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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ai6yr</a> Yikes! Isn't there an estuary in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Elkhorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elkhorn</a>? <a href="https://elkhornslough.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://elkhornslough.org/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToxicGases</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicSmoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToxicSmoke</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicAir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToxicAir</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MossLanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MossLanding</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wales</a> - Explosion fears over proposed huge battery farm by Dafydd Evans, BBC News, January 16, 2025"Concerns about fires and explosions have been raised over plans to build one of the UK largest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BatteryFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BatteryFarms</a>."The Ynni Celyn project would create a 1,000MW <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BatteryEnergyStorageSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BatteryEnergyStorageSystem</a> (BESS) site on green fields above the village of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gwyddelwern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gwyddelwern</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Denbighshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Denbighshire</a>."A public meeting will be held on Thursday, with some residents concerned about the safety of the site and potential <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalDamage</a>."Developer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NatPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatPower</a> said safety was 'paramount' and only about a third of the 75 acre site would house batteries."BESS are being built across the UK to help balance the electricity grid, which is becoming increasingly powered by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#renewables</a>."The systems hold electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind turbines and solar farms."Plans for the site, close to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClwydianHills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClwydianHills</a> and a planned new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalPark</a>, were recently shown to the community."Dr Kevin Sharp lives near the proposed site and said it could create a 'potential catastrophe'."He added said: 'We know that these batteries can catch fire, explode and emit lots of very <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToxicGases</a>."'I don't think anyone can guarantee the safety of everybody around here, should there be an incident.'"'A small chance of a bad thing is an unacceptable risk for the people who live locally.'"Demand for electricity is expected to double in Wales by 2050 as efforts to reduce carbon emissions continue and BESS sites are seen as providing a stable and reliable supply."Similarly sized projects are being built or have been approved."However, fires and explosions have been reported around the world including one at a 20MW site in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Liverpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liverpool</a> in 2020."Jamie Corry also lives close to the site and said it was unsuitable due to the 'shocking' access for the fire service."Read more: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30dn61m64eo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30dn61m64eo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BessFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BessFires</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumBatteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LithiumBatteries</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LithiumFires</a>

DoomsdaysCWHow <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AirPollution</a> is causing girls to get their first <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/periods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#periods</a> earlierNew research shows that girls in the US are getting their first periods earlier. Exposure to toxic air is partly to blame.By David Cox, June 4, 2024"The same trend has also been noted around the world. South Korean scientists have described with some alarm how the number of girls displaying signs of precocious puberty – either breast development or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/menstruation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#menstruation</a> before the age of eight - increased 16-fold between 2008 and 2020."We're also seeing that these decreasing ages at puberty are even more pronounced in lower socioeconomic status groups, and ethnic minority groups," says Audrey Gaskins, an associate professor at Emory University in Atlanta, the US. "This has important implications for long-term health."Researchers like Gaskins are primarily concerned that beginning puberty earlier might trigger a cascade of events which have far-reaching consequences later in adulthood. Emerging data suggests that it may not only curtail the fertility window, particularly if these women then enter menopause sooner, but shorten their lives. Precocious puberty has been repeatedly associated with a higher risk of diseases ranging from breast and ovarian cancers, metabolic syndromes such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease."By David Cox, June 4, 2024"For several decades, scientists around the world have become increasingly concerned by signs that girls are entering puberty at a much younger age compared with previous generations.From when girls experience their first period, something which scientists term the age of menarche, to commencing breast development, these seminal changes marking the onset of adolescence appear to be taking place progressively sooner."American girls today have been estimated to start menstruation up to four years earlier compared to girls living a century ago. In May, new data showed that while girls born between 1950 and 1969 typically began menstruating at 12.5 years, this decreased to an average of 11.9 years for the generation born in the early 2000s."The same trend has also been noted around the world. South Korean scientists have described with some alarm how the number of girls displaying signs of precocious puberty – either breast development or menstruation before the age of eight - increased 16-fold between 2008 and 2020."'We're also seeing that these decreasing ages at puberty are even more pronounced in lower socioeconomic status groups, and ethnic minority groups,' says Audrey Gaskins, an associate professor at Emory University in Atlanta, the US. 'This has important implications for long-term health.'"Researchers like Gaskins are primarily concerned that beginning puberty earlier might trigger a cascade of events which have far-reaching consequences later in adulthood. Emerging data suggests that it may not only curtail the fertility window, particularly if these women then enter menopause sooner, but shorten their lives. Precocious puberty has been repeatedly associated with a higher risk of diseases ranging from breast and ovarian cancers, metabolic syndromes such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.[...]"Some of the major culprits appear to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToxicGases</a> such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SulphurDioxide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SulphurDioxide</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NitrogenDioxide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NitrogenDioxide</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonMonoxide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarbonMonoxide</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ozone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ozone</a>, all of which are released into the air either through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VehicleEmissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VehicleEmissions</a> or waste produced by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manufacturing</a> Plants. In 2022, a study from scientists in Poland, a country known for its poor air quality due to the prevalence of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coal</a>-burning factories, examined data from 1,257 women, and found a link between greater exposure to nitrogen gases and menstruation occurring before the age of 11."Read more: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240605-how-air-pollution-is-impacting-girls-puberty?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240605-how-air-pollution-is-impacting-girls-puberty?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PM2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PM2</a>.5 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PM10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PM10</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParticulateMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ParticulateMatter</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndustrialAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndustrialAge</a>

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