Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 11 July 2022

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 11 July 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Videos of landslide in Chavin de Huantar district of Peru & mudslide in Austria

• Peru: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-62010183
• Austria: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61986705

Using gravity & machine learning model to instantaneously estimate EQ magnitude & location

• https://eos.org/articles/monitoring-earthquakes-at-the-speed-of-light\
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04672-7

Experimental evidence of how off-fault deformation occurs along strike-slip faults

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-land-deformation-occurs-when-fault-sections-creep
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096784

Fluid-filled pores in eclogite found in western Italian Alps

• https://eos.org/articles/holey-eclogite

Collapse of a small mountain glacier on the Marmolada in the Dolomite Range in the eastern Italian Alps caused a deadly avalanche

• https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/glacier-collapses-in-italian-alps-3124168
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oapo5gxbSMw

Five things to know about the geology and geography of Vancouver, British Columbia

• https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/5-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-vancouvers-geography-and-geology-5543028

Manipur landslide in India result of ignoring geology

• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/imphal/road-rail-construction-methods-not-in-tune-with-noney-geology-experts/articleshow/92625840.cms

Geology of Clinton County, New York – Adirondack anorthosite, granitic gneiss, limestones

• https://suncommunitynews.com/news/97978/column-the-beauty-around-us/

Great Salt Lake declines to new historic record low level of 4,190.2 feet – monitored since 1875 – was likely a playa in Early Holocene

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/great-salt-lake-drops-below-historic-low-level/ar-AAZgl8o
• https://www.usgs.gov/centers/utah-water-science-center/science/great-salt-lake-elevations#overview

Natural phenomena and geological mysteries of the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile

• https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/celestial-encounters-found-in-south-american-desert

LIDAR and geodetics aid mapping and field research

• https://www.labnews.co.uk/article/2091685/innovations-in-geodetics-for-environmental-research

Feathers may have helped dinosaurs survive a volcanic winter

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feathers-may-have-helped-dinosaurs-survive-their-first-apocalypse/

Frogs in richest fossil bed suggests they died while mating in 45 myo swamp

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/hundreds-of-frogs-died-while-mating-in-an-ancient-swamp-45-million-years-ago-new-study-suggests/ar-AAZfHxQ
• Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1453

Hurricane Bonnie is rare crossover storm that powers up to Category 3 off coast of Mexico

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/hurricane-bonnie-a-category-3-and-rare-crossover-storm-powers-up-off-mexico-s-pacific-coast/ar-AAZeph1

Devonian rocks reflect weak magnetic memory

• https://phys.org/news/2022-07-unravel-secrets-earth-magnetic-field.html
• Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001282522200157X

Isotope thermometry show 50 myo the Atlantic was as warm as modern Mediterranean Sea

• https://phys.org/news/2022-07-depths-north-atlantic-ocean-mediterranean.html

Miocene climate evolution in SE Indian Ocean

• https://phys.org/news/2022-07-climate-evolution-southeast-indian-ocean.html

1.2-billion-year-old groundwater in Au- and U-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South Africa

• https://phys.org/news/2022-07-uncover-life-power-earth-oldest.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31412-2

Making tools from rocks – not all that difficult

• https://phys.org/news/2022-07-early-stone-tools-rocket-science.html
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo2894

The origin and diversity of every known mineral on Earth – 40% formed in more than one way

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220701102810.htm

Robots model movement of ammonites – no single optimum shell shape

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220705123939.htm
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13006-6

Miocene Giant Panda had an extra “thumb” - radial sesamoid

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/ailurarctos-extra-thumb-10957.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13402-y

Understanding the role of viruses in the ecology & evolution of Asgard archaea

• http://www.sci-news.com/biology/asgard-viruses-10955.html

Marking 30 years since the M7.3 Landers earthquake of 1992

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/temblor-changed-earthquake-science-turns-30
• https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci3031111/executive

Wildfires during the end-Permian mass extinction 252 myo

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Wildfires_may_have_sparked_ecosystem_collapse_during_Earths_worst_mass_extinction_999.html

Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing to monitor whales in the high Arctic

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Eavesdropping_on_whales_in_the_high_Arctic_999.html
• Preprint Paper: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/3193/

