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Norway: 💔Devastating heavy Water Contamination in Nitelva river Fish populations collapsing along a 10-kilometer stretch Birds and small mammals dying after exhibiting neurological tremors Deuterium concentration is 700% above safe thresholds,

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Deuterium is a nuclear byproduct, how on Earth did it show up in 10 km of a river???

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Chemical dump?

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Terrible and depressing news of #waterpollution in #Norway. #Deuterium

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WTAF??? ...how do you get deuterium from hydrogen production?

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I am not an expert on this

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They have lots of electric cars, however🙂

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It's not radioactive

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Deuterium is non radioactive

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@grok Is there any evidence of the cause? Russian sabotage?

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Your banana from Ecuador has more deuterium than an apple grown in Hungary. This isn't a small difference. It's built into the biology of where the plant grows. Gábor Somlyai, molecular biologist & cancer researcher: "In the equatorial area, rain deuterium concentration is 155 ppm. As we go toward the poles, surface water deuterium decreases." Tropical fruits grow in high-deuterium water. They carry that load into your cells. But it goes deeper than geography. Plants fix carbon dioxide through different pathways — C3, C4, and CAM. C3 plants (wheat, spinach) deplete deuterium more. Lower load. C4 plants (corn, sugar cane) sit closer to 150 ppm. Higher load. CAM plants — like pineapple — can actually concentrate deuterium above ambient levels. So pineapple isn't just tropical. It's actively accumulating deuterium through its own metabolism. Human populations evolved eating the food grown in their region — drinking the water of their latitude. That food matched their biology. Today someone in Norway eats bananas from Ecuador, oranges from Spain, pineapple from Costa Rica. Every one of those choices shifts the average deuterium burden upward. Eat local. Eat seasonal. Match food to the geography your biology evolved in. Not complicated in principle. Just largely ignored.
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Your banana from Ecuador has more deuterium than an apple grown in Hungary. This isn't a small difference. It's built into the biology of where the plant grows. Gábor Somlyai, molecular biologist & cancer researcher: "In the equatorial area, rain deuterium concentration is 155 ppm. As we go toward the poles, surface water deuterium decreases." Tropical fruits grow in high-deuterium water. They carry that load into your cells. But it goes deeper than geography. Plants fix carbon dioxide through different pathways — C3, C4, and CAM. C3 plants (wheat, spinach) deplete deuterium more. Lower load. C4 plants (corn, sugar cane) sit closer to 150 ppm. Higher load. CAM plants — like pineapple — can actually concentrate deuterium above ambient levels. So pineapple isn't just tropical. It's actively accumulating deuterium through its own metabolism. Human populations evolved eating the food grown in their region — drinking the water of their latitude. That food matched their biology. Today someone in Norway eats bananas from Ecuador, oranges from Spain, pineapple from Costa Rica. Every one of those choices shifts the average deuterium burden upward. Eat local. Eat seasonal. Match food to the geography your biology evolved in. Not complicated in principle. Just largely ignored.

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Fruit juice carries a higher deuterium concentration than ocean water. Most people drinking it for their health are loading their mitochondria with more deuterium than ocean water delivers. Fruit juices measure between 140 and 170 ppm deuterium. Ocean water sits at 156 ppm. Many fruit juices land above it. The measurement data comes from István Fórizs — Hungarian geochemist and isotope hydrologist who studies the movement and distribution of isotopes through water systems in nature. The mechanism is straightforward. Plants transpire water through their leaves. During transpiration, lighter water evaporates preferentially and the water remaining in the plant becomes deuterium-enriched. When that fruit is pressed into juice, the enriched water it retained comes with it. This is why whole plants tell a different story. Hungarian plants measure at approximately 140 ppm — below the water they grow in, which ranges between 132 and 152 ppm depending on the season. Plants fractionate isotopes during metabolic processes, preferentially incorporating lighter hydrogen into their organic compounds. Whole plant foods arrive at your body modestly deuterium-depleted relative to their water source. Fruit juice reverses this entirely. Juicing concentrates the deuterium-enriched water the plant retained while stripping away the fiber and cellular structure that came with the depletion. You get the heavy fraction without the benefit. The gap between eating a whole apple and drinking apple juice is not just about fiber and sugar. It is an isotopic gap your mitochondria experience directly.
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Fruit juice carries a higher deuterium concentration than ocean water. Most people drinking it for their health are loading their mitochondria with more deuterium than ocean water delivers. Fruit juices measure between 140 and 170 ppm deuterium. Ocean water sits at 156 ppm. Many fruit juices land above it. The measurement data comes from István Fórizs — Hungarian geochemist and isotope hydrologist who studies the movement and distribution of isotopes through water systems in nature. The mechanism is straightforward. Plants transpire water through their leaves. During transpiration, lighter water evaporates preferentially and the water remaining in the plant becomes deuterium-enriched. When that fruit is pressed into juice, the enriched water it retained comes with it. This is why whole plants tell a different story. Hungarian plants measure at approximately 140 ppm — below the water they grow in, which ranges between 132 and 152 ppm depending on the season. Plants fractionate isotopes during metabolic processes, preferentially incorporating lighter hydrogen into their organic compounds. Whole plant foods arrive at your body modestly deuterium-depleted relative to their water source. Fruit juice reverses this entirely. Juicing concentrates the deuterium-enriched water the plant retained while stripping away the fiber and cellular structure that came with the depletion. You get the heavy fraction without the benefit. The gap between eating a whole apple and drinking apple juice is not just about fiber and sugar. It is an isotopic gap your mitochondria experience directly.

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If carbohydrates are high in deuterium… And high deuterium damages mitochondrial nanomotors… Then why are super centenarians in the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica eating rice and beans — and living past 100? This is the question Dr. Laszlo Boros — Hungarian medical doctor, retired professor at UCLA School of Medicine, author of 100+ peer-reviewed papers and one of the world's leading deuterium researchers — was asked by Matt Maruca 🌞 directly on his podcast. His answer reframes everything about longevity, diet, and deuterium depletion. They're not avoiding deuterium through diet. They're depleting it through biology. Five synchronized mechanisms — all of which modern humans have largely destroyed. 1. Nutritional metabolic ketosis (via the microbiome) These populations eat carbohydrates. But their highly adapted microbiome ferments those carbohydrates into short-chain fatty acids — butyrate, propionate — that are deuterium-depleted relative to the original substrate. Their gut bacteria eat the high-deuterium carbohydrates and hand the human host low-deuterium ketone bodies. They are operating in a state of nutritional ketosis — without eating a ketogenic diet. The bacteria do the depletion for them. 2. The biological cost — stool volume and skin shedding. The deuterium has to exit somewhere. Boros: "You need to look at their stool. Their stool is probably larger, it's more volume, and it's more deuterium-packed." The dead, deuterium-loaded bacteria leave through the gut. These populations produce significantly larger stool volumes and have more frequent bowel movements than carnivore populations — who may only use the bathroom once or twice a week. The stool is the primary exit route for the deuterium they consumed. This is the biological cost of carbohydrate-based deuterium management. But stool is not the only exit route. Intense sunlight accelerates the rapid turnover and shedding of keratinocytes — skin cells. The skin becomes another active deuterium excretion pathway. Boros: "Your skin actually produces and depletes deuterium on a constant basis simply because you produce keratinocytes, especially when you're exposed to sunlight." Which brings us to the next point. 3. Sunlight Most of these super centenarian populations live close to the equator. Intense red and near-infrared photon pressure penetrates tissue and reduces the viscosity of structured water inside the mitochondrial matrix — allowing nanomotors to keep spinning efficiently even when dietary deuterium is slightly elevated. The light and the local food work as a synchronized package. Boros: "You actually deplete deuterium very efficiently in your local environment once you encounter the appropriate microbiome for it." 4. Intergenerational microbiome sharing The ancestral tribes often eat the exact same local foods their ancestors ate for generations. They live in close physical contact — carrying adapted bacteria on their bodies, passing them to offspring through direct contact. Generation after generation of the same local food plus the same specialized deuterium-depleting microbiome. Boros: "They give these bacteria to one another because they are in close contact with their offspring. They carry them on their body. They actually get in contact with their stool and everything. Practically they are very efficient in providing one another a deuterium-depleting microbiome." 5. Night-cycle plant biology — the plants themselves are depleted This is the mechanism most people miss entirely. The specific rice and beans these populations eat are locally grown, non-GMO plants — and those plants are naturally deuterium-depleted at specific carbon positions. The mechanism: during the night cycle, plant chloroplasts act like mitochondria — producing sugars that are naturally depleted of deuterium at the 3rd and 5th carbon positions of the sugar molecule. Boros: "If you look at some papers that discuss the deuterium content in carbohydrates — for example, the fifth and the third carbon of sugar in beans which are grown in a natural environment — they are actually pretty depleted of deuterium simply because they use the night cycle when they use their chloroplasts as mitochondria." Modern industrially farmed GMO crops have been engineered to grow faster — destroying this natural night-cycle deuterium depletion mechanism entirely. The carbohydrate looks the same. The deuterium content is not. The modern contrast You cannot copy the tribal diet without copying the tribal biology. Glyphosate, antibiotics, and processed food have destroyed the first line of microbial deuterium defense. 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If carbohydrates are high in deuterium… And high deuterium damages mitochondrial nanomotors… Then why are super centenarians in the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica eating rice and beans — and living past 100? This is the question Dr. Laszlo Boros — Hungarian medical doctor, retired professor at UCLA School of Medicine, author of 100+ peer-reviewed papers and one of the world's leading deuterium researchers — was asked by Matt Maruca 🌞 directly on his podcast. His answer reframes everything about longevity, diet, and deuterium depletion. They're not avoiding deuterium through diet. They're depleting it through biology. Five synchronized mechanisms — all of which modern humans have largely destroyed. 1. Nutritional metabolic ketosis (via the microbiome) These populations eat carbohydrates. But their highly adapted microbiome ferments those carbohydrates into short-chain fatty acids — butyrate, propionate — that are deuterium-depleted relative to the original substrate. Their gut bacteria eat the high-deuterium carbohydrates and hand the human host low-deuterium ketone bodies. They are operating in a state of nutritional ketosis — without eating a ketogenic diet. The bacteria do the depletion for them. 2. The biological cost — stool volume and skin shedding. The deuterium has to exit somewhere. Boros: "You need to look at their stool. Their stool is probably larger, it's more volume, and it's more deuterium-packed." The dead, deuterium-loaded bacteria leave through the gut. These populations produce significantly larger stool volumes and have more frequent bowel movements than carnivore populations — who may only use the bathroom once or twice a week. The stool is the primary exit route for the deuterium they consumed. This is the biological cost of carbohydrate-based deuterium management. But stool is not the only exit route. Intense sunlight accelerates the rapid turnover and shedding of keratinocytes — skin cells. The skin becomes another active deuterium excretion pathway. Boros: "Your skin actually produces and depletes deuterium on a constant basis simply because you produce keratinocytes, especially when you're exposed to sunlight." Which brings us to the next point. 3. Sunlight Most of these super centenarian populations live close to the equator. Intense red and near-infrared photon pressure penetrates tissue and reduces the viscosity of structured water inside the mitochondrial matrix — allowing nanomotors to keep spinning efficiently even when dietary deuterium is slightly elevated. The light and the local food work as a synchronized package. Boros: "You actually deplete deuterium very efficiently in your local environment once you encounter the appropriate microbiome for it." 4. Intergenerational microbiome sharing The ancestral tribes often eat the exact same local foods their ancestors ate for generations. They live in close physical contact — carrying adapted bacteria on their bodies, passing them to offspring through direct contact. Generation after generation of the same local food plus the same specialized deuterium-depleting microbiome. Boros: "They give these bacteria to one another because they are in close contact with their offspring. They carry them on their body. They actually get in contact with their stool and everything. Practically they are very efficient in providing one another a deuterium-depleting microbiome." 5. Night-cycle plant biology — the plants themselves are depleted This is the mechanism most people miss entirely. The specific rice and beans these populations eat are locally grown, non-GMO plants — and those plants are naturally deuterium-depleted at specific carbon positions. The mechanism: during the night cycle, plant chloroplasts act like mitochondria — producing sugars that are naturally depleted of deuterium at the 3rd and 5th carbon positions of the sugar molecule. Boros: "If you look at some papers that discuss the deuterium content in carbohydrates — for example, the fifth and the third carbon of sugar in beans which are grown in a natural environment — they are actually pretty depleted of deuterium simply because they use the night cycle when they use their chloroplasts as mitochondria." Modern industrially farmed GMO crops have been engineered to grow faster — destroying this natural night-cycle deuterium depletion mechanism entirely. The carbohydrate looks the same. The deuterium content is not. The modern contrast You cannot copy the tribal diet without copying the tribal biology. Glyphosate, antibiotics, and processed food have destroyed the first line of microbial deuterium defense. Artificial blue light has replaced the equatorial photon pressure that compensates for dietary deuterium. Industrial GMO food has replaced locally grown, seasonally consistent food sources. Sterilized environments have broken intergenerational microbiome transfer. A modern human eating rice and beans does not have the biological machinery these populations built over generations. Boros's conclusion: “If you're able to stay in your local environment and not ship in food with unknown deuterium content. You can actually be safe on a relatively carbohydrate-rich diet if the carbohydrate portion of your diet is deuterium-depleted — and that's the case with plants which are not GMO." The Nicoya centenarians are not evidence that carbohydrates are uniformly safe for modern humans. They are evidence that deuterium depletion is a whole-system biological problem — not a dietary one. Fix the environment. Not just the diet.

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Deuterium — a variable almost nobody tracks — regulates cell growth and mitochondrial function. It sits upstream of cancer and everything downstream. Your mitochondria maintain a lower deuterium concentration inside their inner membrane than outside. That gradient is not incidental. It's a feature of normal mitochondrial function. Roman Zubarev — professor of medical proteomics at the Karolinska Institute, trained at Moscow's elite physics institute — has spent years studying what happens when you disturb it. 1. Deuterium As A Cell Growth Regulator Deuterium — heavy hydrogen — regulates cell growth rate in the range of approximately 30–350 ppm. Earth's normal deuterium concentration is around 150 ppm. When cells are deprived of this normal amount, their growth slows down. To test this, Zubarev’s lab used A549 lung cancer cells — currently the most widely used cell line in biology — and exposed them to deuterium-depleted water at about 80 ppm. The result? Cancer cell growth rate dropped by 30%. Once deuterium concentrations step outside of that 30–350 ppm regulatory window, the effects stop being regulatory and start becoming highly detrimental. For example Mars carries approximately 750–1,050 ppm of deuterium—roughly 5 to 7 times Earth's natural concentration. When terrestrial organisms are exposed to Martian deuterium levels, they show significant survival decline. Zubarev’s team conducted a two-year experiment growing small shrimp in isolated environments where the water was modified to contain ~600 ppm of deuterium. They found that the survival rates of the shrimp significantly declined compared to those grown in normal water. 2. The Mitochondrial Mechanism — How Deuterium Depleted Water (DDW) Actually Works Alongside the well-known proton gradient, there is also a deuterium gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane. Normally, the concentration of deuterium is lower inside the membrane than it is outside. Mitochondrial lipids are naturally deuterium-depleted. When cells are placed in 80 ppm deuterium-depleted water — lower than the normal ~150 ppm outside — the gradient reverses. More deuterium inside the membrane than outside. So how does this reversal suppress growth? This reversal upsets reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. To try and restore equilibrium, the mitochondria rapidly increase their production of ROS. This sudden spike in ROS induces oxidative stress within the cell, which the researchers identified as the primary molecular mechanism that ultimately suppresses the growth of the cells. This is the anti-cancer mechanism. Zubarev: "We have not invented this mechanism — it's very well known." To prove that DDW suppresses cancer cell growth by inducing oxidative stress they added NAC — N-acetylcysteine, a standard antioxidant — to DDW-treated cancer cells. If DDW works through ROS, an antioxidant should cancel the effect. The result? At approximately 2 millimolar NAC, the DDW anti-cancer effect was statistically eliminated. Then they tested the reverse. They combined DDW with auranofin — a drug that induces oxidative stress. If both work through ROS, combining them should produce synergistic effect. The result? At low to medium concentrations, adding the drug to the DDW created a "double whammy effect" where the cell count went down even further. However, at very high concentrations of the drug, the effect of the DDW diminished, which Zubarev explains makes sense because a cell does not need two overwhelming sources of reactive oxygen species to die. Three-layer validation. Published in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics — the top proteomics journal. 3. The Antioxidant Implication Standard health messaging treats ROS as purely bad. Antioxidants good. Oxidative stress bad. Zubarev's data complicates this directly. DDW works by increasing ROS in cancer cells. Antioxidants statistically cancelled the therapeutic effect. Auranofin — an oxidative stress inducer — synergized with DDW against cancer. Important caveat: this finding is in cancer cells, not in healthy humans. Zubarev notes that normal human cells react differently, stating that normal human cells are much less sensitive to DDW. Therefore, the induction of ROS to slow down growth is a therapeutic mechanism specifically observed in fast-growing cancer cells, not a general effect reported for healthy cells. But the blanket "antioxidants are good" narrative fails here. Context determines whether ROS is friend or enemy. 4. You Are Not What You Eat The standard model of nutrition assumes the body passively absorbs its dietary inputs — including isotopic composition. Zubarev's data shows the opposite. The body actively resists changes to its internal isotopic composition. It defends a specific ratio the way it defends pH or temperature. Isotopes modulate their own fractionation — the biological system selectively processes and separates heavy and light isotopes to maintain equilibrium. The isotopic quality of what you eat and drink is a regulated biological input — not a passive one. For example, the deuterium levels found in the proline, hydroxyproline, and collagen of seals are twice as high as the deuterium levels in the surrounding seawater. Because the isotopic concentration in the seals' biological building blocks is double that of their environment, there is no way to attribute this composition simply to their food. 5. Isotopic Resonance — The Order Underlying Life Plot the isotopic masses and abundances of the elements that make up biological molecules — hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen. You'd expect random scatter, a scattered "galaxy" of dots. Instead you find a precise line. Zubarev calls it isotopic resonance. At natural isotopic abundances, biological molecules cluster in a specific ratio that produces the simplest, most efficient molecular conformations. That ratio is the point at which life's chemistry runs fastest. The probability of this pattern appearing by chance is astronomically small. Zubarev — a physicist trained in probability — cannot dismiss it: "This is the line of God, if you want." Life doesn't exist here just because of liquid water and moderate temperature. It exists here because Earth's isotopic composition happens to hit the resonance at which life's machinery runs. Disturb that composition — and the system works to defend it. The isotopic quality of your water, your food, and your environment is not a background variable. It is the upstream input everything else depends on.
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Cancer cell growth rate dropped by 30%. Once deuterium concentrations step outside of that 30–350 ppm regulatory window, the effects stop being regulatory and start becoming highly detrimental. For example Mars carries approximately 750–1,050 ppm of deuterium—roughly 5 to 7 times Earth's natural concentration. When terrestrial organisms are exposed to Martian deuterium levels, they show significant survival decline. Zubarev’s team conducted a two-year experiment growing small shrimp in isolated environments where the water was modified to contain ~600 ppm of deuterium. They found that the survival rates of the shrimp significantly declined compared to those grown in normal water. 2. The Mitochondrial Mechanism — How Deuterium Depleted Water (DDW) Actually Works Alongside the well-known proton gradient, there is also a deuterium gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane. Normally, the concentration of deuterium is lower inside the membrane than it is outside. Mitochondrial lipids are naturally deuterium-depleted. When cells are placed in 80 ppm deuterium-depleted water — lower than the normal ~150 ppm outside — the gradient reverses. More deuterium inside the membrane than outside. So how does this reversal suppress growth? This reversal upsets reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. To try and restore equilibrium, the mitochondria rapidly increase their production of ROS. This sudden spike in ROS induces oxidative stress within the cell, which the researchers identified as the primary molecular mechanism that ultimately suppresses the growth of the cells. This is the anti-cancer mechanism. Zubarev: "We have not invented this mechanism — it's very well known." To prove that DDW suppresses cancer cell growth by inducing oxidative stress they added NAC — N-acetylcysteine, a standard antioxidant — to DDW-treated cancer cells. If DDW works through ROS, an antioxidant should cancel the effect. The result? At approximately 2 millimolar NAC, the DDW anti-cancer effect was statistically eliminated. Then they tested the reverse. They combined DDW with auranofin — a drug that induces oxidative stress. If both work through ROS, combining them should produce synergistic effect. The result? At low to medium concentrations, adding the drug to the DDW created a "double whammy effect" where the cell count went down even further. However, at very high concentrations of the drug, the effect of the DDW diminished, which Zubarev explains makes sense because a cell does not need two overwhelming sources of reactive oxygen species to die. Three-layer validation. Published in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics — the top proteomics journal. 3. The Antioxidant Implication Standard health messaging treats ROS as purely bad. Antioxidants good. Oxidative stress bad. Zubarev's data complicates this directly. DDW works by increasing ROS in cancer cells. Antioxidants statistically cancelled the therapeutic effect. Auranofin — an oxidative stress inducer — synergized with DDW against cancer. Important caveat: this finding is in cancer cells, not in healthy humans. Zubarev notes that normal human cells react differently, stating that normal human cells are much less sensitive to DDW. Therefore, the induction of ROS to slow down growth is a therapeutic mechanism specifically observed in fast-growing cancer cells, not a general effect reported for healthy cells. But the blanket "antioxidants are good" narrative fails here. Context determines whether ROS is friend or enemy. 4. You Are Not What You Eat The standard model of nutrition assumes the body passively absorbs its dietary inputs — including isotopic composition. Zubarev's data shows the opposite. The body actively resists changes to its internal isotopic composition. It defends a specific ratio the way it defends pH or temperature. Isotopes modulate their own fractionation — the biological system selectively processes and separates heavy and light isotopes to maintain equilibrium. The isotopic quality of what you eat and drink is a regulated biological input — not a passive one. For example, the deuterium levels found in the proline, hydroxyproline, and collagen of seals are twice as high as the deuterium levels in the surrounding seawater. Because the isotopic concentration in the seals' biological building blocks is double that of their environment, there is no way to attribute this composition simply to their food. 5. Isotopic Resonance — The Order Underlying Life Plot the isotopic masses and abundances of the elements that make up biological molecules — hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen. You'd expect random scatter, a scattered "galaxy" of dots. Instead you find a precise line. Zubarev calls it isotopic resonance. At natural isotopic abundances, biological molecules cluster in a specific ratio that produces the simplest, most efficient molecular conformations. That ratio is the point at which life's chemistry runs fastest. The probability of this pattern appearing by chance is astronomically small. Zubarev — a physicist trained in probability — cannot dismiss it: "This is the line of God, if you want." Life doesn't exist here just because of liquid water and moderate temperature. It exists here because Earth's isotopic composition happens to hit the resonance at which life's machinery runs. Disturb that composition — and the system works to defend it. The isotopic quality of your water, your food, and your environment is not a background variable. It is the upstream input everything else depends on.

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🚨Donate urgently to the children of Gaza🚨 Today, inside Gaza… children are no longer searching for comfort… they are searching for survival itself. Project Mohammed is now facing a devastating collapse in donations… and this is directly threatening our ability to continue delivering water to families trapped under unbearable heat, destruction, and thirst. Every missing donation now means: fewer water trucks… fewer families reached… and more children left waiting with empty containers under a burning sky. 💧 Look carefully at the faces of the children receiving water today… This is not exhaustion from play. Not tiredness from school. This is the exhaustion of thirst eating through small bodies day after day. Look at their dry lips… their hollow eyes… their fragile hands holding containers almost heavier than themselves. In Gaza… water is no longer a basic need. Water has become survival. Wells are dead. Pipes carry nothing. And every single drop now decides who continues living… and who slowly fades away. 💔 A child walks barefoot for hours through rubble and heat… only to return with an empty container. 💔 A mother feels her body collapsing from dehydration… yet gives the last sip to her children while remaining silent herself. 💔 Some children have become too weak to cry anymore… too weak to speak… too weak to even ask for water. And this is the horrifying truth: there are children in Gaza tonight whose bodies may not survive another day without clean water. Families are no longer dying only from bombs. They are collapsing slowly… quietly… from thirst. 🤍✨ This work continues only because of the people standing beside Gaza: Eyup (Eyup Lovely) ❤️ Felix (GoliathFan1952) ❤️ William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) ❤️ Despite exhaustion… despite fear… despite losing people we love… we are still carrying water through destroyed streets because we refuse to leave children to die from thirst alone. But we cannot continue without support anymore. If donations continue collapsing… our ability to move, distribute water, and save lives will collapse with it… while thirst grows stronger every hour. 🚨 Please do not scroll away from this. A single donation may be the reason a child survives tonight. 🤲 Donate. Share. Speak. Before thirst steals another life in silence.
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🚨Donate urgently to the children of Gaza🚨 Today, inside Gaza… children are no longer searching for comfort… they are searching for survival itself. Project Mohammed is now facing a devastating collapse in donations… and this is directly threatening our ability to continue delivering water to families trapped under unbearable heat, destruction, and thirst. Every missing donation now means: fewer water trucks… fewer families reached… and more children left waiting with empty containers under a burning sky. 💧 Look carefully at the faces of the children receiving water today… This is not exhaustion from play. Not tiredness from school. This is the exhaustion of thirst eating through small bodies day after day. Look at their dry lips… their hollow eyes… their fragile hands holding containers almost heavier than themselves. In Gaza… water is no longer a basic need. Water has become survival. Wells are dead. Pipes carry nothing. And every single drop now decides who continues living… and who slowly fades away. 💔 A child walks barefoot for hours through rubble and heat… only to return with an empty container. 💔 A mother feels her body collapsing from dehydration… yet gives the last sip to her children while remaining silent herself. 💔 Some children have become too weak to cry anymore… too weak to speak… too weak to even ask for water. And this is the horrifying truth: there are children in Gaza tonight whose bodies may not survive another day without clean water. Families are no longer dying only from bombs. They are collapsing slowly… quietly… from thirst. 🤍✨ This work continues only because of the people standing beside Gaza: Eyup (Eyup Lovely) ❤️ Felix (GoliathFan1952) ❤️ William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) ❤️ Despite exhaustion… despite fear… despite losing people we love… we are still carrying water through destroyed streets because we refuse to leave children to die from thirst alone. But we cannot continue without support anymore. If donations continue collapsing… our ability to move, distribute water, and save lives will collapse with it… while thirst grows stronger every hour. 🚨 Please do not scroll away from this. A single donation may be the reason a child survives tonight. 🤲 Donate. Share. Speak. Before thirst steals another life in silence.

Muhmmed Project𓂆 🇵🇸

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Eating fish out of MacArthur Park is one of the most diabolical things I’ve ever seen in my entire life MacArthur Park in Los Angeles has some of the most disgusting water on earth, it is full of urine, feces and drug needles This man says he’s been fishing here for 10 years - The lake has suffered from elevated fecal coliform bacteria levels from urban runoff and human waste. In the past, authorities have treated it with chemicals like peroxide to control bacteria spikes - As a small lake in a dense city area, it receives stormwater and dry-weather flows carrying trash, oil and grease, heavy metals, nutrients, bacteria and hydrocarbons from surrounding streets and neighborhoods. This has made it one of the more polluted recreational waters locally - The surrounding area has persistent issues with homelessness, open drug use, and sanitation problems, leading to urine, feces, needles and litter entering or near the water. This adds to bacterial contamination The water has been legitimately horrible for decades due to a mix of urban pollution, fecal bacteria and park related waste
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Eating fish out of MacArthur Park is one of the most diabolical things I’ve ever seen in my entire life MacArthur Park in Los Angeles has some of the most disgusting water on earth, it is full of urine, feces and drug needles This man says he’s been fishing here for 10 years - The lake has suffered from elevated fecal coliform bacteria levels from urban runoff and human waste. In the past, authorities have treated it with chemicals like peroxide to control bacteria spikes - As a small lake in a dense city area, it receives stormwater and dry-weather flows carrying trash, oil and grease, heavy metals, nutrients, bacteria and hydrocarbons from surrounding streets and neighborhoods. This has made it one of the more polluted recreational waters locally - The surrounding area has persistent issues with homelessness, open drug use, and sanitation problems, leading to urine, feces, needles and litter entering or near the water. This adds to bacterial contamination The water has been legitimately horrible for decades due to a mix of urban pollution, fecal bacteria and park related waste

Wall Street Apes

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🚨 THEY ARE RUNNING FOR WATER… OR DYING WITHOUT IT 🚨 Today… in Project Mohammed we delivered 700,000 liters of water into Gaza… into hands that were shaking… into mouths that hadn’t tasted water for hours… But listen carefully… this is not enough. Because in Gaza right now— water is disappearing. thirst is spreading. and children… are collapsing quietly. As you’ve seen… children don’t walk anymore… they run after water buckets… running like it’s their last chance to live. 💔 running with empty containers 💔 running under the sun with cracked lips 💔 running… not knowing if they’ll get a single drop Mothers are doing the impossible… splitting one cup between many children… pretending they are not thirsty… while their bodies slowly give up. This is not just thirst. This is people dying… because there is no water. 🤍 From the heart, to those who refused to stay silent: Eyup (Eyup Lovely) Felix (GoliathFan1952) William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) Thomas (Thomas Keith) You didn’t just support… you gave people a reason to survive. 🚨 Now it’s your turn. Right now. If you scroll past this… someone may not make it. 💧 Donate immediately. Save a life before it’s too late.
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🚨 THEY ARE RUNNING FOR WATER… OR DYING WITHOUT IT 🚨 Today… in Project Mohammed we delivered 700,000 liters of water into Gaza… into hands that were shaking… into mouths that hadn’t tasted water for hours… But listen carefully… this is not enough. Because in Gaza right now— water is disappearing. thirst is spreading. and children… are collapsing quietly. As you’ve seen… children don’t walk anymore… they run after water buckets… running like it’s their last chance to live. 💔 running with empty containers 💔 running under the sun with cracked lips 💔 running… not knowing if they’ll get a single drop Mothers are doing the impossible… splitting one cup between many children… pretending they are not thirsty… while their bodies slowly give up. This is not just thirst. This is people dying… because there is no water. 🤍 From the heart, to those who refused to stay silent: Eyup (Eyup Lovely) Felix (GoliathFan1952) William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) Thomas (Thomas Keith) You didn’t just support… you gave people a reason to survive. 🚨 Now it’s your turn. Right now. If you scroll past this… someone may not make it. 💧 Donate immediately. Save a life before it’s too late.

Muhmmed Project𓂆 🇵🇸

79,184 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

🚨 URGENT GAZA WATER EMERGENCY 🚨 💧 Children are collapsing from thirst right now In Gaza, childhood is being erased slowly — not by time, but by thirst. Children move between torn tents and debris, barefoot, weak, not searching for play, not asking for protection, only searching for water to keep their bodies alive until morning. One child walked for hours in the heat. He didn’t ask for food. He didn’t ask for comfort. He asked for water. He returned empty-handed. 💧 Clean water is disappearing. And children in Gaza are dying because there is nothing left to drink. Here, thirst is no longer a risk. It is a daily death sentence. Bodies grow lighter. Mouths dry and split. Small hands stretch forward — not for toys, but for a drop of water. This week, in the middle of global silence, three people chose humanity: 🔥 Felix (GoliathFan1952) ✨ William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) 🤍 Eyup Lovely (Eyup Lovely) Because of their support, clean water reached children who were on the edge of death. In Gaza today, water is not a basic need — it is the difference between a child surviving the night or not waking up at all. 🚨 There is no time to wait 👉 Donate now — every moment matters 💧 Water means life in Gaza
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🚨 URGENT GAZA WATER EMERGENCY 🚨 💧 Children are collapsing from thirst right now In Gaza, childhood is being erased slowly — not by time, but by thirst. Children move between torn tents and debris, barefoot, weak, not searching for play, not asking for protection, only searching for water to keep their bodies alive until morning. One child walked for hours in the heat. He didn’t ask for food. He didn’t ask for comfort. He asked for water. He returned empty-handed. 💧 Clean water is disappearing. And children in Gaza are dying because there is nothing left to drink. Here, thirst is no longer a risk. It is a daily death sentence. Bodies grow lighter. Mouths dry and split. Small hands stretch forward — not for toys, but for a drop of water. This week, in the middle of global silence, three people chose humanity: 🔥 Felix (GoliathFan1952) ✨ William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) 🤍 Eyup Lovely (Eyup Lovely) Because of their support, clean water reached children who were on the edge of death. In Gaza today, water is not a basic need — it is the difference between a child surviving the night or not waking up at all. 🚨 There is no time to wait 👉 Donate now — every moment matters 💧 Water means life in Gaza

Muhmmed Project𓂆 🇵🇸

10,866 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

🚨 Donate urgently to the children of Gaza 🚨 Listen to the voices of the children… 💔 Donate now: Today, Project Muhmmed continued delivering clean water to displaced families and children across Gaza. Look at the children carrying water containers larger than their small bodies. Look at the exhaustion in their faces after walking long distances under the burning sun just to find something to drink. In Gaza today, many children no longer ask for toys or sweets. They ask: “Will we have water today?” Many wells have stopped working. Water networks have collapsed. And thousands of families now depend entirely on water distributions to survive. Despite the devastating collapse in donations, we are still trying to continue. 💔 Children walk for hours carrying empty containers 💔 Mothers give their share of water to their children and remain thirsty 💔 Families are being forced to survive on less water than the human body needs Every donation today can provide clean water for a thirsty child and help a family survive another day. 🤍 Deep thanks to: 💙 William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) 🩵 Felix (GoliathFan1952) ❤️ Eyup (Eyup Lovely) Your voices help keep this humanitarian work alive inside Gaza. Please donate and share. Because in Gaza today, water is not a luxury. Water is life itself. Donate now: 🤍
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🚨 Donate urgently to the children of Gaza 🚨 Listen to the voices of the children… 💔 Donate now: Today, Project Muhmmed continued delivering clean water to displaced families and children across Gaza. Look at the children carrying water containers larger than their small bodies. Look at the exhaustion in their faces after walking long distances under the burning sun just to find something to drink. In Gaza today, many children no longer ask for toys or sweets. They ask: “Will we have water today?” Many wells have stopped working. Water networks have collapsed. And thousands of families now depend entirely on water distributions to survive. Despite the devastating collapse in donations, we are still trying to continue. 💔 Children walk for hours carrying empty containers 💔 Mothers give their share of water to their children and remain thirsty 💔 Families are being forced to survive on less water than the human body needs Every donation today can provide clean water for a thirsty child and help a family survive another day. 🤍 Deep thanks to: 💙 William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) 🩵 Felix (GoliathFan1952) ❤️ Eyup (Eyup Lovely) Your voices help keep this humanitarian work alive inside Gaza. Please donate and share. Because in Gaza today, water is not a luxury. Water is life itself. Donate now: 🤍

Muhmmed Project𓂆 🇵🇸

10,256 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

RFK JR: 63% of America’s Water Supply has Atrazine in It - Are we being Depopulated? • Atrazine is in about 63% of America’s water supply. —— It is said to be used as an “herbicide to control the spread of broadleaf and grassy weeds.” —— In tandem, since the widespread use of the chemical, there has been a vast increase of gender dysphoria in America. • A famous scientist named Tyrone Hayes of Berkeley, took 70-100 frogs and subjected them to Atrazine at the levels the EPA says is “safe.” —— 78% of those frogs became Chemically castrated. —— 10% of those frogs became female and began producing fertil eggs 🔴 ADDITIONAL FINDINGS: • Atrazine is widely Linked to Various Cancers, Reproductive harm, and Developmental Delays. • Boiling water may actually increase the concentration of atrazine. And the vast majority of mainstream filters are not powerful enough to reduce atrazine. • 70 to 80 million pounds of atrazine is used each year, and most of it is used to sprayed on corn during the spring. • In 2015 atrazine was detected in more than 800 systems in 19 states at levels exceeding a health-protective guideline. —— Atrazine seeps into waterways through agricultural runoff and eventually finds its way into your tap water. • In 2015, High levels of atrazine were found in 237 water systems serving more than 3 million people in Texas, and in 192 systems serving more than a million people in Kansas. • Other states struggling with high amounts of atrazine contamination of drinking water are Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio. —— you can check your water supply here, search for your local water utility in EWG’s database. ( • Atrazine is manufactured by the agro-chemical giant Syngenta. • In 2012 Syngenta settled a class action lawsuit brought by water utilities with atrazine contamination for $105 million. —— The settlement money was distributed to communities with the most contamination, but that money spread out to so many utility companies left them with nothing meaningful to it. • Atrazine has been banned in Europe since the 1980s under laws that prohibit the use of any pesticide that contaminates drinking water. —— But in the U.S., the federal government places few to no restrictions on its use. I wonder why that is?
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RFK JR: 63% of America’s Water Supply has Atrazine in It - Are we being Depopulated? • Atrazine is in about 63% of America’s water supply. —— It is said to be used as an “herbicide to control the spread of broadleaf and grassy weeds.” —— In tandem, since the widespread use of the chemical, there has been a vast increase of gender dysphoria in America. • A famous scientist named Tyrone Hayes of Berkeley, took 70-100 frogs and subjected them to Atrazine at the levels the EPA says is “safe.” —— 78% of those frogs became Chemically castrated. —— 10% of those frogs became female and began producing fertil eggs 🔴 ADDITIONAL FINDINGS: • Atrazine is widely Linked to Various Cancers, Reproductive harm, and Developmental Delays. • Boiling water may actually increase the concentration of atrazine. And the vast majority of mainstream filters are not powerful enough to reduce atrazine. • 70 to 80 million pounds of atrazine is used each year, and most of it is used to sprayed on corn during the spring. • In 2015 atrazine was detected in more than 800 systems in 19 states at levels exceeding a health-protective guideline. —— Atrazine seeps into waterways through agricultural runoff and eventually finds its way into your tap water. • In 2015, High levels of atrazine were found in 237 water systems serving more than 3 million people in Texas, and in 192 systems serving more than a million people in Kansas. • Other states struggling with high amounts of atrazine contamination of drinking water are Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio. —— you can check your water supply here, search for your local water utility in EWG’s database. ( • Atrazine is manufactured by the agro-chemical giant Syngenta. • In 2012 Syngenta settled a class action lawsuit brought by water utilities with atrazine contamination for $105 million. —— The settlement money was distributed to communities with the most contamination, but that money spread out to so many utility companies left them with nothing meaningful to it. • Atrazine has been banned in Europe since the 1980s under laws that prohibit the use of any pesticide that contaminates drinking water. —— But in the U.S., the federal government places few to no restrictions on its use. I wonder why that is?

MJTruthUltra

971,060 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

🚨 Donate urgently to the children of Gaza 🚨 Today in Gaza… children are not searching for comfort anymore. They are searching for water to survive another day. At Project Mohammed… we have distributed more than 350,000 liters of water across Gaza. 350,000 liters… yet thirst is still everywhere. Because Gaza is collapsing faster than water can reach it. 💧 Look at the children receiving water today… their exhausted faces… their cracked lips… their tiny hands carrying empty containers. And then look at their smiles. These are not normal smiles. These are the smiles of children who feel safe from thirst for one more day. Listen to their greetings… their tiny voices thanking donors around the world. Children in Gaza are thanking strangers just for water… because water has become life itself. 💔 Some children walk for hours under burning heat for a single container of water 💔 Some mothers stay thirsty so their children can drink 💔 Some children are now too weak to even ask for water anymore Families in Gaza are no longer dying only from bombs. They are dying slowly from thirst. 🤍 Deep thanks to: Eyup (Eyup Lovely) Felix (GoliathFan1952) William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) Despite fear and exhaustion… we are still carrying water through destroyed streets because we refuse to leave children alone. But we cannot continue without support anymore. 🚨 Please donate, share, and speak. A single donation tonight could help save a child from thirst.
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🚨 Donate urgently to the children of Gaza 🚨 Today in Gaza… children are not searching for comfort anymore. They are searching for water to survive another day. At Project Mohammed… we have distributed more than 350,000 liters of water across Gaza. 350,000 liters… yet thirst is still everywhere. Because Gaza is collapsing faster than water can reach it. 💧 Look at the children receiving water today… their exhausted faces… their cracked lips… their tiny hands carrying empty containers. And then look at their smiles. These are not normal smiles. These are the smiles of children who feel safe from thirst for one more day. Listen to their greetings… their tiny voices thanking donors around the world. Children in Gaza are thanking strangers just for water… because water has become life itself. 💔 Some children walk for hours under burning heat for a single container of water 💔 Some mothers stay thirsty so their children can drink 💔 Some children are now too weak to even ask for water anymore Families in Gaza are no longer dying only from bombs. They are dying slowly from thirst. 🤍 Deep thanks to: Eyup (Eyup Lovely) Felix (GoliathFan1952) William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) Despite fear and exhaustion… we are still carrying water through destroyed streets because we refuse to leave children alone. But we cannot continue without support anymore. 🚨 Please donate, share, and speak. A single donation tonight could help save a child from thirst.

Muhmmed Project𓂆 🇵🇸

21,616 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

The Blackwater fish kill - failures in investigating and protecting an EU Special Area of Conservation. We need to move beyond “fisheries” on our Natura 2000 rivers. This video shows the Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) Special Area of Conservation (SAC) near Mallow, Co. Cork and features critically endangered Freshwater Pearl Mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera). I took these images during a survey I completed in August 2022 on the river. A major fish kill occurred in this stretch of river earlier this month. It is one of the largest fish kills ever recorded in Ireland, with media reports estimating that over 30 km of river were affected. Thousands of fish were killed, and other wildlife was also impacted. Yet to date no cause of the fish kill has been identified. All of the areas affected were within the SAC designated area. The Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC is designated for a range of aquatic species including Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), Freshwater Pearl Mussel, White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes), Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), Brook Lamprey (Lampetra planeri), River Lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis), and Twaite Shad (Alosa fallax). It is also designated for Otter (Lutra lutra), and the river corridor supports a range of other protected species including birds such as Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis). Despite this, public reporting and official responses have focused almost exclusively on Brown Trout (Salmo trutta), a species that is not a qualifying interest of the SAC. The investigation was led by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), but having a fisheries agency lead an investigation of a pollution event on a Natura 2000 river is itself part of the problem. The Blackwater is not only a fishery, but also a designated European site. For example, there are no “fisheries” for Freshwater Pearl Mussels, crayfish or lampreys in Ireland. International best practice sets out clearly how fish kills should be investigated. The first 24 hours are critical. Water samples must be collected above, within and below the affected reach, as well as from tributaries, with controls from unaffected areas. Dead and dying fish and invertebrates should be collected immediately for pathology and toxicology. Mortality must be quantified using standardised transects and statistical sampling, not casual tallies. On the Blackwater much of this did not happen. The 24-hour window for water sampling was lost, early speculation about natural causes was made without evidence, and mortality estimates were not carried out to scientific standards. There has been no reported assessment of impacts on Freshwater Pearl Mussels, lampreys or crayfish. There were reports of large numbers of “eels” being killed, and lampreys are often erroneously referred to as eels. Yet there does not seem to have been any formal investigation into how other non-fisheries species were affected. This failure raises a prima facie breach of Article 6(2) of the EU Habitats Directive, which requires Member States to avoid the deterioration of natural habitats and the disturbance of species for which SACs are designated. A pollution event of this magnitude, coupled with the absence of a scientifically robust investigation, amounts to both ecological harm and a failure of governance. An urgent independent review is now required into how fish kills are investigated in Ireland and how our Natura rivers are managed. Rivers such as the Blackwater cannot be treated as fisheries alone. They are legally protected ecosystems of European importance, and the State is obliged to manage and protect them as such.
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The Blackwater fish kill - failures in investigating and protecting an EU Special Area of Conservation. We need to move beyond “fisheries” on our Natura 2000 rivers. This video shows the Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) Special Area of Conservation (SAC) near Mallow, Co. Cork and features critically endangered Freshwater Pearl Mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera). I took these images during a survey I completed in August 2022 on the river. A major fish kill occurred in this stretch of river earlier this month. It is one of the largest fish kills ever recorded in Ireland, with media reports estimating that over 30 km of river were affected. Thousands of fish were killed, and other wildlife was also impacted. Yet to date no cause of the fish kill has been identified. All of the areas affected were within the SAC designated area. The Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC is designated for a range of aquatic species including Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), Freshwater Pearl Mussel, White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes), Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), Brook Lamprey (Lampetra planeri), River Lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis), and Twaite Shad (Alosa fallax). It is also designated for Otter (Lutra lutra), and the river corridor supports a range of other protected species including birds such as Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis). Despite this, public reporting and official responses have focused almost exclusively on Brown Trout (Salmo trutta), a species that is not a qualifying interest of the SAC. The investigation was led by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), but having a fisheries agency lead an investigation of a pollution event on a Natura 2000 river is itself part of the problem. The Blackwater is not only a fishery, but also a designated European site. For example, there are no “fisheries” for Freshwater Pearl Mussels, crayfish or lampreys in Ireland. International best practice sets out clearly how fish kills should be investigated. The first 24 hours are critical. Water samples must be collected above, within and below the affected reach, as well as from tributaries, with controls from unaffected areas. Dead and dying fish and invertebrates should be collected immediately for pathology and toxicology. Mortality must be quantified using standardised transects and statistical sampling, not casual tallies. On the Blackwater much of this did not happen. The 24-hour window for water sampling was lost, early speculation about natural causes was made without evidence, and mortality estimates were not carried out to scientific standards. There has been no reported assessment of impacts on Freshwater Pearl Mussels, lampreys or crayfish. There were reports of large numbers of “eels” being killed, and lampreys are often erroneously referred to as eels. Yet there does not seem to have been any formal investigation into how other non-fisheries species were affected. This failure raises a prima facie breach of Article 6(2) of the EU Habitats Directive, which requires Member States to avoid the deterioration of natural habitats and the disturbance of species for which SACs are designated. A pollution event of this magnitude, coupled with the absence of a scientifically robust investigation, amounts to both ecological harm and a failure of governance. An urgent independent review is now required into how fish kills are investigated in Ireland and how our Natura rivers are managed. Rivers such as the Blackwater cannot be treated as fisheries alone. They are legally protected ecosystems of European importance, and the State is obliged to manage and protect them as such.

Ecofact

487,825 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

Joe Rogan just explained how one Lone Star tick bite ends your ability to eat red meat for life. Eat a burger for dinner. At 2am you wake up in anaphylaxis with no idea why. 450,000 Americans have alpha-gal syndrome. The tick injects a sugar called alpha-gal into your bloodstream. Your immune system tags it as a threat and starts making IgE antibodies. The same alpha-gal sugar sits in beef, pork, lamb, venison, and rabbit. Every meal from a mammal becomes a delayed reaction three to five hours later. That's why he's down to eggs. Fish is safe. Chicken is safe. Turkey is safe. Alpha-gal is found in nonprimate mammals only. Old World primates lost the gene that makes it about 28 million years ago. Birds and fish never made it in the first place. So the only safe protein comes from species across an evolutionary line drawn before humans existed. For some patients dairy goes too. Gelatin capsules and gummies go. The cancer drug cetuximab, manufactured in a mouse cell line, has triggered fatal first-dose anaphylaxis in alpha-gal patients. Pig heart valves have triggered reactions on the operating table. Between 2010 and 2022 the CDC logged over 110,000 lab-confirmed cases. The actual number sits closer to 450,000 because alpha-gal syndrome isn't nationally reportable and most physicians outside the Southeast don't recognize it. A 2025 analysis of 114 million patient records showed mammalian meat allergy diagnoses rose 5,500% from 2015-2020 to 2021-2025. Climate change pushed Lone Star ticks north of their Southeast range. White-tailed deer populations recovering from near-extinction and second-growth forests fueled it. Suffolk County, Long Island is now a hotspot. Martha's Vineyard hit establishment by 2014. Forestry workers in heavy-tick regions test 20-30% positive for alpha-gal IgE. In summer 2024 a 47-year-old man in New Jersey died after what his wife later remembered as 12 itchy ankle bites. He had assumed they were chiggers. The autopsy went unsolved for months until allergist Thomas Platts-Mills identified it as the first confirmed AGS fatality on record. There are almost certainly more. The trigger food gets eaten three hours before the cardiac event, so nobody connects the steak at dinner to the call to 911 at midnight. Eggs are safe because birds never made the sugar.
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Joe Rogan just explained how one Lone Star tick bite ends your ability to eat red meat for life. Eat a burger for dinner. At 2am you wake up in anaphylaxis with no idea why. 450,000 Americans have alpha-gal syndrome. The tick injects a sugar called alpha-gal into your bloodstream. Your immune system tags it as a threat and starts making IgE antibodies. The same alpha-gal sugar sits in beef, pork, lamb, venison, and rabbit. Every meal from a mammal becomes a delayed reaction three to five hours later. That's why he's down to eggs. Fish is safe. Chicken is safe. Turkey is safe. Alpha-gal is found in nonprimate mammals only. Old World primates lost the gene that makes it about 28 million years ago. Birds and fish never made it in the first place. So the only safe protein comes from species across an evolutionary line drawn before humans existed. For some patients dairy goes too. Gelatin capsules and gummies go. The cancer drug cetuximab, manufactured in a mouse cell line, has triggered fatal first-dose anaphylaxis in alpha-gal patients. Pig heart valves have triggered reactions on the operating table. Between 2010 and 2022 the CDC logged over 110,000 lab-confirmed cases. The actual number sits closer to 450,000 because alpha-gal syndrome isn't nationally reportable and most physicians outside the Southeast don't recognize it. A 2025 analysis of 114 million patient records showed mammalian meat allergy diagnoses rose 5,500% from 2015-2020 to 2021-2025. Climate change pushed Lone Star ticks north of their Southeast range. White-tailed deer populations recovering from near-extinction and second-growth forests fueled it. Suffolk County, Long Island is now a hotspot. Martha's Vineyard hit establishment by 2014. Forestry workers in heavy-tick regions test 20-30% positive for alpha-gal IgE. In summer 2024 a 47-year-old man in New Jersey died after what his wife later remembered as 12 itchy ankle bites. He had assumed they were chiggers. The autopsy went unsolved for months until allergist Thomas Platts-Mills identified it as the first confirmed AGS fatality on record. There are almost certainly more. The trigger food gets eaten three hours before the cardiac event, so nobody connects the steak at dinner to the call to 911 at midnight. Eggs are safe because birds never made the sugar.

Aakash Gupta

879,716 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

🚨 Donate urgently to the children of Gaza 🚨 Listen to the voices of these children… then look into their eyes. 💔 Donate now: Today, Project Muhmmed continued delivering clean water to displaced families and children across Gaza. But the reality is becoming harder every day. Look carefully at these children carrying heavy containers through the ruins. These containers are often heavier than their small bodies. Children should be carrying school bags. Instead, they carry water. Children should be playing. Instead, they spend hours searching for something to drink. In Gaza today, thirst has become part of childhood. Many children wake up each morning not knowing if they will find clean water before the day ends. Many mothers spend their days thirsty so their children can drink. Many families carefully divide every cup of water because there is simply not enough for everyone. 💔 Some children walk for hours under the burning sun carrying empty containers. 💔 Some children return with only a few liters for an entire family. 💔 Some families go to sleep thirsty because there is nothing left. Despite the devastating collapse in donations, we are still fighting every day to keep water reaching those who need it most. But we cannot continue without support. Every donation today becomes water in a child’s hands. Every donation helps a family survive another day. Every donation means one less child suffering from thirst. 🤍 Deep thanks to: 💙 William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) 🩵 Felix (GoliathFan1952) ❤️ Eyup (Eyup Lovely) Your voices continue to keep this humanitarian work alive inside Gaza. Please donate. Please share. Because in Gaza today, water is no longer a basic necessity. Water is survival. Water is hope. Water is life. Donate now: 🤍
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🚨 Donate urgently to the children of Gaza 🚨 Listen to the voices of these children… then look into their eyes. 💔 Donate now: Today, Project Muhmmed continued delivering clean water to displaced families and children across Gaza. But the reality is becoming harder every day. Look carefully at these children carrying heavy containers through the ruins. These containers are often heavier than their small bodies. Children should be carrying school bags. Instead, they carry water. Children should be playing. Instead, they spend hours searching for something to drink. In Gaza today, thirst has become part of childhood. Many children wake up each morning not knowing if they will find clean water before the day ends. Many mothers spend their days thirsty so their children can drink. Many families carefully divide every cup of water because there is simply not enough for everyone. 💔 Some children walk for hours under the burning sun carrying empty containers. 💔 Some children return with only a few liters for an entire family. 💔 Some families go to sleep thirsty because there is nothing left. Despite the devastating collapse in donations, we are still fighting every day to keep water reaching those who need it most. But we cannot continue without support. Every donation today becomes water in a child’s hands. Every donation helps a family survive another day. Every donation means one less child suffering from thirst. 🤍 Deep thanks to: 💙 William Menaker (Will 🦥 Menaker) 🩵 Felix (GoliathFan1952) ❤️ Eyup (Eyup Lovely) Your voices continue to keep this humanitarian work alive inside Gaza. Please donate. Please share. Because in Gaza today, water is no longer a basic necessity. Water is survival. Water is hope. Water is life. Donate now: 🤍

Muhmmed Project𓂆 🇵🇸

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💔 A deeply heartbreaking scene from the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary… In the Mugguru range near Kanakapura, a 40-year-old mother elephant died after drinking heavily polluted water from the Arkavati River. Her grieving calf was seen standing beside the body, placing its trunk on her and mourning inconsolably for hours. Post-mortem report: Approximately 35 litres of contaminated water mixed with toxic substances were found in the elephant’s stomach. The Arkavati River, a key tributary of the Cauvery, has faced severe pollution in recent years. According to Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) data under the National Water Monitoring Programme, microbial pollution (coliform bacteria) in stretches near Kanakapura has reached nearly 350 times the safe limit. Primary causes include: • Untreated industrial effluents discharged from factories and industrial areas. • Untreated domestic sewage from rapid urbanization on Bengaluru’s outskirts. • Agricultural runoff containing pesticides and fertilizers. • Loss of natural wetlands and buffers due to development and quarrying. This forest and river ecosystem is the natural home of wild animals elephants, tigers, birds, and many other species that have lived here for generations. Human activities and environmental pressures are increasingly impacting their habitat. The Karnataka Forest Department, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, and the State Government have an important responsibility to address river pollution through stricter enforcement, mandatory sewage and effluent treatment, wetland restoration, and stronger ecosystem protection. Urgent and effective action is needed to prevent future tragedies. A touching update: A herd of wild elephants later adopted the orphaned calf and took it with them. We must work together to protect our rivers, forests, and wildlife. #SaveWildlife #ArkavathiPollution #CauveryWildlife #ElephantProtection #StopRiverPollution #EnvironmentalConservation
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💔 A deeply heartbreaking scene from the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary… In the Mugguru range near Kanakapura, a 40-year-old mother elephant died after drinking heavily polluted water from the Arkavati River. Her grieving calf was seen standing beside the body, placing its trunk on her and mourning inconsolably for hours. Post-mortem report: Approximately 35 litres of contaminated water mixed with toxic substances were found in the elephant’s stomach. The Arkavati River, a key tributary of the Cauvery, has faced severe pollution in recent years. According to Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) data under the National Water Monitoring Programme, microbial pollution (coliform bacteria) in stretches near Kanakapura has reached nearly 350 times the safe limit. Primary causes include: • Untreated industrial effluents discharged from factories and industrial areas. • Untreated domestic sewage from rapid urbanization on Bengaluru’s outskirts. • Agricultural runoff containing pesticides and fertilizers. • Loss of natural wetlands and buffers due to development and quarrying. This forest and river ecosystem is the natural home of wild animals elephants, tigers, birds, and many other species that have lived here for generations. Human activities and environmental pressures are increasingly impacting their habitat. The Karnataka Forest Department, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, and the State Government have an important responsibility to address river pollution through stricter enforcement, mandatory sewage and effluent treatment, wetland restoration, and stronger ecosystem protection. Urgent and effective action is needed to prevent future tragedies. A touching update: A herd of wild elephants later adopted the orphaned calf and took it with them. We must work together to protect our rivers, forests, and wildlife. #SaveWildlife #ArkavathiPollution #CauveryWildlife #ElephantProtection #StopRiverPollution #EnvironmentalConservation

ಸನಾತನ (सनातन)

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The rescue video of the osprey is more than just a touching moment of a life being saved. It quietly holds up a mirror to a harsh reality unfolding every day along coastlines and waterways: one of nature’s most skilled fish hunters is dying because of what humans carelessly leave behind. Ospreys are near-perfect fishing machines. They can dive from heights of tens of meters at high speed, locking onto slippery prey with sharp talons and specialized pads on their feet. Their long wings allow them to soar while carrying fish that weigh nearly half their body weight. Yet this extreme specialization creates a fatal vulnerability. Unlike ducks or seagulls, an osprey’s feathers are not fully waterproof. When soaked, their body weight increases dramatically, making takeoff almost impossible. A few minutes trapped in the water is often enough for exhaustion and drowning to set in. That is why the scene in the video feels so urgent. Most osprey water emergencies share the same silent killer: discarded fishing line. The nearly invisible, ultra-strong nylon easily wraps around legs, wings, or necks as the birds dive for fish. Once entangled, they can neither fly nor swim free. This is far from rare. Wildlife rehabilitation centers along many coastlines, especially in places like Florida, regularly receive ospreys with line cutting deep into flesh, broken wings, or birds so weakened by starvation they can no longer hunt. Some are found hanging from power lines or cables after struggling to take off while still trailing the deadly strand. The video captures just one of thousands of similar cases each year—the difference is that someone happened to be there in time. Every entangled osprey is more than an individual tragedy. It is a warning signal that coastal ecosystems are being poisoned by invisible human waste. Fishing line, hooks, floats, and plastic bags have become daily traps for these birds. Ospreys serve as biological indicators of water health. When their numbers decline, it often reflects problems with fish stocks and water quality. Watching a top predator fight for its life over a single discarded line delivers a clear message: the ocean is paying the price for our carelessness. The video ends in freedom, and that makes it beautiful. But the beauty also reveals an uncomfortable truth: without that chance intervention, the bird would almost certainly have died. How many others are not so lucky? It forces a harder question. Do we only want to watch these heartwarming rescues, or are we willing to change the behaviors that make them necessary? Simply collecting used fishing line, choosing more wildlife-friendly gear, and supporting coastal cleanups are small actions that directly protect these birds. The osprey in the video is not just a rescued victim. On its wet wings it carries a larger message: the ocean is not merely a place for our recreation or livelihood. It is home to remarkable creatures increasingly threatened by our thoughtlessness. When the bird finally lifts into the sky, it leaves behind more than relief. It leaves a quiet, lasting reminder.
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The rescue video of the osprey is more than just a touching moment of a life being saved. It quietly holds up a mirror to a harsh reality unfolding every day along coastlines and waterways: one of nature’s most skilled fish hunters is dying because of what humans carelessly leave behind. Ospreys are near-perfect fishing machines. They can dive from heights of tens of meters at high speed, locking onto slippery prey with sharp talons and specialized pads on their feet. Their long wings allow them to soar while carrying fish that weigh nearly half their body weight. Yet this extreme specialization creates a fatal vulnerability. Unlike ducks or seagulls, an osprey’s feathers are not fully waterproof. When soaked, their body weight increases dramatically, making takeoff almost impossible. A few minutes trapped in the water is often enough for exhaustion and drowning to set in. That is why the scene in the video feels so urgent. Most osprey water emergencies share the same silent killer: discarded fishing line. The nearly invisible, ultra-strong nylon easily wraps around legs, wings, or necks as the birds dive for fish. Once entangled, they can neither fly nor swim free. This is far from rare. Wildlife rehabilitation centers along many coastlines, especially in places like Florida, regularly receive ospreys with line cutting deep into flesh, broken wings, or birds so weakened by starvation they can no longer hunt. Some are found hanging from power lines or cables after struggling to take off while still trailing the deadly strand. The video captures just one of thousands of similar cases each year—the difference is that someone happened to be there in time. Every entangled osprey is more than an individual tragedy. It is a warning signal that coastal ecosystems are being poisoned by invisible human waste. Fishing line, hooks, floats, and plastic bags have become daily traps for these birds. Ospreys serve as biological indicators of water health. When their numbers decline, it often reflects problems with fish stocks and water quality. Watching a top predator fight for its life over a single discarded line delivers a clear message: the ocean is paying the price for our carelessness. The video ends in freedom, and that makes it beautiful. But the beauty also reveals an uncomfortable truth: without that chance intervention, the bird would almost certainly have died. How many others are not so lucky? It forces a harder question. Do we only want to watch these heartwarming rescues, or are we willing to change the behaviors that make them necessary? Simply collecting used fishing line, choosing more wildlife-friendly gear, and supporting coastal cleanups are small actions that directly protect these birds. The osprey in the video is not just a rescued victim. On its wet wings it carries a larger message: the ocean is not merely a place for our recreation or livelihood. It is home to remarkable creatures increasingly threatened by our thoughtlessness. When the bird finally lifts into the sky, it leaves behind more than relief. It leaves a quiet, lasting reminder.

Emotion & Music

20,149 Aufrufe • vor 2 Tagen

Please put out a dish of water, now. And refresh it tonight, and every night, just before dark. Leave yourself a reminder note on the fridge.📜✍️ Babies are dying because the mums are too dehydrated to make enough milk for their needs. Even if you had a rain shower in the night, the natural water sources are still all dried up, and our wildlife are suffering. It takes so little to make their hard little lives easier. A turn of the tap is nothing for you, but could mean the difference between life and death for your nocturnal visitors, who are often forgotten about but who have slept all through the hot day and wake so thirsty. Hedgehogs in particular need to drink a lot of water because of their shape: they have a large surface area to volume ratio, so lose water via natural evaporation quicker than other mammals. Their mouths are set back under their snout, so drinking from a deep or small diameter dish (like a Gü pot) is uncomfortable for them, as it means them having to submerge their nose. A wide shallow dish is best; a plant pot saucer or, like this, a glass flan dish or pyrex lid - it's heavy enough not to tip up but nice and shallow and wide. So please put out a dish of life saving water right now, front and back of your house, and refresh it before you go to bed tonight. It'll be the easiest way you'll ever save a life.💝
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Please put out a dish of water, now. And refresh it tonight, and every night, just before dark. Leave yourself a reminder note on the fridge.📜✍️ Babies are dying because the mums are too dehydrated to make enough milk for their needs. Even if you had a rain shower in the night, the natural water sources are still all dried up, and our wildlife are suffering. It takes so little to make their hard little lives easier. A turn of the tap is nothing for you, but could mean the difference between life and death for your nocturnal visitors, who are often forgotten about but who have slept all through the hot day and wake so thirsty. Hedgehogs in particular need to drink a lot of water because of their shape: they have a large surface area to volume ratio, so lose water via natural evaporation quicker than other mammals. Their mouths are set back under their snout, so drinking from a deep or small diameter dish (like a Gü pot) is uncomfortable for them, as it means them having to submerge their nose. A wide shallow dish is best; a plant pot saucer or, like this, a glass flan dish or pyrex lid - it's heavy enough not to tip up but nice and shallow and wide. So please put out a dish of life saving water right now, front and back of your house, and refresh it before you go to bed tonight. It'll be the easiest way you'll ever save a life.💝

Hedgehog Cabin

61,625 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr