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The following entries are by Elaine J. Hanford.
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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 13 November 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Swarm of earthquakes (some > M5.0) in Iceland – monitoring magma movement – eruption imminent
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/iceland-s-earthquake-swarm-what-we-know-about-the-thousands-of-tectonic-quakes/ar-AA1jLiLV
- Alert: https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/a-seismic-swarm-started-north-of-grindavik-last-night
M5.7 earthquake in Nepal
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000l8p5/executive
- Slide show: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nepal-rocked-by-deadly-earthquake/ss-AA1jt5Bw
Naples, Italy, in the midst of volcanoes: Vesuvius, Ischia & Camp Flegrei
Human anticipation of eruption of Camp Flegrei
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/could-a-supervolcano-really-wipe-out-humanity-one-has-been-starting-to-stir/ar-AA1jHPZy
- Slide show: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/italian-supervolcano-is-sparking-concern-and-evacuation-plans/ss-AA1jItdx
Las Vegas, Nevada, project to cost $61M for “speed bumps” in Las Vegas Wash to reduce speed of water flow – oh, yeah, that will really work well
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: reducing ship pollution is leading to increased temperatures
- https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/climate/impacts/scientists-warn-earth-warming-faster-than-expected-due-to-ship-pollution-drop
- Paper: https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889
Seamount eruption created new island in Japan
Deputy Director of Karnataka geology department found murdered in her residence in India
Outcropping of multiple pegmatite dikes at lithium project in James Bay, Canada
10 of the rarest gemstones
The left decrying geology field camps as “racist, ableist, sexist…driven by toxic masculinity and centered around reliving Manifest Destiny” - they need to get a real life & not falsely criticize key aspect of geologic education
Geologic assessment in earthquake-hit areas of St Andrew
Historical impacts of the Calumet Conglomerate Lode
M5.3 earthquake in West Texas
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/5-3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-western-texas/ar-AA1jAUT1
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/tx2023vxae/executive
Australian BHP Iron Ore recorded at approximately 4.6 miles in length carrying 82,000 tons of iron ore is longest and heaviest train ever
Oviraptor embryonic Baby Yingliang dating to 66 and 72 myo was close to hatching
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-discovered-inside-72-million-year-old-egg/ar-AA1jAgbb
- Paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01487-5
10 extinct North American animals – from dire wolves to camels to glyptodonts to lions
Tree of life tracing mammalian evolution over past 100 million years
- https://scitechdaily.com/mammalian-tree-of-life-redefined-genomic-time-machine-traces-back-100-million-years-of-evolution/
- Zoonomia Project: https://www.earth.com/news/genomes-from-240-mammals-show-what-makes-humans-unique/
Downstream movement of carbon from land to the ocean & atmosphere is just part of the Global Carbon Cycle
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/gently-down-the-stream-carbons-journey-from-land-to-sea-and-beyond
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GB007776
Pangea Ultima – 250 MYO future supercontinent – may not be favorable for mammals
- https://eos.org/articles/future-supercontinent-will-be-inhospitable-for-mammals
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01259-3
Using AI to identify potential volcanic origins of distal ash deposits
- https://eos.org/editor-highlights/machine-learning-identifies-source-volcanoes-of-ash-deposits
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GC011037
Turkana stone beads – life in the mid-Holocene
First assimilation of CryoSat-2 summer observations provides estimates of thickness of Arctic Sea ice
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007011
- Paper: https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/olar.0025
Thescelosaurus neglectus – Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur that lived in burrows – well developed olfaction\
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/thescelosaurus-neglectus-12431.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45658-3
Ekgmowechashala – new fossil species of enigmatic Early Oligocene North American primate
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/ekgmowechashala-12425.html
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248423001318
Toward improved understanding of the geology of Wyoming
Creating oriented & precisely sectioned mineral mounts of in situ chemical analysis
- https://www.usgs.gov/publications/creating-oriented-and-precisely-sectioned-mineral-mounts-situ-chemical-analyses
- Techniques & Methods 5-D5: https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/05/d5/tm5d5.pdf
Findings & lessons learned from 30 years of regional groundwater quality trend studies in the US
- https://www.usgs.gov/publications/thirty-years-regional-groundwater-quality-trend-studies-united-states-major-findings
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169423013690
Hydration of oceanic lithosphere governs the style of convective flow & tectonic behaviors
- https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Dual_hydration_of_oceanic_lithosphere_999.html
- Paper: https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/10/11/nwad251/7280775
Microfossils from Western Australia suggest complexity of life coincided with rise of oxygen on Early Earth
- https://www.terradaily.com/reports/New_microfossils_suggest_earlier_rise_in_complex_life_999.html
- Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gbi.12576
500-year-old Hebrew note found in prayer book in the Vatican Library describes previously unrecognized 1146 earthquake swarm in Italy
Los Angeles General Hospital finally being retrofitted for seismic safety for homeless & affordable housing
New theory on the origins of the old red sandstone Altar Stone at Stonehenge
Another flurry of seismic activity under Mount St Helens
Contemplating the future of the Gulf Stream
Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald – when the gales of November came early
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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 13 November 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
“Back to Basics” soil planner is available for free from USDA – order or download
- 2024 Soils Planner: https://nrcspad.sc.egov.usda.gov/DistributionCenter/product.aspx?ProductID=1724
Biden administration developing B61-13 nuclear gravity bomb – is that really necessary?
