Soon we found that sprawling car-based development was killing our city centres, isolating communities and consuming the countryside.
Administering more than 130,000 cannabis warnings each year across England and Wales does little to combat serious harms to communities, while consuming vast amounts of police time and resources.
Preliminary trials reflected the low prevalence of diabetes in Raica community consuming camel milk habitually.
Sometimes producing things is more gratifying — and more conducive to building community — than consuming them, I decide.
It may be obvious that these animals reduce plant populations through their grazing activities, but livestock can also change the composition of the plant community by consuming some species and leaving others alone.
Forget traditional geo-political divisions, today we are part of a global Facebook community busy consuming McDonalds and Apple iPads in a planet rotating towards global democracy.
The Latin American countries, long the victims of drug war colonialism that displaces violence generated by the US and European hunger for psychoactive substances other than alcohol, onto the usually non drug consuming communities of the global south, have taken the political lead on the global stage.
The local agricultural communities in Japan consuming Cd contaminated rice developed itai-itai disease and renal abnormalities, including proteinuria and glucosuria.
Working creatively to build bridges across these diverse communities is time consuming and challenging yet central to building accountability in defining research agendas, undertaking research and informing action[ 29, 12].
Conclusions: ASGM workers and their families are exposed to Hg vapor, and workers, workers' families, and residents of nearby and downstream communities are consuming fish heavily contaminated with methylmercury.
