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A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn https://phys.org/news/2026-04-critical-minerals-echoes-oil-injustice.html

A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn
Mining critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt fuels the "green" energy and digital transitions essential to meeting climate goals. But building the technologies that enable a sustainable future is generating severe, hidden environmental and health crises that the world is failing to track or address, warns a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), known as the UN's Think Tank on Water.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
MEMORIALS:
🎵 Watching the Moon
#MEMORIALS
https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/watching-the-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/0taUrnC2MClY3YA0Yy0nHb

Trump eyes his next DC renovation: The Lincoln Memorial (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/trump-lincoln-memorial-renovation-00951100
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p113#a260604p113

"Black cockatoo species caught in the crosshairs of global race for minerals"
#Cockatoo #Birds #Animals

Black cockatoo species caught in the crosshairs of global race for minerals
Environmental organizations in southwest Australia have criticized the Australian government’s decision to grant the U.S. bauxite mining company Alcoa a national interest exemption, usually provided in cases of emergency, defense or national security, thereby authorizing the company to continue its operations despite years of unauthorized clearing in the country’s Northern Jarrah Forest. The Northern Jarrah […]

Unregulated markets maybe create significant threats to well-being in ways we are only just starting to recognize. How many other #ZoonoticDiseases are we going to learn about? (#WHO knows?)

Unregulated markets maybe create significant threats to well-being in ways we are only just starting to recognize. How many other #ZoonoticDiseases are we going to learn about? (#WHO knows?)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
The J.B.’s:
🎵 (It’s Not the Express) It’s the J.B.’s Monaurail
#TheJBs
https://musicguy4.bandcamp.com/track/its-not-the-express-its-the-j-b-s-monaurail-the-j-b-s-sickmix-intro-clean

I was one of those students who had Dick Bacon as a nude model in my art classes at UWM…
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/milwaukee-history/swimming-with-dick-bacon/

Swimming with Dick Bacon
“Dick Bacon would have loved his memorial service,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Jim Stingl wrote in 2000. “Except for the fact that it was indoors and everyone was clothed.”

"UN report flags disproportionate costs of clean energy transition"
#UN #UnitedNations #Energy

UN report flags disproportionate costs of clean energy transition
A new report published by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) warns that wealthy nations’ push toward cleaner energy comes with high environmental and social costs in mineral-producing countries. The investigation links the extraction of transition minerals used in green energy technologies like solar panels and rechargeable batteries to acute […]

Quotes about slavery, immigrants, and war memorials slated for removal from Bunker Hill historic site (Tonya Alanez/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/04/metro/bunker-hill-monument-quotes-removed-censorship/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p58#a260605p58