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Florida power plant has sucked in 4,100 sea turtles in the past decade

Over the past decade, over 4,100 sea turtles — averaging to more than a turtle a day — have been sucked into the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant on Hutchinson Island in Florida, resulting in injuries and even deaths. The federal government is stepping in to install mesh grates — but even that won’t be enough.

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The power plant had a permit, and the public accepted it.

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Cool Chicks from History Missing from Wikipedia: April 2016

Wikipedia is one of the most commonly used sources, but the vast majority of Wikipedia editors are men and that skews what topics are covered. The New York Times did a series of articles on Wikipedia’s gender disparity in 2011 and the problem persists (Atlantic 2015, Smithsonian Mag 2016).

Cool Chicks from History has posted lists of women missing from Wikipedia and women who should have longer pages on Wikipedia. Dozens of new articles have been created based on these lists.

Below is a new list of women who deserve Wikipedia pages or better Wikipedia pages. If you are interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia articles, there is a tutorial here. There is also a place for friendly Wikipedia help here.

Louisa Adams (US First Lady) has a Wikipedia page, but it should be expanded. She left behind extensive writings which were published in 2011. They should be discussed in greater detail on Wikipedia. Congress adjourned on the day of her funeral so that members could attend and this was the first time a First Lady was so honored.

Lucie Aubrac (French politician) has a Wikipedia page, but it needs citations and expansion. Guardian obituary, NYT obituary, English language biography, English language autobiography.

Naima Ilyas al-Ayyubi (Egyptian lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information

Maria Angélica Barredas (Argentine lawyer) has a Spanish language Wikipedia page, but no English language page. More information

Khunying Ram Phrommobon Bunyaprasop (Thai lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page.

Marie-Louise Carven (French fashion designer) has a Wikipedia page, but it is in need of expansion. The current page links to good sources, but the page should have more detail and be divided up into biography/life, career, and awards. It should also be mentioned that Marie-Louise was a Holocaust rescuer and she should be listed here.

Orapin Chaikarn (Thai Member of Parliament) does not have a Wikipedia page.

Caterina Cybo (Italian noble) has an Italian Wikipedia page, but no English language Wikipedia page.

Acha of Deira (Ancient English princess) does not have a Wikipedia page, but she is mentioned on the pages of her relatives: 1, 2, 3. More information: 1, 2, 3

Ekaterina Fleischitz (Russian lawyer) has a Russian language Wikipedia page, but no English language page.

Martha Minerva Franklin (US nurse) does not have a Wikipedia page, but she is mentioned on the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame page. More information: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Rosa Ginossar (Israeli lawyer) doesn’t have a Wikipedia page. More information

Myrthes Gomes de Campos (Brazilian lawyer) has a Portuguese language Wikipedia page, but no English language page. More information

Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf (US pharmacist) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information: 1, 2,

Maria Hagemeyer (German judge) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information

Susan Hayhurst (US pharmacist) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information: 1, 2, 3, 4

Caroline Hazard (US college president) does not have a Wikipedia page, but she is mentioned on the page for Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame Women Inductees. More information: 1, 2, 3

Anna Louise James (US pharmacist) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information: 1, 2

Aurora Jiménez de Palacios (Mexican politician) has a Spanish language Wikipedia page, but no English language page. More information

Chalorjit Jittarutta (Thai judge) does not have a Wikipedia page.

Ai Kume (Japanese lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information

Juanita Larrauri (Argentine politician) has a Spanish language Wikipedia page, but no English language page.

Gail Laughlin (US lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page, but she is mentioned on the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame page. More information: 1, 2, 3

Mabel Catherine Malherbe (South African politician) has a French language Wikipedia page and an Afrikan Wikipedia page, but no English language page. More information

Masako Nakata (Japanese lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information

Estelle Massey Osborne (US nurse) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information: 1, 2

Efharis Petridou (Greek Lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information

Olga Petit (French lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page. Photo

Aida-Cruz Del Rosario (Philippine architect) does not have a Wikipedia page, but she is mentioned on her alma mater’s page.

María Asunción Sandoval de Zarco (Mexican lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information: English, Spanish

Yoshiko Sanfuchi (Japenese judge) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information

Jahanara Shahnawaz (Pakistani politician) has a Wikipedia page that needs serious expansion. Google books has numerous sources.

Marthe Simard (French politician) has a French language Wikipedia page, but no English language page.

Norma Merrick Sklarek (US architect) has a Wikipedia page, but it is missing the selected works that are common on other architect’s pages.

Freda Slutzkin (Israeli lawyer) doesn’t have a Wikipedia page. More information

Aristodama of Smyrna (Greek poet) has a Wikipedia page, but more information should be added.

Sri Widoyati Wiratmo Soekito (Indonesian judge) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information

Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (Pakistani politician) has a Wikipedia page, but it needs sources and expansion. More information: 1, 2

Thereza Grisólia Tang (Brazilian judge) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information

Anyte of Tegea (Greek poet) has a Wikipedia page, but more information should be added.

Marjorie M. Whiteman (US lawyer) has a German language Wikipedia page, but no English language page. She is also mentioned on the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame page. More information: 1, 2, 3

Madeline Wookey (South African lawyer) does not have a Wikipedia page. More information: 1, 2

Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui (Incan) does not have an English language Wikipedia page, but she has a Spanish language Wikipedia page.

Elena Žalinkevičaite (Lithuanian actress/writer/Holocaust rescuer) has Wikipedia page, but more information should be added about her Holocaust activities.

Kay Zufall (US) should be mentioned on the Play-Doh Wikipedia page. Currently the page says “[McVicker] subsequently discovered that the wallpaper cleaner was being used by nursery school children to make Christmas ornaments.” Actually, his sister-in-law Kay Zufall gave him the suggestion after reading a newspaper article and trying the product in her own classroom.

British female legal pioneers: Elizabeth Orme, Eveline MacLaren, Josephine Gordon Stuart, Maud Crofts, Carrie Morrison, Mary Pickup, and Mary Sykes are all mentioned in this Library of Congress blog post, but there is very little available about any of them based on a quick Google search.

National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses dissolved in 1951, but it should have a Wikipedia page. The organization was founded by Martha Minerva Franklin (listed above) and Estelle Massey Osborne (also listed above) later served as president. More information: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Women in Law should have a Wikipedia list similar to this or this. This Library of Congress blog post would be a good starting point. Most of the women mentioned either have Wikipedia pages or are listed above.

Women in Pharmacy should also have some kind of Wikipedia list, but there doesn’t even seem to be a pharmacist category on Wikipedia. Some names as a starting point: Ella P. Stewart and Cora Dow. Susan Hayhurst, Anna Louise James, and Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf could all be added if they had Wikipedia pages.

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How Baltimore millennial Destiny Watford saved her neighborhood from environmental disaster.

In 2010, when Destiny Watford was 14 years old, New York-based energy firm Energy Answers International got a permit from the state of Maryland to build a massive trash incinerator in Curtis Bay, the South Baltimore neighborhood where Watford and her family lived.

The incinerator would have spewed a boatload of toxic pollutants — including mercury, lead and nitrogen dioxide — that have causal links to lung damage and other respiratory problems.

Curtis Bay already ranked among the 10 worst zip codes in the nation for toxic air pollutants emitted from stationary facilities between 2005 and 2009.

Enter Watford and a dedicated group of young activists: In partnership with local advocates, at age 16 Watford and fellow students at nearby Benjamin Franklin High School launched a grassroots campaign to stop the incinerator from being constructed.

Using a combination of public art, theater and educational events, they convinced 22 local governments, school systems and nonprofit institutions to back out of their agreements with Energy Answers, from whom the groups had committed to buy energy generated by the yet-to-be-constructed plant.

“Fighting the incinerator was an act of survival,” Watford said. “I live in Curtis Bay, my family, my nephews, my brothers and sisters all live in Curtis Bay. It’s an act of survival because we already have some of worst air pollution in Maryland and the nation.”

And then came the coup de grace.

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Major flooding in Chennai

The City of Chennai on the eastern coast of India is, by population, the 4th largest urban area in the country and the 36th largest urban area in the world. Like the rest of the city, its airport has undergone major expansion over the past 15 years. However, as of right now, that airport is a lake.

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