Hotly debated mechanics of pterosaur flight

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/ready-for-takeoff-imaging-pterosaur-tissue-to-see-how-they-launched/
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10507-2

Viewing Meteor Crater from 35,000 feet

• https://www.newsweek.com/viral-reddit-plane-passenger-view-arizona-meteor-crater-1721770

Geothermal activity erupts on busy Rotorua thoroughfare – spews steam, mud & water as road cracks

• https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/geothermal-activity-erupts-on-lake-rd-in-rotorua/

4 US volcanoes elevated to Orange Status - Great Sitkin, Semisopochnoi & Pavlof in Alaska & Kilauea in Hawaii

• https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/51742/20220705/four-u-s-volcanoes-elevated-risk-orange-status-usgs-warns.htm

Seismic survey was permitted in West Coast North Island Marine Mamman Sanctuary despite ban

• https://www.newsroom.co.nz/news/seismic-survey-in-marine-sanctuary-despite-ban

Thailand confirms tsunami buoys were out of position for 2 to 3 months

• https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40017431
• https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40017419

Most sinkholes in Norwich, England, due to karst caves – not remnant mines

• https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/norwich-sinkhole-chalk-mines-not-to-blame-9122748

One earthquake can trigger another

• https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/07/06/fault-facts-can-one-earthquake-cause-another/

Piping of heavy rainwater caused large sinkhole in Baltimore, Maryland – 3 houses to be torn down

• https://www.wbaltv.com/article/north-avenue-baltimore-sinkhole-exposes-aging-infrastructure/40535196#

Chemical Waste Management bids to open second hazardous waste landfill in Niagara County, New York – focus is on the geology and groundwater

• https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/cwm-landfill-hearings-deal-with-geology/article_0edf416a-fd6b-11ec-95d4-b3b728124961.html

Complex geology and groundwater pathways from Glenwood Canyon to Hanging Lake

• https://www.vaildaily.com/news/hanging-lake-source-water-study-highlights-complex-nature-of-canyons-cave-geology/

Radioactive particles in Pacific marine sediment & corals could mark the beginning of the Anthropocene

• https://www.sciencealert.com/radioactive-particles-in-the-pacific-ocean-could-mark-the-beginning-of-a-new-epoch
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-14179-w

Rare “cave cloud” natural mineral deposit found in Xiniuyan Cave in south China

• http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2022-07/07/content_78309582.htm

ACME Lithium Inc. announces exploration program in SE Manitoba

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/acme-lithium-commences-project-wide-120000778.html

HOV Alvin has returned to the ocean for sea trials

• https://ndsf.whoi.edu/into-open-water/

The intrinsically inhomogeneous character of the ocean must be considered in how climate evolves

• https://phys.org/news/2022-06-quantifying-global-ocean-inhomogeneity-exploring.html

Paper:  Global horizon scan of issues impacting marine & coastal biodiversity conservation

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01812-0

Humpback whales may find new breeding ground if ocean waters near Hawaii continue to warm -they have done so before without dire warnings of man-made “global warming”

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/hawaiian-waters-may-get-too-hot-for-humpback-whales-due-to-climate-change-221007757.html
• Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.837772/full

Meraxes gigas – Late Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaur found in Argentina

• https://www.ndtv.com/science/meraxes-gigas-all-you-need-to-know-about-huge-dinosaur-with-tiny-arms-like-t-rex-3140361
• https://scitechdaily.com/meraxes-gigas-giant-new-carnivorous-dinosaur-discovered-with-tiny-arms-like-t-rex/
• Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00860-0

As a rare cross-over storm, Hurricane Bonnie continues to set records – strengthened into Cat 3 storm, tied record for maximum wind speed, storm track exceeds 6,600 miles

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/after-6-000-miles-unstoppable-hurricane-bonnie-continues-to-break-records/ar-AAZn1b9

Norris Geyser Basin includes some of the hottest thermal water & the Fountain Paint Pot Trail in Yellowstone

• Norris Geyser Basin: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/norris-geyser-basin-yellowstone-national-park/ar-AAZmsKh

Fountain Paint Pot Trail:  https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/fountain-paint-pot-trail-yellowstone-national-park/ar-AAZoP1K

