Sara Laughter

#ClimateChange—"what if scientists have underestimated the threat?"—1990-2012 temps #CO2 #SeaLevel @IPCC_CH bloomberg.com/view/articles/… via @bv

Study—“Research establishes a natural baseline for mercury in the atmosphere by estimating emissions from volcanic eruptions—Humans have increased the concentration of potentially toxic mercury in the atmosphere sevenfold since beginning of the modern era” enn.com/articles/73584…

Study—“Salt pollution isn’t some flashy demise to our existence — like, say, a meteor hitting Earth — but the issue is gravely overlooked and is a “sleeping giant”—the “most boring but contemporary problem that we have” washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

“US is the easiest place to hide dirty money—a major problem not just in terms of national security, drug trafficking & kleptocratic corruption but also environmental crime”—Secrecy & lax oversight mean illegal loggers & miners in Amazon can park billions” theguardian.com/environment/20…

Farming More Seaweed for Food, Feed and Fuel—study shows “expanding global seaweed farming could go a long way to addressing the planet’s food security, biodiversity loss & climate change challenges—Seaweed has great commercial & environmental potential” enn.com/articles/71874…

“Dolphins in the Black Sea are in trouble—Dolphins are keystone creatures for the marine ecosystem—If dolphins are in a bad condition, then the entire ecosystem will be in a bad condition”—Ukraine now seeks prosecution of environmental war crimes & ecocide nytimes.com/2023/08/17/wor…

Senators Susan Collins & Angus King & Reps Chellie Pingree & Jared Golden from Maine wrote the add-on to the govt. spending bill that will cause the extinction of the North Atlantic right whale. Maine Governor Janet Mills also supported it. Take action: bit.ly/3XXzc6g

Horryfying footage showing the current scale of a forest fire in Alberta, Canada. 10,000 hectares of trees involved. Forest fire season is occuring earlier, and lasting longer. There is nothing normal about what's happening. There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate

“Benzene forms in flames—people are often exposed from tobacco smoke, wildfires & tailpipe emissions—I really am hard-pressed to think of a more powerful chemical cause of leukemia—Benzene is more potent than most other carcinogens at lower exposure levels”theverge.com/23767216/pollu…

“UK no longer following EU guides on cutting safe levels of BPA plastic containers—As a result, the safe level of BPA in plastic containers in the UK is now 20,000 times higher than in Europe” thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-no-lon…

The ocean is being utterly destroyed by warming and pollution Average global sea surface temperatures have increased by approximately 0.13°C per decade over the past 100 years At least 14 million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean every year africanews.com/2023/06/07/ris…

USA-Do you know what's in your drinking water? The water you grow your garden with? Shower with? “Legal does not necessarily equal safe—Legal limits for contaminants in tap water have not been updated in almost 20 years” Just enter your zip code for report ewg.org/tapwater/404.p…

Buxwaha forest forms part of wildlife corridor between Panna Tiger Reserve & Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary in Central India & is home to leopards, tigers, deers, porcupines, many birds, reptiles. 2.5 lakh trees in this forest cannot be axed for diamonds #INDIASTANDWITHBUXWAHA

30+ men, women & children hugged trees in a symbolic Chipko in the Aravalli forest in Gurgaon & vowed to continue fighting to save their lifeline from regressive NCR Draft Plan 2041. aravallibachao.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/cit… @PMOIndia @byadavbjp #ReviseNCRplan2041 #AravalliBachao #SaveDelhiNCR

Air Pollution May Increase Risk of Dementia, Complicated by Genetics—“researchers elaborate on how exposure to ambient air pollution, such as car exhaust & power plant emissions—is associated with a measurably greater risk of developing dementia over time” enn.com/articles/72462…

“The so-called Big Five raked in an unprecedented $200B last year Your core product is our core problem—We need a renewables revolution not a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence It’s possible we’re getting more cash than we know what to do with”—BP motherjones.com/environment/20…

Vinyl chloride—“An underestimated risk"—“experts say the volatile compound “used almost exclusively by the plastics industry” has "leached into groundwater from spills, landfills & industrial sources” “This disaster is really a wakeup call” cbsnews.com/news/vinyl-chl…

Leading the way #Norway to slash #pollution with the world’s first zero-emissions #public transport by end of 2023 "#Oslo is on course to become the first capital city in the world with an all-electric #publictransport system" #EnergyTransition #Energy euronews.com/green/2022/10/…

Study @Uni_WUE —How Bee-Friendly Is the Forest? “The surprising result was that the bees used the forest far less than expected based on its contribution to landcover—Colonies that lived deep in the forest often had to travel long distances to find food” enn.com/articles/72392…

"The smoke is definitely toxic"—"There's plastics inside buildings, there's plastics outside buildings, there's plastics in semitrailers that are throughout the grounds here at the complex, so we're dealing with many type of plastics. It's very much a mess"theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…

After 3000 geese died in 2017—“Engineers struggled to keep snow geese away from acidic, deadly Superfund site in Montana—they tried automated lasers & a “vortex ring accelerator,” a truck-sized cannon—they even designed fleets of waterborne & aerial drones”motherjones.com/environment/20…