#mass-mortality — Public Fediverse posts

The car-road complex, Big Car is like the military-industrial complex

Saving Ourselves from Big Car, David Obst >>
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/saving-ourselves-from-big-car/9780231210423/

"Big Car is a confederation of industries such as gasoline, auto manufacturing, car insurance, lobbyists, asphalt producers, tire producers, and others, who work together to push a lifestyle that has made us all dependent on their products...The “American Dream” had become the world’s nightmare."
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David Obst in Conversation with Renee Bales About Saving Ourselves from Big Car
https://cupblog.org/2025/10/07/david-obst-in-conversation-with-renee-bales-about-saving-ourselves-from-big-car/
#cars #roads #MobilityDesign #suburbs #SettlerSociety #FossilFuel #AmericanDream #BigCar #CarMinds #petromasculinity #CarFreeZones #climate #MassMortality #EV #MaaS

We found pesticides in a third of Australian frogs we tested.

"In our newly published research, we detected pesticides in more than one in three frogs we tested. We found a rodenticide in one in six frogs."

"Pesticides have been shown to be a major cause of worldwide declines in amphibians, including frogs and toads. In the case of the mass deaths in Australia, we don’t believe pesticides were the main cause, for reasons we’ll explain."

"We tested liver samples of 77 frogs of six species from across New South Wales for more than 600 different pesticides. We detected at least one pesticide in 36% of these frogs."

"Our most significant discovery was the rodenticide Brodifacoum in 17% of the frogs. This is the first report of rodenticides – chemicals meant to poison only rodents – in wild frogs."

"Two pesticides detected in frogs were organochlorine compounds dieldrin and heptachlor. A third, DDE, is a breakdown product of the notorious organochlorine, DDT."

"These pesticides have been banned in Australia for decades, so how did they get into the frogs? Unfortunately, these legacy pesticides are very stable chemicals and take a long time to break down. They usually bind to organic material such as soils and sediments and can wash into waterways after rain."
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https://theconversation.com/we-found-pesticides-in-a-third-of-australian-frogs-we-tested-did-these-cause-mass-deaths-228194

Broad-scale pesticide screening finds anticoagulant rodenticide and legacy pesticides in Australian frogs>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896972402672X?via%3Dihub
#amphibians #frogs #MassMortality #rodenticides #water #pesticides #chemicals #AnticoagulantRodenticide

‘Unheard of’ #MarineHeatwave off #UK and #Irish coasts poses serious threat -

Sustained high temperatures over summer could trigger #MassMortality of #fish and #oysters, say scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/19/marine-heatwave-uk-irish-coasts-threat-oysters-fish-high-temperatures #ClimateCrisis #Sustainabity #Environment #Wildlife