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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #toxins, aggregated by home.social.

  1. “'Earth's Greatest Enemy' Delivers A Penetrating Insight Into The Heart Of Our Dystopia”

    by Caitlin Johnstone in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack

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    “There’s a powerful new documentary out called Earth’s Greatest Enemy by Abby Martin about the ecocidal abuses of the US war machine, and it addresses the most pressing existential hurdles we face as a species like nothing I’ve seen before”

    open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj

    #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Earth #Enemy #US #WarMachine #Ecocide #Martin #Documentary #Pentagon #Toxins #Plunder #Empire #Collapse

  2. Scientists Thought #Parkinsons Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the #Water

    New ideas about #ChronicIllness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.

    By David Ferry, December 10, 2025

    Excerpt: "Sometime before 1953, a massive plume of #trichlorethylene, or #TCE, had entered the groundwater beneath #CampLejeune. TCE is a highly effective solvent—one of those midcentury wonder chemicals—that vaporizes quickly and dissolves whatever grease it touches. The spill’s source is debated, but grunts on base used TCE to maintain machinery, and the dry cleaner sprayed it on dress blues. It was ubiquitous at Lejeune and all over America.

    "And TCE appeared benign, too—you could rub it on your hands or huff its fumes and feel no immediate effects. It plays a longer game. For approximately 35 years, Marines and sailors who lived at Lejeune unknowingly breathed in vaporized TCE whenever they turned on their tap. The Navy, which oversees the Marine Corps, first denied the toxic plume’s existence, then refused to admit it could affect Marines’ health. But as Lejeune’s vets aged, cancers and unexplained illness began stalking them at staggering rates. Marines stationed on base had a 35 percent higher risk of developing kidney cancer, a 47 percent higher risk of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a 68 percent higher risk of multiple myeloma. At the local cemetery, the section reserved for infants had to be expanded.

    "Meanwhile, Langston had spent the remainder of the 1980s setting up the California Parkinson’s Foundation (later renamed the Parkinson’s Institute), a lab and treatment facility equipped with everything needed to finally reveal the cause of the disease. 'We thought we were going to solve it,' Langston told me. Researchers affiliated with the institute created the first animal model for Parkinson’s, identified a pesticide called #Paraquat as a near chemical match to #MPTP, and proved that farm workers who sprayed Paraquat developed Parkinson’s at exceedingly high rates.

    "Then they showed that identical twins developed Parkinson’s at the same rate as fraternal twins—something that wouldn’t make sense if the disease were purely genetic, since identical twins share DNA and fraternal twins do not. They even noted TCE as a potential cause of the disease, Langston says. Each revelation, the team thought, represented another nail in the coffin of the genetic theory of Parkinson’s."

    Read more:
    wired.com/story/scientists-tho

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/w8kFq

    #TCE #Solvents #DryCleaningFluid #Toxins #ToxicContamination #ParkinsonsDisease #WaterIsLife #WaterContamination

  3. How do pesticides get into oysters?
    Walking along estuaries in NSW, one finds that most oysters have been 'harvested' by very hungry people. And no, not by oystercatchers.

    "Pesticide residue from farms and towns is ending up in fresh oysters. Most of the herbicides, insecticides and fungicides we found are used routinely by farmers, land managers and council workers."

    "Four pesticides – atrazine, diuron, hexazinone and metolachlor – were found in concentrations above safe environmental limits for fresh and marine water.
    The sheer number of different pesticides we found in oysters was perhaps the biggest concern for lovers of oysters. Five of these – pebulate, vernolate, fosetyl Al, benomyl and prothiofos – have residue limits set at zero for meat."
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    theconversation.com/pesticide-
    #oysters #seafood #food #rivers #RichmondRiver #PesticideHub #NSW #pesticides #mangroves #sugarcane #runoff #TheGreatBarrierReef #water #ocean #coast #wildlife #oystercatcher #toxins #OneHealth

  4. A cocktail of toxins is poisoning our fields. Its effect on humans? Nobody can tell us

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    Many of the chemicals being spread as sewage sludge are untested or can’t be assessed. That’s why I’m suing for answers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

    #agriculture #toxins #malfeasance #profitmotive

  5. What do Keanu Reeves and #NaturalProducts produced by bacteria🦠have in common?
    They're both deadly to their enemies. That's why #LeibnizHKI researchers named the #toxins they discovered keanumycins. They could be used as #fungicides:
    leibniz-hki.de/en/press-releas
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    Direct link to the article: doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c11107

    The research was also highlighted as a News & Views article in @Nature t.co/9ibj8XuwFb

    #scicomm #antimycotics #research #fungalresistance

  6. 1st bloom has emerged 🙌

    #Anthurium #andraeanum ( #AKA #FlamingoFlower or #LaceLeaf or #PaintersPalette ). The #flowers are called #inflorescences & have two parts: the #spathe & the #spadix . This type of inflorescence is a #hallmark of the #plant family #Araceae that Anthurium adraeanum belongs to.

    In #NASA ’s #CleanAir #Study - A. andraeanum was #scientifically #proven to #remove #toxins like #formaldehyde & #ammonia from the air 🥰

    #cultivated #houseplants #PlantEducation