Tag: water
PFAS in drinking water increases rates of certain cancers, new study...
Also known as "forever chemicals," the research of cancer incidents collected between 2016 and 2021 showed up to 33 percent higher rates of certain cancers.
Decades of toxic pollution: New lawsuit targets Chemours for illegal PFAS...
West Virginia community fights back as Chemours’ PFAS pollution persists.
Water supplies strained for 30 million americans, new USGS report warns...
Climate change and pollution threaten water access for millions across the U.S.
Nearly one-third of US residents exposed to dangerous, unregulated contaminants in...
“Ultimately, we need to do a better job at protecting source waters and reducing discharges of pollutants into water bodies that feed into our drinking water supplies.”
Water deprivation looms in Gaza
Satellite photos and videos obtained by HRW showed extensive damage to water sanitation infrastructures from Israeli bombardments.
Global river flows fell to record lows in 2023, WMO report...
For the past five years in a row, river flows all over the globe have recorded below-normal conditions, the press release said.
Criminal charges for water executives as Britain introduces landmark legislation to...
The new law represents the most significant increase in enforcement powers in over a decade, giving regulators unprecedented authority to crack down on water companies polluting the nation’s lakes, rivers, and seas.
4 billion people lack safe drinking water globally
A new study conducted by REACH, a global research program, found the estimated amount in 2020 more than double
Oxfam report: Israel slashes water access in Gaza by 94% amid...
The report details how Israel’s sustained attacks on water infrastructure have left Palestinians in Gaza with just a fraction of the water they need for basic survival.
New study finds detectable plastic fragments in bottled water that invade...
A new study explored the world of nanoplastics and their presence in bottled drinking water.
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You’re wrong Elon. Social Security’s not the ‘Ponzi Scheme’–The ‘unrealized gains’– taxloophole is…
“At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one's shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains.”
Trump defies court order, deports hundreds under 1798 wartime law in unprecedented legal overreach
Despite a federal judge’s order to halt deportations, the Trump administration expelled over 200 Venezuelans and a Brown University doctor, sparking outrage over its use of an 18th-century law and open defiance of the judiciary.
ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying all along
This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.
The Trump Inversion Scam makes the world great again – except for America and abused...
Trumpism in a nutshell: batter average citizens to buttress concentrated crony capitalist power. DOGE will end up not as positive, creative destruction, simply self-destructive destruction.
How Donald Trump and Elon Musk are waging a deep and wide ‘uncivil war’
Historians and neuro-scientists show there are well-established psychological patterns that explain how personal fear fosters anger that leads to a need for action to eliminate the fear.