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

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elaine is responsible for all the entries below.

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

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

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

Hidden details of the Aurora Borealis

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

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

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

Measuring soil moisture in the vadose zone using seismic technology

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

New model for formation of continents

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

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

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

Post-seismic deformation detected by sub-daily GPS data

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eruption of Sakurajima Volcano in Japan

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

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

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

Another small outburst flood from Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, Alaska

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

M7.1 earthquake strikes southern Japan 

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

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

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

Still predicting highly active Atlantic hurricane season in updated hurricane outlook

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

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

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

Capturing images of the polar rain aurorae

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

Fate and transport of nitrogen in the Arctic Ocean

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

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

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

Isostatic adjustment in Antarctica – predictions of impact on sea level

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

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

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

Real-time graben formation in Iceland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chemical variation in magma of Fagradalsfjall eruptions due to fractional crystallization

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technological hazard:  voter registration / cancellation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Overview of fuel cell technology 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carbon monoxide poisonings in Texas surged after Hurricane Beryl

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Sustainable aviation fuels” are rife with greenwashing claims

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

Seasonal sources of smog in Beijing, China

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

Visualizing population changes in Europe from 1990 to 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

Humpback whale carcass washes ashore on Strawberry Island in Maine

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

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

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

Vietnam & Philippines conduct joint military training

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mapping toxic flood vulnerability in Galveston Bay and Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seagrasses in coastal urban ecosystems can significantly reduce human bacterial pathogens

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

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

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

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Water 2024, 16(15), 2195; DOI: 10.3390/w16152195

Water and One Health

Article: Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance and Public Health Policies in Italy: A Mathematical Model for Assessing Prevention Strategies

Vincenzo Romano Spica, Paola Borella, Agnese Bruno, Cristian Carboni, Martin Exner, Philippe Hartemann, Gianluca Gianfranceschi, Pasqualina Laganà, Antonella Mansi, Maria Teresa Montagna, Osvalda De Giglio, Serena Platania, Caterina Rizzo, Alberto Spotti, Francesca Ubaldi, Matteo Vitali, Paul van der Wielen and Federica Valeriani

Water 2024, 16(15), 2167; DOI: 10.3390/w16152167

Water-Energy Nexus

Review: Comprehensive Review for Energy Recovery Technologies Used in Water Distribution Systems Considering Their Performance, Technical Challenges, and Economic Viability

Admitos A. Bideris-Davos and Panagis N. Vovos

Water 2024, 16(15), 2129; DOI: 10.3390/w16152129

Article: Towards a Sustainable Structure of an Urban Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Based on Network and Hierarchy Analysis

Chengshuang Sun, Guangxia Li, Ke Zhou, Daohan Huang and Qianmai Luo

Water 2024, 16(15), 2074; DOI: 10.3390/w16152074

New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences

Article: Numerical Simulation of Terrain-Adaptive Wind Field Model Under Complex Terrain Conditions

Xiangqian Wei, Yi Liu, Xinyu Chang, Jun Guo and Haochuan Li

Water 2024, 16(15), 2138; DOI: 10.3390/w16152138

Article: Analysis of the Role of Aquatic Gases in the Formation of Sea-Ice Porosity

Vadim K. Goncharov and Natalia Yu. Klementieva

Water 2024, 16(15), 2213; DOI: 10.3390/w16152213

Hydrogeology

Article: Study on Optimal Allocation of Water Resources Based on Uncertain Multi-Objective Fuzzy Model: A Case of Pingliang City, China

Yun Zhao, Rui Zhang, Heping Shu, Zhi Xu, Shangbin Fan, Qiang Wang, Yaxian Li and Yapeng An

Water 2024, 16(15), 2099; DOI: 10.3390/w16152099

Article: Geochemical Characterization and Prediction of Water Accumulation in the Goaf under Extra-Thick Fully Mechanized Top-Coal-Caving Mining

Jianghong Wang, Hongwei Wang, Shaobo Yin, Qingfa Liao, Qiding Ju and Kai Chen

Water 2024, 16(15), 2110; DOI: 10.3390/w16152110

Article: Displacement Prediction Method for Rainfall-Induced Landslide Using Improved Completely Adaptive Noise Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition, Singular Spectrum Analysis, and Long Short-Term Memory on Time Series Data

Ke Yang, Yi Wang and Gonghao Duan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2111; DOI: 10.3390/w16152111

Article: Analyzing the Diversion Effect of Debris Flow in Cross Channels Utilizing Two-Phase Flow Theory and the Principle of Energy Conservation

