Toxic Secrets: The town that 3M built - where kids are dying of cancer

Katie Jurek was 19 years old when she was told the osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, had returned. She could amputate her leg or die within three months.




'Bombarded with it': Katelyn O'Connell is one of at least 21 Tartan High School students diagnosed with cancer during their primary, middle or high school years or within 10 years of graduating.CREDIT:DAVID BOWMAN



Toxic Secrets: The town that 3M built - where kids are dying of cancer

Certain Dental Flosses Raise Body Levels of Toxic Chemicals

Flossing teeth could increase the body's levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) — widely used chemicals linked to a number of diseases and certain cancers — warn US researchers.

Changing daily behaviors could reduce exposure, they say.

Certain Dental Flosses Raise Body Levels of Toxic Chemicals

The battle on the frontline of climate change in Mali - BBC News

Everything about Mami exudes exhaustion. Her round brown eyes are pools of sadness, and her bulbous body throbs with pain.



"First, armed groups attacked nearby," she explains in a tired voice as we sit on plastic matting, five young children nestled close to their mother in Mali's fabled city in the sand Timbuktu.



"Then the rains came, and did the rest."



The worst rains in 50 years in northern Mali washed away their entire crop.



Those rains poured through the cracks in her mud home caused by an explosion an armed group set off.





Mali is lurching between drought and flood



The battle on the frontline of climate change in Mali - BBC News

Reverse Osmosis - Affordable Solution for Adrian's Water Issues

The current water situation should be another reason for restaurants, bars, coffee shops and other food related businesses and affluent residents to invest in an under the sink Revers Osmosis System. It also provides peace of mind about hexavalent chromium, lead, chlorine and chlorine organics products in chlorinated water, and many other pollutants that could occur.
RO systems can be purchased from many places at bargain rates of $100 to everyday rates of $250. Filters need to be replaced every year for about $60. Compare this to the price for 1 year of unregulated bottle water producing plastic waste polluting the environment.. No brainier and no excuses!

The link below supports RO as a solution during the Toledo water crisis:

https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2016/08/29/Reverse-osmosis-seen-as-solution-for-toxin.html

A good source for an RO system is:

https://www.uswatersystems.com/

Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study | Environment | The Guardian

Scientists say it may still technically be possible to limit warming to 1.5C if drastic action is taken now



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 The study found there is a 66% chance of staying below 1.5C above pre-industrial levels if immediate action is taken. Photograph: Alamy



Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study | Environment | The Guardian

BBC News: Australia swelters through record-breaking heatwave

The country has just experienced five of its 10 warmest days on record, meteorologists say

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ | Environment | The Guardian

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished

 El Yunque national forest in Sierra de Luquillo, Puerto Rico. Photograph: Stuart Westmorland/Corbis/Getty Images

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ | Environment | The Guardian