chinese companies are building electric vehicle and battery factories in Brazil, Thailand, Morocco, Hungary and beyond. | |
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| =====The reef that shouldn’t exist=====
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| [https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/300906/ by Rhett Ryers Butler 17/6/25 MONGABAY]
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| Some point to environmental quirks. Coastal currents may shield Cocalito from sedimentation and heat. Others cite human behavior: the reef’s shallow waters deter fishers, perhaps allowing a healthier ecological balance to persist.
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| [[Environment-Biodiversity]]
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| =====These ‘miniature Komodo dragons’ faced extinction on a remote Caribbean island – until a difficult ‘regreening’ project started=====
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| https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/reptiles/saving-sombrero-lizards-on-sombrero-island by Graeme Green 5/7/25 DISCOVER WILDLIFE]
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| At first glance, Sombrero Island doesn’t look like a place where life thrives. The surface of this tiny, remote, windswept land mass, 54km north-west of the Caribbean island of Anguilla, has an austere, moon-like appearance, with white-grey rock, strewn rubble and gigantic craters that are an uncomfortable reminder of the phosphate mining that devastated and permanently altered its landscape.
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| [[Environment-Biodiversity]]
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| =====The oldest rocks on Earth are more than four billion years old=====
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| [https://theconversation.com/the-oldest-rocks-on-earth-are-more-than-four-billion-years-old-259657 by Hanika Rizo 6/7/25 THE CONVERSATION}
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| Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name “Hadean” comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely characterized the planet at the time.
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| =====This nonprofit connects frontline conservationists with funders, catalyzing impact=====
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| [https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/this-nonprofit-connects-frontline-conservationists-with-funders-catalyzing-impact/ by Mike DiGirolamo 1/7/25 MONGABAY]
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| WCN facilitates partnerships between community-based conservation groups, primarily in Global South nations with funders, in what has previously been described as “‘venture capital for conservation,” or as Collomb says, “people invest in people.”
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| [[Environment-Overview]]
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| =====Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe=====
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| [https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/?ref=fixthenews.com by BLATHNAID O'DEA 20/6/25 pv magazine]
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| Ireland today (June 20) became the 15th coal-free country in Europe, having ended coal power generation at its 915 MW Moneypoint coal plant in County Clare. Initially commissioned in the mid-1980s by ESB, Moneypoint was intended to help Ireland offset the impact of the oil crises in the 1970s by providing a dependable source of energy.
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| =====‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost=====
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| [https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/ by Davis Legree 2/7/25 POLITICS]
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| In our first edition, iPolitics caught up with David Suzuki, noted environmentalist and longtime host of ‘The Nature of Things’ on CBC. At 89-years-old, Suzuki remains a fierce advocate for global climate action, but he spoke about recently coming to the conclusion that humanity has lost the fight against climate change, as well as the need to begin preparing for more severe and destructive natural disasters.
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| # [[Mental adaptations]]
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| =====The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world Moustafa Bayoumi=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/06/destruction-of-palestine-is-breaking-the-world by Sereen Haddad 6/7/25 The Guardian]
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| Haddad, who is Palestinian American, had been raising awareness on her campus about the Palestinian fight for freedom as part of her university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The struggle is also personal for her. With roots in Gaza, she has lost more than 200 members of her extended family to Israel’s war.
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| [[Free Expression-Stories of Peoples]]
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| =====Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/06/weedkiller-diquat-organ-damage-study by Tom Perkins 6/7/25 The Guardian]
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| The herbicide ingredient used to replace glyphosate in Roundup and other weedkiller products can kill gut bacteria and damage organs in multiple ways, new research shows.