Xingshuo Xu, Chang Zhou, Yansi Tan, Debin Chen, Jing Fu, Chen Chai and Longfei Liang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2134; DOI: 10.3390/w16152134

Article: Informed Search Strategy for Synchronous Recognition of Groundwater Pollution Sources and Aquifer Parameters Based on an Improved DCN Substitute

Guanghua Li, Han Wang, Jiayuan Guo, Jinping Zhang and Wenxi Lu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2143; DOI: 10.3390/w16152143

Article: Integrating Feature Selection with Machine Learning for Accurate Reservoir Landslide Displacement Prediction

Qi Ge, Jingyong Wang, Cheng Liu, Xiaohong Wang, Yiyan Deng and Jin Li

Water 2024, 16(15), 2152; DOI: 10.3390/w16152152

Article: Hydrodynamic Porosity: A New Perspective on Flow through Porous Media, Part I

August H. Young and Zbigniew J. Kabala

Water 2024, 16(15), 2158; DOI: 10.3390/w16152158

Article: The Influence of Groundwater Migration on Organic Matter Degradation and Biological Gas Production in the Central Depression of Qaidam Basin, China

Jixian Tian, Qiufang He, Zeyu Shao and Fei Zhou

Water 2024, 16(15), 2163; DOI: 10.3390/w16152163

Article: Hydrodynamic Porosity: A New Perspective on Flow through Porous Media, Part II

August H. Young and Zbigniew J. Kabala

Water 2024, 16(15), 2166; DOI: 10.3390/w16152166

Article: Evaluating Empirical, Field, and Laboratory Approaches for Estimating the Hydraulic Conductivity in the Kabul Aquifer

Alimahdi Mohammaddost, Zargham Mohammadi, Javad Hussainzadeh, Asadullah Farahmand, Vianney Sivelle and David Labat

Water 2024, 16(15), 2204; DOI: 10.3390/w16152204

Article: Multifactor Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of the Impact of Extreme Climate on Geological Disasters

Xiaoyu Yang, Xiaohui Sun and Li Tang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2211; DOI: 10.3390/w1615221

Soil and Water

Article: The Contradictory Issue of the Impact of Antecedent Soil Moisture to Interrill Erosion in Clay Soil: A Two-Year Field Study

Yu-Da Chen and Chia-Chun Wu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2076; DOI: 10.3390/w16152076

Article: Green Synthesis of Ag/ATP Catalysts Using Clove Extract for Formaldehyde Elimination

Yuan Hu, Xin Chen, Liqi Miao, Jing Zhang, Ming Zhai, Dan Chen and Xiaozhi Wang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2108; DOI: 10.3390/w16152108

Article: Effects of Patch Properties of Submerged Vegetation on Sediment Scouring and Deposition

Yantun Song, Ruixiang Liu, Qiong Yang, Jiayi Li, Chongfa Cai, Yifan Feng, Guiyun Huang, Rong Hao, Hao Li, Changhua Zhan and Xiwang Wen

Water 2024, 16(15), 2144; DOI: 10.3390/w16152144

Article: Surface and Subsurface Water Impacts of Forestry and Grassland Land Use in Paired Watersheds: Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Water Balance Analysis

Éricklis Edson Boito de Souza, Franciele de Bastos, Pedro Daniel da Cunha Kemerich, Marieli Machado Zago, Éderson Diniz Ebling, Elias Frank de Araujo, Antonio Celso Dantas Antonino and José Miguel Reichert

Water 2024, 16(15), 2191; DOI: 10.3390/w16152191

Article: Finite Element Method-Peridynamics Coupled Analysis of Slope Stability Affected by Rainfall Erosion

Xin Gu, Laike Song, Xiaozhou Xia and Cheng Yu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2210; DOI: 10.3390/w16152210

Water and Climate Change

Article: Simulation and Prediction of Snowmelt Runoff in the Tangwang River Basin Based on the NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 Climate Model

Yi-Xin Zhang, Geng-Wei Liu, Chang-Lei Dai, Zhen-Wei Zou and Qiang Li

Water 2024, 16(15), 2082; DOI: 10.3390/w16152082

Article: Spatial Analysis of Aquatic Ecological Health under Future Climate Change Using Extreme Gradient Boosting Tree (XGBoost) and SWAT

