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Gina<p>Western Water Hemlock (Cicuta douglasii) is considered the most violently toxic plant in North America. Its carrot-scented roots contain cicutoxin, a powerful neurotoxin that can cause seizures and death with very small amounts.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/neurotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurotoxins</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/californianativeplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>californianativeplants</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a></p>
Colin Purrington<p>Fourth, resist the urge to nuke your yard with pesticides. While pyrethroids might reduce the ground-level mosquitoes for a few days, you'll be killing off mosquito predators (e.g., spiders), innocent pollinators, and much, much more. Seriously, just don't. 4/n <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/pyrethroids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pyrethroids</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/pesticides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pesticides</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mosquitoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mosquitoes</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/neurotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurotoxins</span></a> <a href="https://colinpurrington.com/2018/09/buzz-on-mosquito-sprays/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">colinpurrington.com/2018/09/bu</span><span class="invisible">zz-on-mosquito-sprays/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>‘We want the mill to shut down,’ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrassyNarrows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrassyNarrows</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a> </p><p>After nearly 60 years of industrial poisoning, the northwest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> community continues to demand justice</p><p>September 17 2024 <br>by Jon Thompson</p><p>"When members of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Asubpeeschoseewagong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Asubpeeschoseewagong</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anishinabek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anishinabek</span></a> (Grassy Narrows First Nation) and their supporters arrive at Queen’s Park this week, they’ll be calling for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrydenPulpAndPaper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrydenPulpAndPaper</span></a> mill that’s been poisoning their water with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neurotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurotoxins</span></a> for nearly 60 years to permanently close. </p><p>"'We want everybody to be compensated, we want the mill to shut down, and we don’t want no <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logging</span></a> in our territory. We just want it all to stop,' says <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChrissyIsaacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChrissyIsaacs</span></a>, lead organizer of the caravan.</p><p>"Isaacs has been a staple of the annual <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiverRun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiverRun</span></a> demonstrations since they began in 2010. She was a leader among Grassy Narrows youths who blockaded <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LoggingTrucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingTrucks</span></a> from entering the nearby <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiskeyJackForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiskeyJackForest</span></a> in 2002 and is currently travelling 1,900 kilometres to Toronto from her community near Ontario’s western border to protest the downriver effects of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/methylmercury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>methylmercury</span></a> poisoning.</p><p>"Staff at the upstream <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReedPaperMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReedPaperMill</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrydenOntario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrydenOntario</span></a>, about 150 kilometres east of Grassy Narrows, dumped nearly 10 metric tonnes of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mercury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mercury</span></a> into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnglishWabigoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishWabigoon</span></a> River system in the 1960s and early 1970s. Mercury poisoned the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fish</span></a> that the people of Grassy Narrows, and neighbouring <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabaseemoong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabaseemoong</span></a> Independent Nation, were consuming.</p><p>"A half-century later, medical experts are finding that varying nervous and neurological health effects affect up to 90 per cent of Grassy Narrows residents. </p><p>Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation stopped to demonstrate outside of the Dryden mill before heading to Toronto for the annual River Run demonstration at Queen’s Park. There, they will call on the Ontario government to compensate the community for generations of industrial poisoning and call for the mill, now owned by First Quality Enterprises, to be shut down.</p><p>"The Grassy Narrows road blockade to prevent clear-cut logging and mining from happening in their traditional territories has stood for 22 years, and in that time Isaacs’s children have had children of their own. She says the conversation has never been transformed as much as it has this year. </p><p>"In May, scientific researchers released the revelation that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sulphate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sulphate</span></a> and organic matter in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/effluent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>effluent</span></a> that the mill is still releasing into the river is making methylmercury in the river system even worse, as opposed to diminishing over time as they were told."</p><p><a href="https://ricochet.media/indigenous/we-want-the-mill-to-shut-down-grassy-narrows-first-nation-to-ontario/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ricochet.media/indigenous/we-w</span><span class="invisible">ant-the-mill-to-shut-down-grassy-narrows-first-nation-to-ontario/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MercuryPoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MercuryPoisoning</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InformedConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanadaFirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadaFirstNations</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Six rare <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sawfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sawfish</span></a> deaths in 7 days have scientists baffled amid bizarre <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> fish behavior</p><p>“There is no concrete, conclusive proof of what is happening yet and that is still to be determined, which is quite terrifying.” said Gregg Furstenwerth, a lifelong diver in the Florida Keys. “If it continues, it is going to be the end of this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a> as we know it.”</p><p>By Jen Christensen, CNN </p><p>Published Apr 12, 2024</p><p>"Most tests for toxins have been negative, but scientists have seen an unusually high number of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> called gambierdiscus that can produce a wide variety of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neurotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurotoxins</span></a> that can be harmful to fish and dangerous to humans.