Laura McDonald lmdigitalmedia.bsky.social
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Comms & Digital Media Freelancer | Sci & Water | Full Time Student M.Ed. | BA Journalism & GC Int Studies | Ex mandarin šš»āāļø DM Open
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Joined March 2016
CBC: Canada wants cities to start filtering toxic forever chemicals from public drinking water, but thatās no easy feat. Jaela Bernstien reports on the challenges facing water utilities as they try to adapt to new PFAS guidelines.
newsinteractives.cbc.ca
Hereās why removing toxic forever chemicals from public drinking water is no easy feat.
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Hotez PJ (2021) Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine. Now itās on climate reporting.
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This Essay argues that COVID-19 exposed how a rising tide of anti-science rhetoric and activities can dramatically exploit society's vulnerabilities to an infectious disease, suggesting that anti-s...
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RT @curtin_rc: Our latest report authored by @dyrenfurth & @dom_ma 'Innovation Nation: Powering Australian Productivity in the 2020s and Beā¦.
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These kids. Just wow. I really do hope communities in river basins across the world are taking notice of the possible! .#klamath #Oregon #California #riverruns .After Americaās biggest dam removal, 15 teens journey down a sacred river - Washington Post.
washingtonpost.com
The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.
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RT @MariahCBlake: Today, I got to talk about the fascinating (and horrifying) secret history of forever chemicals with a journalist I admirā¦.
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RT @MazzucatoM: The costs of not acting on the water crisis far exceed the costs of action. High-income countries may see GDP shrink by 8%ā¦.
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RT @leanahosea: And while they're carrying oil, gas + coal across the seas, they could be spilling oil into our oceans at a scale completelā¦.
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RT @craigthomler: VP DJ Vance went out on the Little Miami River in Ohio, for his 41st birthday. The Secret Service asked the U.S. Army Corā¦.
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The U.S. Secret Service recently asked to raise the levels of Little Miami River in Ohio so Vice President JD Vance could go kayaking.
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RT @MikeCarlton01: Excellent. Former Australian diplomats urge the government to do something concrete about Gaza, instead of just hand-wriā¦.
johnmenadue.com
As pressure mounts on the Australian Government over Palestine, a group of highly respected Australians, who have represented our nation overseas, have gone straight to the top with a letter to the...
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RT @SatPaper: āThe peace movement of the early 1970s was provoked in no small way by contemporaneous pictures of the conflict beamed nightlā¦.
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RT @WorldBank: Nepali cricketer & pacer @Sompal_Kami is calling for collective and individual action for #CleanAir. He's teaming up withā¦.
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Kids, be this guy. Always š Right side of history. @SenSanders donāt give up.
18,500 children have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war. Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.
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RT @BobBrownFndn: Buying ASC-certified Tasmanian salmon means supporting the cruelty ā and even killing ā of native seals. The Aquacultureā¦.
bobbrown.org.au
Yesterday, it was announced that the ASC will grant industrial fish farm company, Tassal, an exemption to its supposed āzero-toleranceā policy on the use of sea
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Federal & state šµ via water operators to bring safe, clean #drinkingwater to regional and rural Victoria, Aus. #SDG6 .Read more ā¬ļø. Funding unlocks clean drinking water access in regional Vic
themandarin.com.au
Murray Watt and Gayle Tierney splash $23.8 million on pipes and plants to secure drinking water for a parched and growing regional Victoria.
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RT @Elaine_EnvLaw: Calls for a lead free Mudgee are mounting, with regional community and business leaders seeking Govt support for a lead-ā¦.
mudgeeguardian.com.au
Mine opponents seize on $2.6B report to pressure NSW Government.
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Huge opportunity IF we actually wanted it! How to pull it off?.
@GrogsGamut I said this in Feb. Because of ex colleagues / friends in academia in the US. Potential issue too, we capped international arrivals and are mucking around with our own programmes! @fbongiornoanu @DrDemography @c_s_wallace @JaneCaro Last week itās CSIRO, what next?.
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RT @QuentinDempster: Peter Garrett. ā¦@australianā©: āThe rampant opportunism of Big Tech (AI) aiming to pillage other peopleās work for theiā¦.
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RT @KHayhoe: Iām a climate scientist, four-time author of the US National Climate Assessment, and that is not true. Hereās a short and easā¦.
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Hattie (2008). The stuff you find when youāre researching for your Masters. š¤£
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