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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

Not surprising at all, but first time I'm seeing an example of reaction diffusion patterns in granite:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gl3xultyaxwitlx5r5qmlxvq/post/3miqqqfvyzs27

Mineralogical Society of America (@mineralsocamerica.bsky.social)
American Mineralogist: Myrmekite and antiperthite formation in deformed granite: Chemical and crystallographic constraints on formation mechanisms Yueting Song, Thomas A. Griffiths, Shanrong Zhao, and Rainer Abart https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2024-9715

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 #VarietyMix
MEMORIALS:
🎵 Dropped Down the Well
#MEMORIALS
https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dropped-down-the-well
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HZk6tx9agpLwiknkqTW7f

❝People are not numbers, and so among the rising tide of wartime deaths around the world are some familiar faces from our communities. Soroush Khazaei was an audiovisual artist who gave generously to the Iranian scene.❞ https://cdm.link/soroush-khazaei-memorial/

Soroush Khazaei, audiovisual artist, killed in an airstrike in Tehran - CDM Create Digital Music
People are not numbers, and so among the rising tide of wartime deaths around the world are some familiar faces from our communities. Soroush Khazaei was an audiovisual artist who gave generously to the Iranian scene. He was killed earlier this week in Tehran by US/Israeli airstrikes.

"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 […]