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| =====‘It doesn’t have to be this way’ – Scientists confirm Iowa farm pollution is creating dire health risks===== | | =====We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.===== |
| [https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/07/03/it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way-scientists-confirm-iowa-farm-pollution-is-creating-dire-health-risks/ by Carey Gillam 3/7/25 Investigate Midwest] | | [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-arkansas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU8.wJE1._9ddBnCcgVCO&smid=url-share by Kevin De Liban 8/6/25 The New York Times] |
| Agricultural operations across Iowa are a leading cause of significant water pollution problems in the state, posing dire risks to public and environmental health, according to a new scientific report that is sparking heated debate in the key US farm state. | | Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program cuts that will strip up to 14 million people of their health care coverage — likely have no idea what it takes to comply with them. We do. As legal aid lawyers, we were on the front lines helping low-income people in Arkansas keep their health care coverage when the state rolled out work requirements in 2018. |
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| =====Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster===== | | =====‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines===== |
| [https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/ by Henry D. Jacoby 3/7/25 TEXAS OBSERVER]
| | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/mrna-vaccine-cancer-research-trump-administration by Melody Schreiber 12/7/25 The Guardian] |
| Federal resources for managing climate-augmented weather disasters are being wiped out, and crucial information about future risks is being destroyed or degraded. Meanwhile, state leaders stand by while denying the seriousness of climate change as a driver of these events—and the threat this poses to the state economy.
| | Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall |
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| ===== Calculating the amount companies owe for causing global warming =====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2023-05-amount-companies-owe-global.amp by Bob Yirka 23/5/23 PHYS ORG]
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| Prior research has found that it is possible to tie certain environmental events to climate change—the current heat wave in parts of South Asia, for example, or excessive flooding in Myanmar and Bangladesh. As it stands now, governments wind up paying to restore order in such areas, or in some cases, insurance companies pay for those who have coverage.
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| # [[Legislative adaptations]]
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| ===== Earth Matters: James Hansen warned us about climate change 35 years ago this month =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/1/2172434/-Earth-Matters-James-Hansen-warned-us-about-climate-change-35-years-ago-this-month by Staff Emeritus 1/6/23 DAILY KOS]
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| “The present observed global warming is close to 0.4 degrees C [0.72 F], relative to ‘climatology,’ which is defined as the thirty-year (1951–1980) mean. A warming of 0.4 degrees C is three times larger than the standard deviation of annual mean temperatures in the 30-year climatology. The standard deviation of 0.13 degrees C i[0.23 F] is a typical amount by which the global temperature fluctuates annually about its 30-year mean; the probability of a chance warming of three standard deviations is about 1 percent. Thus, we can state with about 99 percent confidence that current temperatures represent a real warming trend rather than a chance fluctuation over the 30-year period.”—James Hansen testifying to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on June 23, 1988.
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| ===== Experience exceeds awareness of anthropogenic climate change in Greenland =====
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| [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01701-9 by Kelton Minor, Manumina Lund Jensen, David Dreyer Lassen & Minik T.Rosing 26/6/23 Nature Climate Change]
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| Although Greenland is a hub for climate science, the climate perceptions of Greenland’s predominantly Indigenous population have remained largely unstudied. Here we present two nationally representative surveys and show that Greenlanders are more likely than residents of top oil-producing Arctic countries to perceive that climate change is happening and about twice as likely to have personally experienced its effects. However, half are unaware that climate change is human-caused and those who are most affected appear to be least aware.
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| # [[Mental adaptations]]
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| ===== ‘Double agents’: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/05/double-agent-fossil-fuel-lobbyists by Oliver Milman 5/7/23 The Guardian] | |
| More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf of fossil-fuel companies while at the same time representing hundreds of liberal-run cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups that say they are tackling the climate crisis, the Guardian can reveal. | |
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| # [[Doing Nothing]]
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| ===== Understanding the role of the sun in climate change =====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2023-07-role-sun-climate.amp by Nicola Scafetta 6/7/23 PHYS ORG]
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| The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) supports the latter view and estimates that almost 100% of the observed warming of the Earth's surface from 1850–1900 to 2020 was caused by man-made emissions. This is known as the anthropogenic global warming (AGWT) theory.
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| ===== Should I worry about ticks? =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jul/16/should-i-worry-about-ticks?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco by Joel Snape 16/7/23 The Guardian]
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| As arachnid superorders go, ticks are pretty evolutionarily successful. They’ve been around for at least 100 million years in one variety or another, with their main party trick – hanging around until they can latch a host to feed on – working on thousands of different animals across almost endless environments. But how concerned should you be about them in the UK? You won’t miss the blood they take, but they can cause a variety of unpleasant conditions in their hosts – and there’s some evidence that their population is growing.
