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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 #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

"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 […]

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?)

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

"Public health is not a government bureaucracy. It is the reason most of us are alive. It is clean water, childhood vaccines, and food safety inspections. ... And women — often overlooked, often working without recognition — built much of it." 🧪💉
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Guest column: A Fargo daughter proved that women’s health matters. We’re still proving it.
Professor Michelle A. Williams will deliver the Mary Jaylene Berg Memorial Lecture at North Dakota State University on April 7.

"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 […]

The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room has put 3.5 million pages of released documents, bound together in 3,437 volumes of books, on display in a new exhibit in Tribeca, NY.
A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York:
https://www.

Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool vandalized with '86 47' graffiti amid Trump's makeover and Comey indictment (Jasmine Fernšndez/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-vandalism-b2969230.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p43#a260502p43