Meharry Medical College graduate KeAndreya Morrison, Ph.D. highlight features a publication from the laboratory of @William Clemons Jr. from Caltech that reveals how the ArsA enzyme reshapes itself to capture and expel toxic arsenic, providing a structural blueprint for microbial survival.
Read more here: https://medium.com/sbgrid-community-news/getting-rid-of-arsenic-234f1657275b
New Map Shows Where Cancer-Causing Chemicals Are Polluting Water for Over 200M
The map focuses on arsenic, chromium-6, and nitrate -- all scientifically known to cause cancer and other health issues.In recent months, #EPA scientists have contributed to studies in scientific journals on subjects such as #PFAS & #microplastics in urban sewer overflows, comparisons of different methods for testing #DrinkingWater for #lead, & #groundwater #pollution by naturally occurring #arsenic.
Details about the *review process* remain unclear.
#Trump #PublicHealth #Climate #water #science #law #EnvironmentalLaw
"The former Exide Technologies battery recycling plant released harmful levels of #lead and #arsenic into communities where more than 100,000 people lived and worked. It would have been exempt from environmental review under SB 131". https://lapublicpress.org/2025/09/newsom-ceqa-pollution-law/
Deep sea worm fights poison with poison to survive high #arsenic and sulfide levels https://phys.org/news/2025-08-deep-sea-worm-poison-survive.html
A #DeepSea worm detoxifies arsenic and sulfur by intracellular #biomineralization of orpiment (As2S3) https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003291
"A hydrothermal vent worm survives the high levels of arsenic and sulfide in its environment by combining them to form a less hazardous mineral... #orpiment—the same toxic, golden mineral produced by this worm—was once prized by medieval and Renaissance painters"
Illustration by R. C. Kedzie, from Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874).
Source: US National Library of Medicine / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3c0766d9-36af-434c-8338-85532a2a1ae1
#poison #wallpaper #decorative #green #arsenic #death #patterns #color #decorations #design #art #publicdomain
Illustration by R. C. Kedzie, from Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874).
Source: US National Library of Medicine / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3530f37f-8e00-48ee-bb01-acded261b98f
#poison #wallpaper #decorative #green #arsenic #death #patterns #color #decorations #design #art #publicdomain
L' État condamné pour pollution : auparavant plus importante mine d’ #or d’ #Europe et dernière de #France métropolitaine, la #mine de Salsigne dans l’ #Aude est aujourd’hui durablement polluée, par l’ #arsenic https://fne.asso.fr/actualites/salsigne-la-vallee-de-l-arsenic-un-scandale-d-etat L’État a été condamné pour la #pollution issue de l’ancien bassin minier avec injonction dans un délai d’un an de réparer «le préjudice écologique constaté». https://www.sudouest.fr/environnement/prejudice-ecologique-l-etat-condamne-pour-la-pollution-issue-d-un-ancien-gisement-d-or-dans-l-aude-25337447.php
La Guyane empoisonnée https://mastodon.social/@la_voix/114931467184067829
Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha https://arstechni.ca/KWH5 #sciencejournalism #Science #arsenic #journal #Health
Le coup de crayon de Godin, dans le Devoir. (Clin d’œil à Uderzo).
The last step in a long process on “arsenic life”: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/last-step-long-process-arsenic-life - the widely discredited paper “A bacterium that can grow by using #arsenic Instead of phosphorus” from 2010 has now been killed (over the objections of the authors) by the journal that had published it: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu5488 (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/bakterien-mit-arsen-zwangsernahrt-macht-das-leben-im-all-wahrscheinlicher/ and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/zweifel-an-den-arsen-bakterien-mehren-sich/ for my reporting back then about the announcement and the swift and hard criticism).
Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Yellowknife #Canada #Colonialism #GiantMine #Mining #Pollution #Arsenic #GoldMining #Reconciliation #ToxicLegacy
https://the-14.com/yellowknifes-giant-mine-canada-downplayed-arsenic-exposure-as-an-indigenous-community-was-poisoned/
Contaminants in #fish: The most polluted zones are the Mediterranean & Northwest Pacific. PCBs, #pesticides & phthalates are widespread; #arsenic is found at much higher concentrations than regulated metals in #fishery products. Emerging #contaminants are unregulated: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... #health
Redirecting
Rich French food may have killed Napoleon › News in Science (ABC Science)
News in Science Thursday, 18 January 2007 Richard InghamAFP Arsenic poisoning didn’t kill Napoleon, n…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchdiet #ABCScienceOnline #arsenic #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation #British #francais #france #French #frenchdiet #Napoleon #NewsinScience #poisoning #stomachcancer #TheLab
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2159939/rich-french-food-may-have-killed-napoleon-news-in-science-abc-science-2/
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"She called for #government #transparency, acknowledging the #KokRiver #pollution as a #critical #security #threat.. #Senator Angkhana Neelapaijit, chair of the Senate Committee on #Political #Development, visited the area with #civil #society members. She expressed shock that #provincial #authorities had known about the #arsenic #contamination but were allegedly asked by higher-ups to #suppress the #information."
#Thailand #governance #publichealth #UNSDG #CleanWater #wellbeing
A #waterway of life is turning deadly
"June 10, te #Pollution Control Dept posted results fr its 4th round of #water sampling (May 26–30), showing consistent #arsenic #contamination at all monitored locations.. Abnormally high turbidity & arsenic levels were found near te #Myanmar border, strongly suggest'g contamination fr #upstream #mining activity.. parallels te ongoing #scamcentre #crisis along te border, which remains unresolved despite #government interventions" 1/2
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/3052061/a-waterway-of-life-is-turning-deadly
My major accomplishment this week was this bit of frankenplumbing. The tall black tank is an arsenic filter; it should now be safe to drink/bathe/water the horses.
We still have to take a sample and have the water tested, but I'm going to let it settle in for about a week first.
Locals and officials in Thailand believe toxic waste is washing downstream from mines in Myanmar into the Kok River, which flows through the kingdom's far north on its way to join the Mekong. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/11/asia-pacific/thailand-rivers-myanmar-mines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #thailand #rivers #myanmar #mining #arsenic #fishing #pollution #southeastasia
"In recent years, many libraries have prevented access to all suspect green books as a precaution…"
