Forwarded from 🎓 TIL - Today I Learned but no 🐝
TIL that in 1989, a group called "The Breeders" caused a medfly infestation in California to protest spraying of the insecticide Malathion, devastating crops and costing $60 million in eradication efforts. The state ceased this spraying in response. [source, comments]
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Forwarded from Projesterone's Playplace :0)
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More than half of US counties lack air quality monitoring stations 🌫️, with rural 🌾 and disadvantaged areas 🚧 most affected.
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#AirQuality #EnvironmentalJustice #RuralHealth #CleanAirForAll #PublicHealth
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PNAS
Identifying air quality monitoring deserts in the United States
Air quality is associated with adverse health outcomes and mortality risk. While most research has focused on the association between air quality e...
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Diseases such as measles, rubella and polio could become endemic to the US again if vaccine rates decline, according to researchers at Stanford Medicine. Even at current immunization rates, researchers predict that measles may become endemic again — circulating in the US — within two decades. 🦠💉🇺🇸
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#VaccinationMatters #PublicHealth #ImmunizationAwareness #EndemicDiseases #ProtectOurChildren
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#VaccinationMatters #PublicHealth #ImmunizationAwareness #EndemicDiseases #ProtectOurChildren
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Measles may be making a comeback in the U.S., Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Diseases such as measles, rubella and polio could become endemic to the U.S. again if vaccine rates decline, according to modeling run by researchers at Stanford Medicine and their colleagues.
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Not to romanticize the past too much but
https://www.businessinsider.com/civilian-conservation-corps-ccc-fdr-parks-forests-photos
https://www.businessinsider.com/civilian-conservation-corps-ccc-fdr-parks-forests-photos
Business Insider
A century ago, the government hired unemployed young men to build America's forests, trails, and parks. Photos show FDR's 'tree…
During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt created a tree army. Civilians planted trees, built dams, and transformed state and national parks.
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