#toxins — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #toxins, aggregated by home.social.
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The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse
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The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse
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The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse
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The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse
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The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse
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“There were elders who started to get sores in their mouths because of the pesticides. We use our mouths to help in basket weaving,” Young says.
“And then if you’re cooking in these baskets and the material has been sprayed, then people can be ingesting it.”
#Forest #Nature #Climate #Environment #Pollution #Pesticides #Herbicides #Toxins #IndigenousRights #NativeAmericans #NaturalResources
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#Algal #Toxins emerge as a new concern in #Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea
Locals who depend on the sea for food and culture are trying to understand the risks to traditional foods and wildlife populations in a region undergoing myriad changes
by Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon, May 31, 2026 via #ICTNews
Excerpt: "For countless generations, people of the #BeringStrait region have relied on the food they harvest from the sea without worrying about #HarmfulAlgalBlooms [#HABs] that threaten seafood eaters in warmer and more southern latitudes.
"Now, as the Northern Bering Sea undergoes cascading effects of a warming climate, algal risks pose a new challenge.
"The change has been dramatic.
"And it has prompted a change in the way #Nome youth grow up learning about collecting food from the waters around their home. In early April, Nome high school students traveled to Bethel with their science teacher, where they presented their research at the Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference held by Alaska Sea Grant.
"Algal toxins were present, at very low but detectable levels, in fish they eat.
"Sophomore Audrey Bruner-Alvanna was among the group of student researchers. She said young people are concerned about algal blooms, which proliferate in warmer conditions, and their potential effects on wild food resources.
" 'Because, you know, as the climate changes, as the world gets warmer and stuff, there’s going to be more of these toxins and stuff during summer,' she said. 'I feel like a lot of people that I’ve talked to have been wondering about how our subsistence is going to change in the future based on all of that.'
"The student research came about after one of the nation’s densest and biggest concentrations of toxin-producing Alexandrium algae ever documented burst forth in the waters of the Bering Strait region in 2022.
"Until the appearance of the 'massive bloom, the most toxic bloom, the longest-persisting bloom in the U.S.,' local people barely knew what harmful algal blooms or #Alexandrium are, said Emma Pate, president of the Nome Eskimo Community, the local tribal government.
" 'So we had to figure things out and learn really fast,' Pate said during an October 'Strait Science' presentation hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Nome campus."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/algal-toxins-emerge-as-a-new-concern-in-alaskas-northern-bering-sea/#ClimateChange #ToxicAlgae #UniversityOfAlaska #TraditionalFoodSources #NativeAlaskans #WarmingOceans #AlexandriumAlgae
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Iran war could leave a lasting toxic legacy
Key insights The Iran war has led to emissions of harmful air pollutants and soil and water…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #airstrike #breakingnews #contaminants #Environmentalimpact #humanhealth #Iran #iranwar #OilSpill #Pollution #toxins
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"... Poor pesticide spraying practices in the Nambucca Valley and Coffs Harbour regions...Chemical banned by European Union still used in Australia."
When you drive from Nambucca Valley to the Coffs Harbour regions you can see giant white plastic nets enclosing blueberries, raspberries and blackberries plantations. There are toxic chemicals on some berries, the water and the area.
"Banned chemical thiometon detected in berries sold at supermarkets."
"Blueberry farming has boomed in NSW, including in the Nambucca Valley, as minimal red tape is required to set up. Blueberry farms can be started without formal registration or oversight, making it hard for authorities to track pesticide use. Since January 2022, the EPA has prosecuted 21 pesticide-related incidents across a range of crops in local courts across NSW... The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) announced a review into the use of dimethoate on blueberries, raspberries and blackberries."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-07/pesticide-review-thiometon-dimethoate-blueberries-raspberries/105701674
#food #regulation #toxins #pesticide #water #BerryIndustry #EPA #APVMA #governance #fruits #blueberries #NSW #plantations #MidNorthCoast #nambucca #CoffsHarbour #pollution #sprayDrift #dimethoate #thiometon #neurotoxins -
Study reveals fewer #mold #toxins in #organically grown #grain, compared to grain grown conventionally.
#agriculture #food_security #mycotoxin
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-reveals-mold-toxins-grown-grain.html
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#Protein allows poison dart #frogs to accumulate toxins safely
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-protein-poison-dart-frogs-accumulate.htmlBinding and sequestration of poison #frog alkaloids by a plasma globulin https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2177
"In humans, the liver can safely metabolize modest amounts of these compounds. Tiny #PoisonDartFrogs consume far more toxic #alkaloids in their diets, but instead of breaking the #toxins down, they accumulate them in their skin as a defense mechanism against predators."