Environmental Hazards
Environmental Hazards
Bristol Bay, Alaska, is the world’s most valuable wild salmon fishery, supplying nearly half the global supply of wild sockeye salmon. Pebble Mine, a copper, gold, and molybdenum open pit mine, is proposed to open in the area, putting this valuable food source at risk. #alaskansalmon
Here’s a jam-packed article with 5G medical testimony, opposition, research, and good news from Devonshire and around the world. #environmentalhazards
Contaminants in tap water may increase the cancer risk for thousands of Americans over a lifetime. USA Today reported on a study where the Environmental Working Group (EWG) cited 22 carcinogens commonly found in tap water. #tapwater
Palm oil may not cost much to produce, but it exacts a high price on the environment. And thanks to this often-invisible ingredient’s complex international supply chain, efforts to reduce that impact are proving challenging. #PalmOil
People are waking up to the fact that 5G is a catastrophe in the making. #5G
With public concern on the rise, two relevant terms have entered the lexicon: “Climate change” and “global warming.” These are often treated as synonyms, but they have different meanings. #climatechange #globalwarming
Bird populations in North America continue to decline
Cellphone testing by the Chicago Tribune reveals several popular cellphones emit far higher levels of RF radiation than legally permitted, which has led to the filing of at least one class-action lawsuit. #cellphoneradiation
Plastic by-products were found in an alarming 97-100% of blood and urine samples from 2,500 children tested between 2014 and 2017, according to a new study by the German Environment Ministry and the Robert Koch Institute. #environment
Environmental and public health advocates blasted the Trump administration Thursday for finalizing its rollback of an Obama-era regulation designed to curb the pollution of waterways nationwide. #environment “#WaterProtection
While renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough warned the world’s oceans are “under threat now as never before in human history,” green groups on Tuesday said a United Nations resolution to end plastic pollution in the world’s oceans does not go nearly far enough to combat the problem, and stressed that more urgent action is needed to eradicate the damage before it’s too late.
A draft United Nations report warns “the same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale unless the carbon pollution destabilizing Earth’s marine environment is brought to heel. #climatechange
A pair of leading scientists are calling on the global community to spend the next few decades working toward formal protections for at least half of the world’s oceans and lands, warning that as the human population nears it’s projected 10 billion by mid-century, several species will face a heightened threat of extinction. #extinctioncrisis
These fires are threatening the livelihoods of all Amazonian people – indigenous and non-indigenous, urban and rural; destroying the world’s greatest home for wild species of plants and animals, and reducing the forests which store and sequester carbon and help curtail our planet’s climate crisis. #amazonfires
Dr. Caldicott gave dire warnings about the Japan nuclear disaster