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 11 July 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Here we go again – WHO to decide if Monkeypox is “global public health emergency” due to only 6,000 cases (and only 70 deaths) – get ready to ‘mask up’ and subject yourself to more draconian measures

• https://www.sciencealert.com/the-who-is-about-to-decide-if-monkeypox-has-become-a-global-public-health-emergency

Zika and Dengue viruses change human scent – more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes who transmit the diseases – treat with isotretinoin? But that poses significant health risks

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220630114511.htmI
• Isotretinoin risks: https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/acne/derm-treat/isotretinoin/side-effects

New York State DEC denies renewal of air permit for Greenidge Power Plant

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-environmental-regulators-deny-greenidge-s-power-plant-permit/ar-AAZ3beK

California wants to provide “refuge” for “gender-affirming care”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-is-the-country-s-most-destructive-sanctuary/ar-AAZ3l6k

Backcountry campers & rafters in the Grand Canyon are contracting norovirus

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/grand-canyon-campers-are-contracting-norovirus-causing-diarrhea-and-vomiting-on-rafting-excursions/ar-AAZ5etK

Iowa Supreme Court overturned precedent that allowed landowners to sue for damages when neighboring hog farm caused water pollution or odors that affected quality of life

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/iowa-court-reverses-precedent-on-iowa-pig-farm-lawsuits/ar-AAZ2W8S

“Green New Deal” is increasing greenhouse gas emissions in the US – ended decade of declines

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-s-green-new-deal-is-increasing-greenhouse-gases/ar-AAZ4lvn

In December 2020 Dr. Fauci said with vaccines US could approach herd immunity by end of summer - now says herd immunity is "unattainable" - equating herd immunity to level to “eradicate or eliminate” the disease but that is not consistent with definition

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/with-breakthrough-covid-cases-commonplace-experts-consider-vaccine-efficacy/ar-AAZ5pfQ
• https://www.kcra.com/article/dr-fauci-says-herd-immunity-is-unattainable-covid-19-heres-why/40478645

California to "guarantee" health care for all illegal immigrants - cost estimated at $2.7B per year

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-first-to-cover-health-care-for-all-immigrants/ar-AAZ3ksK

Had a festive 4^th of July – loving the consequences of “global warming” – coldest in 50 years

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/fourth-of-july-weekend-in-2022-will-be-one-of-reno-tahoe-s-coldest-in-the-past-50-years/ar-AAZ3nlM

After 40 years absence, white rhinos returned to Zinave National Park in Mozambique

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/white-rhinos-return-to-mozambique-park-after-40-years/ar-AAZ5hgK

Regents Reports compiled in New York from 1826 to 1872 provide glimpse of environmental past

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062022/new-york-historic-citizen-science/

Waterways in Brazil and in India are choked by tons of trash – wildlife being poisoned

• Manaus, Brazil: https://phys.org/news/2022-07-waterways-brazil-manaus-tons-trash.html
• India: https://phys.org/news/2022-07-india-single-use-plastics-tackle.html

US Special Climate Envoy refuses to honor FOIA requests for public records of his office

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/415-days-and-counting-still-john-kerry-won-t-release-climate-office-details/ar-AAZ5ZBR

Gastroenterologist says pooping two to three times “per day is best” – that’s crazy

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/lifestyle/uh-often-poop-normal-according-160000956.html

Controversial proposal for relocating entrance to Big Basin Redwoods State Park

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/neighbors-up-in-arms-over-new-big-basin-front-door-proposal/ar-AAZ7ZAC

Toxocariasis spread by pet feces in public parks – causes organ damage & blindness in humans

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/parasitic-worms-found-across-us-parks-put-kids-pet-owners-at-risk/ar-AAZ7MrR

 

SCOTUS ruling in EPA v. West Virginia returns legal authority to Congress – not “unaccountable and unelected federal bureaucracy that has largely usurped the governance of the country”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/epa-s-loss-is-major-win-for-democracy/ar-AAZ8qAM
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/scotus-deals-a-blow-to-the-unaccountable-unelected-administrative-state-opinion/ar-AAZdgaT

Lightning bugs or fireflies in the US & Canada perform critical environmental functions but are disappearing – species are threatened by habitat loss and degradation and light pollution

