#heavymetals — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #heavymetals, aggregated by home.social.
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#PlasticPollution in #ShootingRanges and warfare areas - an overlooked #environmental issue
Andrés Rodríguez-Seijo, et al. 15 July 2026
Abstract
"Shooting ranges and military training fields, including warfare-impacted areas, have been widely recognized as environmentally impacted zones by inorganic and organic #contamination, such as #HeavyMetals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or explosive-related compounds. However, the possible contamination by #plastics and #microplastics in soil has been widely overlooked despite potential plastic sources, such as #ShotgunCartridges, #PlasticWads or #landmines. Due to how these activities occur, plastics have remained in the field for decades or centuries, favoring their conversion from macro to microplastics, polluting the soil and water resources. Moreover, shooting and recreational activities such as #airsoft or #paintball practices could also be a substantial source of plastics to ecosystems; once shot, pellets can have conventional or biodegradable plastics in their composition, and there left in the environment, favouring impacts on soil properties. Although some initiatives have emerged to avoid the use of single-use plastics in shotgun ammunition, alternative materials (biodegradable plastics) can also be a potential risk, favouring the heavy metal bioavailability of shot pellets. These emerging pollutants should also be considered in these areas to understand if they could be a potential source of micro- and nanoplastics to the environment and, therefore, an environmental concern that requires changes at industrial and regulatory levels."Read more:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935125008771#EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredBirds #AmmunitionPollution #ProtectNature
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Necklace survey finds excessive levels of #heavymetals - London Trading Standards
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Bumblebees accumulate significantly higher levels of toxic metals than honeybees
📰 Original title: Bumblebees collect up to 7 times more toxic metals than honeybees
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Where is cadmium still being used? #heavymetals #cadmium #toxicology #environment ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsayip1oBA
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#China must hear #river warnings⚠️
"🇨🇳embassy's stmt poured fuel on fire. For >a year, #Thailand's #Pollution Control Dept repeatedly detected #heavymetals exceed'g #safety standards in te Kok, Sai, Ruak & #Mekong rivers. Contaminants hv entered te #foodchain..🤦♂️ Yet te embassy's stmt appeared to gloss over tis reality.. Thai local communities hv long qn'ed PRC's role in #rareearth #mining in 🇲🇲.. 🇨🇳's rare #earth invts hv caused environmental damage in neighbouring countries"
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Heavy Metal S spotted in the wild, under a bridge crossing the Wabash River. Magic marker on pressure treated wood. So-so execution.
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Thawing permafrost responsible for acidification of Yukon watersheds
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Yukon #Canada #Permafrost #ClimateChange #Ecology #Environment #WaterQuality #Pollution #NorthernCanada #Watersheds #HeavyMetals #Freshwater #AcidRockDrainage
https://the-14.com/thawing-permafrost-responsible-for-acidification-of-yukon-watersheds/ -
#Taraxacum #officinale (#Cichorieae) is native to Eurasia; it serves as a #pollensource for numerous insects and also is #indicatorplant for #calcium/#potassium. Its parts are relevant #foodsources. In their studies in Armenia B. Babayan et al. (2025) found concentrations of #heavymetals in the #soil leading to #DNApolymorphisms and thus being well-suited as a #bioindicator for #ecotoxicology.
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⚠️ What is a common source of lead exposure in homes? #lead #heavymetals #chemistry #toxic ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oYogqXFhzQ
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Though there are many #heavymetals that #coalmining can release to our #freshwater, #selenium has been noted as a particularly risky #pollutant as it bioaccumulates in the #environment reaching toxic levels for #fish, #animals living in riparian areas, and potentially in agricultural #soils and #plants grown in them. This is a risk not only to human #health and the health of aquatic #ecosystems, but also risks the reputation of our regional agricultural products.