Soyoung Woo, Wonjin Kim, Chunggil Jung, Jiwan Lee, Yongwon Kim and Seongjoon Kim

Water 2024, 16(15), 2085; DOI: 10.3390/w16152085

Article: Climate Change and the Ob River: A Reassessment of Major and Trace Element Fluxes to the Arctic Ocean

Dmitriy Moskovchenko, Andrei Soromotin, Vitaliy Khoroshavin, Nikolay Prikhodko, Vladimir Kirillov, Mikhail Koveshnikov, Eugenia Krylova, Aleksander Krasnenko and Aleksander Pechkin

Water 2024, 16(15), 2112; DOI: 10.3390/w16152112

Article: Headwater Valuation as a Tool for Economic Development, Healthy Forest Management, and Water Resilience

David Batker, Jared Soares, Yung-Hsin Sun, Aaron Batker-Pritzker and Rebecca Guo

Water 2024, 16(15), 2121; DOI: 10.3390/w16152121

Article: Evaluation of Future Changes in Climate Extremes over Southeast Asia Using Downscaled CMIP6 GCM Projections

Sophal Try and Xiaosheng Qin

Water 2024, 16(15), 2207; DOI: 10.3390/w16152207

Ecohydrology

Article: Evolution Characteristics of Meteorological and Hydrological Drought in an Arid Oasis of Northwest China

Yier Dan, Hao Tian, Muhammad Arsalan Farid, Guang Yang, Xiaolong Li, Pengfei Li, Yongli Gao, Xinlin He, Fadong Li, Bing Liu and Yi Li

Water 2024, 16(15), 2088; DOI: 10.3390/w16152088

Article: Assessment and Driving Factors of Wetland Ecosystem Service Function in Northeast China Based on InVEST-PLUS Model

Xiaolin Zhu, Ruiqing Qie, Chong Luo and Wenqi Zhang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2153; DOI: 10.3390/w16152153

Article: Dynamic Spatiotemporal Evolution and Driving Mechanisms of Vegetation in the Lower Reaches of the Tarim River, China

Qiang Han, Lianqing Xue, Tiansong Qi, Yuanhong Liu, Mingjie Yang, Xinyi Chu and Saihua Liu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2157; DOI: 10.3390/w16152157

Article: Ctenopharyngodon idella’s Movement Behavior in Response to Hydraulics at Fishway Entrance with Different Entrance Angles

Yiming Mi, Junjun Tan, Honglin Tan, Junjian Sun, Senfan Ke, Minne Li, Chenyu Lin and Xiaotao Shi

Water 2024, 16(15), 2168; DOI: 10.3390/w16152168

Article: Simulation and Optimal Scheduling of Water Quality in Urban and Rural Water Supply Systems: A Case Study in the Northwest Arid Region of China

Youjia Zhang, Tao Hu, Hongqin Xue and Xiaodong Liu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2181; DOI: 10.3390/w16152181

Hydrology

Article: Temporal Dynamics and Predictive Modelling of Streamflow and Water Quality Using Advanced Statistical and Ensemble Machine Learning Techniques

Syeda Zehan Farzana, Dev Raj Paudyal, Sreeni Chadalavada and Md Jahangir Alam

Water 2024, 16(15), 2107; DOI: 10.3390/w16152107

Article: Research on Coupling Knowledge Embedding and Data-Driven Deep Learning Models for Runoff Prediction

Yanling Li, Junfang Wei, Qianxing Sun and Chunyan Huang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2130; DOI: 10.3390/w16152130

Article: Reconstructing 273 Years of Potential Groundwater Recharge Dynamics in a Near-Humid Monsoon Loess Unsaturated Zone Using Chloride Profiling

Lingzhi Fan, Jianlong Wang, Yanzhu Zhao, Xia Wang, Kaijian Mo and Min Li

Water 2024, 16(15), 2147; DOI: 10.3390/w16152147

Article: Monitoring of Channel Deformations of the Lower Dniester Using Topographic Maps and Satellite Imagery with the Implementation of GIS Technologies

Khrystyna Burshtynska, Nazar Hrytskiv, Iryna Zayats, Lyubov Babiy, Anna Fijałkowska and Krzysztof Bakuła

Water 2024, 16(15), 2148; DOI: 10.3390/w16152148

Article: Strontium Isotopic Composition as Tracers for Identifying Groundwater Recharge Sources in the Choushui River Alluvial Plain, Western Taiwan

Hao-Wei Huang, Shiuh-Tsuen Huang, Ruo-Mei Wang, Wen-Fu Chen, Chuan-Hsiung Chung and Chen-Feng You