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/are-lightning-bugs-disappearing-from-night-skies-dimming-prospects-face-some-fireflies/ar-AAZ7B3A
• Report: https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/21-021_02_web-print.pdf

Largest refinery site in Philadelphia being redeveloped as “The Bellwether District” – toxic legacy of the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery continues to impact human health

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04072022/philadelphia-refinery-health-black-residents/

UN deems US-Mexico border the “deadliest” land route in the world – US border is not secure – Texas counties on border declare “invasion” a state of disaster

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-migration-study-deems-us-mexico-border-deadliest-land-route-in-the-world-based-on-2021-numbers/ar-AAZbnG7
• IOM Report Interactive: https://worldmigrationreport.iom.int/wmr-2022-interactive/
• Report Download: https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2022
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/migrant-caravan-marching-north-ends-journey-after-two-days-as-mexico-handed-3-000-residence-permits/ar-AAZbFmp
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tom-homan-says-texas-border-sheriffs-judges-right-to-ask-for-declaration-of-invasion-they-ve-had-it/ar-AAZdHVK
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-border-counties-declare-invasion-on-texas-mexico-border/ar-AAZfdiQ

Bikini Atoll is most nuclear-contaminated island – no one has lived there in 77 years (slide show)

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/world-s-most-nuclear-contaminated-island-where-no-one-has-lived-for-77-years/ss-AAZaM4U

Smaller-than-average cyanobacteria algal bloom predicted for western Lake Erie

• https://phys.org/news/2022-07-below-average-algal-bloom-western-lake.html

Trophy hunter has been gunned down in South Africa

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lion-killing-trophy-hunter-gunned-down-in-execution-style-murder/ar-AAZaNAJ

Shoebill “dinosaur bird” needs mate to help save species from extinction

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/extremely-rare-dinosaur-bird-waiting-for-mate-to-help-save-her-species/ar-AAZdJZV

Indian Ridge Resort Community in Branson West, Missouri, is now a McMansion ghost town

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/inside-missouri-s-eerie-1-6bn-ghost-town-of-mcmansions/ss-AAZcd00

Folks being evacuated from sheltering inside PG&E powerhouse due to Electra Fire

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/evacuation-underway-for-dozens-sheltering-from-electra-fire-inside-pg-e-powerhouse/ar-AAZc8C4
• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/electra-fire-wildfire-amador-county-063158862.html

Navajo Nation to spend $1B for water, housing & other much needed infrastructure

• https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/02/navajo-nation-spend-1-billion-federal-covid-money-infrastructure/7789728001/

Man-made structures, including the Eiffel Tower, do not last forever

• https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/eiffel-tower-paris-needs-repairs/

Part 5: Romancing the River – Unleashing the Engineers on the Colorado River

• https://sibleysrivers.com/romancing-the-river-5-unleashing-the-engineers/

Cheat grass invasion of the West provides fuel for wildfires – battling it with grazing

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06072022/wildfire-cheatgrass-cattle/

Measuring impact of Ukraine-Russia war on breadbasket

• https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150025/measuring-wars-effect-on-a-global-breadbasket

Slaughtered almost to extinction, the Wood Bison population has rebounded

• https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/communities/2022/07/05/ed-lentz-as-it-were-column-bison-back-found-ohio/7811860001/

Visualizing the elemental composition of the human body – 12 elements and 9 trace elements

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-elemental-composition-of-the-human-body/

Look and you will find – year-round lower ozone concentration over the tropics

• https://phys.org/news/2022-07-discovery-reveals-large-year-round-ozone.html
• Paper: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0094629

Australian “panda” greater glider joins endangered species list

• https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2022/07/great-glider-listed-as-endangered/
• https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/extinction-looms-for-australia-s-equivalent-of-the-panda-20220705-p5az95.html

Fifth Circuit Appellate Court concludes covid does not meet “natural-disaster” exception under WARN Act

• https://www.lexblog.com/2022/07/06/warning-fifth-circuit-concludes-covid-19-does-not-meet-natural-disaster-exception-under-the-warn-act/

Technological hazard:  Visualizing 33 problems with mass media

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/problems-with-media/

Australian lungfish can live to the age of 100 years and beyond

• https://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/meet-australia-s-oldest-freshwater-fish-which-can-breathe-air-like-a-land-dweller-20220705-p5azao.html

Visualizing the hierarchy of “zero waste”

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-hierarchy-of-zero-waste/

Australian livestock industry taking extra precautions as foot & mouth outbreak occurs on Bali

• https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/foot-and-mouth-disease-bali-dr-ross-ainsworth-warns-of-deadly-spreading-disease/news-story/d039ea6781278301962d75fdbbd6fd25

Biden ordered DOE to release 260M barrels of oil from US Strategic Petroleum Reserve – 5+ barrels diverted to Europe & Asian nations including China – shades of the Teapot Dome scandal – political rationalization

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-hammers-biden-for-allowing-emergency-oil-reserves-to-go-to-china-compromising-our-energy-security/ar-AAZkQCq
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-u-s-petroleum-reserve-oil-went-overseas/ar-AAZmhlk

“Forever plague” article on covid reinfections is wildly wrong – more fear mongering

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/that-viral-article-about-covid-reinfections-is-wildly-wrong/ar-AAZkJs4
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/ninja-covid-variant-most-dangerous-084832058.html

Free public EV chargers in North Carolina may be destroyed

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/north-carolina-looks-to-remove-public-ev-chargers-probably-to-the-trash/ar-AAZkxPR

Effort to eradicate invasive giant African land snails in Florida – been there, done that twice

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/effort-begun-eradicate-giant-african-175005623.html

Is it practically feasible to retrofit dams to produce hydropower?

• https://cleantechnica.com/2022/07/06/hydropower-retrofitting-untapped-dams/
• Report: https://info.ornl.gov/sites/publications/Files/Pub167488.pdf

Update on Calcasieu River Bridge project in SW Louisiana – efforts to secure funding

• https://www.kplctv.com/2022/07/08/dotd-secretary-gives-update-i-10-calcasieu-river-bridge/

Considering the effects of tornadoes on buildings – mismatch between tornadoes & other hazards

• https://www.structuremag.org/?p=20859

Short- and long-term strategies and policies to cope with heat waves

• https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/cities-strategies-heat-waves-summer-2022/626612/

Nile canal would likely result in drying up of Sudd swamp in South Sudan

• https://e360.yale.edu/features/will-a-nile-canal-project-dry-up-africas-largest-wetland

Monkeypox & the WHO – currently falls short of WHO highest level alert – most cases in CA & NY

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/06/health/monkeypox-testing-who-emergency/index.html
• https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/who-monkeypox-outbreak-unusual-and-worrying-not-yet-public-health-emergency-international
• https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html

Potential future value of recycling solar panels – now most go to landfills

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/dead-solar-panels-are-about-to-become-a-lot-more-valuable/ar-AAZmYrP
• Rystad analysis: https://www.rystadenergy.com/newsevents/news/press-releases/reduce-reuse-solar-pv-recycling-market-to-be-worth-%242.7-billion-by-2030/

New method of determining how risk is perceived by society – semantic representation

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/958312
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm1883

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 11 July 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Labor dispute at 29 West Coast ports poses another threat to supply chain

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/west-coast-port-dispute-poses-latest-threat-to-supply-chain/ar-AAZ4nEg

US Coast Guard deployed to escort Carnival Magic cruise shop to port following massive brawl on board

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/cruise-ship-calls-in-coast-guard-after-massive-brawl-on-board/ar-AAZ4O1S

Egypt closes stretch of Red Sea coastline following fatal shark attack

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-02/egypt-closes-coastal-area-after-shark-kills-austrian-swimmer

Stage 1 flood alert issued for South Texas Gulf coast

• https://spacecityweather.com/we-are-issuing-a-stage-1-flood-alert-for-coastal-counties-and-watching-the-situation-closely/

Untreated human sewage from 2 wastewater treatment facilities in Baltimore flows into rivers & tributaries of Chesapeake Bay – federal lawsuit & takeover by MDE

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03072022/baltimore-wastewater/

Improving estimates of coastal flooding for nuclear power plants

• https://phys.org/news/2022-07-coastal-nuclear-power.html
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021WR030873