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Duke study raises concerns about Roundup use https://www.allforgardening.com/1654120/duke-study-raises-concerns-about-roundup-use/ #30PercentVinegar #DefenseProductionAct #DukeUniversity #epa #farmworkers #garden #gardener #gardening #Glyphosate #H2AVisas #HeavyMetals #herbicides #It'sOurFuture #LandscapeContractors #LandscapeFabrics #NorthCarolinaStateExtension #PesticideApplicatorLicense #PresidentTrump #Roundup
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Test of 31 #Shein items found 25 (81%) exceeded #EU REACH limits.
High levels of #phthalates (in 18/22 items, up to 70× limit), #PFAS (9/11 items, up to 3,115×), and #HeavyMetals (cadmium up to 126 mg/kg, lead up to 2,110 mg/kg).
Risks: skin contact, ingestion (children), environmental contamination.
Shein says it removes flagged items; @greenpeace calls for stricter enforcement and platform liability.
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Zinc content in natural water reservoirs (rivers and lakes) #zinc #heavymetals #environment #metals
... Continue to: https://youtube.com/shorts/q7rkyw6qOdk?si=R-PpCOLALnaqB2ou -
#GoldExtraction from #EWaste gets 10 times more efficient with new sponge material
Researchers developed a nanoscale cross-dimensional composite material via self-assembly of two-dimensional graphene oxide and one-dimensional chitosan macromolecules.
By Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Oct 27, 2024
"Researchers have developed a new type of material that’s 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from e-waste than previous adsorbents. Developed by chemists and materials scientists at the National University of Singapore, the material is a type of sponge made of #GrapheneOxide and #chitosan [shrimp shells].
"The material can reportedly transform the way gold is extracted from electronic wastes, which has been described so far as a dirty business with low yields and results in toxic #pollutants.
"The cheaper, cleaner and efficient method was tested by researchers using real e-waste provided by a recycling company."
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"While the present work focused on gold, the team say the technique could be adapted to recover other valuable metals such as #silver, #platinum or #palladium from #ElectronicWaste or even #mining residues. And that is not all: as well as e-waste, the technology might be applied to a wider range of environmental cleaning efforts, such as filtering out #HeavyMetals from #PollutedWater sources or industrial effluents, reported Physics World."
Read more:
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/gold-extraction-from-e-waste-sponge
Article in Physics World - Eco-friendly graphene composite recovers gold from e-waste24 Oct 2024
https://physicsworld.com/a/eco-friendly-graphene-composite-recovers-gold-from-e-waste/
#SolarPunkSunday #NoGoldMining
#EWasteRecycling #MetalsExtraction #Electronics #RareEarthMinerals #Recycling #NewTechnology #ShrimpShells -
The #EPA on Friday weakened #pollution limits for #coal burning power plants, allowing them to release more #HeavyMetals including #mercury, a powerful #neurotoxin linked to #BrainDamage.
The move was one of many efforts by the #Trump admin to revive the declining US coal industry, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that burning coal is harming #PublicHealth & driving dangerous levels of #GlobalWarming. Coal is the dirtiest of the #FossilFuels.
#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/climate/epa-mercury-coal-plants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Sources of environmental pollution with chromium #pollution #chromium #heavymetals #chemistry
... Continue to: https://youtube.com/shorts/OWk18T1ldhw?si=J3zln8m4Z5BNYjzl -
Heavy metal concentrations, ADHD prevalence, and other cognitive scores were assessed in 205 children 6-16. Children with the highest levels of copper were 16 times more likely to have ADHD. Lead, cadmium, and antimony were also linked to ADHD, and mercury to other cognitive effects.
Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-exposure-heavy-metals-linked-adhd.html
Original papers: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10870547251315276 (not open access), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24319-7
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Cadmium is most toxic to which human organ? #cadmium #heavymetals #toxicology #chemistry ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKiNgW_yizk
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Former esthetician here. Which is to say, I’ve been paying attention to this issue for a long time.
Tattoos are not risk free.
"Tattoo ink does not remain confined to the skin. Studies show that pigment particles can migrate through the lymphatic system and accumulate in lymph nodes."
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Which heavy metal is most commonly associated with water pollution in industrial areas?
