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Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 18 April 2022

Elaine would not 'toot' her own horn so I will. Here is a great little article she wrote for AWRA's March-April 2022 issue of Water Resources IMPACT The Lakes Sampler. It's a fascinating story of the creation and demise of the great lakes that once occupied the Great Basin - mainly Utah, Nevada and yes, even Oregon. Think Great Salt Lake, Pyramid Lake (Nevada), and yes, Oregon's Lake Abert and Summer Lake, both remnants of Lake Chewaucan.

Read 'Pluvial Lakes of the Great Basin'. 

And from the same issue here is the Steven Sadro & Adrianne Smits article: 'Snowpack Up, Snowpack Down: What Does Climate Change Mean for Mountain Lakes?'.

Enjoy!

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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.

Geoscience Bulletin Board – 18 April 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

$13.3B USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is most expensive warship ever built & is ready for deployment - to replace Nimitz-class carriers

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/most-expensive-warship-ever-built-215700633.html

International Seabed Authority (ISA) negotiation development of deep sea mining regulations

• https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/a-huge-mistake-concerns-rise-as-deep-sea-mining-negotiations-progress/

Monterey Bay Aquarium opens new exhibit showcasing creatures from the ocean depths

• https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey-bay-aquariums-opens-new-deep-sea-exhibit/39656346#

The mystery of increasing methane in the atmosphere

• https://eos.org/articles/a-climate-mystery-warns-us-to-heed-the-unknown

New database may help unravel the geological history of Colombia

• https://eos.org/science-updates/a-puzzle-mat-for-assembling-colombias-geologic-history
• Interactive map: https://www.colombiangeochrondatabase.uni-kiel.de/geo/

Lightning may have been more difficult to spark in the primordial atmosphere of Earth

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/lightning-had-difficulty-forming-in-early-earths-atmosphere
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL097504

Visualizing Carlin-type gold deposits

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/everything-you-need-to-know-on-carlin-type-gold-deposits/

Visualizing zinc in a low-carbon economy and renewable energy production

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/understanding-zincs-role-in-a-low-carbon-economy/

New Earth Observation satellite systems

• Australia: https://www.spacewar.com/reports/Australia_to_build_fleet_of_dual_use_earth_observation_satellites_999.html
• SpaceX: https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Satellogic_launches_5_more_satellites_on_SpaceX_Transporter_4_mission_999.html

Abrupt climate change during last Ice Age being attributed to climate instability when CO2 levels were between approximately 190 and 225 ppm - Dansgaard-Oeschger events (D-O events)

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Study_suggests_abrupt_climate_change_during_the_last_ice_age_was_controlled_by_CO2_levels_999.html

Marine life adapts to changing conditions

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304874&org=GEO&from=news
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28742-6

Long-standing hypothesis of climate shifts as drivers of evolution in mammals is questioned

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-climatic-variability-evolutionary-previously-thought.html

Toward understanding intra-seasonal atmospheric wave trains over the North Pacific

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-reveals-early-summer-north-pacific.html

Intrinsic upper-ocean temperature variability in tropical Indian Ocean

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-unveils-intrinsic-upper-ocean-temperature-variability.html

Simulating inferred global warming impacts & land-use changes on landslides in Austrian Alps

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-simulating-ways-global-impact-landslides.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00408-7

Melting Arctic ice cap may not shut down AMOC ocean current

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-ice-caps-ocean-current.html

Massive dust storm in Iraq sends dozens of people to hospital with respiratory issues

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-dozens-hospitalised-iraq-storm.html

Preservation of unique ichthyosaur fossils buried in blubber & found in Southern Germany

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220407101011.htm
• Paper: https://peerj.com/articles/13173/

Set of dinosaur footprints in Spain reveal that animal had injured toe and abnormal gait

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220406160529.htm
• Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0264406

Listening to Mayotte’s new submarine volcano

• https://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/listening-closely-to-mayottes-new-underwater-volcano-14029/

Solving the puzzle of 2 myo egg forgery scandal – “brood parasitism”

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/949083

Tanis fossil site in North Dakota yields stunningly preserved leg of a dinosaur from 66 myo

• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61013740

M5.1 Sparta Earthquake, North Carolina – first documented seismic surface rupture in Eastern US

• https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/science/G517A/GSATG517A.pdf

Still searching for the Lost Dutchman gold mine in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/finding-gold-at-the-lost-dutchman-mine/ar-AAW6y1u

History of the 231-mph wind gust on Mount Washington – strongest ever observed by a human

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/behind-the-history-of-mount-washington-s-fabled-231-mph-wind-gust/ar-AAW8jlE

Sea water around super-volcano Camp Flegei turned red – may be microscopic algae thriving in warm water due to submerged volcanic activity

• https://www.newsweek.com/sea-turns-red-italy-supervolcano-campi-flegrei-1696861

The Man in the Moon

• https://earth.stanford.edu/news/why-do-we-see-man-moon#gs.x6640r
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm8475

Origins of volcanic and non-volcanic mountain ranges

• https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-are-some-mountain-ranges-volcanic-and-others-not

Asteroid impact forever changed the balance of the Moon

• https://www.livescience.com/dark-side-moon-crater-imbalance
• https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-04-08/moonfaces
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm8475

20 “best” disaster movies you should watch – earthquakes, faults, volcanoes, tornadoes, tsunamis, Moon fall, asteroids…

• https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-disaster-movies-to-stream-right-now

Potential of geoelectrical methods to identify hidden graves

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/949469

Wyoming to conduct state-wide geothermal resource evaluation

• https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/wyoming-to-conduct-a-state-wide-geothermal-resource-evaluation/

Landslides from Tropical Depression Agaton (Megi) in the Philippines

• https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2022/04/12/agaton-1/

Update:  Plan for extinguishing fire at Darvaza Gas Crater in Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan

• https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50372/20220412/gateway-hell-scientists-suggest-drilling-holes-extinguishing-fire-darvaza-gas.htm

California Seabed Mining Prevention Act introduced before deep-sea mining begins

• https://voiceofsandiego.org/2022/04/11/metals-to-make-batteries-could-be-under-the-sea-but-far-from-san-diego-coast/

Airborne geophysical survey completed at Yurchison Uranium Property in Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan, Canada

• https://csengineermag.com/medaro-mining-completes-an-airborne-geophysical-survey-at-yurchison-uranium-property-in-athabasca-basin-saskatchewan/

Call for action on gully erosion in Namibia from exposed pipelines

• https://punchng.com/gully-erosion-abia-rep-calls-for-urgent-action/

Evidence of anticlinal structure & extension of the Mount Carmel Fault in southern Indiana

• https://tribtown.com/2022/04/12/geologists-find-extension-of-one-fault-possible-unknown-fault/

New fine-grained map of radon-gas risk zones in Williamsburg, Virginia

• https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2022/a-new,-fine-grained-map-shows-radon-gas-risk-zones-in-williamsburg.php

Supercell spawned tornado & massive hail that hit Salado, Texas

• https://weather.com/news/news/2022-04-12-tornadoes-storms-damage

Oldest living landscape identified in rock cores of Moodies Group from South Africa beneath Barbarton Makhonjwa Mountains

• https://www.science.org/content/article/earth-s-oldest-living-landscape-spotted-south-african-rock-cores

Examining role of dust and drought in climate over past 15,000 years

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-effects-drought-climate.html
• Paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959683619875192

Photo-essay:  Nianbaoyuze National Geology Park in NW China

• http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2022-04-13/detail-ihaxmtii6876000.shtml

PolarGAP used airborne GOCE sensors to measure magnetics & gravity over North & South Poles

• http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2022-04-13/detail-ihaxmtii6876000.shtml

Video of “Earth’s Bullseye” – the Eye of the Sahara

• https://tulsaworld.com/news/science/this-giant-geological-wonder-known-as-earths-bullseye-stuns-all-the-way-from-space/video_b8a113eb-754e-5d0b-b543-5324f034ccd7.html

Cambrian Redlichia rex trilobites in Emu Bay Shale may represent earlies known case of cannibalism

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/pets/scientists-may-have-discovered-the-earliest-known-case-of-prehistoric-cannibalism/ar-AAWaZzs

Swarm of small earthquakes near Mount Edgecumbe that has been dormant for past 800 years

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/earthquakes-recorded-near-alaska-volcano-231211825.html

Marking 110 years since the sinking of the RMS Titanic

• https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/underwater-archaeology/rms-titanic/history-of-rms-titanic/

Pennsylvania Geology – volume 52 issue number 1 – Spring 2022

• http://elibrary.dcnr.pa.gov/GetDocument?docId=4285117&DocName=PaGeoMag_v52no1.pdf

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 18 April 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

NRCS Webinar on 28 April:  “Conservation Practices on Cultivated Cropland: A Comparison of CEAP I and CEAP II Survey Data and Modeling”

• https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/technical/nra/ceap/?cid=nrcseprd1576043

Over-pumping lowered the water level in the Ogallala Aquifer by 1 to 2.17 feet or more in 2021

• https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/2022/04/09/western-kansas-land-value-could-lose-billions-water-levels-decrease-ogallala-aquifer-drought/9504181002/
• Report: http://news.ku.edu/2022/03/23/groundwater-levels-fall-across-western-and-central-kansas 
• https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/panhandle-runs-on-water-outreach-through-art-learning-about-conservation

$163M funding for Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System pipeline to provide treated surface water to areas currently relying on Ogallala Aquifer

• https://www.governor.state.nm.us/2022/03/31/unprecedented-federal-and-state-funding-advances-important-rural-water-supply-project-in-eastern-new-mexico/

Fauci still denying herd immunity – redefining the term – still pushing vaccines for disease with less than 2% case fatality rate – still believes in myth that virus can be “controlled”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/dr-fauci-says-herd-immunity-is-unattainable-for-covid-19/ar-AAVVL0s

Virus with less than 2% case fatality rate hits humans and there are mandates vaxx – virus hits poultry and the question is how to kill more than 24M

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/bird-flus-grisly-kill-millions-171814477.html

Rabid red fox that bit at least 9 people on Capitol Hill was caught and euthanized

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rabid-red-fox-that-bit-nine-on-capitol-hill-caught-and-euthanized/ar-AAVYAzU

Tourists cited for illegally removing newborn foal from Shackleford Banks in North Carolina

• https://www.southernliving.com/culture/activities-and-entertainment/outdoor-recreation/animals-and-wildlife/shackleford-banks-wild-horse-foal-removed-by-visitors

Question of how to deal with domestic cats that roam free and kill wildlife & threaten biodiversity

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/to-protect-wildlife-from-free-roaming-cats-a-zone-defense-may-be-more-effective-than-trying-to-get-every-feline-off-the-street/ar-AAW0w09

$17.5M wildlife overpass to be built over Trans-Canada Highway in Alberta to Banff National Park

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-first-wildlife-overpass-outside-a-national-park-being-built-over-trans/

Fire at Costa Sur power plant causes island-wide blackout in Puerto Rico

• https://gizmodo.com/island-wide-blackout-sweeps-puerto-rico-after-power-pla-1848763850

Irony:  Washington State wants to reduce emissions but will spend $4.2B to create & widen existing highways

• https://www.kuow.org/stories/new-highways-headed-to-seattle-area-despite-drive-to-fight-climate-change

Perspective:  Investment in water infrastructure does not provide equitable benefits

• https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/water-supply-portfolios-must-be-viable-for-all-partners/

Can digital tools improve use of nature-based solutions for urban resilience?

• https://stormwater.wef.org/2022/04/opinion-digital-is-key-to-unlocking-the-potential-of-nature-based-solutions/
• Report: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_BiodiverCities_by_2030_2022.pdf

Irony:  Federal government requiring sustainable building materials for US Border Crossings while promoting open borders

• https://www.bdcnetwork.com/uptake-low-carbon-materials-expected-get-boost-federal-building-plan

Iconic Nakagin Tower in Tokyo will be demolished

• https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/tokyos-once-futuristic-capsule-tower-to-be-torn-down/
• https://www.cnn.com/style/article/japan-nakagin-capsule-tower-being-demolished-intl-hnk/index.html

New 25-year plan for conservation practices on central & eastern grasslands & savannas

• https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/releases/?cid=NRCSEPRD1906032
• Link to download plan: https://bringbackbobwhites.org/

Technological hazard:  Big Brother wants to control our lives – water & heat & air conditioning & vehicles

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/biden-wants-to-regulate-everything-even-your-air-conditioning/ar-AAVZ9ns

Collateral consequences of California food waste law

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/california-food-waste-law-proves-100536329.html

Argument against government “blog post” that wants to breach the four Lower Snake River Dams

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-administration-ignores-facts-wa-070000424.html

Federal government stretching law by expanding “national defense” to include terrorist attacks & pandemics – EVs are not national defense

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/president-biden-s-defense-production-act-power-grab/ar-AAW2dX9

Government claiming legitimacy of physically mutilating & chemically poisoning children – children typically grow out of ‘gender dysphoria’

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-s-support-for-child-gender-transitions-is-deeply-irresponsible/ar-AAW17sz

Perspective:  WE DID IT!  On track toward an unlivable world

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-n-climate-change-report-080010192.html

Texas will send willing illegal immigrants to Washington DC by bus & plane

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/texas-begins-transporting-illegal-immigrants-135254237.html

Perspective:  What to do with a million gallons of radioactive water at closed Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station near Cape Cod Bay – residents protest

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/explainer-why-nuclear-plant-dump-121101095.html
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-one-drop-hundreds-rally-165320931.html

Perspective:  Cycling enthusiast says San Diego has too many unused & dangerous bike lanes

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/opinion-it-s-time-to-admit-the-truth-and-scale-back-the-bike-lanes-in-san-diego/ar-AAW1eJQ

“Good Bones” TV show agrees to pay $40,000 fine for violating federal lead paint law

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/hgtv-show-good-bones-reaches-212037984.html

Guardia Civil seizes more than 400 protected species in industrial taxidermy warehouse in Betera, Spain – investigating owner for smuggling

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/spain-seizes-one-europes-biggest-124124389.html

Illegal immigration across US Southern Border will be “crisis without precedent in recorded history” – a “premeditated & purposeful” “deliberate crisis” that threatens US security

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-s-open-border-migrant-surge-a-deliberate-crisis-stephen-miller/ar-AAW3uod

Poison hemlock is one of deadliest plants & it may be growing in your garden

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/gardening-control-poison-hemlock-one-094412781.html

California & New York handled the worst lockdowns while Florida was among the best

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-york-handled-covid-19-072439651.html
• Working Paper: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/NBERcovidstudy.pdf

Outdated & arbitrary politicized “rules” offer little protection from virus

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-covid-kiss-at-the-white-house-outdated-or-politicized-rules-offer-little-protection/ar-AAW6u31
• https://www.ehn.org/covid-climate-change-science-2657051201/beyond-partisan-politics

Incident at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, prompts evacuation

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/workers-evacuated-area-carlsbad-nuclear-040553310.html

Selling off 180M barrels of crude from Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not a good thing

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/analysis-u-strategic-oil-sale-050632975.html

In attempt to lower inflationary high gas prices EPA to issue emergency waiver to allow year-round sale of E15 (ethanol-gas blend) - causes more emissions & lower fuel efficiency

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-biden-administration-gives-a-green-light-to-a-fuel-that-could-be-even-dirtier-than-regular-gas/ar-AAW7SeP

Yurok condor program will return condors to the wilds of Northern California – but they will face hazards of wind turbines – energy companies to breed condors to replace those killed by turbines

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/launch-condors-tribal-land-marks-120054127.html

Will Recovering America’s Wildlife Act provide meaningful proactive conservation?

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/driftwood-outdoors-recovering-america-wildlife-100059459.html

Are humans part of or separate from Nature? – implications for stewardship & conservation

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-nature.html

How can nuclear power be called “green” when mining uranium pollutes & nuclear waste must be isolated for at least 100,000 years

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biggest-hurdle-nuclear-power-adoption-190000155.html
• Toxic legacy of mining: https://savethewater.org/the-toxic-legacy-of-uranium-mining/
• Radioactive waste: https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-waste-uranium-mining-and-milling

Marten may be “umbrella monitoring species” in Maine

• https://bangordailynews.com/2022/04/11/bdn-maine/understanding-the-american-marten-could-aid-conservation-but-habitat-loss-threatens-its-existence/
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05791-x

Study says California could reduce water use by more than 30% - voluntary conservation of <10%

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-could-shrink-water-cities-130026682.html
• Report: https://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/PI_California_Untapped_Urban_Water_Potential_2022.pdf

PG&E opts to pay $55M to avoid criminal prosecution for Dixie & Kincaid wild fires in California

• https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-business-california-environment-fires-098f18ec53e70732bb13384a7720559b

Ill-fated Mountain Valley Pipeline back in federal court again – FERC gives permit to tunnel beneath 180+ waterways & wetlands

• https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/12/after-deluge-court-cases-go-bad-worse-mountain-valley-pipeline
• https://www.whsv.com/2022/04/11/ferc-says-mvp-may-bore-beneath-more-than-180-streams-wetlands/

Oldest known case of bubonic plague in Western Europe in 3300-year-old body in Basque tomb

• https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-04-12/what-a-3000-year-old-body-in-spain-reveals-about-the-origin-of-the-worst-pandemic-in-history.html
• Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116722119

Promise & pitfalls of tearing down highways through city neighborhoods – “half measures”

• https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2022/04/promise-and-pitfalls-tearing-down-urban-freeway/365507/

Tool to measure endocrine disruptor chemicals in wastewater in Canada – “contaminant cocktail”

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-endocrine-disruptors-wastewater.html
• Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935121015267?via%3Dihub
• Special Issue on EDCs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/environmental-research/special-issue/10TZJBCC3C3

New sensor proposed that mimics Hercules beetle ability to change color with humidity

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-real-time-ultrafast-humidity-optical-sensor.html
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm8598

Reduce consumption of new clothes by 75% to make wardrobes “sustainable”

• https://theconversation.com/to-make-our-wardrobes-sustainable-we-must-cut-how-many-new-clothes-we-buy-by-75-179569

Renewing “pandemic emergency” in US means more government spending & fraud & vaccines

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-renews-covid-19-public-health-emergency/ar-AAWbaqa

NOAA says methane feedback loop is now beyond human control – guess what? It always was

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/methane-feedback-loop-beyond-humans-ability-to-control-may-have-begun-noaa/ar-AAWaFwi
• NOAA report: https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/increase-in-atmospheric-methane-set-another-record-during-2021

California F&G Commission says Joshua tree is not a threatened species – concerns about development of commercial, residential, solar & wind projects

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-joshua-tree-is-not-threatened-regulators-say-it-could-bring-more-development/ar-AAWbFUH

Replacing 3,000 linear feet of Caruthersville Mississippi River floodwall – est. cost $20M - $25M

• https://www.marinelink.com/news/new-mississippi-river-floodwall-planned-495752

Majority of Americans want a secure Southern Border

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/majority-of-voters-oppose-white-house-move-on-title-42/ar-AAWaWiS

FDA issues warning about Adderall – illegally being sold online

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/common-medication-fda-major-warning-175745175.html

4 men arrested in India for gang raping Bengal monitor lizard – phone contained video

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/four-men-arrested-raping-bengal-012732129.html

New Rube Goldberg scheme:  Computer-controlled airborne wind energy kites

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-high-flying-kites-power-your-home-180979894/

“Buying time” on the Colorado River for reservoirs:  Lake Mead & Lake Powell – demand exceeds supply

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/lake-powell-tanking-interiors-proposed-150022957.html

Bigger EVs mean consumption of more energy and generation of more emissions

• https://qz.com/2154558/big-electric-trucks-and-suvs-are-the-new-gas-guzzlers/?utm_source=YPL

Perspective:  Earth will survive climate change – humans maybe not

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/letters-editor-save-planet-earth-100007168.html

Consequences for personally taking risk of illegally crossing the US Border wall

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mexican-woman-dies-entangled-crossing-arizona-border-wall/ar-AAWewXo

Hubris has no limits:  Control the weather using chaos theory & “butterfly effect” perturbations

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-say-they-can-control-the-weather-using-chaos-theory/ar-AAWdvka
• Paper: https://npg.copernicus.org/articles/29/133/2022/

Drought depletes Owens Lake – little water to flow through LA Aqueduct

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/as-drought-hammers-mono-lake-thirsty-los-angeles-must-look-elsewhere-for-water/ar-AAWfOSz
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-scheming-69592006/
• https://waterandpower.org/museum/Construction_of_the_LA_Aqueduct.html

Recognizing cluster of brain cancer in former students & staff of Colonia High School

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/colonia-high-school-begin-air-193824468.html

SCOTUS may limit EPA authority to limit CO2 emissions from power plants

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-may-toss-an-important-tool-for-regulating-climate-change-204219368.html

OceanaGold has struck deal with environmentalists over expansion of operation in Lancaster County – to set aside additional $10M for cleanups

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/billions-dollars-stake-huge-gold-223845346.html

Perspective:  Give Passamaquoddy Tribe control over its drinking water supply

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-passamaquoddy-tribe-control-over-115600940.html

High arsenic levels exceeding public health guidelines in water in East Coachella Valley

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/toxic-shower-water-sewage-pits-120048193.html

Amanita phalloides – death cap mushroom have now invaded Idaho

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/invasive-poisonous-mushroom-emerges-boise-100000176.html
• IDHW: https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/news/highly-poisonous-death-cap-mushroom-identified-boise

Update:  the on-going saga of Nebraska vs Colorado for Platte River water

• https://apnews.com/article/business-pete-ricketts-denver-colorado-nebraska-2c99b5a7b0b8a6c360095b40be2f5532

A new model for forecasting snowpack

• https://kutv.com/news/local/researchers-developing-new-snowpack-forecast-model-to-better-understand-water-conservation

Dual sensing health monitoring system for spent nuclear fuel

• https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/engineers-developing-dual-sensing-health-monitoring-system-for-spent-nuclear/

More fear-mongering as media hypes number of “cases” and mandates begin again

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/it-s-not-over-covid-19-cases-are-on-the-rise-again-in-us/ar-AAWg5EZ

Hidden gate in Delta-Mendota Canal allowed theft of $25M worth of fresh water

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/doj-25m-of-federal-water-was-stolen-through-a-secret-gate-in-the-delta-mendota-canal/ar-AAWeVtm

Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge upholds decision to stop 1,650-home development due to inadequate environmental assessment

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/court-upholds-decision-that-stopped-development-in-pittsburg-s-hills/ar-AAWfYRT

North Carolina power plant generates electricity form poultry waste & wood chips – repeated emissions violations & fines – public opposes application for major source permit

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10042022/a-biomass-power-plant-in-rural-north-carolina-reignites-concerns-over-clean-energy-and-environmental-justice/

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 18 April 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

 

Web tool launched of the largest map of kelp forest canopy

• https://patch.com/connecticut/newmilford/worlds-largest-dynamic-kelp-map-launched-nodx-20220406
• Map: https://kelpwatch.org/

Right whale protections must be implemented by regulators & wind power developers

• https://www.nationalfisherman.com/scientist-says-right-whale-protections-critical-for-offshore-wind

Thousands of calico scallops washed up onto Satellite Beach in Florida

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/scallop-mystery-washes-satellite-beach-194548352.html

If sea level rises then coastal population would have to move to higher ground – including Houston where Texas coast has subsided about 2 feet over last century due to excessive groundwater pumping

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/happening-now-rising-sea-levels-100010860.html

Contemplating mini desalination plants to provide water for the West Coast

• https://www.popsci.com/environment/desalination-drought-california/

 

Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge is expanded

• https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-haaland-celebrates-expansion-bayou-sauvage-urban-national-wildlife-refuge
• Refuge: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/bayou-sauvage-urban

California Coastal Commission approves 6-month closure of Point La Jolla during sea lion pupping

• https://www.lajollalight.com/news/story/2022-04-08/coastal-commission-oks-six-month-seasonal-closure-of-point-la-jolla-and-includes-most-of-boomer-beach

Liberia trying to balance coastal defense and coastal economy in Monrovia

• https://www.stripes.com/theaters/africa/2022-04-09/liberia-capital-keep-sea-out-without-hurting-coastal-economy-5633925.html

Proposal to send another $150M on futile coastal restoration & protection projects in Louisiana

• https://www.americanpress.com/2022/04/05/governor-commits-150m-to-coastal-restoration/

California Coastal Commission tasks Orange County with enforcing laws to prevent breaching sand berm at Aliso Creek terminus to prevent releasing polluted runoff into the ocean

• https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/orange-county-shrugs-off-coastal-commission-cures-for-aliso-creek-breaches/

High Ground Hikes to be hosted to educate people on tsunami preparedness in British Columbia

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tsunamie-preparedness-british-columbia-1.6414524

Some communities cannot be saved from flooding along subsiding Louisiana coast

• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/difficult-conversations-how-rising-sea-levels-threaten-the-lives-of-louisianas-coastal-residents

$154M “jug handle bridge” to cross over Pamlico Sound impinges on wildlife refuge

• https://apnews.com/article/business-north-carolina-lifestyle-wildlife-environment-fdd676bbca600333868c0913e36a235e

Seasonal dog ban on Combers Beach to protect migratory seabirds in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/04/new-seasonal-dog-ban-part-pacific-rim-national-park-reserve

Living seawalls to be constructed to “protect” Embarcadero area of San Francisco – estimated cost $1M

• https://sfist.com/2022/04/09/a-living-seawall-is-coming-to-san-franciscos-embarcadero-this-summer/

Update on annual dredging in Beaufort Harbor – is it enough?

• https://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/article_2e69c5ce-baad-11ec-b06d-87cfbfc54e3d.html

Update:  21.8 km=long 6-lane Mumbai Trans Harbour Link bridge is roughly 76% complete

• https://www.livemint.com/news/india/mumbai-india-s-longest-sea-bridge-set-to-complete-76-construction-over-11649832827200.html

$25.2M appropriation to allow US Army COE to rebuild sone dike for Plymouth Long Beach

• https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/old-colony-memorial/2022/04/13/federal-funds-would-plug-gaps-plymouths-barrier-beach/9483612002/

Contemplating yet more sea walls in Florida – estimated cost of $75B to raise & repair existing sea walls

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article260172910.html

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

Perspective:  Geologist takes issue with behavior of member of Board of Supervisors

• https://www.times-standard.com/2022/04/02/my-word-geologist-takes-issue-with-behavior-of-supervisor/

The “geological wonderland” on Pluto

• https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2022/04/astronomers-discover-geological-wonderland-on-pluto/
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29056-3

Understanding Earth tides

• https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/weather/2022/03/28/earth-tides

Geologists continuing to monitor Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano

• https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50162/20220330/geologists-still-continues-investigate-historic-tonga-eruption.htm
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZVVwqZ0rs

Geology is important to many aspects of daily life – celebrate Geologists Day

• https://www.ibtimes.com.au/geologists-day-significance-interesting-geology-facts-1806030
• https://thedaily.case.edu/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-geology/

Predicting rate of carbon transfer in the ocean based on bacterial activity that alters sinking particulates

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-carbon-ocean-based-deep-diving.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29297-2

Update: “real possibility of volcanic eruption” in São Jorge but “no evidence that it is imminent”

• https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2022-04-04/real-possibility-of-volcanic-eruption/66201

Massive old sea ice broke from land glacier “Marie Byrd Land” in Antarctica caused by natural processes relating to calving – not “human-induced climate change”

• https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50225/20220404/massive-old-sea-ice-breaks-marie-byrd-land-antarctica.htm
• Paper: https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/5061/2021/

Two confess to killing geologists & military escort in Moroto District region bordering South Sudan & Kenya

• https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/two-confess-to-killing-three-geologists-two-updf-soldiers-in-moroto-police-3771016

Photo-essay:  “three-colored lakes” in Tibet

• http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0404/c90000-10079930.html

Transboundary Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in Bhutan

• https://kuenselonline.com/has-bhutan-overlooked-the-transboundary-glof-threat-so-far/