Computational assessment of groundwater salinity in coastal multi-aquifers of Bangladesh

• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15104-x

Mangrove conservation in Kenya and Tanzania

• https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/06/1121792

“Solar tree” erected at National Aquarium is not aesthetically pleasing but futilely aimed at “net zero”

• https://www.wmar2news.com/homepage-showcase/national-aquarium-adds-solar-tree-to-their-campus

Sea glass is not the same as beach glass

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/what-is-sea-glass-how-and-where-do-you-find-it/ar-AAZe3mK

Walling off coastal erosion in England by claiming a right to the beach

• https://www.archdaily.com/984650/the-right-to-the-beach-walling-off-coastal-erosion

Fish feed contributes most to GHG emissions in aquaculture industry in China

• https://phys.org/news/2022-07-fish-greatest-contributor-greenhouse-gas.html

Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772735122000555?via%3Dihub

NOAA ends search for dead orca off the Oregon Coast – had appeared tangled up in fishing or crabbing gear

• https://www.opb.org/article/2022/07/06/search-for-dead-orca-in-coastal-oregon-waters-ends/

 

200+ traps and other debris hauled off Outer Bar Islands

• https://www.mdislander.com/maine-news/waterfront/over-200-traps-other-debris-hauled-off-islands-in-coastal-cleanup

Fishmeal plants trigger seaweed blooms that threaten marine life along “Smiling Coast” of West Africa

• https://chinadialogueocean.net/en/fisheries/seaweed-blooms-caused-by-fishmeal-plants-hurt-gambian-coastal-communities/

Explore culture & history of Coastal La Coruña, Spain

• https://www.travelawaits.com/2778380/la-coruna-spain-things-to-do/

Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program to address abandoned boats

• https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-coastal-zone-management-program-to-address-abandoned-boats/291-ce2cd90d-8bbb-422c-9c69-0cbb6344a535

Poseidon Desalination Plant proposal may finally be gone for good

• https://voiceofoc.org/2022/07/is-poseidons-huntington-beach-desal-plant-proposal-gone-for-good/

Bonds to be issued to help pay for $79M passenger dock & terminal project in Seward, Alaska

• https://theconstructionbroadsheet.com/alaska-oks-bond-financing-for-m-dock-and-terminal-project-p955-175.htm

Are floating offshore wind turbines really a viable solution?

• https://cleantechnica.com/2022/07/05/the-race-to-floating-offshore-wind-energy/

€2bn scheme for new port development in Albania & new dry port in Kosovo

• https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/royal-haskoning-plans-2bn-port-development-in-albania

Proposed $5B Tuxpan-Coatzacoalcos offshore pipeline in Mexico

• https://www.naturalgasintel.com/mexico-touts-multi-billion-dollar-public-private-natural-gas-projects/

Another Rube Goldberg proposal – “Emerald Tutu” to protect Boston Harbor where sea level has risen by less than one foot over the last 100 years – costs and collateral damages?

• https://www.boston.com/news/environment/2022/07/06/emerald-tutu-boston-flooding-northeastern/
• https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/how-coastal-cities-can-build-climate-resilience-clock-ticks

Invasive tunicates are impacting shellfish farmers – “sea vomit” species

• https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/invasive-tunicates-have-shellfish-farmers-crying-foul/

US Army Corps of Engineers backs $1.3B plant to elevate or “floodproof” homes & businesses in 3 Louisiana parishes during storm surge flooding

• https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_ecf82664-fc8b-11ec-a1ac-a7b483958627.html

PFAS forever chemicals detected in every Florida oyster tested from Biscayne Bay, Marco Island & Tampa Bay – confirms chemicals have infiltrated the food chain

• https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/3548738-toxic-forever-chemicals-found-in-florida-oysters/

Staten Island marine graveyard hosts ghostly remains of ships of past eras

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/staten-island-s-boat-graveyard-is-home-to-ghost-ships-of-eras-past/ar-AAZnapz

"You don’t know the value of water until you carry it on your head.”- Unknown (tnx to Dave Kreamer, President of @iahgroundwater

Comments

[A concerned reader]

I can't imagine the kind of thoughtless person who could genuinely say that the barest measures to protect public health and safety are "draconian". What a joke you are!