Christina Scaringe

What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain

Air pollution is a potent neurotoxin. It harms the brains of children & adults. It even harms the brains of babies before birth. Burning fossil fuels is the leading preventable cause of death and ill health in the world today. Clean energy now!
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🔥🌎Breaking news from Belém

💸Just one week before #COP30, at the Global Citizen Festival: Amazônia, the first ever fund pairing government fossil fuel phase-out commitments with private investments was launched — the Journey Fund, developed in partnership with the #FossilFuelTreaty Initiative!

>2,000 students at 50 schools across CA walked out of class Oct24 to support the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act #AB1243 / #SB684. They’re watching to see if their legislators vote to protect them instead of siding with the fossil fuel industry. #PollutersPayYouthWalkout #MakePollutersPay

Fossil fuels are the greatest threat to human well-being, and that threat is growing.

The 2025 Lancet Countdown Report reveals how fossil fuel dependence isn’t just driving climate change, it’s fueling a global health crisis.

YouTube video by Mark Z. Jacobson Why Ethanol for Vehicles, Even With Carbon Capture, Increases CO2 & Pollution & Should be Abandoned

Why Ethanol for Vehicles, Even With Carbon Capture, Increases CO2 and Pollution and Should be Abandoned

Ethanol damages climate & air quality, raises costs, & requires enormous land vs battery-electric vehicles powered by wind or solar

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6E1...

At IUCN, a step forward to see fossil fuels' threat to nature | Context by TRF For the first time, a major international body has formally recognised fossil fuel extraction and production as a threat to nature

“Protecting mangroves while expanding offshore drilling is a contradiction.” -Ralph Regenvanu

For the first time, a major international body has formally recognized fossil fuel production as a threat to nature, and given us a road map to fight this threat.

www.context.news/nature/opini...

Tough love conclusion published recently in @nature.com: “Mitigating climate change requires ending the burning of fossil fuels. Offsets distract from this crucial task.”
Our only options for saving our climate & our children’s future is a price or cap on heat-trapping pollution. Make polluters pay!

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

From the time it took office, the administration has looked for ways to profit off the wild. It wants to drill, mine, and log its way through public lands and oceans. We're standing up to those who want to plunder public lands and tear down the conservation movement.

We have entered a new era when we must protect not only the wild but also our ability to lead the fight to save our planet.

We need all of our members and supporters with us.

Please give today so we can mount a legal and public defense against this abuse of presidential power ➡️ bit.ly/4hpcZYh

E&E News: State officials confirm Californians pay a mystery gasoline surcharge A Thursday report lends authority to a long-held theory that gasoline companies are overcharging Californians for their fuel.

Fuel companies have charged Californians a mysterious gasoline surcharge for the past decade, costing residents $59B... to the extent it represents increased profit margins, it offers no direct public benefit,” per the state watchdog agency (DPMO). subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Tracking global data on electric vehicles Explore data on electric car sales and stocks worldwide.

(This Data Insight was written by @hannahritchie.bsky.social.)

Track data on the evolution of electric cars across the world: ourworldindata.org/electric-car...

Sales in China of ICE cars peaked in 2017 and have declined since.
The world reached peak ICE car sales just one year later.
The IEA expects oil demand to peak earlier than previously projected.

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Forest age influences freshwater biodiversity in temperate watersheds Forests can affect stream structure and function, but evaluations linking freshwater biodiversity to watershed-scale forest-stand conditions are limit…

Need healthy #FreshwaterHabitat?

A new study confirms #oldgrowth #forests (>75 years) are better for freshwater #invertebrates and #vertebrates than young forests.

Diverse #habitats in older trees support more unique and specialized aquatic species 🌍

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Mexican government began building a railway expansion project straight through a crucial wildlife corridor for imperiled jaguars, ocelots and black bears.

Tell Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum and her administration to stop this railway in its tracks to protect people and wildlife ➡️ bit.ly/47obJjO

Jaguars once roamed the Americas from Argentina to Arizona.

In this episode of Sounds Wild, Sebastián Di Martino, conservation director of Rewilding Argentina, discusses the return of #Jaguars in Argentina and what it would take to bring them back to the U.S.

Listen here ➡️ bit.ly/4pNp0e5

Aerial view of the lands and waters that make up the Everglades at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. White text in a red box and a black box read: "Breaking news: Appeals court pauses case challenging destructive Everglades detention facility."

An appeals court has granted a federal request to pause appellate court proceedings in a lawsuit challenging the massive detention center in the #Everglades known as #AlligatorAlcatraz.

The pause effectively halts the lawsuit brought by conservation groups.

Read on ➡️ bit.ly/42V2N3U

YouTube video by Mark Z. Jacobson Why carbon capture & direct air capture increase CO2, air pollution & costs and should be abandoned

Why carbon capture and direct air capture increase CO2, air pollution, pipelines, mining, and costs, thus do nothing beneficial, so should be abandoned - Long version.

youtube.com/shorts/13Tkj...

More info:
web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

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Just 10 banks are responsible for nearly 75% of the $15 billion in Amazon oil financing from the last decade.

We know who they are. We know what this will cost us. We can apply pressure to make them stop #KeepItInTheGround

Read the report: stand.earth/wp-content/u...

A field of green soy bean plants beneath a cloudless, blue sky, stretching far off into the distance. A stand of trees is at one end of the field.

In June, Kyle Kunkler was named the Trump admin.'s top official in charge of pesticide policy at the EPA.

Less than a month later, the EPA proposed allowing the use of herbicides containing #dicamba, a chemical whose use has twice been restricted by a federal court.

Read on ➡️ nyti.ms/475FSFE

🌐 Without a commitment to phase out fossil fuels, countries' climate plans are empty promises.

Sergio Díaz, legal director at the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, penned an article for Climate Home News about the need for countries to directly confront fossil fuels in their NDCs.

Greening cities for #biodiversity is overwhelmingly good for #humanhealth 💚💚💚

A major review of 1,500+ studies shows it improves #well-being & cuts exposure to heat and pollution (air, light, noise) 🌍

What is there not to like?

#UrbanEcology #PublicHealth #GreenCities

phys.org/news/2025-10...

Europe’s Noise Capital Tries to Turn Down the Volume To combat the ill effects of urban noise pollution, Paris is deploying automated sensors and cracking down on the loudest vehicles.

“The effort to quiet Paris complements the wider campaign to make Paris greener, cleaner & less car-dependent, which include vehicle restrictions in the center, crackdowns on polluting vehicles, & an ambitious expansion of bike networks. Those have cut the city’s average noise level by 2 decibels.”

The Verde River, below Camp Verde, in the Coconino National Forest, Arizona. The camera is positioned close to a section of the river containing rocks. White water swirls around the rocks. Mountains and evergreen trees are in the background.

You are the co-owner of 45 million acres.

For the past 25 years, they have been protected under the #RoadlessRule (a conservation policy over 1.6 million Americans submitted comments supporting).

Now, you're about to lose them all.

Get the rest in our Southeast Director's op-ed ➡️ bit.ly/47gWB7B

Warming Made L.A. Wildfires 25 Times Larger

Warming made the devastating L.A. wildfires twice as likely and 25 times larger, according to a new report.

‘Human exceptionalism is at the root of the ecological crisis’ — Harvard Gazette Saving the planet requires getting over ourselves, argues Christine Webb, author of ”The Arrogant Ape.”

Us humans have got to get over ourselves… our own arrogance is pushing Earth, our home to its #EcologicalLimits 🌍

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

When Classrooms Get Hot: What We Learned Exploring the Hidden Link Between the Environment, Health, and Learning As both a physician and a policymaker, I’ve spent much of my life asking one central question: How can we help every child reach their full potential?

Hot classrooms impede learning, as does elevated levels of carbon dioxide. Clean energy—not fossil fuels—is the path to a better, smarter, healthier future for our children.

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A white "closed" sign over a darkened, glass door.

Despite the #shutdown that has left hundreds of thousands of workers without pay, the Trump administration is continuing its anti-environment agenda — prioritizing fossil fuel production, border wall construction, and other destructive programs.

Read on ➡️ bit.ly/48FbByt