Chemical plant explosion & fire prompt evacuation & shelter in place orders in San Jacinto County, Texas – human error
- https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2023-11-08-texas-chemical-plant-fire-shepherd-san-jacinto
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-chemical-plant-explosion-cause-revealed-after-shelter-in-place-order-lifted/ar-AA1jESoX
Which is better: incandescent light bulbs or LEDs?
How residents defeated a proposed CO2 pipeline across the Midwest
Millions of homes are overheated in the winter – oversized heaters & open windows wasting energy
Government-run health care (i.e., Obamacare) is not affordable & does not provide good health care
Outbreak of tuberculosis linked to California Grand Casino in Contra Costa County
Numerous “clean energy” projects being postponed or scrapped even with $370B in IRA subsidies
Social media has it wrong – it is not illegal to use peat for gardening – at least not yet
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant testing use of radiation-detecting drones
Construction of third pipeline to take Columbia River water to Umatilla Basin in Oregon – sustainable? – water will replenish groundwater aquifers that have been over-pumped for decades
CER ordered Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project to stop work in wetland area in British Columbia
The study has not yet been completed but cities issuing bans on “right on red”
IRA to throw $Billions at the drought in the western US – like all that money will solve the problem of overallocation
Michigan plan will ban natural gas, close power plants and force wind & solar farms leading to making “blackout nightmare a reality” - following in the footsteps of California
Settlement calls for $4.75M penalty for water pollution infraction by two Baltimore wastewater treatment plants
EV snowplows don’t “cut the mustard” in New York City - abandoned to return to old diesel-powered vehicles
Cascading problems from creation of Everglades Agricultural Area – draining water & exposing peat have made the area a “significant source of greenhouse gas emissions” – sugar cane creates 7.3M+ tons of GHG
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06112023/in-the-florida-everglades-a-greenhouse-gas-emissions-hotspot/
- Link to download report: https://winrock.org/document/carbon-assessment-of-the-everglades-agricultural-area/
Another downside for EVs – depreciate more rapidly than internal combustion engine vehicles
Regular marijuana use linked to significant cardiac (heart attack, stroke, or failure) and brain issues
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1006523?
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/marijuana-use-linked-with-significant-heart-and-brain-issues/ar-AA1juQYJ
FDA considering pulling swine drug carbadox from use because it is carcinogenic in humans
- https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-takes-steps-withdraw-approval-swine-drug-carbadox-due-safety-concerns
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/fda-moves-to-pull-drug-used-by-pork-industry-citing-human-cancer-risk/ar-AA1jxIBH
Dense fog and smoke from underground fire cause traffic hazards on highway in Louisiana
What is a kilonova? And what would happen if one exploded in the cosmic backyard of Earth?
Perspective: no one should be forced to use the preferred pronouns of someone else
27 prehistoric animals that still exist – from gharials to komodos to vicuna to wobbegongs to okapi
Those who suffered catastrophic injury & bereavement from Astrazenaca vaxx are speaking out in the UK – British High Court to hear two cases
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/those-injured-by-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-can-no-longer-be-silenced/ar-AA1jBobj
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/a-lesson-learnt-on-vaccine-harms/ar-AA1jGOv6
FDA recalling dog foods found to contain salmonella or harmful elevated levels of vitamins that also put people at risk of exposure – human cases linked to dog & cat food
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/multiple-brands-of-dog-food-recalled-as-fda-warns-of-salmonella-risks/ar-AA1ju2M2
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/7-people-sickened-in-salmonella-outbreak-linked-to-dog-and-cat-food/ar-AA1jFMZe
US Air Force asking Congress for 2-nautical-mile buffer zone to protect nuclear launch sites from encroaching wind turbines, especially in NE, CO, ND, MT & WY – 46 sites are “severely” encroached upon
- https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-missiles-wind-turbines-air-force-0313c9ab3a97d4452c3d0d1707294d52
Visualizing the predicted peak in world human population in the year 2100
The saucy science of the cranberry
Three giant pandas from the Washington Zoo being returned to China
Marking 50 years since the Arab Oil Embargo – political payback and economic trauma when gas was less than 35 cents a gallon
How modern is “modern medicine” and has it improved since the Middle Ages?
Asian malaria mosquito (Anopheles stephensi) is spreading drug-resistant malaria in Africa
Crossing ethical boundaries: Monkey chimera born in China with glowing fingertips & green eyes created from pluripotent stems cells fused together – humans playing God & messing around with forces beyond their comprehension
US Census Bureau releases key statistics for American Indian & Alaska Native population
- https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/us-census-bureau-releases-key-stats-in-honor-of-2023-native-american-heritage-month
- Facts: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2023/aian-month.html
Endangered Giant Galapagos tortoises suffering from human waste
- https://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/blog-articles/931-plastic-waste-in-populated-areas-of-santa-cruz-island-affecting-galapagos-giant-tortoises
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749123017827
Worker crushed to death by robot
- https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/south-korea-robot-crushed-death-man-vegetables-b1119086.html
- Related topic abstract: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajim.23470
- Related topic Paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10191138/
Humans messing around without any consideration for consequences – “artificial life” with synthetic chromosomes – wasn’t it bad enough that they did gain-of-function research that created COVID?
NYC pumped carbon monoxide into limited area of rat burrows killing a lot of rats for now – a limited strategy but not a pied piper – creating niches for other rats to move into
FDA updated safety alert on acute lead poisoning in children linked to at least 3 brands of apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches
- https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/toxic-toddler-fruit-pouches-extremely-high-lead-levels-sicken-7-in-5-states/
- Alert: https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/investigation-elevated-lead-levels-applesauce-pouches-november-2023
Project to build first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power plant has been terminated
Pertussis (whooping cough) outbreaks in schools
Targeting genes to potentially regrow teeth in humans
Plan to reintroduce wolves to Colorado
Wood pellet company Enviva in financial crisis – business model based on “greenwashing, bad climate science, large scale clearcutting and cutting corners on community protections” & seeking government subsidies
It is all about fireflies
The first “green scandals” are just the beginning – “tip of the iceberg” so to speak
Infant mortality rising in the US
Biden administration has opened our borders to illegals and to import beef with potentially devastating disease
More than 500 children may have been exposed to tuberculosis at Nebraska daycare facility
Temporary cleanup of drug addicts, dealers & homeless in San Francisco miraculously disappear in advance of APEC summit
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Costal Zone Management Bulletin Board - 13 November 2023 - Compiled by Elaine J. Hanfor
Limited editions of whiskey finished in casks from coastal regions of the world
Loss of Everett Marine LNG Terminal in Massachusetts threatens energy reliability in New England
Clarifications on Delaware Coastal Zone Acta Program
Beachside trail connecting coastal California communities may finally be built
Observations of traditional horseback fishermen in Belgium – is it climate change or over-fishing?
“cooler-than-average summer” with good oxygen levels in Chesapeake Bay was good for species – what happened to “global warming”
Battle over e-bikes flaring up in surf communities of Southern California
Companies bailing out of offshore wind projects around the world – a bizarre business
Second oil discovery on Block 52 offshore Suriname
On-going legal battle between O&G and Louisiana parish $7B coastal erosion lawsuit
Developer insists on Beachwood Coastal Development in Durban despite objections
Spirit of Discovery cruise ship captain did not heed pleas of passengers to head to port before severe storm – 30-foot waves battered the ship – nearly 100 injured
International conference on reconstruction of coastal cities in Libya destroyed by September flood
Coasts of Singapore are historically more resilient than previously thought
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1006750
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322723001585
Conservation guarantee being demanded by Topsail Beach officials
The aftermath of Hurricane Otis on Acapulco, Mexico
Success story for two endangered plants in Channel Islands National Park
Orcas play with rudder of yacht sailing in Strait of Gibraltar – ship sank while being towed to port – do not ascribe human motives & misconstrue actual intent of orcas – behavior may be “fad” among orcas
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/11/06/orcas-attack-yacht-gibraltar/
- https://interestingengineering.com/culture/orca-attack-sinks-polish-yacht-moroccan
- https://www.iflscience.com/orcas-sank-a-yacht-after-a-45-minute-attack-71446
Proposed $553M new deep-water shipping container terminal in Sri Lanka Port of Colombo – “investing” during bailout of $2.9B bankruptcy of Sri Lanka with recovery not yet assured
- https://apnews.com/article/us-sri-lanka-port-china-bri-debt-d39cdd2446e8c5ab95f4181960f7958a
- https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-economic-crisis-imf-6b45a7c87384f56a9ffcc26df693ce8e
SWIP response to Houston-Galveston Subsidence District mandated increased use of surface water and decreased groundwater use – attempting to “prevent” future subsidence and flooding
Visualizing the predicted shrinkage of the top 20 tourist beaches
Maverick surfer caught record-breaking 43.6-foot-tall wave on Outer Reef, Oahu – Guiness World Record
"No good deed goes unpunished." - Unknown (Billy Wilder, Clare Booth Luce, John P. Grier, Andrew W. Mellon, Oscar Wilde, et al.)
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