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gambierdiscus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gambierdiscus</span></a> is normally found in tropical and subtropical waters all around the world, but the algae can grow quickly when waters are warmer than usual. The climate crisis has brought record hot temperatures to the waters around southern Florida."</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/six-rare-sawfish-deaths-in-7-days-have-scientists-baffled-amid-bizarre-florida-fish-behavior/1640732" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">accuweather.com/en/weather-new</span><span class="invisible">s/six-rare-sawfish-deaths-in-7-days-have-scientists-baffled-amid-bizarre-florida-fish-behavior/1640732</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpinningFish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpinningFish</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarmingOceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarmingOceans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceanTemperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceanTemperatures</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicAlgae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicAlgae</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthFlorida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthFlorida</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceanEcosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceanEcosystem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Collapse</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcosystemCollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EcosystemCollapse</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FishDeaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FishDeaths</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gambierdiscus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gambierdiscus</span></a> and Its Associated Toxins: A Minireview</p><p>The global spread of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CFP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CFP</span></a> has led to Gambierdiscus and its toxins being considered an environmental and human health concern worldwide.</p><p>Da-Zhi Wang, et al.<br>July, 2022</p><p>"Gambierdiscus is a dinoflagellate genus widely distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions. Some members of this genus can produce a group of potent polycyclic polyether <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neurotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurotoxins</span></a> responsible for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ciguatera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ciguatera</span></a> fish poisoning (CFP), one of the most significant food-borne illnesses associated with fish consumption. Ciguatoxins and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/maitotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maitotoxins</span></a>, the two major toxins produced by Gambierdiscus, act on voltage-gated channels and TRPA1 receptors, consequently leading to poisoning and even death in both humans and animals. Over the past few decades, the occurrence and geographic distribution of CFP have undergone a significant expansion due to intensive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anthropogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropogenic</span></a> activities and global <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, which results in more human illness, a greater public health impact, and larger economic losses. The global spread of CFP has led to Gambierdiscus and its toxins being considered an environmental and human health concern worldwide."</p><p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35878223/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/358782</span><span class="invisible">23/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicAlgae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicAlgae</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fish</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarmingOceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarmingOceans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterTemperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterTemperatures</span></a></p>
KatLS<p>Random thought: what if part of our health problem is that we are marinating in plastic cloth and linens, and that <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/microPlastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microPlastics</span></a> are affecting us not just from our <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> and <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> ? What if our <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/immune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immune</span></a> and digestive maladies that our grandparents never had are related to microplastics as well as all the <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/neurotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurotoxins</span></a> and <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/reproductive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reproductive</span></a> toxins farmers use on food, the non food additives and so much <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/gmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gmo</span></a> corn syrup? It’s never an either/or- it’s both /and. 😳detoxing <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/clothing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clothing</span></a> is a challenge too?</p>
BellingenNSW<p>Pets, pesticides and polluted rivers</p><p>"Fipronil and imidacloprid are widely used in flea treatments, which are typically applied to the back of the pet’s neck once a month.These two chemicals are extremely potent neurotoxic insecticides and it is deeply concerning that they are routinely found on the hands of dog owners through ongoing contact with their pet. Pet owners will also be upset to learn that they are accidentally polluting our rivers by using these products.”</p><p>"The insecticides used in the flea products flow down household drains when pet owners wash their hands after applying the treatment. Wastewater from sewage treatment works is a leading source of fipronil and imidacloprid pollution in rivers, with concentrations exceeding safe limits for wildlife."<br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/01/vets-pesticide-flea-treatments-river-pollution-pet-owners-toxic-insecticides-hands" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">24/feb/01/vets-pesticide-flea-treatments-river-pollution-pet-owners-toxic-insecticides-hands</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pesticide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pesticide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dogs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rivers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/OneHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OneHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/neonicotinoids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neonicotinoids</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/neurotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurotoxins</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fipronil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fipronil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Bellinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bellinger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/platypus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>platypus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BellingerRiverSnappingTurtle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellingerRiverSnappingTurtle</span></a></p>