Indonesia has halted imports of scrap metal after tracing radioactive contamination found at an industrial site and in shrimp shipments to the U.S. to local metal processors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/10/09/indonesia-scrap-metal-shrimp-radiation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #environment #food #indonesia
PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-pfna-forever-chemical-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #EPA #Environment #Health #Safety #Water #Government
U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed climate change as "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" and his administration has reportedly moved to quash debate on the issue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/10/08/climate-change/trump-climate-change-con-science/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #climatechange #environment #emissions #carbon #pollution #us #donaldtrump #republicans
Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than coal globally for the first time in the first half of 2025, driven by rapid growth in China and India, a report by a think tank has shown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/10/08/energy/renewable-energy-overtakes-coal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #renewables #energy #coal #solar #wind #india #china #climatechange #environment
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People never seem to care much about this painting, but I like the simplicity. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper #TraditionalArt #AnimeArt #Nature #Landscape #Environment
A decision by Japan’s $1.8 trillion pension fund, the world’s biggest, to consider a shift into impact investing has triggered a wider adjustment among the country’s money managers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/06/companies/government-pension-investment-fund-impact-investing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #gpif #pensionfunds #investments #environment #corporategovernance #sdg
Angela Antunovic
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PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? https://phys.org/news/2025-10-pr-firms-climate-misinformation-behalf.html
#Australia #environment #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #lobby #misinformation
PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? https://phys.org/news/2025-10-pr-firms-climate-misinformation-behalf.html
#Australia #environment #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #lobby #misinformation
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!["They despise your kind because you understand the machine, while they have to turn jungles into fuel and enslave thousands of computers just to pretend that the machine speaks to them too."
[Colorful art of a CRT headed robot lecturing a humanoid being]](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/317/026/321/060/171/original/28037602c71ad8f1.png)
People never seem to care much about this painting, but I like the simplicity. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper #TraditionalArt #AnimeArt #Nature #Landscape #Environment
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If you are able to spare anything this month, there's a great UK charity that needs your help. I donated this morning 🦦
After being handed an eviction notice, the Wild Otter Trust need to dismantle their entire operation and relocate.
You can see their statement below 👇
https://ukwildottertrust.org/2025/10/02/save-our-charity-statement-from-ceo-dave-webb/
#Otters #Wildlife #UK #Environment #Rewilding #Nature #UKWildlife #Charity #Donate
While China's "Great Green Wall" campaign brings hope and economic development to the country's deserts, it also erodes ethnic Mongolians' traditional nomadism. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/asia-pacific/china-great-green-wall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #mongolia #agriculture #environment
RIP, Jane Goodall. She was the best of us https://janegoodall.global/rememberingjane/
Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/10/02/climate-change/swiss-glacier-melt-study/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #switzerland #heatwaves #climatechange
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I completed my mission of not buying any drinks in plastic bottles for the entire month of September. (I named it #NoPETember for lack of a better term.) After a week-ish it really wasn't too difficult at all.
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, has died at the age of 91. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/10/02/wildlife/jane-goodall-obituary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #wildlife #uk #janegoodall #chimpanzees
