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Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 13 February 2023

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The articles displayed herein are selected by Dr. Elaine J. Hanford. I do not necessarily agree with the viewpoints expressed and the article descriptions that precede each link.

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 13 February 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Mount Washington in New Hampshire reached coldest temperature since 1885 – minus 46 with wind speeds close to 135 mph resulted in minus 108-degree wind chill

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/new-hampshire-s-mount-washington-may-reach-its-coldest-temperatures-since-1885-with-officials-projecting-46-degrees-below-zero-and-wind-speeds-close-to-135-mph/ar-AA175M0A

KGS report on landslides & debris flows associated with July 2022 flooding in Eastern Kentucky

• http://www.uky.edu/KGS/news/2023_July2022-Landslides.php
• Report: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=kgs_ri

7.5M aftershock caught on camera following M7.8 event in Turkey – strike-slip faulting near Triple Junction – satellite imagery of impacts – aftershocks along fault zone

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/dramatic-footage-turkish-reporter-flees-145122660.html
• 5: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jlqa/executive
• 8: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive
• https://news.sky.com/story/turkey-syria-earthquake-satellite-imagery-shows-scale-of-destruction-12805981
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/major-earthquake-devastates-areas-of-southern-turkey-and-northern-syria/

Is it true that earthquakes cannot be predicted?  Only if you say “sooner or later there will be a big event”

• https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1154893886/earthquake-prediction-turkey-usgs
• Prediction for Turkey 3 days before: https://www.siasat.com/dutch-geologist-predicted-turkey-syria-earthquake-3-days-prior-2520839/ 

California will inevitably be subjected to The Big One – how prepared is Bay area?

• https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2023/02/07/california-will-inevitably-shake-turkey
• https://sfstandard.com/community/how-prepared-is-the-bay-area-for-the-big-one/

Israel needs to prepare for moderate or major earthquake “in our lifetime”

• https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-geologist-says-israel-needs-to-prepare-for-major-quake-in-our-lifetime/

Earthquakes in Western New York are rare

• https://www.wgrz.com/article/weather/earthquakes-in-wny-are-rare-but-not-unheard-of-erie-county-geology-history/71-e5b0390d-e639-4d8a-92cf-bf58425dac00

Glen Canyon being exposed once again as Lake Powell declines – “America’s lost national park”

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-overuse-shrink-lake-132756173.html

Marking the anniversary of Charles Dawin sailing aboard the HMS Beagle on 20 February 1935

• https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/rocks-ages

Geology of the Owyhee Canyonlands of eastern Oregon

• https://thatoregonlife.com/2023/02/owyhee-canyonlands-eastern-oregon/

Jupiter Mines Tshipi Borwa open-pit manganese mine in Kalahari field in Northern Cape of South Africa

• https://www.miningreview.com/base-metals/tshipi-borwa-geology-team-mine/

USGS records $3.6B increase in nonfuel mineral production in 2020 to total of $98.2B

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/usgs-records-nonfuel-mineral-production-jump-36-billion-2022
• Mineral Commodity Summary 2023: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2023/mcs2023.pdf

Updated mineral resource estimate for Cerro Caliche Gold Project

• https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/SONORO-GOLD-CORP-49479026/news/SONORO-GOLD-REPORTS-UPDATED-MINERAL-RESOURCE-ESTIMATE-AT-CERRO-CALICHE-GOLD-PROJECT-42918749/

Fossil record shows nature coped with toxic metals from hot spring in what is now Aberdeenshire, Scotland

• https://www.iflscience.com/the-world-s-first-environmental-clean-up-happened-400-million-years-ago-67388

Tracking an accelerating landslide in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/scientists-track-tropical-landslide-creeping-below-an-african-city

Rockslide that closed SR208 is slowly being cleared in Lyon County, Nevada (video)

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/ndot-continues-work-on-clearing-lyon-county-rockslide/ar-AA17dCdi

Birds evolved and thrived while other dinosaurs became extinct

• https://theconversation.com/how-did-birds-survive-while-dinosaurs-went-extinct-197185

Using radiocarbon in paleoceanography

• https://eos.org/editors-vox/rare-and-revealing-radiocarbon-in-service-of-paleoceanography
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020RG000720

Fiery mud volcano erupts in Wandan Township in southern Taiwan

• https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4803808
• Images & video: https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/4204543

Examining asteroid impact simulation in slow motion – analyzing lamellar structures

• https://phys.org/news/2023-02-asteroid-impact-motion.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36320-7

US DOE will finance $700M to developer of Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada conditional on obtaining all permits – Native Americans oppose project that would impact sacred lands & endangered species

• https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/doe-to-loan-700-million-to-develop-lithium-mine-in-nevada

Deadly landslides triggered in southern Peru

• https://www.barrons.com/news/at-least-15-dead-in-landslides-in-southern-peru-officials-01675726507
• https://www.voanews.com/a/deadly-landslides-in-southern-peru/6951139.html

New molten layer discovered in the asthenosphere

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Scientists_detect_molten_rock_layer_hidden_under_earths_tectonic_plates_999.html

Understanding how penguins “fly” through the water

• https://phys.org/news/2023-02-penguin-physics-mechanisms-underwater-maneuvers.html

8 earthquakes that have historically hit Malta since 1693

• https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/eight-earthquakes-cracked-malta.1011642

Comparing end-Triassic extinction event to modern conditions

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/what-messages-does-the-end-triassic-extinction-hold-for-today/

Relationships among climate, erosion and the global sand budget, including Cenozoic deep-sea sand deposits

• https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ancient-extreme-climate-affect-sand.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-27138-2

80 myo fossil plant was ancestor to coffee, tomatoes, potatoes and mint

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/A_fossil_fruit_from_California_shows_ancestors_of_coffee_and_potatoes_survived_cataclysm_that_killed_the_dinosaurs_999.html

Brightness of Southern Ocean clouds links back to phytoplankton productivity

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Antarcticas_ocean_brightens_clouds_999.html
• Paper: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/23/1677/2023/

“Minecraft-inspired” geology game consists of box of rocks & bilingual clue cards

• https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/new-minecraft-inspired-geology-game-at-sudbury-library-6496799

Contributions of Thomas Benton Brooks (1836-1900) – geologist, prospector, mining & civil engineer

• https://www.miningjournal.net/news/2023/02/thomas-benton-brooks-was-iron-industry-innovator/

WHOI webinar on 22 February 2023:  Hydrothermal Vents! Exploring hot springs on the deep seafloor

• Registration: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4r8T3_giRWmGgvlt8AKtSA

California could face back-to-back mega-earthquakes along southern & northern sections of San Andreas

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/back-back-mega-quakes-devastated-171308843.html

Book Review:  “We are all whalers” - The plight of whales

• https://www.pressherald.com/2023/02/05/a-whale-veterinary-scientist-describes-the-plight-of-whales-in-unsparing-detail/

Predicting differences in temperature between the land and the sea

• https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/past-records-help-to-predict-different-effects-of-future-climate-change-on-land-and-sea/
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf8119

Chucarosaurus diripienda – newly identified late Cretaceous titanosaurian from Argentina

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/chucarosaurus-diripienda-11629.html

Geology explains North Country earthquakes – Western Quebec Seismic Zone & Southern Lakes Seismic Zone

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/47330/20230210/slu-professor-explains-the-geology-behind-the-north-country-s-earthquakes

 

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 13 February 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

The truth about Big Pharma and covid vaxx needs to be uncovered – “directed evolution” of virus the same as gain-of-function research? Why trust is lacking

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/project-veritas-videos-raise-pfizer-covid-vaccine-questions/ar-AA174PFR
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-no-one-trusts-the-scientific-establishment-or-the-media/ar-AA176w8a

Fauci admits in published paper that vaxxing did not have a chance of “controlling” the pandemic

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/scientific-and-public-health-failure-fauci-admits-covid-shots-didn-t-have-a-chance-of-controlling-the-pandemic/ar-AA17dv2d
• Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(22)00572-8#%20

The benefits of floodplain restoration – an example from Grayson, California

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/small-california-town-wonders-restored-110000526.html

China spy balloon shot down over the Atlantic after it floated over military bases across the country – playing politics with national security

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/china-spy-balloon-shot-down-over-atlantic-live-feed-captures-its-plummet-into-ocean/ar-AA17780n
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-chinese-balloon-story-is-even-bigger-than-it-seems/ar-AA17a6xe

Multiple tall (greater than 750 ft) wind turbines continue to collapse across the world – some explode, some catch fire – kill raptors and other birds

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/giant-wind-turbines-keep-mysteriously-falling-over-this-shouldn-t-be-happening/ar-AA16EQuG
• https://stopthesethings.com/tag/wind-turbine-collapse/
• https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/wind-turbine-down-emergency-services-race-to-vattenfall-collapse-in-netherlands/2-1-1384386
• Redacted report: https://unece.org/DAM/env/pp/compliance/MoP5decisions/V.9n_United_Kingdom/frCommC68_V9n_att1_Screggagh_report_redacted_12.01.2016.pdf
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrT1t7uK1fs

“Experts” warn Lake Powell & Lake Mead may not refill during our lifetimes – but didn’t they both fill during the 1930s drought? 17 years to fill Lake Powell and 3 years to fill Lake Mead

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/while-covid-raged-another-deadly-threat-was-on-the-rise-in-hospitals/ar-AA178ahk
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-overuse-shrink-lake-132756173.html

Hospital-acquired sepsis cases increased by more than 46% in California – oftentimes fatal during pandemic

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/while-covid-raged-another-deadly-threat-was-on-the-rise-in-hospitals/ar-AA178ahk

Hunt for mountain lion who attacked boy hiking in mountain lion territory is called off in California

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/hunt-ends-mountain-lion-attacked-182412406.html

Death toll of mountain lions in California due to weekly vehicle collisions along roads & highways

• https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/mountain-lion-mortality-map-shows-rough-road-cougars-travel
• Report: https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8611/files/files/ML_Special_212023.pdf

The disproportionate demands of California for Colorado River Waters – no concensus on allocations

• https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-03/law-of-the-river-now-battleground-in-colorado-river-crisis
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/31/california-colorado-river-water-use-proposal
• https://grist.org/drought/colorado-river-deal-water-cuts-california/
• CRS update: https://aquadoc.typepad.com/files/crs_insight_reponding_drought_crb_fed_state_1feb2023-.pdf
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/proposals-but-no-consensus-on-curbing-water-shortages-in-colorado-river-basin/

Romancing the River:  Déjà vu

• https://sibleysrivers.com/romancing-the-river-deja-vu/

Bangkok air pollution (PM2.5) spikes – residents urged to stay inside

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/feel-eyes-burn-thailand-says-104337601.html

Concerns that Lagevrio antiviral drug is causing covid to mutate

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/oops-a-study-says-the-new-covid-pill-is-actually-mutating-the-virus/ar-AA172UCc
• https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/95632/study-says-mercks-covid-drug-linked-to-spreading-mutants
• Paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.26.23284998v2.full-text

Link between two OTC medications for self-treating symptoms and ovarian cancer

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/there-s-a-link-between-ovarian-cancer-2-common-medications/ar-AA172Lbr
• Paper: https://publichealth.jmir.org/2023/1/e41762

If you live in the desert then you already know about Valley Fever – latest media fear-mongering base – getting ready to announce the next pandemic – racing to next pandemic – when it is politically expedient

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/fitness/a-dangerous-fungal-infection-is-spreading-across-the-us-how-concerned-should-we-be/ar-AA175DT0
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/here-s-what-will-probably-cause-the-next-pandemic/ar-AA17af18
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/some-scientists-are-already-racing-to-save-the-public-from-the-next-pandemic-this-is-how-and-why/ar-AA175gD7

Ashville, North Carolina, sees 200% surge in break-ins amid violent crime spike

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/democrat-run-tourist-town-sees-200-surge-in-break-ins-amid-violent-crime-spike-wildly-frustrating/ar-AA178pTE

Ohio just added methane to list of “clean energy” sources – man-made global warming alarmists irate

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/this-state-just-added-a-harmful-polluting-gas-to-its-list-of-clean-energy-sources-here-s-how-it-happened/ar-AA1798jC

Winter cold in New England may help control ticks and the diseases they carry – need sustained number of days below 10 degrees F

• https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/preview/master-291/dangerous-cold-shatters-new-records-on-the-east-coast-snow-lingers
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/frigid-air-bad-humans-good-170845368.html

Possible misunderstanding about the Black Death – bubonic plague during the Dark Ages

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/much-know-plague-might-wrong-021355126.html

Fauci still audacious and making money off pandemic – inflated self-worth – inconsistent career bureaucrat

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fauci-obliterated-by-critics-for-charging-up-to-100k-for-speaking-engagements-the-audacity-of-this-man/ar-AA179LRD

USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service accomplishments in protecting public health in 2022

• https://www.fsis.usda.gov/news-events/news-press-releases/fsis-highlights-2022-accomplishments-protecting-public-health

Government starting to notice ill health effects of marijuana – emphysema & delayed learning in adolescents

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/congress-is-starting-to-notice-pot-s-ill-health-effects/ar-AA179EjO

Gridded National Soil Survey Geographic Database (gNATSGO) has been updated

• https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAFARMERS/bulletins/34730da
• gNATSGO databases: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/data-and-reports/gridded-national-soil-survey-geographic-database-gnatsgo

Even though the vaxx mandate for military was rescinded, there is still discrimination against the unvaxxed

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/vaccine-litigation-lingers-after-lifting-of-military-mandate/ar-AA17aCnd

Rampant fraud during pandemic to the tune of at least $5.4 billion

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/deeply-disturbing-us-watchdog-uncovers-5-4-billion-in-potentially-fraudulent-covid-19-loans-obtained-using-over-69-000-sketchy-social-security-numbers/ar-AA1720IM

Chemical industry anxious to find technology to destroy PFAS forever chemicals – motivated by impending lawsuits – 3M announced it would stop using PFAS in products by 2025 but PFAS pollution remains

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06022023/forever-chemicals-pfas-destruction/
• https://www.startribune.com/3m-end-manufacture-use-forever-chemicals-pfas-by-2025/600237425/

Switzerland attaches wall of solar panels to Lake Muttsee Dam – AlpinSolar Project

• https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/switzerlands-solar-dam-sun-snow-perfect-mix-green-energy-drive-2023-02-06/

Recent storm caused wind energy freeze-out in Texas

• https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-wind-freezout-renewables-resource-adequacy/642031/

Water well testing clinic highlighted nitrates as public health issue in St Charles, Minnesota

• https://www.postbulletin.com/health/well-water-testing-clinic-in-st-charles-highlights-nitrates-as-a-public-health-issue

Bill Gates rationalizes hypocrisy of flying his private jet to advocate against man-made global warming

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-climate-change-private-jet-hypocrisy-194136562.html

Increasing demand in China donkeys from Africa to produce ejiao – donkey population declining worldwide

• https://theconversation.com/chinas-demand-for-africas-donkeys-is-rising-why-its-time-to-control-the-trade-198597
• Paper: https://saiia.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/SAIIA_OP-339_ChinaAfricaDonkeys.pdf

Native eastern fence lizards evolved in body shape & behavior in response to invasive red fire ants

• https://theconversation.com/native-eastern-fence-lizards-changed-their-bodies-and-behavior-in-response-to-invasive-red-imported-fire-ants-186275

How symbiotic relationships evolve – partner specificity in mutualisms

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230205081327.htm
• Paper: https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpac056/6954903?searchresult=1

Visualizing patterns of population density in six countries

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/population-density-patterns-countries/

Evolution of wheat spiked since Neolithic domestication and cultivation beginning around 12,000 years ago

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230202153525.htm

Ongoing global land rush – humans taking what they want – loss of forests & biodiversity – pending consequences for humans

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Global_land_rush_999.html
• Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acb2de

Big surprise – CDC grossly exaggerated evidence for mask mandates – surgical or N95 made little to no difference in number of infections & most people were wearing ordinary cloth masks

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/surprise-the-cdc-grossly-exaggerated-the-evidence-for-mask-mandates/ar-AA17e3cc

Estimates place 15M people at risk from catastrophic glacial lake outburst floods

• https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2023/02/15-million-people-live-under-threat-of-glacial-lake-outburst-floods-study-finds.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36033-x

President declares new war on fentanyl while letting drugs flow openly across unsecured Southern Border

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/joe-biden-takes-aim-at-two-of-the-biggest-killers-of-americans/ar-AA17dfGR

Lithium-ion battery caused fires soaring across the US – not enough training – why batteries fail

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/exploding-problem-fires-sparked-lithium-batteries-are-confounding-fire-rcna65739
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-find-the-holy-grail-the-reason-why-lithium-metal-batteries-fail/ar-AA174Q1G

City of Lake Elsinore to those wanting to see “super bloom” of poppies – Do not come. You could be arrested.

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/super-bloom-swarms-force-california-234237958.html

UN blaming antimicrobial resistance on “global warming” – need to acknowledge true cause: overuse & abuse of antibiotics (and now anti-virals) with pollution being key driving mechanism resulting from overpopulation that yields mega-cities, poor sanitation, waste

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Harmful_pollution_boosting_superbug_silent_pandemic_999.html
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90846441/drug-resistant-superbugs-climate-change-global-warming-un
• Link to UN Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/superbugs/environmental-action

Reducing pesticide pollution & harvesting intensity can increase crop yield “as climate change mitigation”

• https://phys.org/news/2023-02-pesticide-pollution-harvesting-intensity-crop.html
• Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sae2.12035
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25972-y

Online advertising platforms facilitate illegal dumping of waste in the UK

• https://theconversation.com/waste-crime-how-online-advertising-platforms-are-facilitating-illegal-dumping-198914

Plant diversity may never fully recover from agricultural disturbance of the ecological system

• https://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Plant_diversity_may_never_fully_recover_from_agriculture_without_a_helping_hand_999.html
• Paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.14063

Chinese geneticist imprisoned for 3 years for illegal medical practices of gene editing human babies - mistakes

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientist-who-gene-edited-human-babies-says-mistakes-were-made/ar-AA17dBep

Global wetland losses have been overestimated

• https://phys.org/news/2023-02-global-wetlands-losses-overestimated-high.html

Call for “practical wisdom” when addressing environmental issues to achieve good quality science

• https://phys.org/news/2023-02-scientists-wisdom-climate-actions.html

Tomorrow Biostasis is trying to preserve dead bodies through cryopreservation – do not know how to revive a dead cryopreserved human

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/german-doctors-are-attempting-to-reverse-death-and-resurrect-humans/ar-AA17dn8P

Most States losing significant gas tax revenues due to EVs which make heavier impact on roads

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/states-eye-new-fees-and-tolls-to-replace-lost-gas-taxes-from-electric-vehicles/ar-AA17ePpg

Big Pharma planning to inject more man-made drugs into your system (and the environment) to keep making $B – drug trials

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/as-demand-for-covid-vaccines-falls-astrazeneca-lines-up-blockbuster-products-for-2023/ar-AA17i66B

Minnesota climbs onto the band wagon for “carbon-free or renewable energy” – will they be as ‘successful’ as California in planning brownouts?

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09022023/inside-clean-energy-minnesota-100-percent-law/

“Cancer Alley” along lower Mississippi River is real – challenging official narrative from industry & government

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08022023/louisiana-cancer-alley/
• UN perspective: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1086172
• Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4360
• Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010022002281

Derailed train in Ohio carried toxic vinyl chloride used to make PVC – possible “persistent organic pollutant” – chemicals spilled into Ohio River – residents evacuated during fire

• https://www.wtrf.com/ohio-river/ohio-train-derailment-spilled-into-ohio-river/
• https://apnews.com/article/ohio-train-derailment-updates-bf5a60de2243cd6f7f730096aa33294c
• https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-fire-tuesday/index.html
• https://www.wfmj.com/story/48343443/evacuation-order-lifted-for-east-palestine-residents-after-train-derailment
• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08022023/ohio-train-derailment-pvc-plastic/
• Vinyl chloride: https://www.post-gazette.com/local/2023/02/07/vinyl-chloride-east-palestine/stories/202302070109

Desperately seeking alternative to forever landfilling wind turbine blades – is chemical solution really better?

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-new-solution-could-keep-old-wind-turbine-blades-out-of-landfills/ar-AA17j1Cx

CDC adds vaxx to new schedule of routinely recommended vaccines for childhood, adult & maternal

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cdc-adds-covid-19-shots-to-list-of-routine-vaccines-for-kids-and-adults/ar-AA17j1tq
• Immunization schedules: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/index.html

“Lost Sierra Route” is planned 600-mile trail that will connect mountain town for recreational use – hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking in northern Sierras

• https://www.peopleforbikes.org/news/the-lost-sierra-route
• Video:https://sierratrails.org/watch-a-trail-for-everyone/

Using Satellite Point Source Emissions Completeness Tool (SPECT) to detect methane

• https://rmi.org/clean-energy-101-methane-detecting-satellites/
• SPECT interactive tool: https://spect.rmi.org/
• Link to report: https://rmi.org/insight/intel-from-above-spotting-methane-super-emitters-with-satellites/

Using artificial sweetener acesulfame to track wastewater pollution of groundwater & regional water bodies

• https://phys.org/news/2023-02-artificial-sweetener-wastewater-tracer.html
• Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135423001057?via%3Dihub

Another Veteran becoming a beginning farmer

• https://www.farmers.gov/blog/fridays-on-the-farm-from-veteran-beginning-farmer

Cause determined for December 2022 failure of section of Keystone Pipeline in Kansas – faulty factory weld

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cause-found-in-keystone-pipeline-s-massive-oil-leak/ar-AA17iZvR

Deadly drug captagon now being smuggled into Israel

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/captagon-assad-s-deadly-drug-of-choice-expands-to-israel/ar-AA17kyUD

Rural counties are resisting the invasion of wind turbines – growing anti-wind movement

• https://scrippsnews.com/stories/rural-counties-fight-back-against-push-for-wind-turbines/

 

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 13 February 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

 
111 coal ash waste sites within a few miles of the shores of the Great Lakes – potential threat to water quality

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05022023/coal-ash-great-lakes/

Increasing impacts of storms and coastal erosion may force North Carolina beach towns to move – barrier islands created by nature are inevitably going to be eroded

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/rising-seas-force-north-carolina-000158721.html

Wild horses on Shackleford Banks, North Carolina – humans invade to collect sea shells

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/shackleford-banks-wild-horses-and-shelling-in-the-outer-banks/ar-AA17cI2n

Accurate mapping of coastal regions doubles potential land area that could be inundated by sea level rise or by coastal land subsidence

• https://phys.org/news/2023-02-devastating-future-coastal-nations.html
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2022EF002880

US Army COE to seek public input if Collier County Storm Risk Management feasibility study is approved

• https://news.wgcu.org/section/democracywatch/2023-02-07/army-corps-coastal-risk-study-looking-for-public-input-pending-approval-from-collier-county
• https://www.saj.usace.army.mil/CollierCountyCSRMFeasibilityStudy/

Formalizing land rights of Indigenous people reduced loss of Atlantic Forest in Brazil

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06022023/brazil-atlantic-forest-indigenous-communities-deforestation/
• Paper: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/1/pgac287/7005261

Floodwall plan for 8 miles of flood-prone areas along Norfolk Waterfront – CSRMP to cost estimated $2.3B

• https://www.pilotonline.com/news/environment/vp-nw-flood-wall-timeline-20230205-yn4dlrramrcsrcjwkerl2c52g4-story.html

3 measures to protect urban coastal wetlands

• https://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2023/02/02/three-ways-to-take-bold-action-to-protect-urban-coastal-wetlands/

Mangroves provide coastal resilience in Latin America, Africa & Asia – Mangroots project

• https://www.oneearth.org/how-do-mangroves-provide-coastal-resilience-in-the-global-south/

New BLM California Coastal National Monument manager

• https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-welcomes-new-california-coastal-national-monument-manager

Experiencing the Greenland Coastal Ferry

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2023/02/05/greenland-coastal-ferry-discover-the-real-greenland-on-arctic-umiaq-line/?sh=532f17536d72

10 Best Coastal Hikes with most beautiful views

• https://www.thetravel.com/the-most-beautiful-coastal-hikes-in-the-world/

Community collaboration in algal bloom research

• https://coastalreview.org/2023/02/algal-bloom-research-effort-a-community-collaboration/

Research aimed at finding substitute vegetation as seagrass dies off

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/seagrass-die-off-accelerates-uncw-100136179.html

Hurricane Harvey reduced acidity of Galveston Bay threatening oyster reefs

• https://theconversation.com/hurricane-harvey-more-than-doubled-the-acidity-of-texas-galveston-bay-threatening-oyster-reefs-196470

Impacts of loss of reptile species due to human-driven extinction on small islands

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230206170607.htm
• Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201944119

What is at the bottom of the Blue Hole? Human-made pollution:  plastic bottles & bags & garbage

• https://mydailymagazine.com/divers-reach-the-bottom-of-the-h0/#13

Broward County, Florida, to receive $32.5M for replacement of bulkheads at Port Everglades

• https://theconstructionbroadsheet.com/florida-awards-m-for-statewide-resilience-projects-p1227-175.htm

Wildfires self-create a microclimate that may lead to fire growth, including in coastal areas of US & SE Asia

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10022023/wildfire-smoke-coast/

Houston, Texas, moving forward with North Canal Project in attempt to reduce risk of flooding – cost $131M

• https://communityimpact.com/houston/heights-river-oaks-montrose/city-county/2023/02/07/city-of-houston-moves-forward-with-north-canal-project/

New Zealand geologist warns people living in or considering buying cliff houses

• https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/02/auckland-geologist-s-warning-to-people-living-in-or-considering-buying-cliff-houses.html

Research aimed at finding substitute vegetation as seagrass dies off

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/seagrass-die-off-accelerates-uncw-100136179.html

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Elaine Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 12 August 2024

Water, Volume 16, Issue 15 (August-1 2024) (144 Articles) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elaine is responsible for all the entries below.

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 12 August 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Probability of hydrothermal explosions in Yellowstone appears to be dependent on the size of the event

• https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/probability-hydrothermal-explosions-yellowstone 

Hidden details of the Aurora Borealis

• https://scitechdaily.com/northern-lights-unleashed-hyperspectral-camera-exposes-hidden-details-of-aurora-borealis/ 

Eruptions on Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland may involve magma formed from the deep crust rather than the mantle

• https://scitechdaily.com/what-really-fuels-icelands-spectacular-volcanic-eruptions/ 

Measuring soil moisture in the vadose zone using seismic technology

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1053370
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50690-6

New model for formation of continents

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1053605 
• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-refutes-theory-earth-continents.html 

Fossil evidence that interior of Greenland Ice Sheet is less than 1.1 million years old

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-greenland-fossil-discovery-stuns-scientists.html 
• Paper:  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407465121 

Post-seismic deformation detected by sub-daily GPS data

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-invisible-daily-gps-early-postseismic.html 
• Paper:  https://satellite-navigation.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s43020-024-00145-6 

Using 3D CT scan to examine the 4,000-year temperature history recorded in Bristlecone Pines

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/ancient-pines-could-reveal-the-heat-of-thousands-of-past-seasons 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109799

Groundwater levels in SW Europe are declining primarily in semi-arid regions with intensive agriculture and frequent drought – in other areas groundwater levels remaining essentially stable

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-groundwater-reserves-southwestern-europe-stable.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01554-w 

Another “scientific consensus” theory that injecting produced water in West Texas is causing old oil well blowouts – “volume injected matched the volume of the (shallow) surface bulge 12 miles away”

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07082024/permian-basin-oil-well-blowouts-linked-with-wastewater-injection/ 
• https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/11/west-texas-orphan-wells-water-bursts/ 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GC011260?af=R 

Eruption of Sakurajima Volcano in Japan

• https://petapixel.com/2024/07/29/footage-shows-the-scale-of-todays-sakurajima-volcano-eruption/
• Related Paper:  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.988373/full 

Swarm of earthquakes up to M5.2 south of Bakersfield, California

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-state-hit-with-more-than-50-earthquakes-in-past-12-hours/ar-AA1opbjZ
• https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40865184/executive 

Another small outburst flood from Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, Alaska

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/picturesque-glacier-releases-water-down-a-river-in-alaska-more-than-100-homes-are-damaged/ar-AA1ols1f 

Landslide triggered mega-tsunami in narrow fjord on Greenland in 2023 created VLP standing wave that lasted in Dickson Fjord for more than a week

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/landslide-triggers-megatsunami-in-narrow-fjord/ar-AA1otqQK 
• Paper:  https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article/4/3/172/646242/The-16-September-2023-Greenland-Megatsunami 

JOIDES Resolution Expedition 399 recovered nearly continuous drill core from a tectonic window that exposed uppermost Mantle along the Mid Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantis Massif – peridotites with less pyroxene but higher concentrations of magnesium

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/first-rocks-recovered-from-earth-s-mantle/ar-AA1otn0G 
• https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/rocks-recovered-from-mantle-could-reveal-sources-of-volcanoes-and-origins-of-life-on-earth/ 

Life forms in the Great Salt Lake include brine shrimp, brine flies, bacteria, algae and worms living in calcium carbonate mud within microbialites

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-thought-only-two-animals-lived-in-the-great-salt-lake-they-were-wrong/ar-BB1k2gPd 
• https://attheu.utah.edu/science-technology/with-discovery-of-roundworms-the-great-salt-lake-ecosystem-just-got-more-interesting/ 
• Paper:  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2653 

Geoengineering the ocean pilot project – messing around with forces beyond their ability to grasp

• https://provincetownindependent.org/local-journalism-project/next-generation/2024/08/07/a-test-of-ocean-de-acidification-begins-next-month/

Carcass of 14,000-year-old woolly rhino discovered by miners in Russia

• https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/05/carcass-woolly-rhino-found-gold-miners-kolyma-russia-21361296/

M7.1 earthquake strikes southern Japan 

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/08/08/earthquake-japan-tsunami/74716587007/ 
• https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nith/executive

“Megaquake advisory” issued urging people to prepare for possible “megaquake” off southern coast of Japan

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/japan-s-kishida-cancels-asia-trip-after-scientists-urge-preparations-for-a-possible-megaquake/ar-AA1owjBz 

Still predicting highly active Atlantic hurricane season in updated hurricane outlook

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-highly-atlantic-hurricane-season-mid.html 
• NOAA update:  https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/highly-active-hurricane-season-likely-to-continue-in-atlantic 

Geochronology of White Sands Locality 2 – radiocarbon ages, luminescence ages, footprint trackways

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/geochronology-white-sands-locality-2-resolved 

Capturing images of the polar rain aurorae

• https://eos.org/articles/scientists-captured-the-first-glimpse-of-a-rare-polar-aurora 
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn5276 

Fate and transport of nitrogen in the Arctic Ocean

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/the-many-adventures-of-nitrogen-in-the-arctic-ocean 

Landslide at Skíðaskálinn in Hveradalir, Iceland, was triggered by heavy rainfall & geothermal activity

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/iceland-geothermal-landslide-1 

Isostatic adjustment in Antarctica – predictions of impact on sea level

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/How_the_rising_earth_in_Antarctica_will_impact_future_sea_level_rise_999.html 
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn1470 

Assessing potential impacts of O&G development on groundwater quality in San Joaquin Valley, California

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/assessing-potential-effects-oil-and-gas-development-activities-groundwater-quality 
• Paper:  https://journals.plos.org/water/article?id=10.1371/journal.pwat.0000258 

Real-time graben formation in Iceland

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/in-rare-opportunity-researchers-observe-formation-of-icelandic-valleys 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL110150 

Annan River bank collapse near Cooktown, Queensland, Australia - fisherman killed at Crocodile Bend

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/cooktown-1 

Sedongpu gully catchment is one of most landslide-prone locations on the planet

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/sedongpu-gully-1 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674775524003342 

Examining short-term variation in volcanic activity in Italy – Stromboli & Etna

• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240806-why-scientists-are-excited-about-italys-volcanoes 

Chemical variation in magma of Fagradalsfjall eruptions due to fractional crystallization

• https://new.nsf.gov/news/iceland-volcano-modifies-its-magma 

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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 12 August 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

Virome - Like microbes in our guts, viruses may be absolutely necessary to healthy biological function

• https://theconversation.com/the-human-virome-why-viruses-could-be-as-important-for-good-health-as-gut-bacteria-234513 

EPA finally issues emergency order to remove “so dangerous” DCPA herbicide used on food crops from the market – causes fetal damage – EPA issued Data Call-In in 2013 – EPA risk assessment issued in 2023

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/epa-issues-emergency-order-to-halt-use-of-dangerous-pesticide/ar-AA1olowz 
• EPA Emergency Order:  https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-issues-emergency-order-stop-use-pesticide-dacthal-address-serious-health-risk-4 

Approval for preliminary construction work (digital model) for 101 MW wind farm in Cantabria, northern Spain

• https://www.constructionbriefing.com/news/first-wind-farm-in-spain-to-apply-bim-technology-gets-green-light/8038504.article

ASCE changing Minimum Design Loads & Associated Criterial for Buildings & other Structures

• https://www.structuremag.org/?p=27634 

California housing crisis driving increased development in & near wildlands posing greater risks

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-overlooked-side-effect-housing-crisis.html 
• Paper:  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310080121 

Planting the “wrong” trees may make air quality worse in New York City – some trees release isoprenes

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-tree-species-worsen-nyc-air.html
• Paper:  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.4c00495 

Technological hazard:  voter registration / cancellation

• https://www.propublica.org/article/cybersecurity-expert-finds-another-flaw-in-georgia-voter-portal

Plan to restart operations & enlarge Palisades Power Plant in Covert, Michigan

• https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/03/how-a-shuttered-power-plant-in-michigan-could-pave-the-way-for-more-nuclear-energy.html 
• https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2024/08/nrc-hosts-public-meetings-on-palisades-nuclear-plant-restart/ 

First, the US Army COE eliminates Piasa & Eagle’s Nest islands from Mississippi River – and now plans to dredge river bottom to reconstruct the islands

• https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/08/02/dredging-up-past-rebuilding-lost-islands-mississippi/

Biden-Harris policy putting Americans at greater risk – 250+ illegal immigrants on terror watch list released into the US 

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scathing-report-reveals-biden-harris-admin-has-released-dozens-of-migrants-on-terror-watchlist-into-us/ar-AA1ohfJV 

“Pause” in Biden-Harris fraudulent scheme to import 30,000 illegal immigrants to the US each month

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-harris-illegal-fraud-filled-effort-to-import-hundreds-of-thousands-of-venezuelans-cubans-and-haitians/ar-AA1ol2oq 

Geoengineering attempts to alter climate (cloud brightening) could have unpredictable and far-reaching unintended effects – simulated models are not the real world

• https://eos.org/articles/cloud-brightening-could-have-unintended-effects-in-a-warming-world 

Urban areas are growing upward more than outward – will increase heat island effect & concentrate pollution

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-satellite-cities-world.html
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00100-1 

Identifying patters between breeding & stopover locations for long-distance migratory songbirds

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/asynchronous-movement-patterns-between-breeding-and-stopover-locations-a-long-distance 
• Paper:  https://ace-eco.org/vol19/iss2/art3/ 

New California law bars school districts from notifying parents if child decides to “change gender” – other states require informing parents of children asking to use alternate gender names or pronouns

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/07/california-adopts-six-million-children/ 

Overview of fuel cell technology 

• https://www.powermag.com/fuel-cells-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-why-theyre-important/ 

ORNL created custom glass test cell to model gas behavior inside molten salt reactor

• https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/national-lab-creates-glass-test-cell-peek-inside-molten-salt-reactors 

SunPower files for bankruptcy – lays off 350+ employees – received $millions in subsidies from Obama administration

• https://abc7news.com/post/sunpower-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-lays-off-more-350-california-employees/15151649/
• https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/sunpower-a-solar-icon-once-valued-in-the-billions-files-for-bankruptcy 
• 2015:  https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/us/obama-solar-power-renewable-energy.html 

UNESCO World Heritage site enlargement blocks expansion of uranium mine in Australia – Mining company files lawsuit

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/world-s-largest-uranium-deposit-declared-a-national-park-lawsuits-and-legal-battles-follow/ar-AA1omOda 

EPA investigating biodiesel supply chain fraud regarding used cooking oil (UCO)

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/epa-probes-biodiesel-supply-chains-as-fraud-concerns-mount/ar-AA1opY3S 

New York “climate goals” could harm residents – “net zero” plan has high costs & degrading grid reliability

• https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/multiple-reports-show-new-yorks-climate-goals-could-harm-residents-they-fall 

Mining mineral elements for “green energy” resulting in severe impact on endangered species in Africa

• https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/study-a-third-of-africas-great-apes-at-risk-from-mining-of-transition-metals/ 

Facts slowly being revealed – Fauci and other covid “experts” being unmasked – defunding EcoHealth & gain-of-function research - $60M of taxpayer money from NIH, Pentagon, NSF & USAID with little oversight

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/bellotti-ernst-the-mask-of-fauci-s-covid-conspiracy-is-finally-coming-off/ar-AA1opgv8 

DTE announced plans to build large-scale battery storage facility on former coal-burning power plant site

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/massive-new-battery-project-in-region-to-occupy-site-of-former-coal-plant-we-re-going-to-reuse-the-site-to-its-maximum-benefit/ar-AA1omi36 

Hualapai Nation sues US BLM over approval of drilling for intended Big Sandy Lithium Exploration Project that would threaten aquifer & sacred Ha’Kamwe hot springs

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08082024/hualapai-nation-sues-interior-department-arizona-lithium-project/ 
• BLM approval:  https://www.blm.gov/announcement/blm-approves-lithium-exploration-project-arizona 

Stupid things that humans tried:  illegally connecting directly powerline in Tijuana, Mexico, to charge EV – diablito immediately incinerated Tesla and neighboring house

• https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/tijuana-fire-demonstrates-how-not-to-charge-your-tesla-auto/ 
• https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/8723033/tesla-owner-gets-smoky-surprise-after-hooking-into-powerlines-for-free-charge/ 

“green tech” startup company (Ledger8760 aka NZero) got $5.7M from Nevada – all with no climate experience and delivered “nothing” in return – hired “without fully vetting the company”

• https://www.propublica.org/article/nevada-nzero-carbon-emissions-tracking-project 

Carbon monoxide poisonings in Texas surged after Hurricane Beryl

• https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-hurricane-beryl-carbon-monoxide-poisonings 

Perspective:  Biden-Harris administration pouring billions of subsidies into “green hydrogen” – 20% of such projects proposed for water-stressed areas – 11,000 metric tons of hydrogen will require at least 26M gallons 

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/08/a-fifth-of-u-s-green-hydrogen-projects-eyed-for-water-stressed-areas/ 

3 people hospitalized and family dog killed by bee swarm attack in Southern California

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/bee-swarm-attacks-california-family-224026959.html\

BPA exposure in utero linked to autism in boys – BPA in food packaging and can liners – 6X more likely to be diagnosed by age 11

• https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/autism-bisphenol-a-bpa-link-plastic-health-b2593246.html
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48897-8 

Earthworms and a 9,000-year history of human occupation of Isle of Rum, Scotland – “ecosystem engineers”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-giant-earthworms-have-transformed-the-isle-of-rum-s-landscape/ar-BB1nUn4f 

Peer-reviewed study confirms 620% increased risk of myocarditis due to mRNA vaxx

• https://thehighwire.com/editorial/620-increased-risk-of-myocarditis-another-peer-reviewed-study-confirms-destruction-caused-by-mrna-covid-19-jabs/ 
• Paper:   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50656-8 

Draconian measures & “health” interventions during plandemic cause more deaths than attributed to covid – “power-hungry WHO”

• https://thehighwire.com/editorial/groundbreaking-new-study-public-response-to-covid-19-caused-more-deaths-than-covid-19-itself/ 
• Report:  https://correlation-canada.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-07-19-Correlation-ACM-World-125-countries-Rancourt-Hickey-Linard.pdf 

Combined sewage/stormwater systems lead to overflows and increased risk of gastrointestinal illness

• https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/climate-change-is-making-us-sick-literally/ 

Potential boom in mining in Arizona raises fears that scarce groundwater will be adversely impacted

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09082024/arizona-copper-mining-water-impact/ 

“Sustainable aviation fuels” are rife with greenwashing claims

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09082024/todays-climate-sustainable-aviation-fuel-greenwashing-claims/ 

Seasonal sources of smog in Beijing, China

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-seasonal-sources-beijing-smog.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01493-3

Visualizing population changes in Europe from 1990 to 2023

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-how-europes-population-has-changed-1990-2023/

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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 12 August 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Update:  debris from broken Vineyard Wind turbine washed up along Elephant Rock Beach

• https://newbedfordlight.org/vineyard-wind-turbine-parts-land-on-westport-shores/ 

US Coast Guard rescues 3 people and 2 dogs from boat that lost power along Texas Gulf coast

• https://www.mrt.com/news/article/us-coast-guard-rescue-texas-19610293.php 

Humpback whale carcass washes ashore on Strawberry Island in Maine

• https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/life/animals/whale-wells-maine-humpback/97-c6d006c0-2254-4af4-9d53-2db77a4f9133 

Swarms of dragonflies hit coast of Rhode Island – some beachgoers enchanted, others “terrified”

• https://patch.com/rhode-island/across-ri/some-enchanted-others-terrified-swarms-dragonflies-hit-ri-shore 

Vietnam & Philippines conduct joint military training

• https://gcaptain.com/vietnam-sends-coast-guard-ship-to-philippines-for-joint-training/ 

Oysters washed up on Chinese beaches by Typhoon collected by residents – may be from aquaculture farms & may be contaminated 

• https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202408/1317179.shtml

New Jersey DEP investigating lead contamination along Keyport Bayshore – warning issued over high levels of arsenic as slag cleanup continues

• https://abc7ny.com/post/clusters-containing-lead-wash-beach-keyport-njdep-investigating/15100442/ 

Bangkok, Thailand, initiated feasibility study to potentially relocate Bangkok Port in Klong Toey District in effort to reduce traffic congestion & air pollution while boosting local economy

• https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/transport-ministry-begins-study-on-bangkok-port-relocation-468028

Hurricane Debby washed 25 packages of cocaine worth estimated $1+ million onto beach in Florida Keys

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-hurricane-debby-mn-cocaine-florida.html

Mapping toxic flood vulnerability in Galveston Bay and Houston

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-toxic-vulnerability-nature-based-solutions.html 
• Website:  https://createnbs.org/ 

High concentrations of fiberglass (GRP) particles in marine life near active boat yards

• https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2024/08/fiberglass-pollution-in-marine-life-raises-alarm-for-boating-industry/ 

Projected sea-level change & high-tide flooding at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/projected-sea-level-rise-and-high-tide-flooding-big-cypress-national-preserve-florida
• USGS Fact Sheet:  https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2024/3022/fs20243022.pdf 

New hydrogen-powered catamaran passenger ferry MV Sea Change added to San Francisco Bay – can transport 75 passengers – free weekend for 6 months – hydrogen cells exponentially more expensive

• https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/07/15/the-worlds-first-hydrogen-powered-passenger-ferry-is-free-to-ride-for-6-months
• https://sanfranciscobayferry.com/news/worlds-first-entirely-hydrogen-powered-ferry-welcomes-passengers-july-19-san-francisco-bay 

Bridge failure & collapse in India over Kali River near Karwar in Uttara Kannada District

• https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/karnataka/bridge-collapse-on-nh-66-disrupts-traffic-between-goa-and-karwar-1814774 

NOAA  data shows coastal towns along Gulf of Mexico are sinking due to extraction of water, oil & natural gas resulting in increased flooding

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/research-points-to-growing-threat-putting-coastal-cities-at-risk-in-southern-us-it-s-only-going-to-accelerate/ar-AA1om6PO 
• https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-coastal-flooding 
• EPA Report:  https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-07/climate_indicators_2024.pdf 

DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against FERC approval for LNG export terminal & pipeline in Brownsville, Texas – insufficient analysis of environmental impacts on local communities, wildlife & environment

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/court-rules-against-lng-terminal-and-pipeline-project-at-port-of-brownsville/ar-AA1oqn4o
• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09082024/federal-appeals-court-reverses-approval-south-texas-lng-plants/ 
• Ruling:  https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/9DF892B8A431C64785258B710051F9BD/$file/23-1174-2068430.pdf 

“Hottest oceans in 400 years” cited as potentially dangerous to Great Barrier Reef – seems like a lot of hype

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0ngx130kxo 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07672-x

But, after trillion tons of CO2, Great Barrier Reef hits record coral cover for 3rd year in a row – “60% of man-made CO2 emissions have occurred since 1985 but today corals are healthier than ever”

• https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/after-a-trillion-tons-of-co2-the-great-barrier-reef-hits-record-coral-cover-third-year-in-a-row/ 

Seagrasses in coastal urban ecosystems can significantly reduce human bacterial pathogens

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-seagrasses-filter-human-pathogens-marine.html 

NOAA predicts fewer high-tide coastal flood days through April 2025

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/NOAA_predicts_fewer_high-tide_coastal_flood_days_for_this_year_next_999.html 

"You have to be odd to be number one." - Dr. Seuss  

Elaine Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 5 August 2024

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 5 August 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Despite all the media hype, man-made CO2 has essentially no impact on the climate – peer-reviewed paper reaffirms “the madness bestowed upon humanity by a despicable cohort of greedy souls”

• https://thehighwire.com/editorial/new-peer-reviewed-study-co2-has-zero-impact-on-climate-change/ 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666496823000456 

Rhinopteraspis dunensis - Devonian jawless fish were likely filter feeders

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/early-jawless-fish-from-the-age-of-fishes-were-likely-filter-feeders/ar-BB1lzzHH 
• Paper:  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2258 

North American megafauna went extinct due to rapidly changing climate and spread of human population

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/dire-wolves-camels-and-other-extinct-giant-mammals-that-used-to-live-in-north-america/ar-AA1jVU3z 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618221002421 

Perucetus colossus – massive whale lived 39 myo, weighed up to 340 tonnes – not as large as blue whale

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/whale-that-lived-39-million-years-ago-changes-what-we-thought-about-evolution/ar-AA1eH4md 
• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/perucetus-colossus-mass-12733.html 
• Paper:  https://peerj.com/articles/16978/ 

Oldest fossilized forest in the US in Green County, New York

• https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240229-the-surprising-us-region-thats-home-to-the-worlds-oldest-forests 
• https://www.earth.com/news/worlds-oldest-forest-discovered-close-to-new-york-city/ 

The 23 July 2024 hydrothermal explosion at Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone

• https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/july-23-2024-hydrothermal-explosion-biscuit-basin

Complex life existed 2.1 byo coincident with major geologic upheaval in Francevillian sub-basin in SE Gabon

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3geyvpxpeyo 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301926824001669 

Laboratory evidence for growth of dolomite crystals – “the dolomite problem”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-dolomite-problem-has-baffled-scientists-for-2-centuries-and-now-they-ve-solved-it/ar-BB1hcxee 

Evolution of birds following the Chicxulub Impact 65 myo

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/we-were-very-wrong-about-birds/ar-BB1kTCRf 
• Paper:  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319506121
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07323-1 

The 280 myo reptile fossil discovered in the Alps in 1931 was a forgery

• https://explorersweb.com/280-million-year-old-fossil-forgery/ 

Carboniferous was Age of Giant Insects

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/what-was-earth-like-in-the-age-of-giant-insects/ar-AA1iTI2u 

Seismic reflection data sets provide insight into geometry of offshore section of Palos Verdes fault near Los Angeles

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-imaging-surface-reveals-los-angeles.html 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023AV001155 

SW Tianshan Mountains contribute majority of the Kyzylkum desert sand & dust – fluvial-aeolian action

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-reveals-southwest-tianshan-mountains-contribute.html 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL108951 

Limited predictability of oceanic mesoscale eddy tracks in the South China Sea

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-scientists-limit-oceanic-mesoscale-eddy.html 

Formation of blue sapphires in volcanoes

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-blue-miracle-eifel-sapphires-volcanoes.html 
• Paper:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00410-024-02136-x 

Fossil record reveals possible manifestation of seasonal & regional temperature changes in Europe

• https://eos.org/articles/fossilized-shells-reveal-the-seasonality-of-a-warmer-climate
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl6717 

Can one rule predict fault deformation & earthquake cycle across wide range of conditions?

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/law-and-order-for-friction-and-faults-one-law-to-rule-them-all 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023AV000972 

Need to rethink atmospheric oxygen levels during the Great Oxidation Event

• https://eos.org/science-updates/how-great-was-the-great-oxidation-event 

Remnants of Typhoon Gaemi triggered 28 July 2024 landslide at Yuelin, China

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/yuelin-landslide-1 

Forecasting the probability of aftershocks

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/aftershock-forecasting 
• Paper:  https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-earth-040522-102129

Phase-equilibria experiments illustrate & quantify complexities of shallow magma storage for Earthquake Flt Pyroclastics in Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/shallow-storage-explosive-earthquake-flat-pyroclastics-magma-body-okataina-volcanic 
• Paper:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00410-024-02151-y 

Fossil evidence for separation of South America & Africa and initiation of the South Atlantic Ocean

• https://scitechdaily.com/unparalleled-insight-ancient-fossil-discovery-shows-how-south-america-and-africa-drifted-apart/ 
• Paper:  https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.1144/SP543-2022-301 

Praearcturus & Brontoscorpio – giant 400 myo scorpions were probably crustaceans

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/carcinosomatoid-eurypterids-13137.html 

First land animals likely evolved in warm tidal nursery pools

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/euthycarcinoids-13132.html 

Nuucichthys rhynchocephalus – first soft-bodies finless torpedo-shaped vertebrate discovered in Utah

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/nuucichthys-rhynchocephalus-13130.html 
• Paper:  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240350 

Visualizing the largest silver producing countries

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/dp/si01-ranked-largest-silver-producing-countries/ 

Visualizing the global demand for oil from 2022 to 2045

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/rfh01-oil-demand/

Asiatyrannus xui – new species of Late Cretaceous deep-snouted tyrannosaurid discovered in China

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/asiatyrannus-xui-13131.html
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-66278-5 

Methane-burping microbes discovered in hot springs in Yellowstone 

• https://www.sciencealert.com/whole-new-group-of-methane-burping-microbes-discovered-in-yellowstone-springs 

Rethinking theories about the origin and early history of the Moon

• https://www.sciencealert.com/new-study-challenges-established-theories-about-moons-early-history 
• Paper:  2407.09701 (arxiv.org) 

“X” and “C” shaped structures identified in the ionosphere

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-have-spotted-unexpected-x-and-c-shaped-structures-in-the-atmosphere-they-are-struggling-to-explain-them/ar-BB1r4Oob 

Rare small shallow M2.9 earthquake near Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

• https://www.wqow.com/news/wisconsin/2-9-magnitude-earthquake-recorded-near-sturgeon-bay/article_2698d0c4-de76-56bd-a5b5-7a875641378f.html
• https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nhkd/executive 

We are in the Holocene inter-glacial so tropical alpine glaciers should be small

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03082024/andes-tropical-glacier-retreat/ 
• https://scitechdaily.com/cryospheric-collapse-andean-glaciers-retreat-unseen-in-over-11700-years/ 

New theory on “cause” of Pleistocene Ice Ages

• https://scitechdaily.com/fundamentally-altering-earths-glacial-cycles-antarctic-ice-sheet-growth-triggers-mid-pleistocene-climate-shift/ 

Glacial geology shaped Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island – US Army COE channel created Great Salt Pond from once freshwater pond

• https://scitechdaily.com/hidden-wonders-a-piece-of-rhode-island-in-the-atlantic/ 

Rain-induced landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, India

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/wayanad-kerala-1 

Shishania aculeata – Cambrian spiny slug reveals origins of mollusks

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1052715 

Large uncertainties prevent accurately predicting “tipping points” for AMOC, polar ice sheets, tropical rainforests

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1052809 
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl4841 

Humans may be influencing ozone levels in upper troposphere

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1053371 
• Paper:  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c01289 

Role of groundwater in recharging lakes

• https://theconversation.com/groundwater-plays-an-invisible-role-supporting-lakes-235825 

Factors that influence fate and transport of PBDEs from soils at e-waste recycling sites

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-decoding-contaminant-mobility-transient-pollution.html 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772985024000267 

Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano in Tanazania erupting very viscous (<25% silica) carbonatite lava as the volcano is sinking

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/volcano-in-tanzania-with-weirdest-runniest-magma-on-earth-is-sinking-into-the-ground 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL107673 

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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 5 August 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

Texas & Missouri lawsuit results in Final Judgement by US District Court ruling that Biden and federal government must finish building the Southern Border Wall - to protect US against invading illegal aliens. Note from MEC: President Trump promised to build the Southern Border Wall and get Mexico to pay for it. Neither happened on his watch.   

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-administration-gives-up-on-texas-border-suit-ordered-to-finish-wall/ar-BB1r3m6f 

“Border crossings spiked to 1,734,686 in Biden's first year in office, more than quadrupling the previous year and more than doubling the worst year on Trump's record” – “apprehensions continued to rise, hitting 2.4 million in 2022 and 2.5 million in 2023. The CBP is on track to hit a similar number for 2024, having already made 1.8 million apprehensions with three months remaining in the fiscal year”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/border-data-shows-how-biden-harris-admin-stacks-up-against-trump-on-immigration/ar-BB1r4smo 

Report of fraud forces Biden-Harris to put program of flying up to 30,000 illegals to the US each month on hold.

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-admin-freezes-controversial-migrant-flight-program-after-fraud-revelations/ar-BB1r5LKK 

Biden-Harris record on climate action:  committed hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize “clean energy” & EVs – all meaningless & unachievable goals for 2030 or beyond, long after he will be gone from office

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/01/tracking-progress-climate-action-under-the-biden-administration/ 

Biden-Harris commit to paying $400M to farmers in 11 states to reduce water consumption – program will encourage fraud without addressing over-allocation & excessive groundwater withdrawal

• https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4806507-biden-administration-pay-farmers-water-conservation/ 

Fish species living closer to urban areas have more micro-plastics in their bodies than those in rural areas

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-zealand-fish-closer-cities-ingest.html
• Paper:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00288330.2024.2365272#d1e158 

Wild boars in Czechia Bohemian Forest National Park have high levels of PFAS forever chemicals – 5X safe limit

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/researchers-make-concerning-chemical-discovery-after-assessing-national-park-animals-deeper-investigation-is-needed/ar-BB1qI4Nn 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724013263
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723006435 

Toxic PFAS forever chemicals absorb through the skin & enter the blood stream – dermal absorption & bioavailability

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/scientists-sound-alarm-over-news-about-absorption-of-forever-chemicals-we-are-coating-ourselves-in-this-stuff/ar-BB1qAjBB 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024003581 

Micro-plastic polymers found in uterine endometrial issue of women who had multiple miscarriages

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/scientists-discover-highly-toxic-material-in-human-uterus-samples-here-s-why-it-s-concerning/ar-BB1qvvBX

Six species of wild cats in North America:  bobcats, pumas, ocelots, Canadian Lynx, Jaguars & Jaguarundis

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/discover-the-6-wild-cat-species-in-north-america/ar-BB1qLuWO 

Parallel evolution in leaf-nosed bats toward bigger sizes of the Solomon Islands archipelago

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/bats-are-going-through-a-rare-evolutionary-phenomenon/ar-AA1nwHP5
• Paper:  https://academic.oup.com/evolut/article/78/6/1183/7624587 

Polystyrene packaging material could contribute to mental health issues

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S01604120https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/scientists-find-evidence-of-common-packaging-material-contributing-to-mental-health-issue-their-impact-on-human-health-is-of-particular-concern/ar-AA1nK606 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001296 

To address micro-plastics in the Great Lakes we need to reduce consumption - Plastic Pollution INC-4

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/to-address-the-growing-issue-of-microplastics-in-the-great-lakes-we-need-to-curb-our-consumption/ar-BB1qCBnL 
• INC-4:  https://sdg.iisd.org/events/plastic-pollution-inc-4/ 

NPS estimates 31,000 bison in North America – population had been deliberately slaughtered to near extinction with population of about 1,000 – pure bison DNA hard to find – new “Epic Plan” to save the species from extinction

• https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2024/07/11/de-extinction-company-working-with-tribes-to-bring-bison-back-strong/74333784007/ 
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/31-000-bison-are-left-in-america-scientists-have-an-epic-plan-to-save-them-from-extinction/ar-BB1q0SKS 
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-more-than-a-century-of-conservation-efforts-why-can-t-we-recover-america-s-buffalo/ar-AA1iUTgM 
• https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/buffaloc.htm 
• https://libguides.sdstate.edu/c.php?g=1358402&p=10030696 

PFAS forever chemical increasing in US pesticides – contaminating waterways & posing health hazards

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pesticides-may-contain-an-alarming-amount-of-forever-chemicals-study/ar-BB1qzXs0 
• Paper:  https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP13954 

Biden-Harris administration will leverage federal property at Hanford Nuclear Reservation for “clean” power

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/28/u-s-doe-announces-cleanup-to-clean-energy-project-at-hanford-site/ 

Monotremes - Egg-laying mammals are unique

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/study-shows-egg-laying-mammals-are-unique-inside-and-out/ar-BB1quBm9 
• Paper:  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsob.240071

In Nature, there is no distinction between ‘native’ and ‘invasive’ species – functional traits are important

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nature-doesn-t-care-where-a-species-is-from/ar-BB1hFL0s

Humans exterminated the dodo bird in 1662 – now planning to resurrect the species – de-extinction using edited DNA from real dodo specimens & genomes from closely related species to create new dodo-like species

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/human-interference-led-to-the-extinction-of-the-dodo-bird-by-1690-but-now-a-genetic-engineering-company-is-working-to-revive-this-bird-species-and-return-it-to-its-original-habitat/ar-AA1ngwhI 

Common acid reflux medications linked to 33% increased risk of dementia

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/common-over-the-counter-medicine-linked-to-increased-dementia-risk/ar-AA1f5MUy 

Nano-plastics & PFAS forever chemicals disrupt biomolecular structures & functions – cause host of negative impacts on health & human development

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240711132144.htm 

20 last known images of animals that human activities drove to extinction (27-minute video)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8adGs---ugA 

Cases of Valley Fever diagnosed in 5 people who attended music festival in Kern County, California, in May at Buena Vista Lake – not contagious

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/valley-fever-strikes-attendees-of-kern-county-music-festival/ar-BB1qRfap 

India intends to build total of 12 new industrial smart cities - $1.15B for first year - 8 industrial cities under construction – all while more than 81% of the population lives in poverty earning less than $5 per day

• https://www.rcrwireless.com/20240729/industry-4-0/india-designates-12-new-smart-industrial-cities-to-take-total-to-2 
• https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/100-smart-cities-india-governing-human-impact/1012966/ 

Carbon credits have no value but present a risk to companies targeting “net-zero”

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-carbon-credits-ineffective-corporate-climate.html 

Visualizing the most visited US National Parks

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-most-visited-u-s-national-parks/ 

Optimistically predicting that new class of dual-action antibiotics could make it 100 X more difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance – synthesized macrolones derived from older antibiotics 

• https://www.sciencealert.com/new-dual-target-drug-could-make-antibiotic-resistance-100-million-times-harder 

Illegal immigrants will cost Massachusetts taxpayers another $1B over each of the next two years

• https://www.sciencealert.com/new-dual-target-drug-could-make-anhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/migrant-crisis-projected-to-cost-massachusetts-taxpayers-1-8-billion-over-next-two-years/ar-BB1qZmfI 
• Report:  https://cis.org/Report/Massachusetts-Case-Study-Mass-Immigration-and-Welfare-State 

Construction begins in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on 4th-generation nuclear reactor demonstration project will use TRISO fuel pebble bed design with molten fluoride salt as coolant - $303M subsidy – molten salt with impurities often corrode metals leading to cracks, weakened strength and failure

• https://interestingengineering.com/energy/hermes-us-fourth-gen-nuclear-reactor
• https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/kairos-power-starts-construction-hermes-reactor 
• molten salts:  https://news.mit.edu/2024/future-nuclear-power-reactors-could-rely-molten-salts-what-about-corrosion-0321 

North Carolina environmental regulators not resolved on addressing PFAS forever chemicals even though testing showed levels exceed federal limits in 300+ water systems & up to 233X federal limits in water at elementary school 

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01082024/north-carolina-forever-chemicals-water-rules/ 

“Pure Water” multi-billion-dollar effort in San Diego, California, to recycle wastewater into drinking water

• https://voiceofsandiego.org/2024/07/30/were-about-to-drink-toilet-water-why-thats-a-good-and-safe-thing-to-do/ 

Update:  Temporary halt negotiated by Arizona Governor to transport uranium across Navajo lands

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082024/navajo-nation-condemns-uranium-hauling-arizona-governor-negotiates-pause/ 

Impacts of government policies & AI on economy – Intel given $8.5B in federal subsidies before layoffs

• https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/jobs-report-recession/ 
• https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-forecasts-third-quarter-revenue-below-estimates-cut-15-jobs-2024-08-01/ 
• https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-job-growth-misses-expectations-july-unemployment-rate-rises-43-2024-08-02/ 
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/intel-s-massive-job-cuts-come-after-it-received-8-5-billion-in-taxpayer-money/ar-AA1obQUo 

Changing weather patterns mean more reported tornadoes in Wisconsin – but of course they need to blame “climate change” despite a lack of long-term data

• https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2024/07/29/why-is-wisconsin-getting-so-many-tornadoes-this-year-in-2024-climate-change/74544377007/ 
• https://www.weather.gov/grb/WI_tornado_stats

Have we ever had balanced resource allocation? And the need for NEPA

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/02/battery-minerals-a-common-fight-over-uncommon-things/ 

Three facilities identified as contributing 60% of chemical air pollution in Houston, Texas

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30072024/three-facilities-contribute-half-of-houston-chemical-air-pollution/ 

Global metal pollution may be worse than thought – lead & arsenic found in tampons at levels “within the FDA safe food intake recommendations” – need to consider total exposure levels not just in one product

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03082024/lead-in-tampons-study-global-metal-pollution/ 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024004355 

Minnesota settles “deceptive environmental marketing” lawsuit – Walmart & Reynolds Consumer Products will refrain from selling certain plastic bags for two and a half years & to pay $216,670 

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03082024/minnesota-recycling-plastic-bags-lawsuit/

Imagine the noise of hundreds of audible “thumps” from a whole array of reversed wind turbines!!  Just one more source of pollution from “green energy”

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/03/flipping-the-script-on-traditional-wind-turbine-technologies/ 

Still trying to devise a new plan to continue over-allocating (consuming, banking & trading) waters of the Colorado River

• https://www.usu.edu/today/story/new-collaborative-research-generates-lessons-for-more-adaptive-lake-management
• Paper:  https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-5893 

Big surprise:  Fauci caught in lies to Congress about use of personal email to support taxpayer-funded research

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/covid-cover-up-dr-anthony-fauci-accused-of-lying-to-congress-about-personal-emails-report/ar-AA1oaZfa 

“Cap and trade” never works – allowance prices for GHG emissions in California

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/02/california-cap-and-trade-price-of-carbon-allowances-fell-in-latest-auction/

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Sri Lanka anticipates offshore natural gas development will help economy - $2.9B IMF subsidy & restructuring plan

• https://thediplomat.com/2024/07/sri-lankas-underappreciated-asset-offshore-lng/

Major French energy company withdrawal from offshore natural gas block off South Africa

• https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/totalenergies-says-will-quit-south-african-offshore-gas-block-2024-07-29/ 

Morocco begins construction process for offshore wind farm – 6GW by 2030

• https://constructionreviewonline.com/construction-projects/morocco-commences-construction-process-of-africas-largest-offshore-wind-farm-first-of-its-kind-in-africa/

New interactive map tracking offshore wind developments in US coastal waters

• https://www.windpowerengineering.com/new-interactive-map-tracks-offshore-wind-developments-in-us/
• Offshore Wind Power Hub:  https://offshorewindpowerhub.org/ 

Offshore wind farm survey completed in Polish sector of the Baltic Sea

• https://www.oedigital.com/news/515548-ocean-infinity-wraps-up-offshore-wind-survey-in-polish-baltic-sea 

US BOEM cancels offshore Proposed Sale Notice for portion of Gulf of Mexico due to lack of competitive interest – considers new bids

• https://www.enerdata.net/publications/daily-energy-news/us-boem-cancels-offshore-wind-tender-and-mulls-new-bids-gulf-mexico.html

BOEM released final EIS on proposed offshore wind project off coasts of Maryland & Delaware

• https://www.wboc.com/news/final-environmental-impact-statement-issued-on-u-s-wind-offshore-project/article_7b997e16-4df4-11ef-85d3-6780ce8bb61d.html 
• Final EIS:  https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/maryland-offshore-wind-final-environmental-impact-statement-eis 

Update:  failure of offshore wind turbine that sent large debris pieces washing up on Nantucket Island 

• https://www.enr.com/articles/58977-massachusetts-offshore-wind-project-seeks-recovery-after-blade-break 

Does Bali really need a $20B subway? – and that is just the cost of the first 2 of 4 phases

• https://www.constructionbriefing.com/news/work-on-us-20bn-indonesia-subway-project-to-start-soon/8038413.article 

Long Island Sound suffers from passenger transport, fish & cargo vessels – environmental degradation that varies on a daily basis – chemical & nutrient pollution, algal blooms & hypoxia lead to mass die-offs & eutrophication

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-york-island-acidifies-droughts.html 
• Paper:  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1398087/full 

Offshore wind farms connected by future underwater power grid? – at least 30% federal subsidy for upfront costs

• https://theconversation.com/offshore-wind-farms-connected-by-an-underwater-power-grid-for-transmission-could-revolutionize-how-the-east-coast-gets-its-electricity-230532 
• Report Summary:  https://www.nrel.gov/wind/atlantic-offshore-wind-transmission-study.html 
• Report:  nrel.gov/docs/fy24osti/88003.pdf 

Billion Oyster Project in New York Harbor – oysters are functionally extinct in the Harbor – not increasing populations of oysters for consumption 

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082024/new-york-harbor-oyster-reefs/ 

Variability in mercury concentrations & bioaccumulation dynamics across the Mississippi River Estuary

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/mercury-concentrations-seaside-sparrows-and-marsh-rice-rats-differ-across-mississippi
• Paper:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10646-024-02789-1

Cleaning up estimated 34,440-gallon oil spill in Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana – investigating cause – oil flowed through open valve in secondary containment area around storage tank & then flowed to bayou

• https://www.nola.com/news/business/operator-error-named-in-probe-of-bayou-lafourche-oil-spill/article_8293e08e-4f9e-11ef-8bb0-9b38d9ca3f59.html 
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisiana-oil-spill-raceland-lafourche-kills-wildlife-water-conservation-notice/ 

US Army COE committed to “forever” Sisyphean task of “renourishing” beaches and you pay for it – CSRM spent $3B just since 2010

• https://www.eenews.net/articles/why-a-century-old-beach-building-program-could-last-forever/ 

Restoring sea urchins to the Caribbean reefs

• https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-very-hungry-urchins/ 

“Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average – Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-gulf-mexico-dead-zone-larger.html 
• GHAP:  https://www.epa.gov/ms-htf/hypoxia-task-force-action-plans-and-goal-framework 

"Political office feeds your vanity but starves your self-respect." - former British lawmaker Matthew Parris (quoted in @TheTimes (UK) via @TheWeek.

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management -15 July 2024

All items below this are obtained by Dr. Hanford.

Geoscience Bulletin Board – 15 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Wyoming State Geological Survey issues new pamphlet on geology of the South Pass area

• https://county10.com/new-wsgs-pamphlet-shares-geology-of-south-pass-area/ 
• Pamphlet:  https://www.wsgs.wyo.gov/products/wsgs-2024-ip-24.pdf 

Kansas Geological Survey assessing potential for new sources of critical minerals

• https://news.ku.edu/news/article/kansas-geological-survey-assesses-potential-for-critical-minerals-in-eastern-kansas 

Drill core samples help reveal geologic & climate history of Antarctic Ice Sheet beginning about 34 myo with expansion toward West Antarctic coast about 7 myo

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-recovery-unique-geological-samples-formation.html 

Planetary geology:  impact flux on the Moon

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1049975 
• Paper:  https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/space.0148

Role of seawater in the formation of gold deposits

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-treasures-beneath-ocean-floor-seawater.html 

New NSHM map shows probability of damaging earthquakes in the next 100 years

• https://www.snexplores.org/article/where-earthquakes-most-likely-us-risk-map 
• Paper:  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/87552930231215428 

Paper:  Automated rock image classification & feature visualization 

• https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2024.1364209/full 

All about sinkholes

• https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/what-are-sinkholes 

Subsurface deformation imaging using surficial mapping data

• https://scitechdaily.com/deformation-imaging-revolutionizing-our-view-of-earths-subterranean-mysteries/ 
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl4264 

The “Pearlette volcan ash” in Kansas and Nebraska represented multiple eruptions in Yellowstone:  the Huckelberry Ridge Tuff, Mesa Falls Tuff & Lava Creek Tuff

• https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/solving-mystery-pearlette-volcanic-ash 

Micro-stratigraphy of pedogenic carbonates helps determine age of fossil soils via U-Pb dating

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/unlocking-earths-terrestrial-sedimentary-record-with-paleosols
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011488

Guide to fossil hunting on the coast of Maine

• https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/fossil-hunter-s-guide-coastal-maine-s-ancient-offerings/183677 

Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert – some moments in history

• https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-06-23/giant-rock-a-century-of-stories-in-the-mojave-desert 

New Zealand has open-access essentially complete database of fossil record dubbed FRED

• https://eos.org/articles/new-zealand-has-a-unique-fossil-record-named-fred
• FRED:  https://www.gns.cri.nz/data-and-resources/fred-the-fossil-record-electronic-database/ 

Anisotropic tomography using P-waves provides glimpse of inner structure of Mount Etna

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/improved-imaging-offers-new-insight-into-mount-etna 
• Paper:   https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL108733

Application of distributed fiber optic sensing for detection of soil desiccation cracking behavior & soil crack breathing

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/new-observations-provide-insight-into-soil-desiccation-cracking
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JF007318

310 fatal landslides have killed 2,315 people as of 30 June 2024 – most in Northern Hemisphere summer monsoons

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/2024-fatal-landslides-june-update 

Aerosols increase size of cloud cells & cause greater radiative cooling under polluted conditions

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-aerosols-shown-size-cloud-cells.html
• Paper:  https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/24/6455/2024/

Quaternary geochronological study using electron spin resonance & paleomagnetism analysed oldest sedimentary levels at Galeria Complex in Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos), Spain

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-geochronological-ancient-sedimentary-galera-site.html 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871101424000797 

Carbonate compensation depth adjusting to ocean acidification

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-ocean-surfaces-acidify-deep-sea.html 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322723001330

AI analysis of zircons from Australia suggest Plate Tectonics began more than 4 byo

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-ai-analysis-zircons-australia-earlier.html
• Paper:  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405160121

Evolution of damage in large rock slope failures – La Praz Landslide in France

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/la-praz-landslide
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2024GL109139

Antigorite (type of serpentine) that may be main carrier of water into deep subduction zones – polysomatism may affect volume of water and affect distribution of intermediate depth earthquakes

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1050394 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2023JB028060

Planetary geology:  Debate on existence of garnet in the lunar mantle

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1050382 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X24002255

Sediment cores from Nile Delta reveal precipitation & flooding record from about 9,200 to 8,600 years ago

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1050343
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01471-9

Giant salamander-like Gaiasia jennyae was top predator in late Paleozoic ice age on Gondwana

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1049937 

Living during the 6th mass extinction event

• https://particle.scitech.org.au/people/living-in-a-mass-extinction/ 

Perspective on studying origins of life on Earth

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/UC_Riverside_Study_Offers_Insights_into_Early_Life_on_Earth_999.html 

Incompletely rifted micro-continent identified between Greenland & Canada 

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-incompletely-rifted-microcontinent-greenland-canada.html 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X24001023

A reminder that we are living in an inter-glacial time of limited duration

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-issue-stark-day-after-tomorrow-warning-after-major-change-in-gulf-stream/ar-BB1pNhLk 

Assessment of undiscovered conventional O&G resources in the Black Sea area

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/assessment-undiscovered-conventional-oil-and-gas-resources-black-sea-area-2023 
• USGS Fact Sheet 2024-3018:  https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2024/3018/fs20243018.pdf 

Sangay Volcano in central Ecuador spews ash cloud

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Ecuador_volcano_rumbles_spews_ash_cloud_999.html 

Documentary film on Baffin Bay Deglacial Experiment team investigating changes in Greenland Ice sheet over 15,000 years ago towards the end of the last Ice Age

• https://new.nsf.gov/news/new-film-baffling-baffin-bay 
• Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUsbDKFs7Og 

Toward improved understanding of how marine life adapted to varying environmental conditions

• https://new.nsf.gov/news/deep-sea-discovery-opens-ocean-potential 

Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis – new species of crocodile relative discovered in Triassic Favret Formation in Nevada – coastal representative from Panthalassan Ocean

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240710195436.htm 
• Paper:  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0136 

Freeze-dried 52,000-year-old scrap of woolly mammoth skin reveals 3D structure of genome

• https://www.livescience.com/animals/mammoths/52000-year-old-scrap-of-woolly-mammoth-skin-reveals-3d-shape-of-its-dna-for-1st-time-ever
• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drying-woolly-mammoth-dna-3d-glass 
• Paper:  https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00642-1

Trees descended from Gondwana being protected as a “living seed bank” in Australia

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/rainforest-of-super-trees-descended-from-lost-supercontinent-gondwana-being-created-in-australia 

Thick sea ice flowing from Arctic Ocean shortened ice-free shipping season in Northwest Passage 2007-2021

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1050634
• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-thick-sea-ice-arctic-ocean.html
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01477-6 

The geological origins & formation of Red Rocks Amphitheatre 

• https://kdvr.com/denver-guide/places-to-visit/red-rocks-geology-how-the-worlds-only-natural-amphitheater-was-formed/

New relative geological dating technique based on paleomagnetism used to date hominids in Iberia

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-geological-dating-techniques-european-hominids.html
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001282522400182X

Evidence of 3 July eruption of Kilauea Southwest Rift Zone

• https://bigislandnow.com/2024/07/11/hawaiian-volcano-observatory-geologists-revisit-eruption-site-discover-cracking-more/ 

Origin of the “Dragon’s Eye” in rocks along the NW coastline of Norway

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/norways-dragons-eye-the-fantastical-pothole-that-emerged-from-ice-16000-years-ago 

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Peer-reviewed study concludes that all cause deaths were higher for the vaxxed than the un-vaxxed – hazard ratios increased with increasing vaxxing/boosters

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/05/peer-reviewed-study-shows-all-cause-death-risks-higher-for-vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated/
• Paper download link:  https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/12/7/1343 

Such hubris!  To think it a “right” to a stable climate!!!  Montana High Court to make ruling – need to remember that stable or static conditions are not the norm for Nature & humans do not have any ability to control climate

• https://www.nature.chttps://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072024/montana-supreme-court-youth-climate-change-lawsuit/om/articles/s43247-024-01477-6 

Chinese swimmers who tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs won Olympic medals

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/world-aquatics-confirms-us-government-232006215.html 

BLM plans to roundup 1,373 wild horses & 356 burros on Blue Wing Complex near Lovelock, Nevada – will use helicopters – will release most to adoption & sales programs in Nevada & Utah

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/blm-plans-to-gather-more-than-1-300-horses-in-new-gather/ar-BB1phYXl 

Ten cases (2 in intensive care) of botulism near Fresno, California, traced to home-canned nopales

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/2-california-sisters-icu-botulism-225813971.html

Public free-market rejects EV mandates – Virginia exits mandates issued by unelected California ARB:  “unworkable and out of touch with reality”

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/06/the-free-market-rejects-ev-mandates/

Landslide election of Labor Party in Britain will have huge impact on policy and spending – “voters have rejected anti-net zero rhetoric and chosen cheaper, cleaner, more secure energy” – will be interesting to see whether “green economy” works out for them

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/07/labour-and-climate-celebrate-big-wins-in-uk/ 

Is “repurposing coal power plants” just another mythology in the making?

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/08/demystifying-coal-repurposing-in-the-global-energy-transition/ 

“Clean energy” manufacturing surge in Georgia is product of at least $87B in federal subsidies

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/09/georgias-clean-energy-manufacturing-surge-is-a-by-product-of-federal-investments/ 

Technological hazard:  2021 Executive Order established Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) to probe SolarWinds cyberattack - CSRB never conducted probes

• https://www.propublica.org/article/cyber-safety-board-never-investigated-solarwinds-breach-microsoft 

The $7.5B half-million EV charger charade – if actually built would cost $400B

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/09/the-nationwide-500000-ev-charger-charade/

Perspective:  Politics may not be the world’s oldest profession but it is the dirtiest – aided by persistent media gaslighting

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/09/they-lied-to-you/ 

Technological hazard:  Social media echo chamber in which social media algorithm favor singles viewpoint (i.e., censoring) – half of all adults get their “news” from social media 

• https://thecurrentga.org/2024/07/03/are-you-trapped-in-a-social-media-echo-chamber/

Average global temperature has warmed 1.64 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels exceeding Paris Accord limit – now changing conditions for breach of Paris Accord since the Earth has not boiled – Accord ‘target’ – current excursion driven in part by recent El Niño – what happened to CO2 emissions & man-made global warming? 

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09072024/average-global-temperatures-above-pre-industrial-levels-for-12-months/ 

Nigeria announces transition from asphalt to concrete in highway construction due to longer life-span

• https://dailypost.ng/2024/07/05/nigerian-govt-transitioning-from-asphalt-to-concrete-in-road-construction-minister-umahi/ 

Half-mile long pilot project on Tribal lands near Phoenix, Arizona, will construct solar cover over canal – Casa Blanca installation

• https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/the-us-is-about-to-get-its-first-solar-covered-canal 

Refurbishing existing building much more affordable & effective than building new “green” structures

• https://www.businessnhmagazine.com/article/green-building-becomes-more-affordable-and-more-common 

Now you, too, can buy insurance for damage caused by “underground climate change”

• https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/07/09/324807.htm 

How humans recognized how to begin undoing the damage they caused to the ozone layer – the 1987 Montreal Protocol and impacts of CFCs – but that does not apply to the presence of CO2 in the atmosphere

• https://nautil.us/how-we-solved-the-hole-in-the-ozone-695664/ 
• Recovery:  https://scitechdaily.com/unprecedented-recovery-ozone-layer-heals-ahead-of-schedule/ 

Multiple PFAS forever chemical contamination hot spots in the US

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-multiple-chemical-contamination-hot.html 
• Paper:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299789

PFAS forever chemical contamination hots spots in Wisconsin identified by testing foams & water surface microlayers

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-lake-river-foams-reveals-high.html 

PFAS forever chemicals contaminate drinking water in Europe

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-europe-contaminated-chemical-ngos.html 

Lithium-ion batteries used in EVs and electronics are growing source of PFAS forever chemical pollution

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-lithium-ion-batteries-source-pfas.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49753-5 

Monsoon floods in NE India drowned 6 threatened rhinos & other wildlife in Kaziranga National Park

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-india-swamp-national-rhinos.html 

Developer likely caused Barn Pond & surrounding wetlands to become a mud flat in Twin Lakes, Colorado

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-beloved-colorado-mountain-pond-mud.html

Bullock County Commissioners approved water & sewer services & well mitigation program – 4 wells will draw 6.625M gallons/day from Floridan aquifer – Hyundai Plug Power green hydrogen plant will use 1.1M gallons/day

• https://thecurrentga.org/2024/06/28/bulloch-oks-hyundai-related-water-agreements-despite-public-concerns/ 

Dingo fossil found on Balmoral Beach in Australia – DNA shows descended from ancient dogs & wolves of China & Tibetan Plateau, arriving in Australia between 3,000 & 8,000 years ago

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/09/modern-day-dingoes-already-established-across-australia-thousands-of-years-ago-research-finds 

WEF created coalition to suppress & demonetize conservative views – censoring the media

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/10/house-judiciary-committee-report-reveals-how-global-advertiser-cartel-colludes-to-censor-and-demonetize-conservative-influencers/
• Testimony:  https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/collusion-global-alliance-responsible-media 

Solar power is relatively young industry but already having to thing about re-powering old systems

• https://www.powerengineeringint.com/solar/the-story-isnt-over-for-legacy-solar-repowering-is-the-next-era-of-clean-energy/ 

Technological hazard:  Bitcoin mines consume massive amounts of power 24/7 threatening to “crash” the Texas electrical grid & cause excessive noise pollution that impacts human health

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072024/texas-bitcoin-mining-threatens-power-grid/ 

“Nukey Poo” – portable nuclear reactor contaminated Antarctica – designated Historic Site & Monument

• https://theconversation.com/remembering-antarcticas-nuclear-past-with-nukey-poo-99934 

Man caught smuggling 104 snakes into China in pockets of his pants – included snakes native to Texas

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/man-stopped-customs-100-live-094707212.html

Seneca Nation sues City of Olean after wastewater treatment plant overflowed into Allegheny River for second time this year

• https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/seneca-nation-sues-city-for-wastewater-overflow 
• https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/seneca-nation-waters-flooded-with-wastewater-from-nearby-city 

A reminder that we are living in an inter-glacial time of limited duration

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-issue-stark-day-after-tomorrow-warning-after-major-change-in-gulf-stream/ar-BB1pNhLk 

US House passes SAVE Act to prevent non-citizens (i.e., illegal aliens) from voting – no-brainer that it should apply to all federal, state and local elections

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/10/u-s-house-passes-save-act-to-prevent-non-citizens-from-voting-in-federal-elections-with-198-dems-voting-against/ 

Touron trampled to death by elephant after leaving vehicle to take pictures of the breeding herd in Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Spanish_tourist_killed_by_elephants_in_South_Africa_999.html 

Colorado confirms human case of plague (Yersinia pestis) which is now endemic in the mountains of the West – was introduced in 1900 by infected rats aboard ships

• https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/plague-strikes-person-in-colorado 
• https://county.pueblo.org/public-health-department/public-health-officials-confirm-first-human-plague-case-pueblo-county 
• CDC Map & Stats:  https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-statistics/index.html 

Switching ships from diesel to ammonia fuel poses health risks – could result in more than 600,000 premature deaths per year 

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1051089 
• Paper:  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad5d07 

FEMA finalized rule mandating projects built must take into account local future flood risk

• https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2024/07/10/biden-administration-raises-fema-bar-for-flood-resilience/ 

FEMA finalized rule mandating projects built must take into account local future flood risk

• https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2024/07/10/biden-administration-raises-fema-bar-for-flood-resilience/ 

 Biden administration announces yet another federal subsidy of $1.7B for EVs – this time it is $1.7B

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/11/biden-harris-administration-announces-nearly-2-billion-to-support-american-auto-workers-convert-facilities-for-electric-vehicles/ 

COP28 growth of renewables will not be achieved at current average growth rate of 10% for 2017-2023 due to  14% jump in 2023

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/11/tripling-renewables-by-2030-requires-a-minimum-of-16-4-annual-growth-rate/ 

Current under-construction high-speed rails projects are over-budget & behind schedule but planning on yet another project connecting to Las Vegas – High Desert Corridor High Speed Rail engineering challenges – pushing for 4-year $200B American High-Speed Rail Act to subsidize boondoggles

• https://www.ktnv.com/news/another-high-speed-rail-project-would-connect-las-vegas-to-additional-california-stops 
• https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/bright-side-brightline-and-nations-first-high-speed-rail-line 

Warning that H7 bird flu could put Black Swans in “significant peril” in Western Australia (podcast)

• https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/iconic-black-swan-at-risk-of-significant-peril-/104088926 
• https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2023/01/avian-flu-could-decimate-australian-black-swans
• Paper:  https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-022-02838-0

Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) killing owls and other wildlife in rural & urban areas in Australia – banned in Canada, US & EU

• https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/conservation/common-product-banned-around-the-world-is-killing-our-owls-20240710-p5jslp.html

Cause for concern:  US EIA still does not know how much electricity is used by cryptocurrency miners as major (and rapidly growing) consumer – use estimated at up to 2.3% of all electricity per year

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072024/us-energy-information-agency-bitcoin-mining-electricity-usage-data/ 

EU Court of Justices rules economic reasons (e.g., preventing loss of livestock) are not enough to allow wolf hunting

• https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/economic-reasons-not-enough-to-allow-wolf-hunting-says-eu-court-of-justice/ 

US BLM sued for failing to protect endangered species by allowing illegal livestock grazing along Big Sandy River in western Arizona

• https://esconservsite.org/esa40/ 

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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 15 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

Migratory birds face habitat loss due to development, predation & human disturbance on Harbor Islands of NY

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06072024/new-york-harbor-islands-heron-habitat-loss/ 

Louisiana wants to line its entire Gulf shore with segmented rocks – geology and natural forces limit effectiveness – not consistent with state “science-based” Coastal Master Plan

• https://www.fox8live.com/2024/07/09/louisianas-top-coastal-official-wants-rock-coast-mississippi-texas/ 

Philippines receives coastal surveillance radar system from Japan under Official Security Assistance 

• https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2024/07/09/2368895/philippines-receive-coastal-surveillance-radar-system-japan

Homeless forced out of encampments in woods along Coastal Highway in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

• https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2024/07/08/during-major-housing-crisis-homeless-forced-to-leave-rehoboth-woods/74208735007/ 

Population of Pilosocereus millspaughii tree cactus declining in Key Largo due to habitat destruction due to development, saltwater intrusion, hurricanes, soil depletion & herbivores – 6 salvaged for cultivation

• https://www.earth.com/news/sea-level-rise-claims-its-first-coastal-plant-victim-in-the-u-s/ 

Daiichi Meta Maru launching ceremony – coastal tanker uses methanol fuel and automated handling systems

• https://safety4sea.com/mol-introduces-ai-and-iot-enhanced-methanol-fueled-coastal-tanker/ 

Rising construction costs causing an average 15% increase in coastal home insurance premiums in Maine

• https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2024/07/09/maine-insurance-surge-coastal-storms-home-costs-drive-up-premiums/74322622007/ 

Deaths of federal listed sea turtles in canal leading to Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant cooling system intake prompted govern review – one turtle transferred to Rescue & Rehabilitation Center

• https://coastalreview.org/2024/07/sea-turtle-deaths-lead-to-federal-review-for-nuclear-plant/ 

North Carolina DEQ Division of Coastal Management accepting public comments on proposed NOAA amendments to North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule

• https://islandfreepress.org/fishing-report/state-coastal-agency-accepting-public-comments-regarding-noaas-proposed-amendments-to-the-north-atlantic-right-whale-vessel-strike-reduction-rule/

• Proposed Amendment links:  https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/amendments-north-atlantic-right-whale-vessel-strike-reduction-rule 

Hurricanes prune mangroves in Gulf of Mexico – down tallest trees & stunt growth of others

• https://eos.org/articles/hurricanes-may-prune-gulf-mangroves 

• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724024276

Complicated explanation of who has access to coastal areas of Nova Scotia

• https://www.dal.ca/news/2024/07/09/expert-coastal-access-nova-scotia.html

Model quantifies polar amplification of global climate variability caused by Milankovitch cycles during hyper-thermals - Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (~56 Ma) & Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (~54 Ma)

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-polar-underestimated-climate-million-year.html 

• Paper:   https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/20/1303/2024/

Status of pending, under construction, cancelled & not yet in commercial operation US offshore wind farms – 30% cancelled

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/09/us-offshore-wind-farm-progress-chart/ 

Court ruling could permit construction of new reservoir to feed water into Panama Canal locks

• https://apnews.com/article/panama-canal-new-reservoir-drought-shipping-restrictions-cd037f15bc52c23e19b0b5a0f15330fc

Cleaning up Narragansett Bay

• https://thepublicsradio.org/possibly-podcast/how-did-the-narragansett-bay-get-so-much-cleaner/ 

• https://www.golocalprov.com/news/2-Billion-Investment-Cleaning-Up-Narragansett-Bay-Hits-Milestone 

Centuries-old traditional whale hunt in Faroe Islands versus animal rights activists

• https://hakaimagazine.com/features/blood-in-the-water-food-on-the-table-protestors-on-the-shore/ 

Caution:  dig safely when building sand castles – collapsing sand holes can be deadly

• https://theconversation.com/dig-safely-when-building-sandcastles-and-tunnels-this-summer-collapsing-sand-holes-can-cause-suffocation-and-even-death-224704 

Impacts of stormy weather in Cape Town region of South Africa – maritime rescue & carbo ship abandonment

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Stormy_weather_wreaks_havoc_in_SAfricas_Western_Cape_999.html 

Construction slated to begin on first phase of $2.3B South Shore of Staten Island (SSSI) project to add interior drainage areas, seawalls & other stormwater infrastructure

https://theconstructionbroadsheet.com/triumph-set-to-start-m-staten-island-coastal-risk-project-p1814-175.htm

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 8 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Role of silica in Yellowstone – rhyolite, geyser cones, petrified tress & algae

• https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/hot-and-cold-journey-silica-begins-yellowstones-rhyolite-and-ends-geyser 

Analysis of seismic waves provides insight into material convective flow in lowermost mantle

• https://eos.org/editors-vox/seismology-helps-us-understand-how-material-flows-in-earths-deepest-mantle 

Seismic shear along major lineament of Sikkim Himalaya diagonal to main thrusts

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/a-seismogenic-shear-zone-diagonal-to-the-main-himalayan-thrusts 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GC011363

Reactivation of El Kherba landslide in 2020 by M4.9 Mila earthquake

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/el-kherba-landslide 

Watershed scale may be more significant in determining timing of alpine flooding than topography

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-watershed-scale-mountainous-river-topography.html

Core sampling of sediments in Salmon River estuary to assess geologic history of tsunamis

• https://www.opb.org/article/2024/06/27/all-science-no-fiction-oregon-coast-diatoms-fossils-soil-cores-marshland-tsunamis/ 

Retrospective on 1974 Quebrada Blanca landslide in Colombia

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/quebrada-blanca-landslide 

Massive avalanche near Kedartha Dham, near Chrabari glacier in India

• https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/massive-avalanche-near-kedarnath-dham-none-hurt-6004959 

Increase in seismic swarm activity on Kilauea – no signs of imminent eruption – alert level raised

• https://kauainownews.com/2024/06/30/big-islands-kilauea-rocked-by-500-plus-quakes-with-escalation-of-sesmic-unrest/ 
• https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/kilauea/news/245736/Kilauea-volcano-Hawai-i-alert-level-raised-as-new-seismic-swarm-occurs-under-upper-East-Rift-zone.html 

Recent seismic activity of Mount St Helens

• https://mynorthwest.com/3963290/mount-st-helens-seismic-activity-brewing-350-earthquakes-februrary/

Sinkholes emerging in Turkey

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-sinkholes-turkey-parched-breadbasket.html 
• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Sinkholes_spread_fear_in_Turkeys_parched_breadbasket_999.html 

Lewotobi Laki-Laki and Mount Ibu volcanoes both erupt twice in same day in Indonesia

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Indonesias_Lewotobi_Laki-Laki_volcano_erupts_twice_in_a_day_999.html

Computational method using surface mapping & GPS to map subsurface features – “deformation imaging”

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-imaging-technique-earth-warped-surface.html 
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl4264 

Humans played key role in extinctions of megafauna during last 50,000 years – only 11 of 57 species survived

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/humans-megafauna-extinctions-13068.html 
• Paper:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-extinction/article/latequaternary-megafauna-extinctions-patterns-causes-ecological-consequences-and-implications-for-ecosystem-management-in-the-anthropocene/E885D8C5C90424254C1C75A61DE9D087 

“Snowball Earth” provided environmental conditions for evolution of multicellular organisms

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/snowball-earth-multicellularity-13063.html 
• Paper:  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2767

Prehistoric rock art is hidden throughout the Grand Canyon

• https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/prehistoric-rock-art-lies-hidden-throughout-the-grand-canyon 

Argyle Mine in NE Western Australia produced 191 tons of rough diamonds during 37 years of operation

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/argyle-mine-earths-treasure-trove-of-pink-diamonds-born-during-a-supercontinents-break-up 

Green River “Labyrinth Canyon” viewed from space

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/earth-from-space-green-river-winds-through-radioactive-labyrinth-of-shadows 

Moosehead Lake in Maine owes orgins to geology – ice & volcanoes

• https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/03/special-sections/guide_to_moosehead_region_2024/moosehead_lake_owes_everything_to_geology_ice_and_volcanoes-0vzoa9n507wn-2/ 

Book Release:  “Geology of the Lake Tahoe Basin”

• https://yourtahoeguide.com/2024/06/book-exposes-secrets-of-tahoes-geologic-past/

Toadstool Geological Park in NW Nebraska

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/karthikagupta/2024/07/01/prehistoric-exploration-comes-to-life-in-nebraska/ 

Plate tectonics may explain why we are alone in the universe

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/07/03/this-new-theory-on-why-we-are-alone-in-the-cosmos-may-surprise-you/ 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54700-x

Dog-sized sea scorpions were top predator 400 myo

• https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dog-sized-sea-scorpions-roamed-060420800.html 

Tourmaline records geologic history

• https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2024/July/Tourmaline 

Hadrosaur remains found in Mississippi

• https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2024/07/02/dinosaur-bones-82-million-years-old-found-in-ms-what-was-it/74243898007/ 

Exploring earthquake history at Skilak Lake, Alaska

• https://www.usgs.gov/centers/whcmsc/news/unveiling-earthquake-history 

Present is the key to the past & and vice versa – what happened 56 myo in the Southern Pyrenees of Spain?

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/geological-archives-may-predict-our-climate-future/ar-BB1oQVe4 

Fountains of diamonds erupt from the crust

• https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/geological-event-earth-crust-diamonds-2668651944 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06193-3 

Two new minerals discovered at largest rare earth mine in northern China – niobium-scandium minerals named Oboniobite and Scandio-fluoroeckermannite 

• https://pune.news/international/chinese-geologists-unearth-novel-minerals-at-worlds-largest-rare-earth-mine-197273/ 

Complex glacial history shaped the St Croix Valley near Osceola, Wisconsin

• https://www.stcroix360.com/2024/06/geologists-uncover-new-clues-about-how-glaciers-shaped-the-st-croix-valley/ 

Exploration drilling focused on shallow gas projects in Mpumalanga Province in South Africa

• https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/1050875/kinetiko-energy-gas-exploration-drilling-in-south-africa-reveals-strong-gassy-geology-1050875.html 

Pilbarra gold mine project placed in receivership – collapsed under debt despite record-breaking gold market

• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-03/warrawoona-gold-mine-calidus-resources-recievership/104052630 

Retrospective on Ridgecrest earthquakes of 5 years ago

• https://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/ridgecrest-earthquakes-first-responders-and-seismologists-reflect-5-years-later 

Paper:  Island of Palawan in Philippines not quite seismically stable 

• https://temblor.net/temblor/earthquakes-rattle-palawan-philippines-stable-region-16264/ 

Looping networks exhibited in deltas – “Goldilocks fluctuations”

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1050334 

Palos Verde landslides – movement accelerated by heavy rains – exploratory boreholes to locate pockets of water

• https://laist.com/brief/news/climate-environment/rainfall-accelerating-land-movement-in-rancho-palos-verdes 
• https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/palos-verdes-landslide-drilling-operation-could-hit-a-geyser-of-water-next-week 
• https://laist.com/brief/news/climate-environment/rancho-palos-verdes-takes-first-big-step-towards-possibly-slowing-portuguese-bend-slide 
• https://patch.com/california/palosverdes/local-emergency-extended-due-unprecendented-land-movement

Resources, reporting & fraud at Red Pine Exploration

• https://www.geologyforinvestors.com/what-went-wrong-at-red-pine-resources-reporting-and-fraud-in-mining/ 

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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 8 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Human obsession with growth is killing the planet

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/04/our-obsession-with-growth-is-killing-the-planet-un-report/ 
• https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/02/obsession-with-growth-is-enriching-elites-and-killing-the-planet-we-need-an-economy-based-on-human-rights-olivier-de-schutter 
• Report:  https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g24/069/70/pdf/g2406970.pdf?token=xV57KqwCiuT93NCCUY&fe=true 

APHIS enforcement summaries for 2023

• https://www.aphis.usda.gov/mission/enforcement-summaries 

Baltimore files lawsuit & declares epidemic of “toxic litter” targeting plastic makers & packaging – getting into water supply & puts residents at risk of ingesting toxic chemicals found in plastic

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24062024/baltimore-lawsuit-targets-plastic-maker/

Tractor Supply eliminating DEI activism & will focus on selling its products & focusing on “rural America priorities” such as ag education, animal welfare & veteran causes – more companies likely to follow 

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/28/tractor-supply-drops-dei-apologizes-following-customer-feedback/ 

Wait a minute, aren’t they proclaiming that EVs are non-polluting?  Tesla orders by Bay Area AQMD to correct ongoing air quality violations – “frequent, recurring emissions”

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/28/tesla-gets-order-to-stop-polluting-excessively-in-california-112-notices-of-violation-since-2019/ 

Colorado announces Dark Sky Month – but what is needed is not just a month but very long-term reduction in light pollution or else this will be as effective as “Earth Hour” & “Earth Day” in reducing human degradation and impacts on the environment

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/30/colorado-aims-to-reduce-light-pollution-with-dark-sky-month/ 

“Plastic Free July” is waste of time if only some consumers participate

• https://theconversation.com/plastic-free-july-is-a-waste-of-time-if-the-onus-is-only-on-consumers-233436

Natural immunity in humans to covid is real – despite what Fauci & others proclaimed!

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/why-are-some-people-seemingly-immune-to-covid-19-scientists-may-now-have-an-answer/ar-BB1oO510 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07575-x

Las Vegas municipal water is “safe” but “hard”

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-las-vegas-hard-alarm.html 

Benzodiazepines (tranquilizers) & anti-chololinergic (neurotransmitter blockers) drugs linked to higher dementia risk & memory problems – proscribed for many conditions

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/two-popular-classes-of-drugs-linked-to-higher-dementia-risk-and-memory-problems-possible-alternatives/ar-BB1iBv7i 

US FDA has history of approving dangers & deadly drugs

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/these-are-some-of-the-most-dangerous-and-deadly-drugs-the-fda-has-ever-approved/ar-BB1lu0v9 

Despite known adverse side effects & relative low virulence of the virus, CDC pushing yet another vaxxing booster along with flu shots

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cdc-recommends-americans-get-new-covid-shots-here-s-what-to-know/ar-BB1pemqX

USFS to begin mechanical forest thinning for fuels reduction on West Shore of Lake Tahoe

• https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/mechanical-forest-thinning-project-to-begin-on-the-west-shore/ 

US Government to pay Moderna $176M to develop bird flu mRNA vaxx – prepping for the next plandemic that they will try to once again force upon the country

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/the-us-will-pay-moderna-176-million-to-develop-an-mrna-pandemic-flu-vaccine/ar-BB1phvI1

Visualizing the most endangered animals in the world

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-endangered-animals-in-the-world-ranked/ 

Six tonnes of illegal ‘drug precursors’ from China are seized in Italy – street value exceeds 630M euros

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Italy_says_seizes_six_tonnes_of_drug_precursors_from_China_999.html 

US DOI rejected proposed 221-mile Ambler Road across federal lands to mineral mining areas – ROD chose no-action plan from Final Supplemental EIS

• https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/department-of-interior-rejects-ambler-access-project-in-alaska 
• EIS document links:  https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2018002/510 

Use of laser & sonar technology reveals less reservoir capacity in California since 1960 due to sedimentation

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-laser-sonar-technology-northern-california.html 

Impact of 4th of July fireworks on air quality

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-reveals-fireworks-impact-air-quality.html 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883292724000118 

What motivates people to watch disaster & extreme weather footage

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-explores-people-footage-disasters-extreme.html 
• Paper:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17477891.2024.2324058 

Significant flaws found in current climate risk assessment techniques

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-crucial-gaps-climate-methods.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48820-1 

China Three Gorges Renewables Group plans $11B expansion of solar & wind

• https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-three-gorges-invests-11-billion-in-desert-power-projects-1.2090680

Proposed nuclear power plant expansion at Hanford Site near Richland, Washington – 12 reactors

• https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jun/30/more-nuclear-power-in-the-tri-cities-northwest-ene/ 

New York City – traffic congestion (worst in the world) – congestion pricing in Manhattan – pause?

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-25/nyc-has-the-world-s-worst-traffic-congestion-costing-9-billion
• https://www.freightwaves.com/news/federal-judge-rejects-arguments-against-manhattan-congestion-pricing-plan
• https://www.amny.com/transit/congestion-pricing-federal-report-hochul-manhattan-tolls/ 
• https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/06/26/mta-board-vote-confirms-hochul-congestion-pricing-pause/ 

Technological hazard:  Excessive energy demand of data centers will overwhelm US power grid

• https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/30/failure-to-meet-surging-energy-demand-will-jeopardize-economic-growth-utility-execs-warn.html 

SCOTUS decision to overturn Chevron doctrine puts law-making clearly back in the hands of Congress

• https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/06/26/mta-board-vothttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-decision-upends-biden-administration-s-rules-for-evs-and-emissions/ar-BB1piX89 

Aftermath of covid pandemic – hopefully lessons will be learned from lockdowns & pressuring to accept experimental vaxxing

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/03/the-aftermath-of-covid-four-years-later/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=7179 

Perspective:  California is self-destructing – Newsom portrayal of state is remarkably misleading – turned $98B surplus into $45M deficit, rising crime, homeless capital, businesses closing

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/03/california-is-self-destructing/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=7179 

Book Review:  “The True Believer: The Psychology of Mass Movements” – interchange allegiance to ideologies – “too easy for people to be misled and for totalitarian politics to take hold”

• https://humanjourney.us/development/our-digital-world/the-true-believer/ 

In California Public Safety Power Shutoffs begin - shutting off power to residents in northern counties in high fire risk

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/california-shuts-off-power-to-thousands-of-people/ar-BB1pmi01 

FDA to no long allow use of brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in food products – was not on GRAS list

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-fda-will-no-longer-allow-this-potentially-harmful-additive-found-in-some-sodas/ar-BB1pib9b 

Testing for covid exercise in futility since “symptoms” could be caused by many illnesses– false positives can result

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/are-false-positve-covid-tests-common-doctors-explain/ar-AA1gBVjD 

You are what you eat – diet high in sugar & low in fiber increases risk of colon cancer for those under age 50

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/deadly-diet-combo-theory-behind-colon-cancer-rise-in-young-people/ar-BB1nz29n 

Courtesy of Biden open-border policy – in just the month of June US confiscated enough fentanyl to kill 27M – equal to the combined population of CA, TX, FL, NY & PA 

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/04/u-s-confiscated-enough-fentanyl-to-kill-population-of-5-biggest-states-just-in-june/

Resolutions passed against expansion of Seneca Meadows Landfill in Finger Lakes Region of New York

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02072024/new-york-town-resolutions-opposing-landfill-expansion/

Average American spends $1,200 on prescription medications every year including painkillers, anti-nausea, diabetes & cholesterol, hypertension, arthritis & infections – drugs can change your moods and behaviors

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-medications-that-change-who-we-are/ar-AA1lZ3hp 

Man-made global warming is more like a fringe theory

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/04/is-it-right-to-call-anthropogenic-climate-change-a-theory/ 

Another bridge – the 10th bridge in 14 days - collapses in Bihar, India

• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/another-bridge-in-bihar-collapses-10th-in-a-fortnight/articleshow/111500037.cms 

Lake Livingston Dam in Houston under repair as “failure watch” ordered by Trinity River Authority continues

• https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/infrastructure/2024/07/03/492621/lake-livingston-dam-repairs-underway-amid-failure-watch/ 

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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 8 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

Human obsession with growth is killing the planet

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/04/our-obsession-with-growth-is-killing-the-planet-un-report/ 
• https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/02/obsession-with-growth-is-enriching-elites-and-killing-the-planet-we-need-an-economy-based-on-human-rights-olivier-de-schutter 
• Report:  https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g24/069/70/pdf/g2406970.pdf?token=xV57KqwCiuT93NCCUY&fe=true 

APHIS enforcement summaries for 2023

• https://www.aphis.usda.gov/mission/enforcement-summaries 

Baltimore files lawsuit & declares epidemic of “toxic litter” targeting plastic makers & packaging – getting into water supply & puts residents at risk of ingesting toxic chemicals found in plastic

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24062024/baltimore-lawsuit-targets-plastic-maker/

Tractor Supply eliminating DEI activism & will focus on selling its products & focusing on “rural America priorities” such as ag education, animal welfare & veteran causes – more companies likely to follow 

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/28/tractor-supply-drops-dei-apologizes-following-customer-feedback/ 

Wait a minute, aren’t they proclaiming that EVs are non-polluting?  Tesla orders by Bay Area AQMD to correct ongoing air quality violations – “frequent, recurring emissions”

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/28/tesla-gets-order-to-stop-polluting-excessively-in-california-112-notices-of-violation-since-2019/ 

Colorado announces Dark Sky Month – but what is needed is not just a month but very long-term reduction in light pollution or else this will be as effective as “Earth Hour” & “Earth Day” in reducing human degradation and impacts on the environment

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/30/colorado-aims-to-reduce-light-pollution-with-dark-sky-month/ 

“Plastic Free July” is waste of time if only some consumers participate

• https://theconversation.com/plastic-free-july-is-a-waste-of-time-if-the-onus-is-only-on-consumers-233436

Natural immunity in humans to covid is real – despite what fauci & others proclaimed!

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/why-are-some-people-seemingly-immune-to-covid-19-scientists-may-now-have-an-answer/ar-BB1oO510 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07575-x

Las Vegas municipal water is “safe” but “hard”

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-las-vegas-hard-alarm.html 

Benzodiazepines (tranquilizers) & anti-chololinergic (neurotransmitter blockers) drugs linked to higher dementia risk & memory problems – proscribed for many conditions

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/two-popular-classes-of-drugs-linked-to-higher-dementia-risk-and-memory-problems-possible-alternatives/ar-BB1iBv7i 

US FDA has history of approving dangers & deadly drugs

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/these-are-some-of-the-most-dangerous-and-deadly-drugs-the-fda-has-ever-approved/ar-BB1lu0v9 

Despite known adverse side effects & relative low virulence of the virus, CDC pushing yet another vaxxing booster along with flu shots

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cdc-recommends-americans-get-new-covid-shots-here-s-what-to-know/ar-BB1pemqX

USFS to begin mechanical forest thinning for fuels reduction on West Shore of Lake Tahoe

• https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/mechanical-forest-thinning-project-to-begin-on-the-west-shore/ 

US Government to pay Moderna $176M to develop bird flu mRNA vaxx – prepping for the next plandemic that they will try to once again force upon the country

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/the-us-will-pay-moderna-176-million-to-develop-an-mrna-pandemic-flu-vaccine/ar-BB1phvI1

Visualizing the most endangered animals in the world

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-endangered-animals-in-the-world-ranked/ 

Six tonnes of illegal ‘drug precursors’ from China are seized in Italy – street value exceeds 630M euros

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Italy_says_seizes_six_tonnes_of_drug_precursors_from_China_999.html 

US DOI rejected proposed 221-mile Ambler Road across federal lands to mineral mining areas – ROD chose no-action plan from Final Supplemental EIS

• https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/department-of-interior-rejects-ambler-access-project-in-alaska 
• EIS document links:  https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2018002/510 

Use of laser & sonar technology reveals less reservoir capacity in California since 1960 due to sedimentation

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-laser-sonar-technology-northern-california.html 

Impact of 4th of July fireworks on air quality

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-reveals-fireworks-impact-air-quality.html 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883292724000118 

What motivates people to watch disaster & extreme weather footage

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-explores-people-footage-disasters-extreme.html 
• Paper:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17477891.2024.2324058 

Significant flaws found in current climate risk assessment techniques

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-crucial-gaps-climate-methods.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48820-1 

China Three Gorges Renewables Group plans $11B expansion of solar & wind

• https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-three-gorges-invests-11-billion-in-desert-power-projects-1.2090680

Proposed nuclear power plant expansion at Hanford Site near Richland, Washington – 12 reactors

• https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jun/30/more-nuclear-power-in-the-tri-cities-northwest-ene/ 

New York City – traffic congestion (worst in the world) – congestion pricing in Manhattan – pause?

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-25/nyc-has-the-world-s-worst-traffic-congestion-costing-9-billion
• https://www.freightwaves.com/news/federal-judge-rejects-arguments-against-manhattan-congestion-pricing-plan
• https://www.amny.com/transit/congestion-pricing-federal-report-hochul-manhattan-tolls/ 
• https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/06/26/mta-board-vote-confirms-hochul-congestion-pricing-pause/ 

Technological hazard:  Excessive energy demand of data centers will overwhelm US power grid

• https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/30/failure-to-meet-surging-energy-demand-will-jeopardize-economic-growth-utility-execs-warn.html 

SCOTUS decision to overturn Chevron doctrine puts law-making clearly back in the hands of Congress

• https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/06/26/mta-board-vothttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-decision-upends-biden-administration-s-rules-for-evs-and-emissions/ar-BB1piX89 

Aftermath of covid plandemic – hopefully lessons will be learned from lockdowns & pressuring to accept experimental vaxxing

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/03/the-aftermath-of-covid-four-years-later/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=7179 

Perspective:  California is self-destructing – Newsom portrayal of state is remarkably misleading – turned $98B surplus into $45M deficit, rising crime, homeless capital, businesses closing

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/03/california-is-self-destructing/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=7179 

Book Review:  “The True Believer: The Psychology of Mass Movements” – interchange allegiance to ideologies – “too easy for people to be misled and for totalitarian politics to take hold”

• https://humanjourney.us/development/our-digital-world/the-true-believer/ 

In California Public Safety Power Shutoffs begin - shutting off power to residents in northern counties in high fire risk

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/california-shuts-off-power-to-thousands-of-people/ar-BB1pmi01 

FDA to no long allow use of brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in food products – was not on GRAS list

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-fda-will-no-longer-allow-this-potentially-harmful-additive-found-in-some-sodas/ar-BB1pib9b 

Testing for covid exercise in futility since “symptoms” could be caused by many illnesses– false positives can result

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/are-false-positve-covid-tests-common-doctors-explain/ar-AA1gBVjD 

You are what you eat – diet high in sugar & low in fiber increases risk of colon cancer for those under age 50

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/deadly-diet-combo-theory-behind-colon-cancer-rise-in-young-people/ar-BB1nz29n 

Courtesy of Biden open-border policy – in just the month of June US confiscated enough fentanyl to kill 27M – equal to the combined population of CA, TX, FL, NY & PA 

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/04/u-s-confiscated-enough-fentanyl-to-kill-population-of-5-biggest-states-just-in-june/

Resolutions passed against expansion of Seneca Meadows Landfill in Finger Lakes Region of New York

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02072024/new-york-town-resolutions-opposing-landfill-expansion/

Average American spends $1,200 on prescription medications every year including painkillers, anti-nausea, diabetes & cholesterol, hypertension, arthritis & infections – drugs can change your moods and behaviors

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-medications-that-change-who-we-are/ar-AA1lZ3hp 

Man-made global warming is more like a fringe theory

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/04/is-it-right-to-call-anthropogenic-climate-change-a-theory/ 

Another bridge – the 10th bridge in 14 days - collapses in Bihar, India

• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/another-bridge-in-bihar-collapses-10th-in-a-fortnight/articleshow/111500037.cms 

Lake Livingston Dam in Houston under repair as “failure watch” ordered by Trinity River Authority continues

• https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/infrastructure/2024/07/03/492621/lake-livingston-dam-repairs-underway-amid-failure-watch/ 

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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 8 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

 “Amerigo Vespucci” – stunning Italian tall ship with 26 traditional canvas sails in Port of Los Angeles

• https://www.dailynews.com/2024/06/28/most-beautiful-italian-tall-ship-open-for-tours-next-week-in-port-of-la/ 

Pier Road rehabilitation connects Cape Porpoise in Kennebunkport, Maine, to Bickford Island

• https://www.wgme.com/news/local/kennebunkport-town-leaders-say-climate-change-threatens-important-causeway-governor-janet-mills-maine-global-warming 

Sharks in East Coast waters – Tybee Island, Georgia – attacks in Florida - Massachusetts

• Tybee Island:  https://www.wjcl.com/article/tybee-island-georgia-shark-sighting/61428082 
• https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-recovering-shark-bite-florida-coast-states-attack-111563451 
• https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/accident/2024/06/28/shark-attacks-man-in-floridas-nassau-county/74249232007/   
• https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/06/25/shark-species-massachusetts-cape-cod 

CCC approval given for multi-million-dollar 1.25-mile coastal trail connecting Morrow Bay & Cayucos 

• https://www.ksby.com/morro-bay/a-multi-million-dollar-coastal-trail-connecting-morro-bay-and-cayucos-has-been-approved-for-construction \

North Carolina DEQ warning issued to Oak Island beachgoers to avoid pumped floodwaters in North Carolina

• https://coastalreview.org/2024/07/oak-island-beachgoers-urged-to-avoid-pumped-floodwaters/ 

Latest episode in the on-going saga of the train tracks and the bluffs at Del Mar, California – alternate routes – California has already designated $300M for project planning & deign

• https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/plans-to-move-train-tracks-off-the-coastal-bluffs-in-del-mar-may-hit-legal-snag/3554800/

Recognizing that coastal environment of Cape Cod is dynamic – using new technology to monitor

• https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/very-dynamic-coastal-environment-new-technology-used-track-cape-cod-beach-erosion/XPSWKYWEW5GRFOJMXZHP5KPB5Q/ 

Perspective:  Optimistically suggesting that reforming landmark California Coastal Act could restore balance between housing & environment 

• https://www.marinij.com/2024/06/30/reforming-californias-landmark-coastal-law-can-restore-balance-between-housing-and-environment/ 

Corpus Christi issues notice of potential impacts of Saharan Dust 

• https://news.cctexas.com/news/saharan-dust-expected-in-coastal-bend-this-weekend 

Flying lots and lots of flags on the Jersey Shore

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/style/jersey-shore-flags.html 

Two rare sea otters spotted near Cannon Beach in Oregon

• https://www.kptv.com/2024/06/29/conservation-volunteers-spot-rare-sea-otters-near-cannon-beach/ 

Greece prosecutes Kazahk charter yacht passengers for “moral complicity in arson” for wildfire on Hydra Island

• https://maritime-executive.com/article/greek-prosecutors-charge-kazakh-oligarchs-in-megayacht-fire-scandal 

Studying sting ray behavior in California coastal waters

• https://undark.org/2024/07/02/step-forward-stingray-science/ 

Rip currents can be deadly in US coastal waters

• https://nypost.com/2024/06/26/us-news/fifth-tourist-in-4-days-dies-in-waters-off-panama-city-beach/ 
• https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/missouri-woman-dies-vacation-panama-city-beach/63-cfa5aee7-9842-4aff-afda-aa4d314cf99c 
• https://www.yourobserver.com/news/2024/jun/26/lifeguard-saves-seven-rip-current/

Sand boil develops on Main Beach on Gold Coast of Australia

• https://nypost.com/2024/06/28/world-news/mysterious-hole-opens-up-on-australian-beach/ 

New historical marker commemorating early colonization of North Carolia coastal region

• https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/virginia-beach/virginia-historic-highway-marker-unveiled-on-shore-dr 

Potential impact of tsunamis on structures

• https://www.structuremag.org/?p=27521 

Growth of “green hydrogen” in Magallanes of Tierra del Fuego, Chile, poses high risk to bird sanctuaries & ecosystems – in general wind farms lack planning on gigantic scale

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03072024/south-america-hydrogen-plan-threatens-bird-sanctuary/ 

Damages to fishing fleet in Barbados from Hurricane Beryl

• https://www.africanews.com/2024/07/04/more-than-26-boats-sink-due-to-hurricane-beryl-in-barbados/ 
• https://time.com/6994896/hurricane-beryl-impact-damage-photos/ 

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"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard (quoted in @CanadaFP via @TheWeek)

It's Water-MDPI, Volume 16, Issue 12 (June-2 2024) 123 Articles

It's Water-MDPI, Volume 16, Issue 12 (June-2 2024) – 123 articles

Cover Story

Article: Factors Governing Site and Charge Density of Dissolved Natural Organic Matter

Rolf D. Vogt, Øyvind A. Garmo, Kari Austnes, Øyvind Kaste, Ståle Haaland, James E. Sample, Jan-Erik Thrane, Liv Bente Skancke, Cathrine B. Gundersen and Heleen A. de Wit

Water 2024, 16(12), 1716; DOI: 10.3390/w16121716

 

Featured Paper

Article: Study on the Coefficient of Apparent Shear Stress along Lines Dividing a Compound Cross-Section

Yindi Zhao, Dong Chen, Jinghong Qin, Lei Wang and You Luo

Water 2024, 16(12), 1648; DOI: 10.3390/w16121648

Water and One Health

Review: Research Progress and Perspectives on Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: A Bibliometric Analysis

Fang Yang, Fangyuan Jin, Nannan Song, Weilong Jiang, Miaoxin Bai, Chenxing Fu, Jinxia Lu, Yuxin Li and Zhonghong Li

Water 2024, 16(12), 1743; DOI: 10.3390/w16121743

Article: Carcinogenic and Non-Carcinogenic Health Risk Evaluation of Heavy Metals in Water Sources of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer in the El-Farafra Oasis (Egypt)

Abdullah A. Saber, Mahmood Fayz M. Al-Mashhadany, Aadil Hamid, Jacopo Gabrieli, Klement Tockner, Sarah S. A. Alsaif, Ali A. M. Al-Marakeby, Stefano Segadelli, Marco Cantonati and Sami Ullah Bhat

Water 2024, 16(12), 1649; DOI: 10.3390/w16121649

New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences

Review: The Role of Automation in the Analysis of Manganese in Environmental Water Samples

Rogelio Rodríguez-Maese, Verónica Rodríguez-Saldaña, Laura Ferrer and Luz O. Leal

Water 2024, 16(12), 1659; DOI: 10.3390/w16121659

Article: Advanced Machine Learning and Water Quality Index (WQI) Assessment: Evaluating Groundwater Quality at the Yopurga Landfill

Hongmei Zheng, Shiwei Hou, Jing Liu, Yanna Xiong and Yuxin Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1666; DOI: 10.3390/w16121666

Article: Investigating the Mechanism of Land Subsidence Due to Water Network Integration at the Guangzhou Longgui Salt Mine and Its Impact on Adjacent Subway

Nan Zhang, Xuchao Liu, Yun Zhang, Helong Gu, Baoxu Yan, Qianjun Jia and Xinrong Gao

Water 2024, 16(12), 1723; DOI: 10.3390/w16121723

Hydrogeology

Article: Dynamic Hazard Assessment of Rainfall-Induced Landslides Using Gradient Boosting Decision Tree with Google Earth Engine in Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Ke Yang, Ruiqing Niu, Yingxu Song, Jiahui Dong, Huaidan Zhang and Jie Chen

Water 2024, 16(12), 1638; DOI: 10.3390/w16121638

Article: Gallium Isotope Effect of Ga-Si Complex Solutions in Water: Theoretical Study Based on Density Functional Theory

Jixi Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1680; DOI: 10.3390/w16121680

Article: Advancing the Understanding of Complex Piezometric Information: A Methodological Approach Integrating Long-Term Piezometry, Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and Fracture Analysis Using Insights from the “Calcaires du Barrois” Series, France

Mathieu Bertrand, Catherine Bertrand, Naomi Mazzilli, Sylvain Gigleux, Sophie Denimal, Rémi Valois, Lise-Marie Girod, Guillaume Cinkus, Valentine Busquet and Konstantinos Chalikakis

Water 2024, 16(12), 1700; DOI: 10.3390/w16121700

Soil and Water

Article: Soil Modeling and Prediction Methods in Dredging Construction Areas

Qi Guo, Wangming Wang, Zihao Yuan, Zhenjie Wang, Wei Wei and Pan Jiang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1724; DOI: 10.3390/w16121724

Water and Climate Change

Article: Variations in Greenhouse Gas Fluxes at the Water–Gas Interface in the Three Gorges Reservoir Caused by Hydrologic Management: Implications for Carbon Cycling

Xing Wei, Mingliang Liu, Hongzhong Pan, Huaming Yao and Yufeng Ren

Water 2024, 16(12), 1642; DOI: 10.3390/w16121642

Article: Risk of Natural Hazards Caused by Extreme Precipitation in Poland in 1951–2020

Robert Kalbarczyk and Eliza Kalbarczyk

Water 2024, 16(12), 1705; DOI: 10.3390/w16121705

Article: Temporal and Spatial Variations in Drought and Its Impact on Agriculture in China

Wen Liu and Yuqing Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1713; DOI: 10.3390/w16121713

Article: Screening Rainwater Harvesting Potentialities in the EU Industrial Sector: A Framework for Site-Specific Assessment

Daniel F. C. Dias, Morgan Abily, João M. Ribeiro, Hussam Jouhara and Evina Katsou

Water 2024, 16(12), 1758; DOI: 10.3390/w16121758

 

Hydrology

Article: Multi-Model Comparison in the Attribution of Runoff Variation across a Humid Region of Southern China

Qiang Wang, Fang Yang, Xiaozhang Hu, Peng Hou, Yin Zhang, Pengjun Li and Kairong Lin

Water 2024, 16(12), 1729; DOI: 10.3390/w16121729

Article: Automatic Rainwater Quality Monitoring System Using Low-Cost Technology

Luis Daniel Mejía-Ferreyra, Liliana García-Romero, Sonia Tatiana Sánchez-Quispe, José Apolinar-Cortés and Julio César Orantes-Avalos

Water 2024, 16(12), 1735; DOI: 10.3390/w16121735

Article: Analyzing the Vertical Recharge Mechanism of Groundwater Using Ion Characteristics and Water Quality Indexes in Lake Hulun

Hengshuai Gao, Sheng Zhang, Wenbao Li and Yulong Tao

Water 2024, 16(12), 1756; DOI: 10.3390/w16121756

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Review: An Extensive Analysis of Combined Processes for Landfill Leachate Treatment

Ahmad Jamrah, Tharaa M. AL-Zghoul and Zakaria Al-Qodah

Water 2024, 16(12), 1640; DOI: 10.3390/w16121640

Review: Hydrothermal Carbonization Technology for Wastewater Treatment under the “Dual Carbon” Goals: Current Status, Trends, and Challenges

Guoqing Liu, Qing Xu, Salah F. Abou-Elwafa, Mohammed Ali Alshehri and Tao Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1749; DOI: 10.3390/w16121749

Article: Experimental Study on the Combined Effect of Electromagnetic and Electrochemical Processes on Descaling and Anticorrosion

Saiwei Zhang, Dongqiang Wang, Gangsheng Li, Xuewu Dong and Haiqin Jiang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1644; DOI: 10.3390/w16121644

Article: Effect of Carbon Source on Endogenous Partial Denitrification Process: Characteristics of Intracellular Carbon Transformation and Nitrite Accumulation

Han Xiang, Juan Li, Zhipeng You, Yanling Qiu, Juan Feng, Ji Zhao, Guangyu Chu and Xiaoxia Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1645; DOI: 10.3390/w16121645

Article: Mechanism of Crude Oil Biodegradation in Bioreactors: A Model Approach

Carlos Costa and Nicolás Millán

Water 2024, 16(12), 1653; DOI: 10.3390/w16121653

Article: Efficient H₂O₂ Production and Activation by Air Diffusion Cathode Combined with Ultraviolet for Lake Water Treatment: A Long-Term Evaluation

Hui Hong, Shiwei Xie, Aoxue Qiu, Yuming Yao, Wenzhe Jiang, Jilei Li, Zihao Wan, Shengjie Xiang, Chenyi Xi, Jingxian Xiao and Na Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1658; DOI: 10.3390/w16121658

Article: Enhanced Biological Nitrate Removal from Groundwater in Humid Tropical Regions Using Corn Cob-Based Permeable Reactive Barriers: A Case Study from Panama

Graciela Cecilia Sánchez Hidalgo, Maria De Los Ángeles Ortega and Euclides Deago

Water 2024, 16(12), 1668; DOI: 10.3390/w16121668

Article: Nutrient Recovery via Struvite Precipitation from Wastewater Treatment Plants: Influence of Operating Parameters, Coexisting Ions, and Seeding

Andreia F. Santos, Luísa S. Mendes, Paula Alvarenga, Licínio M. Gando-Ferreira and Margarida J. Quina

Water 2024, 16(12), 1675; DOI: 10.3390/w16121675

Article: Hydroxyl Radical-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes of Red Reactive Dyes by Ultrafine Bubbles Method

Dedeh Rosmaniar Sofia, Eko Sulistio Hanam, Sunardi Sunardi, Dadan Sumiarsa and I Made Joni

Water 2024, 16(12), 1678; DOI: 10.3390/w16121678

Article: New Strategy to Maximize Phosphorus Utilization of Sewage Sludge Incineration Ash for Struvite Crystallization

Nari Park, Miseon Kim, Jinhong Jung, Sanghoon Ji and Weonjae Kim

Water 2024, 16(12), 1682; DOI: 10.3390/w16121682

Article: Enhanced Electricity Generation in Solar-Driven Photo-Bioelectrochemical Cells Equipped with Co₃(PO₄)₂/Mg(OH)₂ Photoanode

Razieh Rafieenia, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mahmoud S. Abdel-Wahed, Tarek A. Gad-Allah, Anna Salvian, Daniel Farkas, Fatma El-Gohary and Claudio Avignone Rossa

Water 2024, 16(12), 1683; DOI: 10.3390/w16121683

Article: Efficient and Rapid Combined Electrocoagulation–Filtration of Arsenic in Drinking Water

Najeebullah Channa, Tanveer A. Gadhi, Rasool Bux Mahar, Imran Ali, Sana Sajjad, Francesca S. Freyria, Barbara Bonelli, Sonke Widderich and Franz-Bernd Frechen

Water 2024, 16(12), 1684; DOI: 10.3390/w16121684

Article: Recovery of Sb(Ⅲ) from Aqueous Solution as Cubic Sb₂O₃ by Fluidized-Bed Granulation Process

Jingjing Yang, Jie Zhang, Jintong Liu, Quanxin Yang, Bingdang Wu, Xiaoyi Xu and Tianyin Huang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1690; DOI: 10.3390/w16121690

Article: Degradation of Atrazine by Flow-Through UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes: Roles of Light Source and Chlorine Addition

Suona Zhang, Tao Han, Li You, Jing Zhong, Huimin Zhang, Xiaojun Hu and Wentao Li

Water 2024, 16(12), 1697; DOI: 10.3390/w16121697

Article: Enhancing Decision Fusion for Wastewater Treatment System Selection Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Gray Analytic Hierarchy Process

Tahmineh Zhian, Seyed Arman Hashemi Monfared, Mohsen Rashki and Gholamreza Azizyan

Water 2024, 16(12), 1709; DOI: 10.3390/w16121709

Article: Research on Carbon Dioxide-Assisted Electrocoagulation Technology for Treatment of Divalent Cations in Water

Baoqi Chang, Guangpu Li, Fuqiang Guo, Shuang Lu, Yuhao Peng and Junwei Hou

Water 2024, 16(12), 1715; DOI: 10.3390/w16121715

Article: Performance of Treating Surfactant-Containing Wastewater by Using Algal–Bacterial Granular Sludge

Hanxiao Wang, Tongtong Liu and Xiaoshuai Hang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1717; DOI: 10.3390/w16121717

Article: Physical Model Test of Deformation Self-Adaptive Mechanism of Landslide Mass

He Yang, Minggao Tang, Xianxuan Xiao, Guojun Cai, Yong Wei, Songlin Li, Huajin Li and Jingwei Xie

Water 2024, 16(12), 1720; DOI: 10.3390/w16121720

Article: Ozonation as Pretreatment of Digested Swine Manure Prior to Microalgae Culture

César Ruiz Palomar, Alfonso García Álvaro, Daphne Hermosilla, Antonio Gascó, Raúl Muñoz and Ignacio de Godos

Water 2024, 16(12), 1740; DOI: 10.3390/w16121740

Article: Performance of Iron-Doped Titanium Dioxide-Loaded Activated Carbon Composite Synthesized by Simplified Sol–Gel Method for Ciprofloxacin Degradation under Ultraviolet Light

Ye Yuan, Jianguo Cui and Feng Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1739; DOI: 10.3390/w16121739

Article: Surface Modification of PVDF and PTFE Hollow Fiber Membranes for Enhanced Nitrogen Removal in a Membrane-Aerated Biofilm Reactor

Wenfeng Zai, Yangman Chen, Qingdong Qin, Xiangkun Li and Dezhao Liu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1747; DOI: 10.3390/w16121747

Article: Activation of Peroxymonosulfate by P-Doped Cow Manure Biochar for Enhancing Degradation of 17β-Estradiol

Wu You, Gongduan Fan, Junhou Zhou, Ruiyu Lin, Xingfeng Cao, Yiqing Song, Jing Luo, Jianyong Zou, Zhanglin Hong, Kai-Qin Xu and Quanda Luo

Water 2024, 16(12), 1754; DOI: 10.3390/w16121754

 

Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance

Article: Employing Tank Constraints to Present Total Cost and Water Age Trade-Offs in Optimal Operation of Water Distribution Systems

Tomer Shmaya and Avi Ostfeld

Water 2024, 16(12), 1637; DOI: 10.3390/w16121637

Article: A Comparative Study of Carbon Emissions from Industrial and Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plants under the Background of Carbon Neutralization

Xiaoping Liu, Zhanbin Li, Peng Li, Weiqing Xu, Tong Liu, Shengdong Cheng, Jiajia Li, Ziyao Miao, Lin Zhang and Xing Zheng

Water 2024, 16(12), 1652; DOI: 10.3390/w16121652

Article: Decision Support Systems Based on a Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis to Promote a Whole-of-Resource Approach for Water Management, with a Case Study of Rural Bengaluru in India

Tavseef Mairaj Shah, Chidinma Onyekaozuoro Egwu, Mohammad Hammad and Ralf Otterpohl

Water 2024, 16(12), 1674; DOI: 10.3390/w16121674

Article: Economic Evaluation of Water Management Alternatives in the Upper Green River Basin of Wyoming

Spencer Blevins, Kristiana M. Hansen, Ginger B. Paige, Anne MacKinnon and Christopher T. Bastian

Water 2024, 16(12), 1685; DOI: 10.3390/w16121685

Article: Framework Model for Financing Sustainable Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Zimbabwe

Justice Mundonde and Patricia Lindelwa Makoni

Water 2024, 16(12), 1691; DOI: 10.3390/w16121691

Article: The Improved Water Resource Stress Index (WRSI) Model in Humid Regions

Yuxin Yang, Feng Yan and Hongliang Wu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1714; DOI: 10.3390/w16121714

Article: Water Footprint and Water Sustainability of Agroindustrial Avocado Production in a Warm Tropical Climate Municipality: A Case Study in the Michoacan Avocado Belt in Central México

Diana J. Fuerte-Velázquez and Alberto Gómez-Tagle

Water 2024, 16(12), 1719; DOI: 10.3390/w16121719

Article: Measuring First Nations Engagement in Water Governance in Manitoba

Warrick Baijius, Robert J. Patrick and Chris Furgal

Water 2024, 16(12), 1734; DOI: 10.3390/w16121734

Article: The Water Management Impacts of Large-Scale Mining Operations: A Social and Environmental Perspective

Katherine Arenas-Collao, Héctor Valdés-González, Lorenzo Reyes-Bozo and José Luis Salazar

Water 2024, 16(12), 1745; DOI: 10.3390/w16121745

Article: Impact Assessment of Climate Change on Water Supply to Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan

Tsung-Yu Lee, Yun-Pan Lai, Tse-Yang Teng and Chi-Cheng Chiu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1746; DOI: 10.3390/w16121746

Article: Research on Bi-Level Objective Programming Model of Water Resources Uncertainty Based on Water Rights Trading—A Case Study of the Yehe Irrigation District in Hebei Province, China

Shuoxin Li, Meiqin Suo, Leilei Fan and Dongkun Liu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1751; DOI: 10.3390/w16121751

Article: Establishing a Geo-Database for Drinking Water and Its Delivery and Storage Components with an Object-Based Approach

Yakup Emre Coruhlu and Sait Semih Altas

Water 2024, 16(12), 1753; DOI: 10.3390/w16121753

Water Quality and Contamination

Article: A Framework to Evaluate Groundwater Quality and the Relationship between Rock Weathering and Groundwater Hydrogeochemistry in the Tropical Zone: A Case Study of Coastal Aquifer Arroyo Grande, in the Caribbean Region of Colombia

Carlos Arroyo-Figueroa, Dayana Carolina Chalá, Guillermo Gutiérrez-Ribon and Edgar Quiñones-Bolaños

Water 2024, 16(12), 1650; DOI: 10.3390/w16121650

Article: Assessment of Drinking Water Quality in Northern Ethiopia Rural Area: A Case Study of Farta District, South Gondar Zone

Mesenbet Fentie, Eshetu Assefa, Dagnachew Aklog, Adugnaw Tadesse and Eshetu Janka

Water 2024, 16(12), 1651; DOI: 10.3390/w16121651

Article: Evaluation of River and Groundwater Quality in the Mzimvubu to Tsitsikamma Water Management Area (WMA7)

Lawrence Humbulani Mulangaphuma, David Odusanya and Nebo Jovanovic

Water 2024, 16(12), 1654; DOI: 10.3390/w16121654

Article: Hydrochemical Characteristics and Evolution under the Influence of Multiple Anthropogenic Activities in Karst Aquifers, Northern China

Chao Zhang, Baoxiang Zhang, Wenqing Zhang, Junyu Zou, Ruoyu Jia and Yuesuo Yang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1656; DOI: 10.3390/w16121656

Article: Modeling the Impact of Land Use Changes and Wastewater Treatment on Water Quality and Ecosystem Services in the Yongding River Basin, North China

Dan Dai and Angelos Alamanos

Water 2024, 16(12), 1701; DOI: 10.3390/w16121701

Article: Water Geochemistry and Inorganic Quality: Case of the Lower Rusizi Plain Aquifer, North-Western Burundi

Pierre Claver Ngenzebuhoro, Alain Dassargues, Tarik Bahaj and Othmane Hammani

Water 2024, 16(12), 1712; DOI: 10.3390/w16121712

Article: On-Site Chlorine: A Promising Technology in Drinking Water Treatment in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Guzmán Siomara, Quispe Wilber, Esenarro Doris and Ramiro Torrico-Irahola

Water 2024, 16(12), 1738; DOI: 10.3390/w16121738

 

Urban Water Management

Review: Literature Review: Adaptive Planning Practices

Tasneem Rangwala

Water 2024, 16(12), 1657; DOI: 10.3390/w16121657

Article: Hydrochemistry and Stable Isotopes for the Investigation of Water Movement in Bioretention Column Experiments

Yifan Yang, Xiang Zhang, Chao Wang, Lei Chen, Jinhan Cai and Jingyi Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1636; DOI: 10.3390/w16121636

Article: Knowledge Management Model for Urban Flood Emergency Response Based on Multimodal Knowledge Graphs

Mengkun Li, Chen Yuan, Kejin Li, Minzhong Gao, Yuan Zhang and Huiying Lv

Water 2024, 16(12), 1676; DOI: 10.3390/w16121676

Article: Constructing a Machine Learning Model for Rapid Urban Flooding Forecast in Sloping Cities along the Yangtze River: A Case Study in Jiujiang

Zhong Gao, Xiaoping Lu, Ruihong Chen, Minrui Guo and Xiaoxuan Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1694; DOI: 10.3390/w16121694

Article: A Structural Optimization of Urban Drainage Systems: An Optimization Approach for Mitigating Urban Floods

Yukun Zhang, Ersong Wang and Yongwei Gong

Water 2024, 16(12), 1696; DOI: 10.3390/w16121696

Article: Long-Term Stability of Low-Cost IoT System for Monitoring Water Quality in Urban Rivers

Manel Naloufi, Thiago Abreu, Sami Souihi, Claire Therial, Natália Angelotti de Ponte Rodrigues, Arthur Guillot Le Goff, Mohamed Saad, Brigitte Vinçon-Leite, Philippe Dubois, Marion Delarbre, Paul Kennouche and Françoise S. Lucas

Water 2024, 16(12), 1708; DOI: 10.3390/w16121708

Article: A Sponge Village Flood Response Method Based on GIS and RS Analysis Formation—A Case Study of Jiangou Village

Xuanshuo Liang, Ming Guo and Guoli Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1721; DOI: 10.3390/w16121721

Article: A Water Demand Forecasting Model Based on Generative Adversarial Networks and Multivariate Feature Fusion

Changchun Yang, Jiayang Meng, Banteng Liu, Zhangquan Wang and Ke Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1731; DOI: 10.3390/w16121731

Article: Carbon Emission Reduction of Reclaimed Water Use Substitution for Inter-Basin Water Transfer and Sustainability of Urban Water Supply in Valley Area

Nian Ma and Yongxin Xu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1733; DOI: 10.3390/w16121733

Article: An Optimal Upgrading Framework for Water Distribution Systems Operation

Abdulaziz H. Alsanad, Abdulrahman A. Bin Mahmoud and Saad I. Aljadhai

Water 2024, 16(12), 1737; DOI: 10.3390/w16121737

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics

Article: Experimental Study on the Hydraulic Performance of the Horizontal Main Drain of Building Drainage Systems Affected by Surfactants Sodium Dodecyl Benzene Sulfonate and Alkyl Ethoxylate-9

Shengjie Hu, Ping Xu and Bin Fu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1641; DOI: 10.3390/w16121641

Article: Settlement Prediction for Concrete Face Rockfill Dams Considering Major Factor Mining Based on the HHO-VMD-LSTM-SVR Model

Xueqin Zheng, Taozhe Ren, Fengying Lv, Yu Wang and Sen Zheng

Water 2024, 16(12), 1643; DOI: 10.3390/w16121643

Article: Modeling and Data Mining Analysis for Long-Term Temperature-Stress-Strain Monitoring Data of a Concrete Gravity Dam

Tao Zhou, Ning Ma, Xiaojun Su, Zhigang Wu, Wen Zhong and Ye Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1646; DOI: 10.3390/w16121646

Article: Baseflow from Snow and Rain in Mountain Watersheds

Helen Flynn, Steven R. Fassnacht, Marin S. MacDonald and Anna K. D. Pfohl

Water 2024, 16(12), 1665; DOI: 10.3390/w16121665

Article: Hydraulic Travel Time Diagnosis Using Recovery Data from Short-Term Pumping Tests for Rapid Aquifer Characterization: A Numerical Study with Monte-Carlo Simulations

Junjie Qi, Rui Hu, Linwei Hu, Quan Liu, Xiaolan Hou and Yang Song

Water 2024, 16(12), 1677; DOI: 10.3390/w16121677

Article: Analysis of Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Characteristics of Vertical-Slot, Double-Pool Fishway Based on Fluent

Shengzhe Qi, Chenghua Fu and Meiling Xie

Water 2024, 16(12), 1695; DOI: 10.3390/w16121695

Article: Developing Internal and External Proportional Integral Derivative Water Surface Controller in HEC-RAS

Kazem Shahverdi, Atefe Noorali, Hesam Ghodousi and Ronny Berndtsson

Water 2024, 16(12), 1699; DOI: 10.3390/w16121699

Article: A New Numerical Method to Evaluate the Stability of Dike Slope Considering the Influence of Backward Erosion Piping

Zhen Ma, Xiaobing Wang, Ning Shang and Qing Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1706; DOI: 10.3390/w16121706

Article: A Study on the Transient Characteristics of the Power-Off Transition Process of a Double-Volute Centrifugal Pump

Lifeng Lu, Ziwei Ren, Zhongzan Wang, Wenjie Zhou, Siwei Li, Jin Dai, Chunxia Yang and Mengfan Dang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1707; DOI: 10.3390/w16121707

Article: Investigation on the Effects of Volute Geometric Parameters on the Performance of Pico Francis Turbines Used in Water Pipes

Hequn Kang, Qilong Xin, Jiyun Du, Zhan Ge and Jinkuang Huang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1722; DOI: 10.3390/w16121722

Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems

Article: Plankton Community Changes and Nutrient Dynamics Associated with Blooms of the Pelagic Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium in the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Barrier Reef

Judith M. O’Neil, Cynthia A. Heil, Patricia M. Glibert, Caroline M. Solomon, Joan Greenwood and Jack G. Greenwood

Water 2024, 16(12), 1663; DOI: 10.3390/w16121663

Article: Assessing Zebra Mussels’ Impact on Fishway Efficiency: McNary Lock and Dam Case Study

Avery Schemmel, David L. Smith, Marcela Politano, Damian Walter and Jeremy Crossland

Water 2024, 16(12), 1671; DOI: 10.3390/w16121671

Article: Unraveling the Sea Slug Fauna from an Extremely Variable Environment, The ‘Passetto’ Rocky Tide Pools (North Adriatic Sea)

Yann Toso, Francesco Martini, Agnese Riccardi and Giulia Furfaro

Water 2024, 16(12), 1687; DOI: 10.3390/w16121687

Article: The Effect of Marine Pastures on Green Aquaculture in China

Wei Wang, Wei Mao and Renhong Wu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1730; DOI: 10.3390/w16121730

Article: Trophic Status of Lake Niesłysz (Poland) and Related Factors

Arkadiusz Nędzarek and Michał Budzyński

Water 2024, 16(12), 1736; DOI: 10.3390/w16121736

Oceans and Coastal Zones

Review: Arctic Oceanic Carbon Cycle: A Comprehensive Review of Mechanisms, Regulations, and Models

Xudong Ye, Baiyu Zhang, Justin Dawson, Christabel D. Amon, Chisom Ezechukwu, Ezinne Igwegbe, Qiao Kang, Xing Song and Bing Chen

Water 2024, 16(12), 1667; DOI: 10.3390/w16121667

Article: Exploring Integrated Ocean Management Policy in China: Evolution, Challenges, and Prospects

Hao Kong, Yuqi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yao Xu, Gang Zhou and Su Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1673; DOI: 10.3390/w16121673

Article: Characteristics and Sources of Heavy Metals Pollution in Surface Sediments: An Integrated Land–Sea Comparative Analysis in Dingzi Bay, South Yellow Sea

Xiaoyuan Gu, Yang Liu, Shixiong Yang, Jianwei Sun, Qingtong Wang, Haigen Wang, Yuhai Chen and Wei Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1692; DOI: 10.3390/w16121692

Article: Numerical Analysis of Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Submerged Structure in Irregular Waves

Ruijia Jin, Yu Zhang, Zhibo Zhou and Ming He

Water 2024, 16(12), 1693; DOI: 10.3390/w16121693

Article: The Use of Photo-Biological Parameters to Assess the Establishment Success of Posidonia oceanica Cuttings after Transplantation

Arnaud Boulenger, Stéphane Roberty, Maria Margarita Lopez Velosa, Michel Marengo and Sylvie Gobert

Water 2024, 16(12), 1702; DOI: 10.3390/w16121702

Article: Climate-Driven Wave Analysis Reveals Changes in Alongshore Sediment Transport: The Case of the Coastal Zone of a Harbor in Thermaikos Bay (NW Aegean Sea)

Christos Ntafloukas and Yiannis Savvidis

Water 2024, 16(12), 1703; DOI: 10.3390/w16121703

Article: Spatiotemporal Fusion Prediction of Sea Surface Temperatures Based on the Graph Convolutional Neural and Long Short-Term Memory Networks

Jingjing Liu, Lei Wang, Fengjun Hu, Ping Xu and Denghui Zhang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1725; DOI: 10.3390/w16121725

Article: Changes in the Hydrological Regime of the Volga River and Their Influence on Caspian Sea Level Fluctuations

Elnur Safarov, Said Safarov and Emil Bayramov

Water 2024, 16(12), 1744; DOI: 10.3390/w16121744

Water Erosion and Sediment Transport

Article: Ship-Forced Sediment Transport: A New Model for Propeller Jet Flow

Carola Colangeli, Georgios Leftheriotis, Athanassios Dimas and Maurizio Brocchini

Water 2024, 16(12), 1647; DOI: 10.3390/w16121647

Article: Estimating Shear Strength of Marine Soft Clay Sediment: Experimental Research and Hybrid Ensemble Artificial Intelligence Modeling

Shuyu Hu, Zhikang Li, Haoyu Wang, Zhibo Xue, Peng Tan, Kun Tan, Yao Wu and Xianhui Feng

Water 2024, 16(12), 1664; DOI: 10.3390/w16121664

Water Use and Scarcity

Article: Optimal Allocation of Water Resources in Ordos City Based on the General Water Allocation and Simulation Model

Qiwei Shi, Limin Duan, Caiqi Cui, Lu Yang, Rong Hao, Ruidong Wang, Xiaoyan Lu, Ping Miao, Xuefeng Sang, Xiaomin Liu and Yanyun Luo

Water 2024, 16(12), 1711; DOI: 10.3390/w16121711

Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture

Review: Global Bibliometric Analysis of Research on the Application of Unconventional Water in Agricultural Irrigation

Peiwen Xu, Ziyi Jia, Huifeng Ning and Jinglei Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1698; DOI: 10.3390/w16121698

Article: Water Use in Livestock Agri-Food Systems and Its Contribution to Local Water Scarcity: A Spatially Distributed Global Analysis

Dominik Wisser, Danielle S. Grogan, Lydia Lanzoni, Giuseppe Tempio, Giuseppina Cinardi, Alex Prusevich and Stanley Glidden

Water 2024, 16(12), 1681; DOI: 10.3390/w16121681

Article: Dynamics of Phytoplankton Communities and Environmental Drivers in Chinese Mitten Crab Aquaculture Ponds: Highlighting the Need for Cyanobacteria Control

Luqi Jin, Anjie Ding, Jianwei Lin, Xugan Wu and Gaohua Ji

Water 2024, 16(12), 1688; DOI: 10.3390/w16121688

General

Review: Recent Advances in Ball-Milled Materials and Their Applications for Adsorptive Removal of Aqueous Pollutants

Pei Gao, Xuanhao Fan, Da Sun, Guoming Zeng, Quanfeng Wang and Qihui Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1639; DOI: 10.3390/w16121639

Review: Occurrence and Removal of Microplastics in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Perspectives on Shape, Type, and Density

Khumbelo Mabadahanye, Mwazvita T. B. Dalu and Tatenda Dalu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1750; DOI: 10.3390/w16121750

Article: Regional Dynamics and Economic Sustainability of Mariculture Firms in Portugal: A Financial Performance Analysis

Eleonora Santos

Water 2024, 16(12), 1655; DOI: 10.3390/w16121655

Article: Quantifying the Impacts of Dry–Wet Combination Events on Vegetation Vulnerability in the Loess Plateau under a Changing Environment

Haixia Dong, Yuejiao Gao, Shengzhi Huang, Tiejun Liu, Qiang Huang and Qianqian Cao

Water 2024, 16(12), 1660; DOI: 10.3390/w16121660

Article: Study on the Seepage Mechanism of Gaskets at the Joints of Shield Segments Based on Coupled Euler-Lagrangian Method

Xiaorui Wang, Dazhao Hou and Songfeng Li

Water 2024, 16(12), 1661; DOI: 10.3390/w16121661

Article: Fluvial Dynamics and Hydrological Variability in the Chiriquí Viejo River Basin, Panama: An Assessment of Hydro-Social Sustainability through Advanced Hydrometric Indexes

Hermes De Gracia, Cristina Aguilar and Victoria Serrano

Water 2024, 16(12), 1662; DOI: 10.3390/w16121662

Article: Analysis of Water Temperature Variations in the Yangtze River’s Upper and Middle Reaches in the Context of Cascade Hydropower Development

Zhangpeng Wang, Jun Ma, Shengde Yu, Yaqian Xu, Zeyi Tao, Jiaqi Zhang, Ran Xiao, Hao Wei and Defu Liu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1669; DOI: 10.3390/w16121669

Article: Landscape Drivers of Floods Genesis (Case Study: Mayo Mizao Peri-Urban Watershed in Far North Cameroon)

Lucas Bouba, Pierre-Alain Ayral and Sophie Sauvagnargues

Water 2024, 16(12), 1672; DOI: 10.3390/w16121672

Article: Vision Transformer for Flood Detection Using Satellite Images from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2

Ilias Chamatidis, Denis Istrati and Nikos D. Lagaros

Water 2024, 16(12), 1670; DOI: 10.3390/w16121670

Article: Investigating Algal Sensor Utilization Methods for Three-Dimensional Algal Control Technology Evaluation

Yeon-Jeong Park, Hye-Suk Yi, Seok-Jea Youn, Seung-Jae Lee, Deok-Hyeon Jin, Hee-Suk Lee and Han-Soon Kim

Water 2024, 16(12), 1679; DOI: 10.3390/w16121679

Article: Bollard Force Study Based on Vibration Frequency Method

Zhibo Zhou, Haicheng Liu, Pu Zhang, Songgui Chen, Hanbao Chen and Yingtao Zhu

Water 2024, 16(12), 1686; DOI: 10.3390/w16121686

Article: Stability Analysis of Breakwater Armor Blocks Based on Deep Learning

Pengrui Zhu, Xin Bai, Hongbiao Liu and Yibo Zhao

Water 2024, 16(12), 1689; DOI: 10.3390/w16121689

Article: Effect of Coal Mining Subsidence on Soil Enzyme Activity in Mining Areas with High Underground Water Levels

Ruiping Xu, Junying Li, Xinju Li, Jinning Zhang and Wen Song

Water 2024, 16(12), 1704; DOI: 10.3390/w16121704

Article: Dredging Area Ecosystem Restoration Based on Biochar-Improved Sediment and Submerged Plant System

Shengqi Zhang, Jing Zhang, Kun Fang, Ling Liu and Hongjie Wang

Water 2024, 16(12), 1710; DOI: 10.3390/w16121710

Article: Optimizing Flow Conditions and Fish Passage Success in Vertical Slot Fishways: Lessons from Fish Behavior Observations

Damien Calluaud, Vincent Cornu, Philippe Baran, Gérard Pineau, Pierre Sagnes and Laurent David

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