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Corina Newsome

@corinanewsome.bsky.social

Wildlife Biologist | Environmental Justice + Biodiversity Conservation

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Corina Newsome@corinanewsome.bsky.social · last yr.

Just landed in Minneapolis for a conference and was shocked by the extremely thick air pollution. Turns out it’s the Canada wildfires. The air is hard to breathe and I wouldn’t be considered part of a “vulnerable” group health-wise.

BlackAFinSTEM@blackafinstem.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, our bird of the day is the Seaside Sparrow. This sparrow has great signficance to the Gullah Geechee people who inhabit the same region. A people stolen from West and Central Africa into chattel slavery who have resided in the SE U.S. especially coast of South Carolina and Georgia. #blacksky

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis

While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

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Wen@handle.invalid · 2y ago

Journalists need to be more than scribes. Racist white people are overtly trying to take us back to an apartheid state and we're getting articles that read like meeting minutes. Literally none of their reasons for any of this makes sense, unless you ask yourself: are these people racist??

Corina Newsome@corinanewsome.bsky.social · 2y ago

Protecting urban tree canopies is a matter of public health, biodiversity conservation, and mitigating the impacts of climate change. Be part of protecting (and improving!) your city’s native tree canopy!