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| ===== Why Billionaires Fund Anti-Trans & Anti-Black-History Political Movements ===== | | =====The Texas way: why the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to preparing for disasters===== |
| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/16/2187621/-Why-Billionaires-Fund-Anti-Trans-Anti-Black-History-Political-Movements by Thomnhartmann 16/8/23 DAILY KOS] | | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/texas-disaster-weather-preparations-us by Ed PilKington 13/7/25 The Guardian] |
| Almost 12 percent of Americans, over 37 million of us, live in dire poverty. According to OECD numbers, while only 5 percent of Italians and 11 percent of Japanese workers toil in low-wage jobs, almost a quarter of Americans — 23 percent — work for wages that can’t support a normal lifestyle. (And low-income Japanese and Italians have free healthcare and college.)
| | It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood |
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| ===== Phoenix Roasts in Record-Breaking 110-Plus-Degree Heat, with No End in Sight ===== | | =====Colville Tribes confirms first salmon sighting in Kettle River eight years after reintroducing salmon near Coulee Dam===== |
| [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phoenix-roasts-in-record-breaking-110-plus-degree-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/ by Daniel Cusick 17/7/23 E&E News] | | [https://www.yoursourceone.com/columbia_basin/colville-tribes-confirms-first-salmon-sighting-in-kettle-river-eight-years-after-reintroducing-salmon-near/article_5a29f663-bcba-4c83-b106-69dc3c9410aa.html by ONE News Staff 11/7/25 SOURCEONE] |
| Several million heat-tolerant Arizonans spent the weekend in air-conditioned semi-darkness, drawing their curtains shut as temperatures soared to nearly 120 degrees in one of America's largest metro areas.
| | NESPELEM — A juvenile Chinook salmon was recently photographed in the Kettle River near Cascade Falls in British Columbia, marking the first confirmed sighting of a Chinook in the river since the Colville Tribes began reintroduction efforts upstream of Grand Coulee Dam in 2017. |
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| ===== US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network ===== | | =====Why the Southwest megadrought is here to stay===== |
| [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/22/charles-haywood-claremont-institute-sacr-far-right by Jason Wilson 22/8/23 The Guardian] | | [https://www.earth.com/news/why-the-southwest-megadrought-is-here-to-stay/ by Jordan Joseph 13/7/25 earth.com] |
| The founder and sponsor of a far-right network of secretive, men-only, invitation-only fraternal lodges in the US is a former industrialist who has frequently speculated about his future as a warlord after the collapse of America, a Guardian investigation has found. | | Snowpack once reliably fed water into the Colorado River, yet winter precipitation across the Four Corners has dropped by roughly 23 percent since 1980. Reservoirs and ranchers feel the strain each spring. |
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| ===== California shores up beaver protection in nod to their ‘ecological benefit’ ===== | | =====The deepening water shortage row between the US and Mexico===== |
| [https://wikidemocracy.us/index.php?title=News_Gallery&action=edit by Guardian staff and agencies 26/7/23 The Guardian] | | [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0epzp21z47o by Will Grant 13/7/25 BBC] |
| California is embracing beavers and the role they play in the ecosystem after years of viewing the animals as a nuisance for chewing down trees and blocking up streams. | | After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine intervention. |
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| A type of zooplankton found in marine and fresh water can ingest and break down microplastics, scientists have discovered. But rather than providing a solution to the threat plastics pose to aquatic life, the tiny creatures known as rotifers could be accelerating the risk by splitting the particles into thousands of smaller and potentially more dangerous nanoplastics.
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-epa-pollution-regulation-cuts by Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor 19/3/25 The Guardian] | | [https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/02/health/processed-meats-sweet-drinks-disease-wellness by Madeline Holcombe 2/7/25 CNN] |
| A push by Donald Trump’s administration to repeal a barrage of clean air and water regulations may deal a severe blow to US public health, with a Guardian analysis finding that the targeted rules were set to save the lives of nearly 200,000 people in the years ahead. | | There is strong evidence that there is “no safe amount” of processed meat to eat, nutrition experts say in response to a new study on the connection between diet and the risk of major diseases, including cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The researchers also found elevated risks from the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids. |
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| ===== ‘Wings’ on poles: Bill Gates-backed wind power tech promises 75% cheaper energy ===== | | =====Six-hour ‘undo’ button: GAI-17 rewinds stroke damage and may beat Alzheimer’s===== |
| [https://interestingengineering.com/energy/winged-wind-tech-promises-75-cheaper-energy by Jijo Malayil 30/5/25 Interesting Engineering] | | [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250715043357.htm by Osaka Metropolitan University 15/7/25 Science Daily] |
| US-based firm Airloom Energy’s innovative renewable energy technology to maximize wind power’s potential has now gained significant backing from investors. The list also includes Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the innovation platform led by Microsoft founder Gates, and the state of Wyoming. | | Protein aggregation inhibitor shows lower levels of cell death and paralysis in mice with acute strokes. |
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| ===== ‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles ===== | | =====Agroecological farming promotes yield and biodiversity but may require subsidy to be profitable===== |
| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/la-wildlife-freeway-crossing by Katharine Gammon 6/4/25 The Guardian] | | [https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70079 by B.A Woodcock 1/7/25 BTITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY] |
| Above the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on Los Angeles’s 101 freeway, an ambitious project is taking shape. The Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing is the largest wildlife bridge in the world at 210ft long and 174ft wide, and this week it’s had help taking shape: soil. | | The intensification of global agriculture has devolved reliance on natural ecosystem services to agrochemicals and crop breeding, while simultaneously losing semi-natural habitats (Priyadarshana et al., 2024; Pywell et al., 2015; Stoate et al., 2009). In the short term this has increased yields at a level inconceivable in previous centuries but has come with negative externalities like biodiversity loss, nutrient losses and pollution burdens (Defra, 2023; Stoate et al., 2009; |
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| | =====#290 ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop===== |
| | [https://accidentalgods.life/rewilding-our-water-from-rain-to-river-to-sewer-and-back-with-tim-smedley-author-of-the-last-drop/ by Tim Smedley The Last Drop] |
| | If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you’ll know that I believe the way forward is predicated on our finding shared values—I’d go for integrity, compassion, courage and generosity of spirit as the baselines—and then a suite of clear asks in the outer world and needs in the inner world. |
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| ===== China population decline accelerates as birthrate hits record low ===== | | =====First-of-its-kind wildlife overcrossing in Northern California officially in progress===== |
| [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/17/china-population-decline-accelerates-as-birthrate-hits-record-low by Helen Davidson 01/17/24 The Guardian] | | [https://krcrtv.com/news/local/first-of-its-kind-wildlife-overcrossing-in-northern-california-in-progress by Timea Horvath 18/7/25 KRCR] |
| China’s population decline has accelerated, with a second year of record-low birthrates. | | Wildfire Crossing Structure Project includes construction of a single-span, approximately 100-foot long by 140-foot wide wildlife overcrossing bridge at Post Mile 19.77. Caltrans crew will also install approximately two miles of 8-foot-high wildlife exclusion fencing on both sides of the highway, jump-outs every half mile to allow wildlife to escape the roadway corridor, cattle guards at private road access points and a reinforced concrete box culvert to enhance wildlife undercrossing opportunities. |
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| ===== High rises made out of wood? What matters in whether ‘mass timber’ buildings are sustainable ===== | | =====Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1. |
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| ===== For 50 years I’ve let friends and strangers share my house – this kind of communal living can make for better lives for all =====
| | Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/===== |
| [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/11/for-50-years-ive-let-friends-and-strangers-share-my-house-this-kind-of-communal-living-can-make-for-better-lives-for-all by Lynne Segal 11/11/23 The Guardian]
| | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/trump-energy-environment-agenda by Peter Stone 20/7/25 The Guardian] |
| It’s more than half a century since I first set foot in Heathrow from Sydney, in my mid-20s, clutching my 14-month-old baby in one hand and what little remained of my luggage in the other. My large suitcase, stuffed with books and clothes, had vanished at a stopover at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka, where I narrowly avoided arrest as my infant son had startlingly managed to push an empty trolley into the glass duty-free shop, smashing part of it. I was surrounded by a hubbub of people and noise, and one man in khaki uniform who kept sidling up to me saying quietly, “Get on to the plane.” Slowly, I separated myself from those surrounding me and did just that. Twelve hours later, I landed in London, exhausted and bewildered. | | Ever since Donald Trump began his second presidency, he has used an “invented” national energy emergency to help justify expanding oil, gas and coal while slashing green energy – despite years of scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels has contributed significantly to climate change, say scholars and watchdogs. |
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| | =====California's Hidden Coastal State Park Near Downtown Santa Cruz Offers Uncrowded Beach Access And Ethereal Trails |
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| ===== Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California? =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/california-housing-vienna-lessons by Kristy Lang 4/30/24 The Guardian] | | [https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/ by Eva Johnstone 19/6/25 Islands] |
| In the past two years, at least four delegations of housing experts and political leaders from California have visited the Austrian capital, hoping to unlock the secrets of why Vienna regularly comes top in surveys of the world’s most livable cities. | | Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1. |
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| ===== Neuroscientists link low self-awareness to stronger brain reactions to moralized issues ===== | | Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/ |
| [https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-link-low-self-awareness-to-stronger-brain-reactions-to-moralized-issues/ by Eric W. Dolan PsyPost 4/01/25] | | =====Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change===== |
| A new study published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience reveals that people who hold strong moral convictions about political issues make decisions more quickly—but that these choices are shaped by both emotional brain responses and metacognitive ability. The research shows that moral conviction activates specific brain regions involved in emotion and cognitive control, and that people with lower self-awareness about their own decision accuracy show stronger brain responses to morally charged political issues. | | [https://theconversation.com/only-3-years-left-new-study-warns-the-world-is-running-out-of-time-to-avoid-the-worst-impacts-of-climate-change-261229 by Piers Forster 20/7/25 THE CONVERSATION] |
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| | Bad climate news is everywhere. Africa is being hit particularly hard by climate change and extreme weather, impacting lives and livelihoods. |
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| ===== Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward ===== | | We are living in a world that is warming at the fastest rate since records began. Yet, governments have been slow to act. |
| [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-out-tornado-alley-is-migrating-eastward/ by By Mark Fischetti, Matthew Twombly & Daniel P. Huffman 5/11/23 Scientific American] | | =====“Remarkable” Results – Scientists Say This Supplement Reversed Heart Damage===== |
| Although tornadoes touch down in many places across the eastern half of the country, from the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on northeastern Texas and south-central Oklahoma. More recently, that focus has shifted eastward by 400 to 500 miles. In the past decade or so tornadoes have become prevalent in eastern Missouri and Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky, and northern Mississippi and Alabama—a new region of concentrated storms.1 | | [https://scitechdaily.com/remarkable-results-scientists-say-this-supplement-reversed-heart-damage/ by THE UNIVERSITY OF OSAKA 19/7/25 SciTechDaily] |
| | Japanese researchers have uncovered that tricaprin, a dietary supplement, triggered a dramatic reversal of heart disease symptoms in two patients with a rare, treatment-resistant condition. After years of chest pain and failed therapies, the patients experienced relief and even regression of artery-clogging fat deposits. The key wasn’t lowering cholesterol, but breaking down triglycerides inside heart cells—a novel and potentially groundbreaking approach to cardiac care. |
| | =====Can cannabis impact aging? Study shows marijuana could alter 'genetic code'===== |
| | [https://komonews.com/news/offbeat/can-cannabis-impact-aging-study-shows-marijuana-could-alter-genetic-code-pot-weed-smoke-smoking-smokers-epigenetic-research-effect-impact-body-health-healthy-lungs-brain-drugs-substance-abuse-addiction-tobacco-disorders-infections-cincinnati by WKRC 20/7/25 KOMONEWS] |
| | The study highlighted the importance of understanding marijuana's effects on the body, as it remains one of the most widely used drugs globally. While some effects are well-known, the research indicated a broader impact than previously anticipated. |
| | =====Stop telling us it’s not about that===== |
| | [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/23/2334876/-Stop-telling-us-it-s-not-about-that?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by MurielVieux 23/7/25 DAILY KOS] |
| | Deny the truth to yourselves all you want people, but stop telling us Black folks that what’s going on today, what won the 2024 election is not white supremacy. |
| | =====The 5 Best Drinks for Kidney Stones (Plus 3 to Avoid)===== |
| | [https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/kidney-stones/best-drink-for-kidney-stones?srsltid=AfmBOor1LT8uh3L5QL8wWUjNkhhr98fzsrGgsTkJ98A-9iN8PcID1ern by Tracy Norfleet 13/3/24 GoodRx] |
| | If you’ve ever had a kidney stone, you know that they can be incredibly painful. And about half of people with kidney stones end up having more in the future. But there are things you can do to lower your risk of kidney stones, like drinking the right things. |
| | =====What to do about gallstones===== |
| | [https://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/what-to-do-about-gallstones by Harvard Health Publishing 20/7/23] |
| | Gallstones begin with bile, a substance that helps with the digestion of fats and the absorption of certain vitamins. Bile is made in the liver and carried to the gallbladder, a small, pear-shaped organ that concentrates and stores it. The fat in food triggers the release of a hormone that causes the gallbladder to contract and release bile into the intestine. |
| | =====Where the next deadly flood wave could strike===== |
| | [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/24/climate/flash-flood-risk-hot-spots by Andrew Freedman 24/7/25 CNN] |
| | The ingredients that led to the Hill Country disaster — steep terrain, swollen rivers and unsuspecting people in harm’s way — are not unique to Texas. Across the United States, there are pockets of vulnerability where geography, weather and human nature converge in ways that heighten the risk of flash flooding. |
| | =====Why the U.S. is leading the world in extreme weather catastrophes===== |
| | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-the-u-s-is-leading-the-world-in-extreme-weather-catastrophes by Seth Borenstein 2/4/23 PBS NEWS] |
| | The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather. |
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| | Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas like Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather. |
| | =====It is one of the deadliest chemicals on Earth – but even Mexico’s cartels can’t resist the lure of mercury===== |
| | [https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/24/mexico-toxic-mercury-smugglers-gold-rush-poisoning-amazon by Luke Taylor 24/7/25 The Guardian] |
| | An undercover investigation reveals 200 tonnes of the deadly substance is being smuggled across South America, where it is poisoning rivers, soil and air |
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Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
by Matt Krupnick 3/6/25 PROPUBLICA
The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
Education-Schools
Scenic forest trails near Santa Cruz to open to the public for the first time
by Joe Rosalito 4/6/25 NBC
The one-time dairy-turned-national monument sits nine miles north of Santa Cruz at the edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking the ocean. Its opening this summer will cap years of fundraising and labor to convert the scenic landscape into a public recreational destination.
Environment-Habitat Preservation
We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
by Kevin De Liban 8/6/25 The New York Times
Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program cuts that will strip up to 14 million people of their health care coverage — likely have no idea what it takes to comply with them. We do. As legal aid lawyers, we were on the front lines helping low-income people in Arkansas keep their health care coverage when the state rolled out work requirements in 2018.
Health Care-Insurance
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
by Melody Schreiber 12/7/25 The Guardian
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
Health Care-Prevention
The Texas way: why the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to preparing for disasters
by Ed PilKington 13/7/25 The Guardian
It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood
Doing Nothing
Colville Tribes confirms first salmon sighting in Kettle River eight years after reintroducing salmon near Coulee Dam
by ONE News Staff 11/7/25 SOURCEONE
NESPELEM — A juvenile Chinook salmon was recently photographed in the Kettle River near Cascade Falls in British Columbia, marking the first confirmed sighting of a Chinook in the river since the Colville Tribes began reintroduction efforts upstream of Grand Coulee Dam in 2017.
Environment-Habitat Preservation
Why the Southwest megadrought is here to stay
by Jordan Joseph 13/7/25 earth.com
Snowpack once reliably fed water into the Colorado River, yet winter precipitation across the Four Corners has dropped by roughly 23 percent since 1980. Reservoirs and ranchers feel the strain each spring.
Heat and Drought
The deepening water shortage row between the US and Mexico
by Will Grant 13/7/25 BBC
After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine intervention.
Heat and Drought
There is no safe amount of processed meat to eat, according to new research
by Madeline Holcombe 2/7/25 CNN
There is strong evidence that there is “no safe amount” of processed meat to eat, nutrition experts say in response to a new study on the connection between diet and the risk of major diseases, including cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The researchers also found elevated risks from the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids.
Diet
by Osaka Metropolitan University 15/7/25 Science Daily
Protein aggregation inhibitor shows lower levels of cell death and paralysis in mice with acute strokes.
Health Care-Illness
by B.A Woodcock 1/7/25 BTITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
The intensification of global agriculture has devolved reliance on natural ecosystem services to agrochemicals and crop breeding, while simultaneously losing semi-natural habitats (Priyadarshana et al., 2024; Pywell et al., 2015; Stoate et al., 2009). In the short term this has increased yields at a level inconceivable in previous centuries but has come with negative externalities like biodiversity loss, nutrient losses and pollution burdens (Defra, 2023; Stoate et al., 2009;
Environment-Agriculture
#290 ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop
by Tim Smedley The Last Drop
If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you’ll know that I believe the way forward is predicated on our finding shared values—I’d go for integrity, compassion, courage and generosity of spirit as the baselines—and then a suite of clear asks in the outer world and needs in the inner world.
Environment-Habitat Preservation
First-of-its-kind wildlife overcrossing in Northern California officially in progress
by Timea Horvath 18/7/25 KRCR
Wildfire Crossing Structure Project includes construction of a single-span, approximately 100-foot long by 140-foot wide wildlife overcrossing bridge at Post Mile 19.77. Caltrans crew will also install approximately two miles of 8-foot-high wildlife exclusion fencing on both sides of the highway, jump-outs every half mile to allow wildlife to escape the roadway corridor, cattle guards at private road access points and a reinforced concrete box culvert to enhance wildlife undercrossing opportunities.
Environment-Biodiversity
=====Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1.
Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/=====
by Peter Stone 20/7/25 The Guardian
Ever since Donald Trump began his second presidency, he has used an “invented” national energy emergency to help justify expanding oil, gas and coal while slashing green energy – despite years of scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels has contributed significantly to climate change, say scholars and watchdogs.
=====California's Hidden Coastal State Park Near Downtown Santa Cruz Offers Uncrowded Beach Access And Ethereal Trails
Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/=====
by Eva Johnstone 19/6/25 Islands
Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1.
Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/
Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change
by Piers Forster 20/7/25 THE CONVERSATION
Bad climate news is everywhere. Africa is being hit particularly hard by climate change and extreme weather, impacting lives and livelihoods.
We are living in a world that is warming at the fastest rate since records began. Yet, governments have been slow to act.
by THE UNIVERSITY OF OSAKA 19/7/25 SciTechDaily
Japanese researchers have uncovered that tricaprin, a dietary supplement, triggered a dramatic reversal of heart disease symptoms in two patients with a rare, treatment-resistant condition. After years of chest pain and failed therapies, the patients experienced relief and even regression of artery-clogging fat deposits. The key wasn’t lowering cholesterol, but breaking down triglycerides inside heart cells—a novel and potentially groundbreaking approach to cardiac care.
Can cannabis impact aging? Study shows marijuana could alter 'genetic code'
by WKRC 20/7/25 KOMONEWS
The study highlighted the importance of understanding marijuana's effects on the body, as it remains one of the most widely used drugs globally. While some effects are well-known, the research indicated a broader impact than previously anticipated.
Stop telling us it’s not about that
by MurielVieux 23/7/25 DAILY KOS
Deny the truth to yourselves all you want people, but stop telling us Black folks that what’s going on today, what won the 2024 election is not white supremacy.
The 5 Best Drinks for Kidney Stones (Plus 3 to Avoid)
by Tracy Norfleet 13/3/24 GoodRx
If you’ve ever had a kidney stone, you know that they can be incredibly painful. And about half of people with kidney stones end up having more in the future. But there are things you can do to lower your risk of kidney stones, like drinking the right things.
What to do about gallstones
by Harvard Health Publishing 20/7/23
Gallstones begin with bile, a substance that helps with the digestion of fats and the absorption of certain vitamins. Bile is made in the liver and carried to the gallbladder, a small, pear-shaped organ that concentrates and stores it. The fat in food triggers the release of a hormone that causes the gallbladder to contract and release bile into the intestine.
Where the next deadly flood wave could strike
by Andrew Freedman 24/7/25 CNN
The ingredients that led to the Hill Country disaster — steep terrain, swollen rivers and unsuspecting people in harm’s way — are not unique to Texas. Across the United States, there are pockets of vulnerability where geography, weather and human nature converge in ways that heighten the risk of flash flooding.
Why the U.S. is leading the world in extreme weather catastrophes
by Seth Borenstein 2/4/23 PBS NEWS
The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather.
Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas like Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather.
It is one of the deadliest chemicals on Earth – but even Mexico’s cartels can’t resist the lure of mercury
by Luke Taylor 24/7/25 The Guardian
An undercover investigation reveals 200 tonnes of the deadly substance is being smuggled across South America, where it is poisoning rivers, soil and air
