“#Plastics are a grave, growing, & under-recognised danger to human & planetary #health. Plastics cause #disease & #death from infancy to old age & are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1.5 trillion annually. These impacts fall disproportionately upon #LowIncome & #AtRisk populations.
They also instructed agents to process #AtRisk individuals as quickly as possible to limit time in #custody.
“It's appalling & it's just an extension of the culture of #cruelty that the administration is trying to perpetrate,”says Sarah Mehta, deputy director of Govt Affairs for the #ACLU’s #Equality Division. Rescinding the policies, she says, “is a damning statement about the way that this administration thinks & cares about people with young #children.”
#CBP has quietly rescinded several policies designed to protect the most #vulnerable people in its #custody—including #PregnantWomen, #infants, #elderly, & people w/serious #MedicalConditions.
The decision, outlined in a May 5 memo & signed by #Trump’s Acting Commissioner #PeteFlores, eliminates 4 #Biden policies enacted over the last 3yrs…intended to address CBP’s long-standing failures to provide adequate #care for #detainees who are most #AtRisk—failures that have, in some cases, been #fatal.
The #Story of #WomensRights: 5 #Photographers You Should Pay Attention to Right Now
Women’s Rights are #atrisk all around the world. And it shouldn’t only be highlighted by #publications around #WomensHistoryMonth.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WomensRights #Activism #Entertainment #TheArts #Photography #Representation #Culture
https://www.thephoblographer.com/2024/11/08/the-story-of-womens-rights/
Harmful Dust From Drying Lakes - Preserving Great Salt Lake (USA) Water Levels Decreases Ambient Dust And Racial Disparities In Population Exposure
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https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(24)00249-5 <-- shared technical article
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[similar to the public health impacts and challenges faced by communities around the dying Salton Sea, amongst others...]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #pollution #dust #toxic #exposure #wind #publichealth #water #drought #GreatSaltLake #Utah #water #surfacewater #watersupply #climatechange #demographics #community #atrisk #minorities #income #disparity #humanhealth #mitigation #policy #planning #loss #drying #lake #terminallakes #inlandseas #ecology #habitat #lakebed #humanimpacts #mining #wateruse #overuse #desiccation #socialdisparity #incomedisparity #particulates
#BritishColumbia #OldGrowth #activists have taken before and after photos of a large area of an #AncientGrove that was #clearcut on #VancouverIsland near #PortAlberni in the #NahmintValley.
The #AncientForestAlliance says that many of the massive #trees that were cut down were over 500 years old, some being up to nine feet across.
Now that the grove has been cut, they are urging the #BCgovernment to immediately correct misidentified #AtRisk #OldGrowth #forests that could be eligible for #LoggingDeferrals.
Red List of Mangrove Ecosystems, IUCN
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https://www.iucn.org/resources/conservation-tool/iucn-red-list-ecosystems/red-list-mangrove-ecosystems <-- shared link to technical details
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #marine #coast #coastal #ecosystems #mangrove #mangroves #global #assessment #biodiversity #foodsecurity #climatechange #erosion #SLR #sealevelrise #socioeconomic #economics #deforestation #shrimpfarming #sediment #sedimentation #geomorphometry #storm #stormsurge #extremeweather #hurricane #typhoon #risk #atrisk #hazard #Endangered #Threatened #InternationalUnionforConservationofNature
@ICUN
#WestVirginia #Republican #Supermajority #House #OKs bill #doctors say would #eliminate #GenderAffirming #Healthcare for most #atrisk #transgender #youth.
#Republicans in the #HouseofDelegates occupy 89 out of 100 seats in the #Gerrymandered #StateLegislature.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WestVirginia #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.wpxi.com/news/health/west-virginia-house/DXZUSKAHSWECIPBQJR4AU3G56U/
Have we been trying to prevent suicides wrongly all this time?
https://theconversation.com/have-we-been-trying-to-prevent-suicides-wrongly-all-this-time-218022 #suicide #prevention #AtRisk #depression #timing #monitoring
"A new study estimates that nearly half of the world’s known flowering #plants are threatened. “We’re trying to raise the profile because we feel plants often get missed in the conversation about more #furry and #fluffy things,” said botanist Steven Bachman." https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/nearly-half-of-the-worlds-flowering-plants-face-the-threat-of-extinction-study-says/ by @mongabay
#Defending Our #Common #Humanity.
#Farright #attacks are putting #transgender #youth and their #families directly in #HarmsWay and putting all of us #atrisk. We are #fightingback.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayRights #TransRights #Activism #Representation #Culture #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
The #Na̱mǥis #FirstNation located in #AlertBay on #BritishColumbia #WestCoast has relied on #salmon as a main #FoodSource for thousands of years.
Salmon are #sacred for #Indigenous people living there, but that #legacy is now #threatened by long-term consequences of #industrial #FishFarms over the last 3 decades.
Namgis are one of several BC native ppls I've worked w/ to #ProtectWildSalmon over many yrs. #WildSalmon are #KeystoneSpecies & are #AtRisk
A new look at decades of data from #MuseumCollections & #surveys of #LeafLitter #ants in #Florida #reveals a steady #decline in #NativeAnts , #simultaneous #increase in #nonNative ants—even in #protected natural areas of the state, researchers report.
#Reported in the journal Current #Biology , the findings point to a potential future devoid of native ants, the #researchers said.
Two new #studies take a #CloserLook at what’s putting #biodiversity #AtRisk . One #study #examined #NativePlants while the other measured #WildAnimals. #Researchers in both cases traced the answer back to what we eat. But there is #GoodNews here: what you eat can be part of the #solution .
#TopicTuesday Long Read: Disability Inclusion within Brimbank.
My first question raided at this months council meeting was as follows:
“Brimbank's 2022-2026 Disability Action Plan was released around 4 months ago, yet there is no reference to Neurodivergent people (other than reference to a symbol identifier), let alone any planning to ensure their inclusion in our community. Neurodivergent people should not need to wait until 2026 before their barriers to inclusion in Brimbank events will be considered, so what action is Brimbank City Council taking, to ensure their inclusion is possible at council run events?”
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Hi everyone. I would really appreciate your support in answering this very short poll if you are eligible, and sharing it with your networks. Thank you very much for your time. You are wonderful.
This question is for you if:
YOU ARE / YOU CARE FOR / YOU LIVE WITH
someone who is Neurordiverse, Immune-Compromised or otherwise At Risk of COVID-19.
"Would you like to see a return of / inclusion of online events in your community?"
Of an estimated seven thousand #languages spoken in the world today, about 40% are #AtRisk of going #extinct .
It has been evaluated that in just the last few hundred years, thousands of languages have #vanished with half of all present languages #projected to #disappear by the end of this century. A different tongue has been found to be wiped out every two weeks with the biggest #culprit being #economic #development .
https://impakter.com/indigenous-languages-ecocide-reexamining-legacy-western-colonialism
Former #WHL player Norm Flynn started HEROS — the #Hockey #Education #ReachingOut #Society — more than two decades ago, to help #empower #marginalized & #AtRisk #youth on & off the ice.
“We started 36 boys & girls on the ice in the downtown Eastside of #Vancouver ” Norm explains. “Fast forward 23 years later, we’ve worked with over 17,000 boys and girls, and we have 29 programs in 13 cities in #Canada .”
https://www.cheknews.ca/vital-people-heros-hockey-is-scoring-big-wins-for-youth-empowerment-1145192/?amp
#Vancouver #nonprofit that has been #supporting #FullTime #artists w/ #SubsidizedRent says their #financial situation is dire & 95 #SmallBusiness owners are all #AtRisk .
#GlassArtist Jude Kusnierz started #BeaumontStudios when she decided to #SplitCosts of #renting out a black box theatre on the corner of 5th Avenue & Alberta Street in 2004 w/a group of artists.
Greg Cocks 