A) Iron
B) Mercury
C) Calcium
D) Zinc
#waterpollution #heavymetals #chemistry #survey ... Continue to: https://www.facebook.com/1130092409221646/posts/1218688117028741 -
🦴⚠️ Which heavy metal accumulates in bones and affects calcium metabolism? #heavymetals #chemistry ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQnom3ZAZbM
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Sources of environmental pollution with lead #pollution #lead #environment #heavymetals
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💧 Exploring how contaminated mine waters behave in a carbonate aquifer — through the lens of metasomatic zoning and thermodynamic #geochemical modeling.
Using #PHREEQC simulations, data analysis in #RStats, and geospatial visualization in #QGIS, I’m studying how mine drainage transforms groundwater systems and mineral equilibria over time.
📘 The draft version (v0.75) of my monograph on this topic has already been downloaded 550+ times on #Zenodo — showing how relevant this issue has become for both science and environmental policy.
It’s independent research that links theory, modeling, and practical hydrogeochemical assessment — focused on the long-term impact of mine waters in the Kryvyi Rih region.
🔗 Read or download:
https://zenodo.org/records/16741148#Geochemistry #Groundwater #MineWater #EnvironmentalGeochemistry #Hydrogeology #WaterPollution #Metasomatism #OpenScience #IndependentResearch #EnvironmentalDataScience #Aquifer #HeavyMetals #Sustainability #SvystunovaGully
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Sometimes, the scariest things are what we *can't* see 😶🌫️
As our director Sejal Choksi-Chugh writes in her latest column, metal shredding pollution is a big problem - but we recently scored a major win to get the industry to clean up its act!
Learn more: https://baykeeper.org/column/graveyard-smash/
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Health effects of tin (toxicity and biological functions) #tin #heavymetals #chemistry #toxicology
... Continue to: https://youtube.com/shorts/mBFlrRUn7Eg?si=pZMw0pFNmW9CAgEk -
#rockmusik #heavy #heavymetals #heavymetal
It's only Rock and Metal.
Oh yeeaaah 💀🎸🤘🎸💀
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uPz1aEDcApk&si=n-frLyHIMAen1Wu2 -
Don't tell anyone!
"Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show. Instead of taking action to protect babies and young children from toxic lead exposure, government officials have tied themselves in knots to protect a dangerous industry."
"The New South Wales environment watchdog sat on a report for four years linking elevated levels of lead in children’s blood to current mining, and promised mining companies they would not do any “finger-pointing”, new documents tabled in state parliament show.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/05/environment-watchdog-buried-report-on-lead-in-childrens-blood-to-placate-mining-companies-emails-show"Lead exposure
can have serious consequences for the health of children. Exposure to very high levels of lead can severely damage the brain and central nervous system causing coma, convulsions and even death. Children who survive severe lead poisoning may be left with permanent intellectual disability and behavioural disorders."
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poisoning-and-health
#Pollution #children #lead #HeavyMetals #neurotoxins #health #harm #NSW #EPA regulation #BrokenHill #NSW #mining #extractivism #governance #DelayDeny -
#PrayerHorseRide's Third Annual March Ride Begins March 17, in Schurz, Nevada
Reconnecting and Revitalizing #Traditional Ways of Life Threatened by Destructive #Mining Resource Extractions Supporting "#GreenEnergy"By Prayer Horse Ride, via #CensoredNews
SCHURZ, Nevada -- "Prayer Horse Ride "#NanesootuhinaPookooGoobakatudu," is getting ready to begin our annual ride March 17th-26th, from Schurz, #Nevada through Yerington, Fallon, Wadsworth and Nixon, through Lovelock, then Orovada, and ending in #PeeheeMuhuh (#ThackerPass in the McDermitt Caldera), in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the #Paiute, #Shoshone, and #Bannock.