Planetary geology:  Plate tectonics are active on Venus – “pack ice” patterns

• https://www.studyfinds.org/venus-geologically-active/
• https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/06/pack-ice-tectonics-venus-geology/
• Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2025919118

World Meteorological Organization verifies and documents weather records

• https://eos.org/science-updates/chronicling-the-hottest-coldest-windiest-and-rainiest-weather

Geophysical inversion accuracy depends on the model that is employed

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/testing-a-machine-learning-approach-to-geophysical-inversion

Water content influences the depths at which magma lingers & may constrain eruption models

• https://eos.org/articles/magma-lingers-at-different-depths-on-the-basis-of-its-water-content

Construction project caused damage to 100 myo Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite in Utah

• https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090870392/utah-dinosaur-tracks-damage-construction-project

Understanding earthquakes generated by fracking

• https://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/new-fracking-generated-earthquakes-discovered-14016/

Citizen-seismologists capture M7.2 earthquake in Haiti

• https://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/haiti-earthquake-captured-by-citizen-seismologists-13942/

Shallow waters can ‘trap’ tsunamis caused by submarine landslides

• https://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/shallow-waters-trap-silent-tsunamis-from-volcanic-landslides-13859/

Toward understanding 5 element veins of silver, cobalt, nickel, bismuth and arsenic

• https://www.geologyforinvestors.com/five-element-veins-a-little-understood-silver-cobalt-source/

Seeking integrated geological models for Danish offshore wind farms on Bornholm Island in Baltic Sea

• https://www.offshorewind.biz/2022/04/05/geological-models-sought-for-danish-energy-island-offshore-wind-farms/

“Northumberland Rocks” relates 425 million years of geological history

• https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/northumberland-rocks-the-sill-launch-23592375

Sediments exposed by drought reveal decades of Lake Powell history

• https://attheu.utah.edu/uncategorized/exposed-sediments-reveal-decades-of-lake-powell-history/
• Paper: https://thesedimentaryrecord.scholasticahq.com/article/33914-sedimentary-record-of-annual-decadal-timescale-reservoir-dynamics-anthropogenic-stratigraphy-of-lake-powell-utah-u-s-a

The hunt for gold in Northern Minnesota

• https://www.kbjr6.com/2022/04/06/new-developments-hunt-northern-minnesota-gold/

Sampling helps identify targets for Rare Earths at Hines Hill project in Western Australia

• https://thewest.com.au/business/public-companies/white-cliff-rare-earth-hits-spark-geological-jigsaw-puzzle-c-6342314

M9.5 earthquake caused tsunami along Atacama Desert coast of Chile about 3,800 years ago

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-megathrust-earthquake-tsunami-years-hunter-gathers.html
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm2996

Drones being used to identify weaker zones of collapsing Merapi volcano in Indonesia

• https://eos.org/articles/drones-discover-hidden-weaknesses-of-collapsing-volcanoes
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06765-9

Ongoing battle to keep Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar on the ISS

• https://eos.org/articles/scientists-fight-to-keep-lidar-on-the-space-station

Collaboration between geophysicists & computer scientists for improved understanding of earthquake-tsunami risks

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-collaboration-geophysicists-severe-earthquake-tsunami.html

Photo-essay:  Angel Glacier on Mount Edith Cavell in Jasper, Alberta, Canada

• https://dailyhive.com/calgary/this-massive-mountain-in-alberta-has-hikes-and-an-angel-glacier-photos

Lahar detection system on Mount Rainier will be expanded

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/04/mount-rainier-feature-more-lahar-detectors

Long-term history of deadly landslides in Columbia

• https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2022/04/07/fatal-landslides-in-colombia-1/

Hiking the Aletsch Glacier - largest in the Alps

• https://matadornetwork.com/read/hiking-aletsch-alps-largest-glacier/

High-tech “smart boulders” inside submarine sediment gravity flows in Monterey Canyon

• https://www.mbari.org/beds-sediment-flows/
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JF006437

Glacial melting, landslide and tsunami mark retreat of West Grenville Glacier

• https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/04/06/a-landslide-near-a-glacier-caused-a-tsunami-was-there-a-climate-connection/

NASA using Sentinel-1 & GRACE satellite data to monitor loss of groundwater in Tulare Basin

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_finds_new_way_to_monitor_underground_water_loss_999.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07650-1

Short arms may have reduced biting risk when Tyrannosaurus rex hunted in packs

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Study_T_rexs_short_arms_may_have_reduced_biting_risk_of_hunting_in_packs_999.html

Redefining long-term drought relative to background state rather than historical range of availability – identifying megadrought or megapluvial thresholds

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304840&org=GEO&from=news
• Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108124119

Assessing recent trends in evaporative demand across the US from 1980 to 2020

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220406132356.htm
• Paper: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/hydr/23/4/JHM-D-21-0163.1.xml

New basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic in South China

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-basal-ichthyosauromorph-triassic-olenekian-zhebao.html
• Paper: https://peerj.com/articles/13209/

“Big John” provides evidence of combat injuries in triceratops

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-paleontology-big-john-evidence-triceratops.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-08033-2

Hot deep structures in the basal mantle may be younger and more fluid than previously thought

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-earth-beneath-shifting-static.html

All climate models have flaws – some models exaggerate future warming

https://theconversation.com/simulating-earths-changing-climate-why-some-models-exaggerate-future-warming-178160

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

Billions spent on insurance premiums to prop up farmers on frequently flooded unproductive marginal land – 300% increase in recent decades

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30032022/crop-insurance-premiums-flood-agriculture/
• https://www.ewg.org/research/mississippi-river-region-billions-dollars-spent-crop-insurance-payouts-could-have-been
• https://www.ewg.org/research/new-ewg-map-highlights-mississippi-river-region-crop-insurance-payout-hot-spots
• Map: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2022-mississippi-river-crop-insurance/map/

Too many covid vaccine boosters may be like over-using antibiotics – playing vaccine catch-up

• https://www.montereyherald.com/2022/04/03/is-it-possible-to-overdo-it-with-covid-19-vaccine-boosters/
• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/fda-just-made-warning-covid-165743157.html

Poverty reduction in China has helped reduce risk of geological disasters

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-china-poverty-alleviation-policy-geological.html \
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01096-6

Perspective:  Emulate Charles Darwin – be a polymath

• https://www.thehindu.com/education/craft-your-learning-journey/article65272959.ece

Perspective:  Scientific institutions (and their publications) are going “woke” and hemorrhaging credibility – results in lack of public trust on important issues & policies that hurt people

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/scientific-institutions-are-going-woke-and-hemorrhaging-credibility-opinion/ar-AAVOhAi

Status of the California Sierra snowpack – the drought continues despite human demand for water

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/low-california-snow-survey-is-sign-of-another-devastating-drought-year/ar-AAVLvjs
• https://apnews.com/article/environment-california-droughts-water-use-f42611bda2b9c86c39ada8990d98d72d

California announces $2.6B Memorandum of Understanding on water & ecosystems

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-drought-saps-california-billion-ecological.html

California has $600M in unclaimed deposits for recyclable cans and bottles

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/california-600m-unclaimed-bottle-deposits-002607515.html

Technological hazard:  thinking about critical cyber threats to infrastructure systems

• https://www.govtech.com/security/whats-next-for-defending-critical-infrastructure

$67M in federal infrastructure funds awarded to Pajaro River levee rebuild in Santa Cruz County

• https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/04/02/pajaro-river-levee-rebuild-awarded-67-million-in-federal-infrastructure-funds/

Status of $27.1M University of Notre Dame hydroelectric project & $3.6M rebuild of Seitz Park

• https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/04/01/notre-dame-hydroelectric-project-seitz-park-south-bend-indiana-expected-return-public-use-2023/7190893001/

US Transportation Dept will require installation of emergency shut-off valves on O&G pipelines

• https://apnews.com/article/oil-spills-business-california-michigan-environment-08c03a34f72d8b40ba77465ea94c4ba7

Land bridge project linking eastern & western Saudi Arabia may cost as much as $26B

• http://www.tradearabia.com/news/CONS_394659.html

Disney-branded hand sanitizers recalled due to presence of benzene and methanol

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/hand-sanitizer-recall-mickey-mouse-142652593.html

Comparing cultures:  Dutch directness vs British prevaricating vs American politeness

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/real-reason-dutch-unbelievably-rude-094155402.html

315,000-acre Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico & endangered species will be permanently protected under US DOD and NM Land Conservancy partnership

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/ted-turner-owned-land-southern-113804848.html

Increasing water releases from Friant Dam cause concern on San Joaquin River

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/friant-dam-water-releases-increasing-171231195.html

Population of endangered Mexican gray wolves in AZ & NM grew by 10 animals last year

• https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/mexican-gray-wolf-numbers-rose-to-just-under-200-last-year-2022-03-30/

Almost all people of the world breathe poor-quality air – particulate matter & gases

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-world-population-poor-quality-air.html

Austin, Texas, should anticipate impacts of severe drought

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/austin-area-starving-rain-112021551.html

Major declines (50% or more) in avian species in protected tropical forests over past 4 decades

• http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2022/04/uw-researcher-part-of-study-that-reveals-severe-declines-of-understory-birds-in-panama-neotropical-forest.html

Humans generate massive quantities of waste – HHW pollutes atmosphere, environment & ocean

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-global-scenario-respect-hazardous-household.html

Release of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserved did not bring down gas prices – depletes emergency oil reserve supply

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/it-took-just-four-days-for-biden-s-oil-price-scheme-to-go-up-in-smoke/ar-AAVQ8P0

APHIS Annual Impact Report for 2021 – Keeping US Agriculture Healthy

• https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/stakeholder-info/administrator-letters-to-stakeholders/2021-impact-report
• Report: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/aphis_general/2021-impact-report.pdf

Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis) is spreading across western US – soil fungus dispersed by dry & windy conditions – more people exposed due to population growth & human activity

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/superblooms-fungus-climate-change-making-120055711.html

Flagpole of Freedom Park planned for Columbia Falls, Maine, would cost estimated $1B – flag pole would be taller than Empire State Building – want to raise private funding

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/travel/the-world-s-largest-flagpole-planned-for-maine-could-cost-1-billion/ar-AAVS9PN

“Culture War” is extremely dangerous for wolves – killing wolves is not ‘management’ it is slaughtering an endangered species that is critical to the ecosystem

• https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wolves-culture-war-extremely-deadly-113040756.html

Dixie Valley toad temporarily declared endangered at geothermal power plant site in Nevada

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/nevada-toad-declared-endangered-geothermal-182429593.html

Forests to Faucets 2.0 – connecting forests, water & communities

• https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/63723
• Publication: https://www.fs.fed.us/research/publications/wo/gtr_wo99.pdf

USDA Plant Protection & Quarantine labs battle invasive pests

• https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/planthealth/ppq-program-overview/plant-protection-today/articles/insect-management-and-molecular-diagnostics-laboratory

USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) celebrates 50 years of serving the public

• https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/news/sa_by_date/sa-2022/aphis-50

Boreal Forest moving northward – Not a new phenomenon as the boreal forest has been shifting northward for the past 20,000 years since the Last Ice Age maximum glacial extent

• https://eos.org/articles/satellites-reveal-slow-shift-of-the-entire-boreal-biome

Visualizing loss of global forests as humans cultivated more & more land over past 10,000 years

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-worlds-loss-of-forests-since-the-ice-age/

Visualizing crude oil pipelines & refineries across the US & Canada – interactive map

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/interactive-map-crude-oil-pipelines-and-refineries-of-the-u-s-and-canada/

Visualizing humans over time – how many humans have ever lived

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/how-many-humans-have-ever-lived/

Visualizing average gas price in each of the 50 states & District of Columbia – all time highs

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-gas-prices-in-america-at-all-time-highs/

Two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks reported stolen from Cambridge University have been returned after two decades – left in library in pink gift bag with note that wished Happy Easter

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charles-darwin-notebooks-returned_n_624c34f5e4b09817450610e2

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe from San Francisco Bay area was “extinct for all practical purposes” in 1925 – DNA analysis reveals that is not true

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-muwekma-ohlone-tribe-was-declared-extinct-in-the-1920s-new-dna-research-says-otherwise/ar-AAVJGW7
• Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2111533119

Animal cruelty cases increasing in Colorado

• https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/animal-cruelty-cases-on-the-rise-according-to-human-society-of-the-pikes-peak-region

In the midst of the single worst immigration crisis – US needs secure Southern Border

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-deliberate-plan-behind-the-border-crisis/ar-AAVVcmi

SCOTUS reinstated rule that curtailed power of states & Native American tribes to block pipelines & other energy projects

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-reinstates-trump-era-water-rule-for-now/ar-AAVUVDV

Wind energy company ordered to pay $8M+ in fines & restitution for causing deaths of at least 150 Eagles over past decade at wind farms in 8 states – violation of Migratory Bird Treaty Act

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/wind-energy-company-kills-150-171046480.html

Perspective:  IPCC has declared the end of the World is coming – oh, wait, AOC (in 2018) already said “the World is gonna end in 12 years”

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-end-world-coming-even-100015180.html

Suncor Energy Inc says $300M wind power project in Alberta, Canada, will be completed even though company plans to divest of all wind & solar assets

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suncor-energy-wind-farm-project-sneh-seetal-james-byrne-1.6409135

Direct infrastructure damage estimated at $63B in Ukraine for month-long invasion

• https://www.constructiondive.com/news/war-damage-russia-ukraine-infrastructure-cost-63-billion/621564/

FEMA “ineligible” flood projects now earmarked for millions of dollars under 2022 federal budget

• https://www.eenews.net/articles/ineligible-flood-projects-get-millions-in-earmarks/

Wind breaks planted during the Dust Bowl years are now in decline across the Great Plains

• https://www.farmprogress.com/conservation/great-plains-windbreaks-decline

Pennsylvania & Delaware to set enforceable limits to PFAS forever chemicals in drinking water

• https://www.bayjournal.com/news/pollution/pennsylvania-delaware-move-to-limit-forever-chemicals-in-drinking-water/article_9ac9ce1e-af7a-11ec-99d3-e31d8059ebb8.html

New institute to advance water and flood prediction funded by NOAA - $360M over 5 years

• https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/university-of-alabama-to-lead-noaa-institute-to-advance-water-and-flood-prediction

US Army COE no longer needs separate permit for new $1.2B west shore levee of Lake Pontchartrain – Maurepas Swamp diversion sister project

• https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_55ca2218-a963-11ec-ad9f-970ef351528f.html

Sulphur Springs valley in SE Arizona considering a groundwater management district to protect supply from over-pumping and drought – no statewide protection

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07042022/arizona-groundwater-protection/

During the Neolithic, humans evolved to be taller but more prone to heart disease

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Neolithic_made_us_taller_and_more_intelligent_but_more_prone_to_heart_disease_999.html
• Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.833190/full

Redefining long-term drought relative to background state rather than historical range of availability – identifying megadrought or megapluvial thresholds

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304840&org=GEO&from=news
• Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108124119

New strategies for treating urban runoff

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-sustainable-strategies-urban-runoff.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00853-4

Humans need to take more personal responsibility for risk during disasters

https://theconversation.com/another-day-another-flood-preparing-for-more-climate-disasters-means-taking-more-personal-responsibility-for-risk-180034

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

US announces intent to partner with 5 Coastal West African countries (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea & Togo) to Prevent Conflict & Promote Stability

• https://gh.usembassy.gov/u-s-announces-its-intent-to-partner-with-ghana-coastal-west-africa-countries-on-a-strategy-to-prevent-conflict-and-promote-stability/
• Strategy: https://www.state.gov/stability-strategy/

NC Coastal Federation releases Marine Debris Action Plan Accomplishment Report for 2021 – framework for prevention & removal of marine debris

• https://www.obxtoday.com/nc-coastal-federation-releases-marine-debris-action-plan-accomplishments-report-for-2021/
• https://www.nccoast.org/protect-the-coast/marine-debris/
• Report: https://www.nccoast.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FULL-MD-Report-2021-1.pdf
• https://www.afrik21.africa/en/west-africa-fgef-allocates-e2-6m-for-the-protection-of-coastal-ecosystems/

FGEF to allocate nearly €2.6 to marine & coastal ecosystem resilience projects in West Africa

• https://www.afrik21.africa/en/west-africa-fgef-allocates-e2-6m-for-the-protection-of-coastal-ecosystems/

US F&W changed ESA status of Beach Layia – reclassified from endangered to threatened species of small sunflower that grows only in coastal dunes of California

• https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/coastal-california-sunflower-is-latest-endangered-species-act-success-2022-03-30/

Update:  Ever Forward cargo ship still grounded in Chesapeake Bay – suggest it needs to be unloaded as dredging continues before another refloat attempt

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-cargo-ship-has-been-stuck-in-the-chesapeake-bay-for-weeks-now-officials-want-to-unload-it/ar-AAVTNPW

DNA sampling in waters may help document fish communities along Alaskan coast

• https://www.nationalfisherman.com/alaska/dna-in-water-samples-can-help-document-alaska-fish-communities
• Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/edn3.297

In Madras, India, most beach garbage is “Made in Madras”

• https://science.thewire.in/science-of-the-seas/reading-trash-telling-seasons/

Stormwater “heat map” reveals pollutants fouling Puget Sound

• https://www.geekwire.com/2022/first-of-its-kind-stormwater-heat-map-lights-up-pollutants-fouling-waters-in-washington-state/
• Interactive Heat Map: https://www.stormwaterheatmap.org/

Gulf of Maine fisherman look to appeal Federal judge ruling on exclusion zone that keeps trawlers 12 miles offshore

• https://www.nationalfisherman.com/northeast/trawler-critics-aim-to-appeal-court-s-herring-decision

How to see the grunion run in southern California

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/grunion-run-how-to-see-them-in-socal/ar-AAVR5ZI

Can seaweed replace certain plastics without decimating seaweed and kelp in coastal waters?

• https://www.popsci.com/environment/seaweed-bioplastic/

Canada implements new strict environmental measures for greywater & blackwater from cruise ships

• https://www.cruisehive.com/canada-implements-strict-environmental-measures-for-cruise-ships/69322

Final phase of restoration begins at San Elijo Lagoon in Encinitas, California

• https://www.northcoastcurrent.com/coastline/2022/04/san-elijo-lagoon-thrives-as-restoration-project-enters-final-phase/

Economic assessment says £7B tidal lagoon could create 22,000 jobs in north Wales & generate power for every home – residents express skepticism – environmental assessment yet to be done

• https://nation.cymru/news/7-billion-tidal-lagoon-could-generate-enough-electricity-to-power-every-home-in-wales/
• https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/huge-7-billion-tidal-lagoon-23593551

Seagrass and the manatees – restoring seagrass could slow decline of manatee population – Florida to stop feeding lettuce to manatees in Indian River Lagoon

• https://www.upressonline.com/2022/04/hboi-how-growing-seagrass-can-help-save-the-manatees/
• https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2022/03/30/florida-plans-to-stop-feeding-manatees-lettuce-on-friday/

Meadowdale Beach Park in Snohomish County, Washington, will be closed during restoration of 1.3-acre estuary to provide essential rearing habitat for chinook, chum & coho salmon and cutthroat trout

• https://myedmondsnews.com/2022/04/meadowdale-beach-park-to-be-closed-again-starting-april-11-for-estuary-restoration-work/
• Project: https://snohomishcountywa.gov/2710/Meadowdale-Beach-Park-and-Estuary-Restor

Comprehensive report to guide future restoration efforts in Fraser River Estuary

• https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/03/31/2414213/0/en/Ducks-Unlimited-Canada-releases-comprehensive-report-to-guide-future-restoration-efforts-in-the-Fraser-River-Estuary.html

Bolsa Chica wetlands could be inundated if sea level rises – coastal wetlands are dynamic environment 

• https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2022/04/05/bolsa-chica-wetlands-face-dire-threat-from-sea-level-rise/

Most waterways (more than 90%) in Louisiana are polluted by nonpoint source fertilizer & sewage

• https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2022-04-06/most-of-louisianas-waterways-are-polluted-biggest-reasons-fertilizer-and-sewage
• Interactive Map: https://ldeq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=8186b44f9a30453483fedd0df4bad9fa

Santa Barbara proposes “cure” for 100-year-old summertime stench in Andrée Clark Bird Refuge

• https://www.independent.com/2022/04/05/santa-barbara-city-hall-proposes-cure-for-summertime-stench/

2GW Olympic Wind floating giga-scale project proposed for offshore of State of Washington

• https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/us-floating-wind-player-trident-files-to-build-gigascale-washington-state-megaproject/2-1-1195731

“Ultimately, we don’t know exactly what a net-zero emissions energy system will look like, but we know enough to keep us busy for at least a decade" - Energy researchers quoted in @nytimes via @Nature

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 4 April 2022

Check out this from the U.S. Forest Service: Forests to Faucets 2.0.

The blurb:

Forests are an important source of clean drinking water for millions of people in the United States, with 749 million acres of forest lands providing over half of the national water supply. Approximately 77 percent of drinking water originates from surface water sources (e.g., streams, ponds, reservoirs). However, there are increasing concerns about the quantity and quality of both ground water and surface water supplies amid climate change, population growth, land use change, and increased water demand. 

The National Forests to Faucets 2.0 (F2F2) Assessment is a geographic analysis done by scientists in the US Forest Service that uses national datasets to identify watersheds most important to surface drinking water consumers and to look at potential threats to those watersheds including fire, insects and disease, land use change, and reduced water yield due to a changing climate. This assessment is an update to Forests, Water, and People (2009) , Forests to Faucets (2011), and Private Forests, Housing Growth, and America’s Water Supply (2015). It uses updated methodology from Quantifying the Role of National Forest System Lands in Providing Surface Drinking Water Supply for the Southern United States (2014).

Enjoy!

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 4 April 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

Azores archipelago at risk of imminent volcanic eruption as seismic activity continues on Sao Jorge Island

• https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50129/20220328/imminent-volcanic-eruption-major-earthquake-possible-azores-archipelago.htm
• https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/is-it-safe-to-travel-to-azores-latest-advice-as-portuguese-island-earthquakes-spark-fears-volcano-will-erupt-1543611

Avalanche threatens Anchorage suburb – evacuation order issued

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/evacuation-order-issued-avalanche-stricken-003129148.html
• Drone footage: https://news.yahoo.com/drone-captures-alaska-road-buried-140600759.html

Geologic history viewed from Inks Lake State Park just east of the Llano Uplift in Texas

• https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/travel-outdoors/article/Texas-hiking-Inks-lake-park-17023472.php

Perspective on the NeS and geologic carbon cycle

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkobayashisolomon/2022/03/29/manmade-volcano-machines-and-the-unbalancing-of-the-geological-carbon-cycle/?sh=3d2804b9728f

Geologic pulse averages 27.5 million years

• https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50120/20220328/earth-s-slow-steady-heartbeat-geological-activity-still-consistent-27.htm

Ice wall might have blocked passage from Asia to North America via the Bering Land Bridge

• https://www.livescience.com/first-americans-ice-wall

Re-interpretation and targeting for minerals on Illinois Creek Project property in Western Alaska

• https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/western-alaska-minerals-reports-final-2021-drill-results-and-provides-a-new-district-geological-interpretation-at-it-s-illinois-creek-project-alaska-860323367.html

Science fiction approach to ice caps & glacial collapses in Antarctica

• https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/29/if-a-glacier-collapses-in-antarctica-does-it-make-a-sound/

CO2 degassing emissions vary over time with snowpack at Mammoth Mountain in Sierra Nevada – result of solid-earth-driven fault valving

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220329185441.htm

Kenai Fjords National Park has unique ecosystem amid glacial geology

• https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/kenai-fjords-national-park

Proposed legislation would expand the area of Sunset Crater National Monument

• https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1767768/congressman-pushes-make-sunset-crater-national-monument-bigger

Perspective:  Using subsurface diagnostics to redefine “sustainability”

• https://worldoil.com/magazine/2022/march-2022/special-focus-sustainability/boots-on-the-ground-eyes-on-the-earth-how-subsurface-diagnostics-is-redefining-sustainability/

Italy launches new plan to seismically retrofit churches as part of an €800m macro-project to protect Italian cultural heritage under threat from earthquakes

• https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/03/29/italy-historic-churches-earthquake-damage

Landslides on Mount Talakmau from 25 February 2022 Sumatra Earthquake

• https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2022/03/29/mount-talakmau-1/

Sokoria geothermal plant in Ende Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, begins commercial operation – PLTP Unit 1 has generation capacity of 5 MWe

• https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/sokoria-geothermal-power-plant-starts-commercial-operations/

Seismic activity and volcanic history of Campi Flegrei volcano near Naples, Italy

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/earthquake-just-hit-europe-s-supervolcano-campi-flegrei/ar-AAVEySk
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06928-8

Upward lightning

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/upside-down-lightning-experts-break-190941142.html

Understanding the science of paleoclimatology

• https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/climate-ocean/ice-ages-past-climates/

Dendrochronology confirms past 40 years of monsoons in northern Australia have been the wettest compared to past 600 years

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/tree-rings-reveal-a-puzzling-trend-in-monsoon-intensity
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021WR030881

How did cockroaches survive asteroid impacts that coincided with extinction of large dinosaurs?

• https://theconversation.com/how-did-cockroaches-survive-the-asteroid-that-led-to-the-extinction-of-dinosaurs-177118

Understanding seismic tomography

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Planet_scale_MRI_999.html

Exterres Laboratory signals new chapter in Australian space research

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Extraterrestrial_surface_simulation_lab_launches_new_chapter_in_space_research_999.html

Monotremes are last survivors of diverse set of fossil species of the southern continents - Teinolophos trusleri is new & largest egg-laying mammalian species

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/monotreme-origins-10658.html
• Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2022.2025900

Preliminary account of the 15 January 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220329142523.htm
• Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772467022000227?via%3Dihub

A model for blob evolution in the mantle of Earth over geologic time

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-volcanoes-diamonds-blobs-billion-year-history.html

Highly accurate maps of permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-highly-accurate-permafrost-northern-hemisphere.html
• Paper: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/865/2022/

Arctic sedimentary record reflects Mid-Pleistocene Transition

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-million-year-old-arctic-sedimentary-climate-mystery.html
• Paper: https://cp.copernicus.org/preprints/cp-2021-66/cp-2021-66.pdf

To study variability of large-scale hydrogen storage in geologic formations

• https://scitechdaily.com/viability-of-large-scale-hydrogen-storage-in-geologic-formations/

Early mammal evolution seems to have emphasized brawn before brain

• https://scitechdaily.com/brawn-before-brains-mammals-bulked-up-to-survive-post-dinosaur-world/

Dust-infused baroclinic storms (DIFS) formed over Europe in March

• https://scitechdaily.com/unusual-dust-infused-baroclinic-storms-form-over-europe/

Orocopia Schist subduction channel at Cemetery Ridge in SW Arizona

• https://blog.azgs.arizona.edu/blog/2022-02/orocopia-schist-subduction-channel-cemetery-ridge-southwest-arizona
• Report: http://repository.azgs.az.gov/sites/default/files/dlio/files/nid2014/cr-22-a_-_subducted_peridotite_sw_arizona_-_report_hi-res_.pdf
• Map: http://repository.azgs.az.gov/sites/default/files/dlio/files/nid2014/cr-22-a_-geologic_map-subducted_peridotite_sw_arizona.pdf

Geology & geochronology of southern border of Arizona-California

• https://blog.azgs.arizona.edu/blog/2022-03/geology-geochronology-four-75-quadrangles-straddling-southern-border-az-ca
• Report: http://repository.azgs.az.gov/sites/default/files/dlio/files/nid2018/cr-22-c_report.pdf
• Links to map & supplementary table: http://repository.azgs.az.gov/uri_gin/azgs/dlio/2018

Glacial lake outburst flood of retreating glacier triggered massive 18M cubic meter landslide that crested a 100-meter tsunami in 2020 and sent plume of debris 60 km into Bute Inlet

• https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/03/31/news/massive-landslide-bc-100-metre-high-tsunami-earthquake-sensors

Meltwater drainage from Helheim Glacier in Greenland

• https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50200/20220401/meltwater-drainage-shows-rapidly-shrinking-helheim-glacier-greenland.htm

Wyoming State Geological Survey launches web map showcasing roadside geology to Yellowstone National Park

• https://www.thecheyennepost.com/news/wsgs-launches-web-map-showcasing-roadside-geology-to-see-when-traveling-to-yellowstone-national-park/article_11d94eb6-b134-11ec-9e71-778ff26f1414.html
• https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WYSGS/bulletins/31127c6
• Website: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a5c13d9d4d040a0bc0c29e06ecdcf19

“Growing big” among Lantian biota happened about 602 myo during the Cambrian Explosion

• https://english.news.cn/20220401/de1f181dba2141058c01f1ad49aeaa25/c.html

Periodic volcanic activity in Karoo province triggered multiple Jurassic extinctions

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220401094843.htm

Ozone in upper and lower atmosphere responsible for almost one-third of warming of ocean waters bordering Antarctica over second half of 20^th century

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220331121243.htm 

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 4 April 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, political scapegoating & finger pointing

• https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/what-is-spr-emergency-oil-stash-biden-is-tapping-2022-03-31/
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-oil-relief-plan-seen-194900986.html
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-orders-huge-oil-release-181250646.html
• https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/biden-will-give-remarks-thursday-efforts-lower-gas-prices-white-house-2022-03-31/
• https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/biden-release-1-mln-barrels-oil-day-ease-pump-prices-2022-03-31/
• https://finance.yahoo.com/m/42e0bc5b-0791-33f8-a3c3-d7261f5c96c7/biden-bets-that-a-million.html

Understanding the “structural deficit” of water in the Colorado River Basin

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/dont-blame-upper-basin-states-181138346.html

Federal Appeals Court denied Mountain Valley Pipeline rehearing on lost permits

• https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2022/03/25/mountain-valley-pipeline-en-banc-hearing.html?ana=yahoo

Potential technological hazard:  biological research labs in Ukraine – tularemia & anthrax & …

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-truth-about-hunter-biden-and-the-ukrainian-bio-labs/ar-AAVCb5m

Proposed DC law would require windows to “prevent” migratory bird deaths due to collisions

• https://therealdeal.com/2022/03/26/district-of-columbia-aims-to-prevent-migratory-bird-deaths-with-new-building-rules/

Groundbreaking set for construction of $90M Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing NW of Los Angeles spanning 10-lane 101 freeway and feeder road

• https://apnews.com/article/mountains-environment-california-los-angeles-canada-b641c9aacaa098a044cc8410f41af72f

Freshwater bodies and home aquariums can pose risks of water-borne diseases

• https://asm.org/Articles/2022/March/Fish-Tank-Granuloma-and-Other-Waterborne-Diseases
• Paper:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Terry-Conger/publication/257874523_M_marinum_infection_in_humans/links/00b7d52601ff042910000000/M-marinum-infection-in-humans.pdf

FARM Act would restore common sense & fairness to energy & agriculture – remove “green energy” industry subsidies

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/farm-act-would-halt-subsidies-for-sacrificing-farmland-to-the-green-energy-industry/ar-AAVyLp7

“Fair trade & support” for solar industry and planned solar projects

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/commerce-inquiry-imperils-solar-industry-advocates-say/ar-AAVAXQl

Industry debuts 15% recycled roof shingles to keep old roofing out of landfills – may help reduce the 13M tons of shingle waste produced each year

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/with-landfills-filled-with-old-roofing-standard-industries-gaf-debuts-recycled-shingles/ar-AAVCLzX

New study once again suggests FDA-approved artificial sweeteners pose increased risk of cancer

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/artificial-sweeteners-found-to-cause-cancer-in-mice/ar-AAVBNO1

Call for California Legislative Audit Committee to audit DWR & WRCB for gross miscalculation of water in storage

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-no-one-held-accountable-120000382.html

Dublin, Ireland, City Council wants fewer cars and more protected bicycle lanes – residents & businesses do not agree

• https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/dublin-city-council-chief-seeks-to-aggressively-restrict-space-for-cars-1.4837589

Manitoba, Canada, to rehabilitate & reconstruct Rivers Dam in response to 2020 flooding

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-reconstruct-rivers-dam-major-flooding-summer-2020-1.6401614

California again proposes standard for hexavalent chromium in drinking water – 10 ppb would be maximum allowable level – proposal released for public comment

• https://www.wwdmag.com/contaminants/california-proposes-standard-hexavalent-chromium-drinking-water

Official inquiry into virus response in Sweden:  no-lockdown strategy was fundamentally correct

• https://steveblizard.substack.com/p/no-masks-no-lockdowns-how-did-that?s=r

Estimated 95% of Americans ages 16 and older currently have some level of antibodies

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/majority-of-u-s-population-has-covid-antibodies-cdc-says-here-s-what-that-means-for-you/ar-AAVDfB3

Responding to side effects of vaccine

• https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/29/moderna-could-have-a-big-problem-on-its-hands/

US moves toward normalcy but Fauci warns of coming restrictions

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/fauci-americans-prepared-covid-19-174225833.html

Rattlesnakes are emerging in Benton County Parks – be vigilant

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/1st-rattlesnake-season-spotted-popular-212142320.html

US BLM approves conservation group proposal to expand bison grazing on prairies in north-central Montana

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-approves-bison-grazing-montana-205509009.html

Annual sandhill crane migration in Nebraska – Kearney is “Sandhill Capital of the World”

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/annual-sandhill-crane-migration-nebraska-120036401.html

Astronomical surge in fertilizer prices cause switch from corn to soy beans

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/corn-soy-u-farms-rocked-120000134.html

US DOE will begin enforcing new energy code requirements to meet 2019 and 2021 standards

• https://www.constructiondive.com/news/doe-unveils-new-energy-efficiency-standards-federal-buildings/621244/

Need to find ancient aqueducts & buried streams beneath urban jungle to cool heat islands

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90736059/how-ancient-waterways-could-be-tapped-to-cool-scorching-cities

Perspective from ANS:  nuclear power plants in war zones – NPP less dangerous than wars

• https://www.ans.org/news/article-3809/wars-are-dangerous-reactors-much-less-so/

Suspending State fuel taxes will have limited impact on gas prices

• https://www.roadsbridges.com/artba-analysis-shows-state-fuel-tax-adjustments-have-limited-impact-gas-prices
• Report: https://transportationinvestment.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022_Pump_Price_Report.pdf

Organic fertilizer based on TEK encouraged better soil structure & fertility compared to chemical-intensive fertilizers

• https://eos.org/articles/traditional-fertilizers-beat-out-industrial-chemicals-in-soil-health-test
• Paper: https://journals.plos.org/sustainabilitytransformation/article?id=10.1371/journal.pstr.0000007

Visualizing:  Land degradation over past 150 years may necessitate vertical farming

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/is-vertical-farming-the-future/

Perspective:  Understanding impacts of committed warming

• https://theconversation.com/how-fast-can-we-stop-earth-from-warming-178295

Mapping biodiversity and needs within the National Park Service lands

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/03/mapping-web-life

Fungus foils invade crazy ant populations – 62% entirely wiped out in Texas

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/fungus-foils-invading-hordes-of-crazy-ants-and-thats-great-for-texas/

Flooding caused estimated $82B in damages in 2021 – a sign of escalating costs not necessarily worse floods caused by ‘global warming’

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Swiss_Re_says_flooding_causes_82_bn_of_damage_in_2021_999.html

Hundreds of mammal species are perhaps as yet unidentified

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Hundreds_of_new_mammal_species_waiting_to_be_found_999.html

New computational approach for rapid screening for pesticide safety, performance & persistence in the environment – “safer pesticides” are still designed to kill

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220330141434.htm
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn2058

Air pollution dims solar energy potential in India

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-air-pollution-dims-india-solar.html

Nitrosamines are potential cancer-causing agents – prompted recall of some prescription drugs

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-nitrosamine-cancer-causing-ingredient-184025984.html

Feral pigs causing “exponential damage” in California

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-one-feral-pigs-biological-120009542.html

Playing with numbers to justify “green energy” – need accurate full life cycle (cradle to grave) assessments of all components including mining, extraction, production, pollution and disposal/recycling – if recycling is truly possible

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/posts-mislead-about-environmental-impact-of-green-energy/ar-AAVIKbE
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/happens-those-solar-panels-die-130111892.html

Suave brand 24-hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirants being recalled due to benzene content

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/popular-deodorant-recalled-over-elevated-160500949.html

Stormwater capture and use report on barriers

• https://stormwater.wef.org/2022/03/stormwater-capture-and-use-report-identifies-and-addresses-roadblocks/
• Report: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2022-03/wrap-pure-potential-report.pdf

EPA confirms decision to not regulate perchlorate in drinking water

• https://apnews.com/article/science-health-business-environmental-policy-environment-e36e57f1485286919a35d5e7f2e3564b

Increasing law enforcement seizures of pills containing illicit fentanyl since 2018

• https://scitechdaily.com/dangerous-trend-growing-number-of-pills-containing-fentanyl-seized-by-law-enforcement/

Setting an unrealistic goal of 40 mpg by 2026 to compensate for inflationary gas prices

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/vehicles-must-average-40-mpg-133243924.html

South Monterey County Interlake Tunnel project model purports to be beneficial – current cost estimate of $226.4M – working on environmental impact report

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/modeling-shows-interlake-tunnel-project-designed-to-capture-that-wet-year/ar-AAVLlJw
• Project: https://www.co.monterey.ca.us/government/government-links/water-resources-agency/projects-facilities/interlake-tunnel

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - 4 April 2022

Contemplating the effectiveness of polders in the US

• https://ecori.org/sea-level-rise-could-the-netherlands-polder-system-work-in-the-united-states/

Rethinking the use of concrete in sea walls – why not rethink the use of sea walls?

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90733862/inside-the-complicated-paradox-of-building-concrete-sea-walls

 £36m funding for encouraging innovative approaches to adapting to coastal erosion in UK

• https://www.localgov.co.uk/Councils-set-to-benefit-from-36m-of-coastal-erosion-funding--/53933

Designation of surf spots as “wave reserves” will help conserve coastal areas

https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/world-surfing-reserves-protect-coastal-ecosystems

Oceanside, California, approves repairs to coastal barrier despite objection of some residents & environmental group who will appeal the futile project

• https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/oceanside/story/2022-03-29/homeowners-want-to-replace-eroded-coastal-barrier

US Army COE allocating another $2.7B to specific maritime port & waterways projects

• https://www.enr.com/articles/53858-feds-allocate-44b-for-more-infrastructure-law-water-projects

Proposed federal budget includes $100M down payment on $12.3B Gateway Tunnel project under the Hudson River

• https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/03/bidens-proposed-budget-includes-100m-for-gateway-tunnel.html

$157M approved for final stage of dredging of Port of Corpus Christi 

• https://www.kiiitv.com/article/money/port-of-corpus-christi-reaches-final-stage-of-157-million-dredging-project/503-135fd503-b466-4a48-86f3-c704e2f73706

Annual crab migration in Bay of Pigs in Cuba – more crabs following temporary lack of traffic & tourism

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/annual-crab-migration-led-to-sensational-scene-in-coastal-tourist-spot/ar-AAVDOH6

All that is left of $28.5M beach “restoration” project is rocks – San Diego County coastal cities want to now do it all over again

• https://www.delmartimes.net/news/story/2022-03-27/group-pushes-to-start-regional-beach-sand-project

Beach re-nourishment & protection completed & planned along the Dutch coast

• https://www.dredgingtoday.com/2022/03/30/beach-nourishment-and-coastal-protection-along-the-dutch-coast/

Nesting season for sea, shore & wading birds on the coast of Florida

• https://www.theapopkavoice.com/stories/nesting-season-for-coastal-birds-is-here,13987

Street lighting reducing the efficacy of camouflage for coastal species

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220325220653.htm
• Paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14146

Newport considering hiring geotechnical firm to study Cliff Walk collapse

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/newport-may-hire-geotechnical-firm-to-study-cliff-walk-collapse/ar-AAVDZca

Rising insurance rates and flood risks are not deterring homebuyers from coastal properties

• https://theconversation.com/coastal-home-buyers-are-ignoring-rising-flood-risks-despite-clear-warnings-and-rising-insurance-premiums-179603

Costs of Poseidon desalination plant water being re-evaluated

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cost-of-poseidon-desalination-water-gets-renewed-scrutiny/ar-AAVLolB

Brevard County Commissioner suggests culling threatened manatees

• https://www.floridatoday.com/story/nletter/week-in-review/2022/03/31/commissioner-suggests-might-time-start-culling-manatee-population/7236080001/

More than 200,000 endangered turtles lay eggs onshore of the Bay of Bengal in India

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/endangered-turtles-lay-eggs-indian-101643795.html

Ever Forward cargo ship still stuck in Chesapeake Bay despite 2 failed attempts to free it

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-ship-called-ever-forward-144354083.html

Portuguese man-o-war washed up on Florida beaches can still sting

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-o-war-south-florida-150255291.html

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 28 March 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

Humans have drilled as deep as they can go – no way to dig a hole to the center of Earth

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/hitting-the-books-the-mad-science-behind-digging-really-huge-holes/ar-AAVi1ac

Updated edition of “Geology Underfoot in Death Valley & Eastern California”

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/946506

Advanced Carbon Mineralization Initiative proposals

• https://news.mit.edu/2022/setting-carbon-management-stone-0317

Let’s start mining groundwater in Africa as defense against “climate change”

• https://reliefweb.int/report/world/groundwater-world-s-neglected-defence-against-climate-change-endept
• Synopsis: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Groundwater%20The%20world%E2%80%99s%20neglected%20defence%20against%20climate%20change.pdf

Massive deadly landslide in La Libertad region of Peru was triggered by heavy rain

• https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50011/20220321/massive-landslide-kills-multiple-people-la-libertad-peru-several-others.htm

Uranium put Moab, Utah, on the map

• https://www.moabsunnews.com/get_out_and_go/article_d90867fc-a6d4-11ec-8cb5-575922ca8261.html

Pyrite mega-analysis reveals redox conditions through geological time

• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj5687

Thames Tideway geology significantly influences design of tunnels & shafts

• https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/thames-tideway-geology-has-influenced-construction-design-18-03-2022/

Geological framework of water supply in Trinidad-Tobago – traditional & bedrock aquifers

• https://newsday.co.tt/2022/03/17/importance-of-geology-to-tts-water-supply/

The Al Naslaa rock formation in the Saudi Arabian desert – two pedestal rocks separated by vertical fracture

• https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/al-naslaa-rock/

Underground roof collapse in D-29 Darby Fort coal mine in Harlan, Kentucky, traps miner

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/roof-collapse-14-000-feet-underground-strands-kentucky-coal-miner/ar-AAVkTvE

Electromagnetic radiation

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/what-is-electromagnetic-radiation/ar-AAVn8bh

Cost of sand for fracking has increased 185% over past year & increasing price of oil production – labor shortage, steel casing increasing in cost & cost of diesel fuel is at record high

• https://www.axios.com/why-us-oil-producers-arent-jumping-to-fill-the-worlds-energy-void-ddaf048f-5dbd-4d29-a72b-d2c1fa3867fb.html

On the potential of mining geothermal brine for lithium

• https://theconversation.com/how-a-few-geothermal-plants-could-solve-americas-lithium-supply-crunch-and-boost-the-ev-battery-industry-179465

Perspective on the beauty of God’s creation – geologic formations

• https://answersingenesis.org/geology/natural-features/beauty-broken-places/

Yes, glaciers are melting but no “canary in the coal mine” – glaciers also melted during prior inter-glacial episodes

• https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/03/23/the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-frank-granshaw-on-glaciers-and-geoscience-education/

New details on Yellowstone derived from transient electromagnetics (TEM)

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-yellowstone-national-hidden-famous-american.html
• https://www.livescience.com/yellowstone-plumbing-system-mapped

3 geologists and 2 soldiers killed by gunmen in the mineral-rich Karamoja region of Uganda

• https://www.africanews.com/2022/03/23/uganda-3-geologists-and-2-soldiers-killed-in-the-north-east/

Market perspective on geologic hammers

• https://chatttennsports.com/140800/business/global-geological-hammer-market-2022-growth-share-trends-opportunities-and-focuses-on-top-players-stiletto-henry-cheney-picard-estwing/

Rhodonite – mineral of metaphysical value as a stone of power, love, roses & eagles

• https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/rhodonite.htm

SO2 released with flood basalts might have led to Miocene Climate Optimum

• https://eos.org/articles/the-surprising-greenhouse-gas-that-caused-volcanic-summer

Addressing fundamental questions about subduction zone geohazards

• https://eos.org/features/exploring-subduction-zone-geohazards-on-land-and-at-sea

New methods of analyzing GRACE data to document large-scale transformations

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/fresh-approaches-to-processing-grace-data
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JB022489
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JB022412
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JB022983

“Tornado Alley” may be shifting to “Dixie Alley”

• https://theconversation.com/tornadoes-climate-change-and-why-dixie-is-the-new-tornado-alley-178863

Sentinel-6 becomes official reference satellite for global sea level measurements

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/International_Sea_Level_Satellite_Takes_Over_From_Predecessor_999.html

Fossilized fruit of Euphorbiotheca deccanensis found buried beneath Deccan lava flows

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304710&org=GEO&from=news

Potential impacts of large solar storm – a repeat of 1859 event? – video on “space weather”

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/A_large_solar_storm_could_knock_out_the_power_grid_and_the_internet_999.html
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JncTCE2NWgc

Are coronal loops in the atmosphere of the sun just optical illusions?

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304700&org=GEO&from=news

Storage capacity of Lake Powell reduced due to accumulation of sediments from Colorado & San Juan Rivers

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/lake-powells-storage-capacity-updated-first-time-1986
• Lake Powell: https://westernresourceadvocates.org/healthy-rivers-lakes/protecting-the-colorado-river/lake-powell-2/
• Link to report & data releases: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sir20225017

Spinosaurids hunted their prey underwater

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/spinosaurid-underwater-hunting-10649.html

Estimating future global sand demand

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-global-sand-demand-years-ways.html

Isotopic data suggests Mid-Proterozoic oxygen levels were likely higher than previously thought

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-reevaluation-mid-phanerozoic-oxygen-higher-previously.html
• Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2105074118

Greenland tidewater glacier was advancing when Norse Vikings occupied Greenland – settlements abandoned due to drought

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-rapid-glacial-advance-reconstructed-norse.html
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-did-vikings-mysteriously-leave-greenland-we-may-finally-know-the-reason/ar-AAVtpQ3
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm4346

Eruption of Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano caused global scale ionospheric plasma disturbances

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-team-tonga-volcano-eruption-significant.html
• Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.871275/full

First deep geological nuclear vault in Finland will store radioactive waste for 100,000 years

• https://singularityhub.com/2022/03/25/the-worlds-first-permanent-nuclear-vault-will-store-radioactive-waste-in-finland-for-100000-years/

De-extinction is nearly impossible – may create hybrid species mix between extinct and modern

• https://singularityhub.com/2022/03/16/can-we-resurrect-extinct-species-scientists-put-jurassic-park-to-the-test/
• Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00249-4

Impacts of the Little Ice Age on Europe when average temperature was only 2 degrees C cooler

• https://theconversation.com/the-original-climate-crisis-how-the-little-ice-age-devastated-early-modern-europe-178187

Ten pioneering scientists of Antarctica & places named for them

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/ten-pioneering-women-of-antarctica-and-the-places-named-for-them-180979812/

History of rates of movement of deep ocean currents during the Cenozoic

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-global-currents-ocean-abyss.html

The Powell Park and Agency Park aquifers do not have confining bed or specific recharge point

• https://www.theheraldtimes.com/area-aquifers-more-like-geological-deposits-that-happen-to-hold-water/rio-blanco-county/

Illinois State Geological Survey offers online interactive map of subsurface features

• https://www.farmweeknow.com/environmental/state-geological-survey-gives-infrastructure-solid-footing/article_8240ba5c-a943-11ec-b289-874d63d9f8b0.html
• Map: https://prairie-research.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e38e9769e1c04ec29e41dd5ba1c59bd7

Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China involved two pulses

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/what-conditions-accompanied-the-late-ordovician-mass-extinction
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-08941-3

Swarm of more than 2,000 small-magnitude earthquakes recorded on the volcanic island of Sao Jorge in the Azores archipelago

• https://www.sabcnews.com/azores-volcanic-island-hit-by-thousands-of-quakes-starts-evacuation-as-fears-grow/

Tunnelling completed on Ashbridges Bay outfall for the City of Toronto, Canada

• https://www.tunnelsonline.info/news/tunnelling-completed-on-canadas-largest-outfall-9577637

Earthquake hazard models need to be revised to incorporate behavior of tectonic plates

• https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2022/03/groundbreaking-earthquake-discovery-risk-models-overlook-an-important-element/

Ice shove on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin damaged homes

• https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/photos-ice-shove-partially-destroys-wisconsin-home

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 28 March 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Carbon capture may be more of a pipedream than a solution – dangerous distraction

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032022/carbon-capture-and-storage-fossil-fuels-climate-change/

New footprint tools and guides from Water Footprint Calculator

• https://www.watercalculator.org/news/articles/online-tools-reveal-the-water-footprint-of-food/
• Quiz: https://www.watercalculator.org/water-footprint-of-food-quiz/
• Guide: https://www.watercalculator.org/water-footprint-of-food-guide/

Amblyomma Americanum ticks (aka lone star ticks) transmitting potentially deadly Heartland virus – 50 cases across 11 states – no specific treatment

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-heartland-virus-a-potentially-fatal-tickborne-illness-has-been-discovered-in-multiple-states/ar-AAVi0Z5

Eurasian H5 HPAI reported in domestic & wild birds across central & eastern US – rising egg prices as domestic flocks are culled

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bird-flu-continues-to-spread-in-us-egg-prices-rising/ar-AAVhfEB

4 decades of rock salt mining have left overlying 5 urban areas sinking and crumbling – residents evacuated with payments from petrochemical company

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/urban-mining-transforms-brazil-neighborhoods-144057106.html

Clean Water Act at 50 – half of US waters classified as “impaired” – worst in Delaware at 97%

• https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/598628-fifty-percent-of-us-waterways-impaired-by-pollution-report
• Report: https://environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CWA@50-report-EMBARGOED-3.17.22.pdf

1918 “Spanish flu” started in Kansas and soldiers carried it to Europe in WWI – not caused by Pfeiffer’s bacillus – doctors claimed Pfeiffer bacillus vaccines prevented 90% of viral flu

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-1918-pandemic-mistake-that-changed-medicine-forever/ar-AAVjZ4f

Nevada Native Seed Forum was held in Fallon, Nevada

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/learning-about-nevada-s-native-seeds/ar-AAVkGpO
• Forum: https://agri.nv.gov/Plant/Seed_Certification/Native_Seed_Forum/

3 new Sentinel Landscapes – Camp Bullis in Texas, NW Florida, and Southern Indiana

• https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/releases/?cid=nrcseprd1886222

Marking the anniversary of the establishment of Grand Teton National Park

• https://www.nps.gov/grte/learn/news/grand-teton-national-park-and-the-conservation-fund-mark-anniversary-of-park-s-establishment-with-preservation-of-key-parcel.htm

Agricultural practices and water conservation measures

• https://www.farmers.gov/blog/doing-more-with-less-water

Barcelona, Spain, experimenting with “superblocks” for urban living with less noise & air pollution

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90732811/how-barcelonas-superblocks-could-work-in-other-cities
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00855-2.epdf

Photo-essay:  60-mile-long Elizabeth underground railway line cost $25B over 13 years to build

• https://www.businessinsider.com/london-railway-elizabeth-line-train-years-build-uk-crossrail-station-2022-3

Legislation in Washington State would establish & fund school seismic retrofit grant program

• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wa-would-invest-millions-to-retrofit-schools-against-earthquakes-under-bill-awaiting-inslees-signature/

Pfizer recalls lots of blood pressure drug due to potential carcinogen

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-pfizer-recalls-lots-blood-214846510.html

Unique methods being used to steal gas from your car as prices skyrocket

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/thieves-using-unique-methods-steal-104323464.html

Federal Judge rules against directives to ICE to selectively enforce US Border security – drops in deportations & arrests despite high numbers of illegal immigrants

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-rules-against-biden-administration-rules-for-ice-agents/ar-AAVnIah

Technological hazard:  when Big Tech & Main Stream Media conceal crucial information

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/hunter-biden-laptop-scandal-is-the-ultimate-american-information-operation-opinion/ar-AAVoXMG

“Green” stormwater infrastructure in Dallas, Texas, intended to reduce frequency of flooding

• https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/green-stormwater-infrastructure-in-dallas-could-cut-back-flooding-amid-climate-change-13655090

More construction site deaths – concrete wall collapsed & killed two workers in Boynton Beach

• https://www.newsweek.com/boynton-beach-florida-crane-collapse-two-killed-1690643

National Infrastructure Plan for South Africa includes reliance on nuclear energy

• https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-features-in-South-Africa-infrastructure-pl

CRS Report R45342:  Central Valley Project

• https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45342

Dozens of special government agents got sick during 1991 Southern Cross Exercise at nuclear training facility responding to simulated attack – still seeking answers

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dozens-of-men-got-sick-during-a-secret-training-exercise-at-a-nuclear-site-in-1991-they-re-still-fighting-for-answers/ar-AAVsFnT

New reports of sightings of fisher cats in Vermont

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-fisher-cats-vermonters-spotting-153419605.html

Permian Basin nuclear waste storage facility being legally opposed by environmental groups

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/permian-basin-nuclear-waste-project-110034265.html

Late-night explosion of natural gas pipeline in rural Alabama under investigation by FBI

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mining-group-attack-on-alabama-pipeline-prompts-reward/ar-AAVtX68

Prolonged drought may have caused Vikings to abandon settlements in Greenland

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-did-vikings-mysteriously-leave-greenland-we-may-finally-know-the-reason/ar-AAVtpQ3
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm4346

Visualizing the science of nuclear weapons

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/science-of-nuclear-weapons/

More cons than pros will result from temporarily allowing gas tax breaks as inflation continues

• https://theconversation.com/would-gas-tax-breaks-make-a-big-difference-when-prices-are-skyrocketing-we-asked-4-experts-179892

NPS continues to not seek public input on proposals to locate cell towers in National Park System

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/03/national-park-service-silent-dropping-public-input-cell-tower-installations

Concerned about exposure to PFAS forever chemicals?  Widespread contamination in some makeup products – inconsistencies in testing & lack of transparency

• https://www.ehn.org/pfas-in-makeup-2656887006/pfas-common-in-makeup

Boa constrictors can still breathe while squeezing their prey to death

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/x-rays-reveal-why-boa-constrictors-can-still-breathe-as-they-crush-their-prey/

Consent Administrative Order for sanitary sewer overflow enforcement in Arkansas

• https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/sanitary-sewer-overflow-enforcement-5036407/

Update on PFAS forever chemicals in plastic pesticide containers

• https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/pfas-in-plastic-pesticide-containers-3711480/

Montana Constitution shapes environmental landscape

• https://montanafreepress.org/2022/03/24/montana-constitution-environment-stream-access/

UN wants global weather disaster warning system within 5 years – estimated $1.5B cost

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/UN_wants_worldwide_weather_warning_systems_within_5_years_999.html

Financial crises reduce rates of deforestation

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-financial-crises-deforestation-global.html
• Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-021-01086-8

Incorporating real-world complexity could potentially improve environmental “sustainability” models

• https://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Study_shows_that_realistic_models_could_make_for_more_environmental_wins_999.html

Loss of biodiversity poses threat to economic stability

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Biodiversity_loss_threatens_economic_stability_central_banks_report_999.html
• https://www.ngfs.net/en/communique-de-presse/ngfs-acknowledges-nature-related-risks-could-have-significant-macroeconomic-and-financial
• Statement: https://www.ngfs.net/sites/default/files/medias/documents/statement_on_nature_related_financial_risks_-_final.pdf
• Report: https://www.ngfs.net/sites/default/files/medias/documents/central_banking_and_supervision_in_the_biosphere.pdf

Micro-plastics have now been found in human blood

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-microplastics-blood.html
• Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258?via%3Dihub

Company moratorium on power shut-offs lasted just 3 months – DTE profitable during plandemic

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lights-out-profitable-utility-company-shut-off-electricity-to-homes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-times/ar-AAVe6sl

Shared stewardship agreement focused on expanding outdoor recreation opportunities in Nevada

• https://thisisreno.com/2022/03/new-state-federal-agreement-aims-to-expand-outdoor-recreation-while-protecting-environment/
• https://gov.nv.gov/News/Press/2022/2022-03-23_Partnership_Agreement/

In Cameroon, local Caritas following Pope Francis’s 2015 ecological encyclical intended to protect and preserve the environment

• https://cruxnow.com/church-in-africa/2022/03/in-cameroon-local-caritas-puts-popes-environmental-message-to-work

Proposed Order & Assessment for Aircraft Maintenance/Repair Facility in Chattanooga, TN

• https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/hazardous-waste-enforcement-tennessee-1906994/

California cap-and-trade program may be hurting more than helping the environment

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-california-cap-and-trade-environment.html

Compostic sandwich bags are 100% plastic-free, microwave & freezer safe & can be composted

• https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/compostable-bags-compostic-sandwich-bag-review-17029303.php

Perspectives:  are E-scooters better for the environment than other transport options? Maybe – need to consider full life-cycle impacts and personal safety

• https://www.timeout.com/london/news/londoners-how-green-are-electric-scooters-really-032522

Pyrus calleryana – Bradford Pear was once heralded as ideal landscape tree & now called a plague

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/once-beloved-tree-seen-over-100000474.html

Arizona looking to desalination and Mexico for water as drought continues

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20032022/lake-powell-water-drought-arizona-desalination/

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - Complied by Elaine J. Hanford

Groundbreaking on largest North American cruise terminal at PortMiami – called sustainable

• https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/construction-begins-on-north-americas-largest-cruise-terminal/

Geologic hazards & community resilience along the Central Oregon Coast – Hatfield Science Webinar

• https://www.beachconnection.net/news/hatfield_event_hazard031522.php

Humans think they can prevent coastal erosion of the Outer Banks to make money from real estate boom - Barrier islands are temporary & created by natural process to protect the mainland and be battered by storms

• https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/with-worsening-storms-and-a-covid-era-real-estate-boom-can-the-outer-banks-protect-its-shoreline/

Dire climate inaction warning issued for ports if GHG emissions increase

• https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22980905/storms-sea-level-rise-ports-billions-climate-change
• Report: https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/press-releases/RTI-EDF%20Act%20Now%20or%20Pay%20Later%20Climate%20Impact%20Shipping.pdf

Gondolas in Venice, Italy, grounded during extremely low tide (video) – “acqua bassa”

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/low-tides-beach-gondolas-160700871.html

“1915 Canakkale Bridge” is longest suspension bridge – links Europe & Asia across the Dardanelles

• https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-asia-turkey-south-korea-3562ae2bbe9d922ce51d3c3deb8d4ac8
• https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/worlds-longest-suspension-bridge-opens-18-03-2022/

Surfside-Sunset & Newport Beach Replenishment Project would throw estimated $23M at 1.75M cubic yards of sand that will be subjected to long-shore transportation & erosion

• https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2022-03-18/sand-restoration-project-receives-federal-funding-to-combat-coastal-erosion-on-o-c-beaches

Humans continue to migrate to and build larger coastal cities – would “sponge cities” be resilient?

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90732099/how-sponge-cities-can-protect-coastal-towns-from-flooding

Project to address coastal bluff erosion in Kenai, Alaska, will cost estimated $42M

• https://www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/bluff-erosion-top-capital-priority-for-kenai-heading-into-next-fiscal-year/

Erosion forecasts for coastal communities in Alaska

• https://www.alaskapublic.org/2022/03/18/a-new-study-gives-many-alaska-communities-their-first-look-at-how-fast-erosion-is-approaching/

East Coast ports rushing to expand capacity while dredging to move grounded Ever Forward cargo ship

• https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/34761-ship-stuck-near-dc-signals-east-coast-ports-rush-to-expand

“Dragon toes” along Oregon coast are gooseneck barnacles – tourists encouraged to explore but not to touch them without a shellfishing permit as the species is actually quite fragile

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/explore-the-oregon-coast-but-don-t-touch-the-dragon-toes/ar-AAVpWu1

Funding approved to finally remove derelict lobster traps from the floor of Long Island Sound

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/abandoned-lobster-traps-long-island-204959938.html

Jetty in Saco River amplified wave energy & erosion that scoured Camp Ellis Beach in Maine – US Army COE to develop “solutions” to dampen most damaging waves

• https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2022-03-21/there-are-signs-of-slow-progress-on-curbing-erosion-at-camp-ellis-in-saco

Debating the future of the landmark Cliff Walk – rebuild or retreat?

• https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/rebuild-retreat-newport-eyes-cliff-walks-eroding-future-83521956
• Background: https://www.wcvb.com/article/newport-rhode-island-cliff-walk-collapses/39316196#

Less than 16% of coastlines have low pressure from human activities with almost 48% heavily affected

• https://eos.org/articles/just-15-5-of-global-coastline-remains-intact

 Update:  Point Reyes NS Ag Plan failure to address impacts of livestock operations on water quality

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/03/update-california-coastal-commission-raises-concerns-point-reyes-ns-ag-plan

Environmental Group in West Oakland suing to stop proposed port gravel facility that received approval of Port of Oakland

• https://oaklandside.org/2022/03/25/west-oakland-environmental-group-sues-to-stop-proposed-port-gravel-facility/

Saharan dust storm turns seaside town of San José, Spain, brown

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/saharan-dust-turns-seaside-spanish-town-brown/ar-AAVwQSW

As many as 27 LNG terminal facilities could emit up to 117M tons of CO2 per year and cause other significant environment impacts in coastal hurricane zones – “LNG is Bad Juju”

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25032022/biden-lng-europe-louisiana-texas/

Indian River Lagoon needs restoration of seagrass and cleanup of nutrient pollutants

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22032022/manatee-restoration-florida/

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Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 21 March 2022

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 21 March 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

M7.3 earthquake offshore of prefecture of Fukushima – tsunami alert lifted

• https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000h519/executive
• https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/6695469/2022-03-16/14h36/magnitude7-Japan.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/tsunami-alert-in-japan-as-earthquake-strikes-off-coast-of-fukushima
• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Four_dead_after_powerful_Japan_quake_rattles_east_coast_999.html
• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Tsunami_alert_lifted_after_powerful_Japan_quake_999.html

Derechos can cause significant damage & blowdowns as they emerge from line of thunderstorms

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/what-is-a-derecho-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-these-rare-but-dangerous-storm-systems/ar-BB15vco3

ASCE 7 “Site-Specific Ground Motions for Seismic Design of Buildings & Other Structures”

• https://csengineermag.com/new-asce-press-book-aids-stakeholders-in-understanding-seismic-ground-motion/

David Applegate nominated as USGS Director

• https://eos.org/articles/hazards-scientist-david-applegate-nominated-for-usgs-director
• https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/white-house-announces-nominee-lead-us-geological-survey

Geologic history of East Antarctica at the heart of Rodinia and Gondwana

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-antarctica-hidden-geological.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00375-z

Candlelight vigil to honor missing geologist Daniel Robinson

• https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2022/03/13/dozens-gather-vigil-honor-missing-geologist-daniel-robinson/7023340001/

Life at Camp Davis – University of Michigan field station in the Tetons of Wyoming

• https://www.fieldmag.com/articles/university-of-michigan-camp-davis-jackson-hole-wyoming

Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was preceded by small episode of warming & ocean acidification caused by shorter burst of volcanic carbon emissions

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Effects_of_ancient_carbon_releases_suggest_possible_scenarios_for_future_climate_999.html
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg1025

Comprehensive mineralization model for regional fluid flow in Sheba-Fairview complex in Barberton Greenstone Belt

• https://www.miningweekly.com/article/regional-fluid-flow-model-developed-for-a-section-of-the-barberton-greenstone-belt-2022-03-14

Geochemical exploration completed across two priority areas in Liberia

• https://www.miningweekly.com/article/hamak-completes-exploration-work-at-priority-areas-in-liberia-2022-03-14/rep_id:3650

Simulating processes of formation of new subduction zones

• https://www.techexplorist.com/simulating-common-processes-formation-new-subduction-zones/45327/
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00380-2

Field work supports 16 km extension of Red Lake Gold Camp

• https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/03/14/2402341/0/en/Solstice-Field-Work-Supports-16km-Extension-of-the-Red-Lake-Gold-Camp.html

Fisherman reels in a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth of the coast of Plum Island

• https://www.masslive.com/living/2022/03/new-england-fisherman-catches-12000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-tooth-off-the-coast-of-newburyport-tooth-being-auctioned-to-support-people-in-ukraine.html

Tracking movement of tectonic plates

• https://www.azosensors.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=2484

Global ocean biogeochemical observatory will deploy 1,000 floats in Argo Network

• https://eos.org/features/a-global-ocean-biogeochemical-observatory-becomes-a-reality

Biological crusts can protect soils from erosion under drought conditions

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/biological-crusts-affected-by-drought-can-still-stabilize-soils
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JG006652

Seismic network deployed to track slip on Sumatran Fault

• https://eos.org/features/striking-out-into-the-field-to-track-slip-on-the-sumatran-fault

New 3D natural state model of Krafla geothermal system in Iceland

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/innovative-model-elucidates-geothermal-energy-resource
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021WR031254

Flash Joule heating may provide new method for extracting Rare Earth Elements from coal fly ash

• https://eos.org/articles/extracting-rare-earth-elements-from-waste-with-a-flash-of-heat
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/SCIADV.ABM3132

Duo PM300 - Innovative new air monitor for measuring air pollution

• https://www.ehn.org/air-pollution-science-2656910773/air-pollution-solution

In Haiti, “Raspberry Shakes” provide simple, low-cost seismic monitoring

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/when-a-seismic-network-failed-citizen-science-stepped-in/

69 volcanic eruptions recorded in ice cores were larger than Mount Tambora

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ancient_ice_reveals_scores_of_gigantic_volcanic_eruptions_999.html
• Paper: https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/18/485/2022/

Holocene climate patterns of variation in El Niño reveal limits to future climate projections

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ancient_El_Ninos_reveal_limits_to_future_climate_projections_999.html
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm4313

Hutchemys walkerorum – Late Cretaceous-Paleogene softshell turtle from Hell Creek Formation

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/hutchemys-walkerorum-10616.html

Microbes & minerals may have triggered the Great Oxygenation Event

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Microbes_and_minerals_may_have_set_off_Earths_oxygenation_999.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28996-0

Impacts of thawing of submarine permafrost on the Arctic seafloor

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/First_of_its_kind_research_reveals_rapid_changes_to_the_Arctic_seafloor_as_submerged_permafrost_thaws_999.html
• Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2119105119

Meteorites that impacted and added to formation of Earth may have formed in outer solar system

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Meteorites_that_helped_form_Earth_may_have_formed_in_the_outer_solar_system_999.html
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021AV000568

New species of diatoms discovered in waters off Hawaii

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304662&org=GEO&from=news
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28065-6.epdf

Yuxisaurus kopchicki – newly identified Early Jurassic species of armored thyreophoran dinosaur

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/yuxisaurus-kopchicki-10628.html
• Paper: https://elifesciences.org/articles/75248

Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae – Eocene bobcat-sized saber-toothed placental carnivore discovered in California

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/diegoaelurus-vanvalkenburghae-10627.html
• Paper: https://peerj.com/articles/13032/

Do sharks sleep?

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220315141748.htm
• Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0259

Large, open-access visual library provides resource to identify fossil leaves

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220315162808.htm
• Paper: https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/72350/

Model for understanding the oxidation state of arc magmas and consequent volcanoes

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-oxidation-volcanoesa-magma-opus.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-00904-7

Innovative approach to measuring optically shallow water depth with satellite data

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-approach-shallow-depth-satellite.html
• Paper: https://spj.sciencemag.org/journals/remotesensing/2022/9831947/

Using animations to help explain complex climatic interactions

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-atmospheric-scientist-complex-climate-animations.html

Drones detect coastal water flows

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-drones-coastal.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05189-9

Listen to the sounds of the ocean

• https://www.wsj.com/story/listen-scientists-are-recording-ocean-sounds-to-spot-new-species-f4c496ea

Update:  cleanup of rockslide debris on US Hwy 50 near Echo Summit – more rocks fall

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/detours-and-delays-on-us-50-as-rocks-cleared-off-hillside/ar-AAVd8B6
• https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article259473254.html

Global Energy Monitor suggests coal mining emits more methane than venting & flaring from O&G wells

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15032022/coal-mining-methane/
• Report: https://globalenergymonitor.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GEM_CCM2022_final.pdf

Mining Law of 1872 allows mining on Federal Land with no royalties

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13032022/as-the-us-rushes-after-the-minerals-for-the-energy-transition-a-150-year-old-law-allows-mining-companies-free-reign-on-public-lands/

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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 21 March 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Arrest follows fentanyl overdoses of West Point cadets on spring break in Florida

• https://news.yahoo.com/west-point-cadets-involved-mass-000718539.html

Firefighters face risks, including rising rate of suicide

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08032022/suicide-risk-wildland-firefighters-wildfire-climate-change/

Leaders in developing world want out of clean energy transition

• https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/some-leaders-in-the-developing-world-want-out-of-the-clean-energy-transition/

CRS Legal Sidebar:  SCOTUS revisits scope of WOTUS under the Clean Water Act

• https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10707

Technological hazard:  75% of Americans never ‘tweet’ – toxic politics

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/silent-majority-people-dont-tweet-022937386.html

Florida fails to pass condo safe measures for aging condo buildings – citing costs

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/surfside-florida-condo-collapse-legislature-rcna19583

Upcoming settlement hearing set for 30 March for Florida condo collapse that killed 98

• https://apnews.com/article/miami-lawsuits-florida-surfside-building-collapse-2487324356a6f749084e8ffdc2f7494b

Plan for Adirondack Rail Trail will be new recreational pathway

• https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Adirondack-Rail-Trail-plan-takes-big-step-16997039.php

“Criminal tourism” wreaking havoc on towns in Northern California

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/criminal-tourism-apparently-plaguing-well-120539510.html
• https://kyma.com/news/2022/03/14/spate-of-burglaries-possibly-linked-to-criminal-tourism/

Radioactive substances occur in geologic settings and in concentration in many human facilities

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radioactive-material-is-basically-everywhere-and-thats-a-problem/

Ghana Geological Survey Authority warns residents of risk of living around Weija Ridge & Reservoir along the Akuapem Fault Zone

• https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/ghana-news-you-live-on-time-bomb-geological-authority-warns-weija-residents.html

New York “Climate Law” redefines “green” – what to do when buildings fail to meet standard?

• https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-green-building-that-s-flunking-new-york-s-climate-law-1.1737194

High-speed rails really not moving forward at high speed

• https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/high-performance/moving-forward-at-restricted-speed/

Scoring scale tracks harmful effects of salt pollution in freshwater streams & rivers

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scoring-scale-tracks-effects-salt.html

Lower Neponset River named Superfund Site – paves way for cleaning up PCB contamination

• https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/lower-neponset-river-named-superfund-site-clearing-hurdle-for-cleaning/

Chicago-Rockford International Airport plans to destroy Bell Bowl Prairie lands – pave over 5 acres of 18-acre biome of rarest grassland types & endangered species but FAA gave finding of “no significant impact” with just one-day NEPA assessment

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/ancient-prairie-home-to-endangered-bees-and-rare-plants-may-soon-be-razed-by-airport/ar-AAV3cx5

“Post-Earthquake Fire Assessment of Buildings” – ASCE evaluation framework

• https://csengineermag.com/new-asce-publication-outlines-issues-associated-fire-after-an-earthquake/

The global oil crisis of 1973 helped Copenhagen become a city of bicycles

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90730281/how-the-1970s-oil-crisis-helped-copenhagen-become-a-cycling-paradise

Human activity and “management” of waterways contributes to droughts & floods

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/03/12/climate-change-effect-can-worsened-human-development-near-rivers/9452053002/

Arabian oryx became extinct in the wild – re-wilded from animals saved in captivity

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/threatened-species-of-antelope-saved-from-brink-of-extinction-thanks-to-this/ar-AAV8v4T

Russia & Ukraine are key suppliers of metals for “green” technologies

• https://theconversation.com/russia-and-ukraine-are-important-to-the-renewables-transition-heres-what-that-means-for-the-climate-179079

“Total Maximum Daily Load Development & Implementation” MOP 150 – watershed & receiving water quality models associated with CWA

• https://informedinfrastructure.com/71942/new-asce-manual-of-practice-150-provides-guidance-on-total-maximum-daily-loads/

Water welling up in deepest Miami parking garage should be cause for concern

• https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/03/15/brickell-residents-watch-in-fear-as-construction-site-upwelling-continues/

Over past 160 years, US Midwest has lost 57.6 billion metric tons of soil due to agricultural practices – rate is nearly double rate considered “sustainable”

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-midwestern-lost-trillion-metric-tons.html
• https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002396

With ESA protection, bald eagles have recovered from pesticides & hunting, but now face threat of lead poisoning from bullets and lead shot in their prey

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/endangered-species-list-no-longer-100822366.html

Families being evicted without compensation from long-term homes in Yosemite

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/power-shut-off-homes-near-005345023.html

White Mesa uranium mill a mile from Bears Ears National Monument is radioactive waste dump

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/uranium-mill-adjacent-to-bears-ears-has-become-a-radioactive-waste-dump-report/ar-AAV93kS

Inflationary prices of gasoline & diesel fuel prompt theft from gas stations & cars

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thieves-with-trap-door-steal-over-1-000-gallons-of-diesel-fuel-from-family-gas-station/ar-AAV95nI
• https://www.fox29.com/news/gas-thieves-are-on-the-rise-damaging-cars-and-making-trips-to-the-gas-pump-more-painful

M7.4 earthquake in eastern Japan offshore of Fukushima prefecture

• https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/16/asia/japan-earthquake-fukushima-intl/

Debate over “sustainability” of economy by using resources continues and causes catastrophic environmental destruction – policymakers have “pathological obsession with GDP”

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00723-1

WHO Council on Economics of Health Brief No. 3 – Valuing Health for All

• https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/council-on-the-economics-of-health-for-all/who_councilbrief3.pdf

Numerical modeling of 2012 Chicago heat wave & urban heat island impacts

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/estimating-heat-wave-frequency-and-strength-a-chicago-case-study
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GH000535

Once again, the Chicago River was dyed green for St Patrick’s Day – green dye originally part of effort to clean up waterfront areas

• https://www.npr.org/2022/03/16/1086988193/st-patricks-day-green-chicago-river

In Waverly, Tennessee, the question is:  relocate or rebuild to be flooded again in the future?

• https://www.npr.org/2022/03/14/1083643509/waverly-tennessee-flooding-climate-change-extreme-weather

Coping with low water levels in Lake Mead – projected to drop to 1,046.87 ft elevation in July

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/03/lake-mead-nra-managers-grappling-low-water-levels

Pine needles may provide low-cost method to monitor airborne toxic PFAS forever chemicals

• https://www.ehn.org/pfas-in-air-2656884392.html

The concept of a “food system” should include large-scale processed food

• https://www.ehn.org/processed-food-2656809115/sustainability

Al-Heswa Wetland Protected Area in Yemen is turned back into waste dump during civil war

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Yemen_war_turns_nature_reserve_back_into_waste_dump_999.html

Federal judge strikes down Iowa law that made it a crime for animal rights groups to go undercover & film potential livestock abuse

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-judge-strikes-down-iowa-law-to-block-groups-secretly-filming-livestock-abuse/ar-AAVcJsL

Recycled PET plastic bottles leach more chemicals (including endocrine disrupters) into food contents

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/recycled-plastic-bottles-leach-more-chemicals-into-drinks-review-finds/ar-AAVeRNL

PhysiciansCare OTC products recalled for “risk of poisoning” since lack child-resistant packaging

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/5-common-otc-pain-meds-171042364.html

Lake Powell dropped below 3,525 critical level – man-made reservoir dropping to minimum power pool level

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/unprecedented-times-critical-lake-hits-lowest-level-in-60-years/ar-AAVcFPm

But US DOE report touts “grid resilience” of hydropower in power grid in the Western US

• https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2022/03/hydropower-helps-ensure-energy-grid-resilience-report-says
• Report: https://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-30554.pdf

Colorado focused on water conservation measures – “liquid gold”

• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/climate-driven-water-woes-spark-colorado-rush-conserve-liquid-gold-2022-03-16/

Prototype touted as first 100% recyclable thermoplastic wind turbine blade

• https://renews.biz/76442/lm-wind-power-toasts-recyclable-blade-prototype/

Teenage boys are one of “the most dangerous segments” of the driving population in the US – 13 year-old was driving pickup truck that caused accident that killed NM college golf team

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/explainer-driver-texas-crash-13-012709792.html

California man pleads guilty after taking two bear cubs from den in Shasta County

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-pleads-guilty-taking-2-231657637.html

Maryland considering bill to outlaw declawing of cats

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maryland-to-consider-banning-cat-declawing/ar-AAVgFNw

More nuclear waste uncovered during Superfund cleanup of West Lake Landfill in St. Louis

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/landfill-cleanup-slowed-more-nuclear-202516881.html

California further reduces water allocated to urban and agricultural users as drought continues

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-prepares-3rd-dry-few-042043059.html

USEPA blocks illegal imports of refrigerant hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) chemicals

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17032022/hfc-imports-epa-climate-change/

CSIRO trying to end plastic waste using insects and seaweed

• https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/csiro-on-mission-to-use-insects-rubbish-fuel-and-seaweed-to-end-plastic-waste-20220317-p5a5l1.html\

New experimental vaccine modifies red blood cells to trigger immune system against virus

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/researchers-re-engineer-red-blood-cells-to-trigger-immune-system-against-covid-19/ar-AAUZPKq

STD (gonorrhea & syphilis & chlamydia) rates surged during the pandemic – 68M in the US

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/covid-chaos-fueled-another-public-health-crisis-stds/ar-AAUYm76

Canada ends pre-arrival testing for vaxxed travelers

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-19-travel-canada-pcr-test-arrivecan-143228628.html

Pfizer CEO says fourth shot “is necessary” – close to submitting data to FDA

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/pfizer-ceo-pushes-for-fourth-shots-as-anxiety-over-ba-2-subvariant-rises/
• https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/pfizer-plans-submit-data-4th-covid-shot-fda-rcna19675

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board -  21 March 2022 

Boston, Massachusetts, plans to construct new bridge to Long Island for addiction treatment facility

• https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/03/13/boston-readying-long-island-building-stabilization-package-eyeing-bridge-movement/

Workshop summary:  “Coastal Modelling & Assessment of Potential Solutions for Coastal Defence & Adaptation Measures at Priority sites in Seychelles”

• http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/16456/Climate+impact%2C+coastal+erosion+and+flooding+Protecting+Seychelles%27+coastlines+may+cost+up+to+m

Lawsuit challenges decision to allow buried sandbags to remain in front of oceanfront houses

• https://coastalobserver.com/group-appeals-state-decision-on-sandbags-at-debordieu/

“Wave reserves” strategy used to protect popular surfing spots may be more widely adopted for endangered coastal environments

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220314120713.htm

New film “Tidal Alert:  The State of Water Quality and its Impacts on Coastal Fisheries” in North Carolina

https://coastalreview.org/2022/03/film-looks-at-water-qualitys-impact-on-state-fisheries/

Geophysical surveys of saline & fresh groundwater in Bangladesh Coastal Zone

• https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/03/12/sailing-around-the-bangladesh-coastal-zone/

Mink in the Squamish Estuary

• https://www.squamishchief.com/in-the-community/check-out-this-mink-in-the-squamish-estuary-photos-5159061

Cleanup of toxic chemicals needed in polluted estuary waters of the Great Lakes

• https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/speeding-cleanup-of-pollution-at-areas-of-concern-on-wisconsins-waterways/

£30 billion tidal energy barrage across the Severn Estuary being justified by crisis in Ukraine

• https://www.punchline-gloucester.com/articles/aanews/case-for-30-billion-pound-severn-tidal-barrage-urgent-and-compelling
• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/11/severn-estuary-britain-resurfaces-huge-tidal-energy-plan-amid-ukraine-crisis.html

Unique habitats and fish in estuaries

• https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/03/tidewater-goby.html

Watershed size is critical factor in filtering pollutants before they reach estuaries & coastal waters

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220310170832.htm
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28630-z

Implications for the New England coast from a study of the salt marsh of the North/South River estuary near Marshfield, Massachusetts

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-massachusetts-salt-marsh-england-coast.html

Dredging plan for the Tamar Estuary raises concerns – implications for decision making

https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7651681/dredging-plan-must-consider-expert-advice/

Archeological investigation of 19^th-century shipwreck in the Arade estuary in Portugal

• https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2022-03-14/19th-century-shipwreck-studied-in-arade-river/65798

Sand mining & shifting riverine sands in Goa rivers and estuaries

• https://www.heraldgoa.in/Review/SHIFTING-SANDS-ON-ERODING-RIVERBEDS/187624

Estuary deemed well-suited to proposed 6.7 km £590 million tidal lagoon wall from Mostyn to Point of Ayr in North Wales

• https://www.deeside.com/flintshire-tidal-lagoon-scheme-surges-ahead-after-reaching-two-big-milestones/

Perspective:  Farming in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and impacts on the Chesapeake Bay

• https://www.lancasterfarming.com/clean-water-partners-will-restore-balance-opinion/article_0a6dc724-19af-585e-8e01-8bd7cb3c5a7c.html
• “Chesapeake Bay Explorer’s Guide: https://www.dailypress.com/entertainment/books/vp-db-book-chesapeake-bay-guide-malmquist-review-031322-20220313-zoto3if6xvdvfn3ssh7wx5uuqa-story.html

The fate of wild salmon and their habitat in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary

• https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kate-poole/saving-californias-salmon-now-governor-newsom

Evergreen Marine cargo ship “Ever Forward” has run aground in Chesapeake Bay

• https://www.businessinsider.com/massive-evergreen-cargo-ship-runs-aground-in-chesapeake-bay-2022-3

Norwegian Escape cruise ship runs aground in Dominican Republic – damaged hull – cruise cancelled

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/norwegian-escape-cruise-ship-runs-aground-in-dominican-republic/ar-AAV8Ndq

Energy feasibility study suggests Port of London can achieve Net Zero by 2040

• https://www.offgridenergyindependence.com/articles/26196/energy-study-brings-port-of-london-authority-a-step-closer-to-net-zero

NPS considering repairs to historic Ocracoke Light House on Cape Hatteras

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/03/national-park-service-considering-repairs-historic-ocracoke-light-cape-hatteras

New USGS flood inundation maps show Lake Ontario southern shoreline by lake level

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/state-news-release/new-usgs-maps-show-flood-levels-lake-ontarios-us-shoreline-lake-level
• Interactive USGS Flood Inundation Mapper: https://fim.wim.usgs.gov/fim/

"You are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights for there is not sufficient water to supply the land." - John Wesley Powell, 1893.