One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction
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Nature
One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction
Nature - A global multi-taxon extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds one-quarter of species to be at high risk of extinction.
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A new study finds that oil and gas pollution caused 91,000 early deaths 💔 and over 200,000 asthma cases 💨 in the US in 2017. Black and Asian communities 🌍 bear the greatest burdens, especially near refineries.🏭
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#OilAndGasPollution #EnvironmentalJustice #CleanAirForAll #PublicHealthCrisis #ClimateActionNow
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Science Advances
The health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the major oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States
Largest total population health burden is from O&G end-use, but greatest relative disparities are linked to downstream activities.
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New 2025 global report finds fossil fuel dependence and adaptation delays driving record health harms with 2.5 million deaths from air pollution 🌫️, 546 000 heat deaths ☀️, and surging dengue 🦟 and wildfire 🔥 risks after 2024’s record heat and soaring fossil fuel subsidies amid political backsliding.
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#FossilFuelImpact #HealthCrisis2025 #ClimateActionNow #AirPollutionAwareness #EnvironmentalHealth
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The Lancet
The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: climate change action offers a lifeline
Driven by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is increasingly claiming
lives and harming people's health worldwide. Mean annual temperatures exceeded 1·5°C
above those of pre-industrial times for the first time in 2024. Despite ever more…
lives and harming people's health worldwide. Mean annual temperatures exceeded 1·5°C
above those of pre-industrial times for the first time in 2024. Despite ever more…
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Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting—operate as false solutions that not only fail to effectively reduce emissions, but also prolong the lifespan of fossil fuel infrastructures. 🌍💨⚠️💡
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#LowCarbonDeception #FossilFuelMyths #ClimateActionNow #SustainableSolutions #EnergyTransition
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