The Riders, walkers, and runners carry the prayer with each community. They'll move forward to raise awareness regarding lithium mining in Peehee Mu'huh and the McDermitt Caldera; AND also raise awareness to #CopperMining in the #PineNutHills, a holy place known to the #Nuwu; in honor and remembrance of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women / People (#MMIW/P) in Nevada; and to revitalize and restore cultural identity, languages, creativity, and supportive lifeways in our indigenous communities."Northern Nevada is the home of the #NorthernPaiute, #WesternShoshone, #Washoe, and #Bannock people. We, as descendants of them, will continue to give voices to the voiceless on #MotherEarth. To all of our relations.
"'We do this prayer ride to reconnect and revitalize our way of life,' says Josh Dini, Sr, a member of Walker River Paiute Tribe, #WaterProtector and #PrayerHorseRider, and a member of #AmericanIndianMovement Northern Nevada (#AIMNNV)."Indigenous communities in the Great Basin and McDermitt Caldera are experiencing fast-tracked #mining and industrial development to support 'green energy,' and are threatened by #ecologically and #sociologically destructive resource extraction processes, most notably, #lithium and #copper mining, in areas in proximity to or within #communities, #reservations and #LandTrusts, and #SacredSites.
"#HeavyMetals extraction #poisons lands, air, and water. Sacred sites for ceremony, where ancestors are buried, where medicines grow, and where lifecycles are anchored, are destroyed.
"'Copper mining in our Pine Nut Hills takes away our knowledge and our identity of who we are,' says Dini, who explained the mining threatens an important Paiute medicine food, as well as numerous traditional campsites and sacred places that have been used for innumerable generations.
"'We ride in honor of the people on the land before extraction industries, past - present - and future. Here in Nevada we have places important to the indigenous culture that are considered America's sacrifice zones in search of 'green energy.'
"'We are Paiute and Shoshone allied with many of the federally recognized tribes in Nevada. We lead this prayer for Mother Earth,' says Gary McKinney, a Duck Valley Shoshone Paiute, water protector and Prayer Horse Rider, People of Red Mountain spokesperson, AIMNNV council member, and SIRGE Coalition Steering Committee member.
Prayer Horse Ride will visit #Indigenous northern Nevada communities affected by these issues including #WalkerRiver Paiute Tribe, #Yerington Paiute Tribe, #Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe, #Lovelock Paiute Tribe, and #PyramidLake Paiute Tribe. As Riders reach each community, they may share meals, engage in ceremony, share stories and songs, and teach and learn traditional arts, bringing the communities together to celebrate and remember the traditional ways.
"McKinney says, 'We ride to honor the land and the people - of the past, present, and the future. #LifeOverLithium."
"About Prayer Horse Ride: Established in 2022 to honor the late #MyronDewey, Water Protector, Paiute Shoshone journalist and drone pilot, and to continue prayers for cultural sites like Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass), we are an indigenous led prayer group and community service organization that advocates for our indigenous communities, to protect what we have left and to raise your awareness to what our communities face, and most importantly, in gathering tribes back together to stand in unity, not by separation.
"'We'll continue this ride in the Vision of our Ancestors, for Healing, Strength and Awareness, in Prayer and Unity.'
"Prayer Horse Riders have a story to tell and you can reach out to PHR media liaison André Wesner for inquiries: [email protected]
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/prayer-horse-ride-2024-in-honor-of.html
#PrayerRide #WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #IndigenousLands #IndigenousActivism #EnvironmentalRacism #CulturalGenocide #NoUraniumMining #NoMining #LandBack #LandDefenders #CorporateColonialism
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Is it normal for a nation to become a big #hospital?
Was it the #junkFood, the #sugar, the #tracesOfSoy, the #canolaOil, the #heavyMetals, the #sexySmoking scenes, the #alcohol, the #supplements, the #rancidNuts, the #soyFlour, the #caffeine, the #glyphosate-dried products, the poorly regulated #pharmaceuticals, maybe its #overdevelopment, the loss of #greenSpaces and #restorativeEnvironments that stimulate young minds, the loss of connection to the #land.
What might it be?