Water 2024, 16(15), 2151; DOI: 10.3390/w16152151

Article: Comparative Analysis with Statistical and Machine Learning for Modeling Overall and High Salinity along the Scheldt Estuary

Boli Zhu, Tingli Wang, Joke De Meester and Patrick Willems

Water 2024, 16(15), 2150; DOI: 10.3390/w16152150

Article: Runoff Simulation in Data-Scarce Alpine Regions: Comparative Analysis Based on LSTM and Physically Based Models

Jiajia Yue, Li Zhou, Juan Du, Chun Zhou, Silang Nimai, Lingling Wu and Tianqi Ao

Water 2024, 16(15), 2161; DOI: 10.3390/w16152161

Article: Analysis of Surface Water Area Changes and Driving Factors in the Tumen River Basin (China and North Korea) Using Google Earth Engine (2015–2023)

Di Wu, Donghe Quan and Ri Jin

Water 2024, 16(15), 2185; DOI: 10.3390/w16152185

Article: Spatiotemporal Variation of Soil Erosion in the Northern Foothills of the Qinling Mountains Using the RUSLE Model

Yuxiang Cheng, Aidi Huo, Feng Liu, Adnan Ahmed, Mohamed EL-Sayed Abuarab, Ahmed Elbeltagi and Dmitri Evgenievich Kucher

Water 2024, 16(15), 2187; DOI: 10.3390/w16152187

Article: A Novel Flood Regional Composition Method for Design Flood Estimation in the Cascade Reservoirs

Sirui Zhong, Shenglian Guo, Yanfeng He and Yuzuo Xie

Water 2024, 16(15), 2190; DOI: 10.3390/w16152190

Article: Study on the Effects of Irrigation Quotas and Amendments on Salinized Soil and Maize Growth

Liang Chen, Shaoli Yue, Lifeng Sun, Ming Gao and Rui Wang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2194; DOI: 10.3390/w16152194

Communication: Urban Stormwater Management: A Sustainable Approach

Lina Karamoutsou, Elisavet Veliou, Eivind Bigum Kvernberg and Aris Psilovikos

Water 2024, 16(15), 2089; DOI: 10.3390/w16152089

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Review: Green Roof Systems for Rainwater and Sewage Treatment

Jing Yan, Pu Yang, Binjie Wang, Suqing Wu, Min Zhao, Xiangyong Zheng, Zhiquan Wang, Yejian Zhang and Chunzhen Fan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2090; DOI: 10.3390/w16152090

Review: Discussion on the Treatment of Rural Domestic Sewage in the Water Source Area of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project—A Case Study of a Village

Zhengan Zhang, Yepu Li, Jingnan Yang, Dayang Wang, Shaobo Liu, Han Liu, Xilei Song, Shengtao Zhou and Bailian Larry Li

Water 2024, 16(15), 2118; DOI: 10.3390/w16152118

Review: A Comprehensive Review on Ecological Buffer Zone for Pollutants Removal

Dongsheng Wang, Xing Gao, Suqing Wu, Min Zhao, Xiangyong Zheng, Zhiquan Wang, Yejian Zhang and Chunzhen Fan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2172; DOI: 10.3390/w16152172

Review: Carbon Capture and Resource Utilization by Algal–Bacterial Consortium in Wastewater Treatment: A Mini-Review

Ting Yu, Siya Wang, Hui Yang, Yuxin Sun, Zhongtai Chen, Guangjing Xu and Cuiya Zhang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2197; DOI: 10.3390/w16152197

Article: A New Technique of Grouting to Prevent Water–Sand Mixture Inrush inside the Mine Panel—A Case Study

Rongjie Hu, Wanghua Sui, Daxing Chen, Yuxuan Liang, Ruijian Li, Xinshuai Li and Ge Chen

Water 2024, 16(15), 2071; DOI: 10.3390/w16152071

Article: Microbial Selection for the Densification of Activated Sludge Treating Variable and High-Strength Industrial Wastewater

Mukhtiar Ahmed, Dorothee Goettert, Catharina Vanherck, Koen Goossens and Jan Dries

Water 2024, 16(15), 2087; DOI: 10.3390/w16152087

Article: Optimization of the Solubilization of Faecal Sludge through Microwave Treatment

Principal Mdolo, Jon Pocock and Konstantina Velkushanova

Water 2024, 16(15), 2094; DOI: 10.3390/w16152094

Article: Source of Methanogens and Characteristics of Methane Emission in Two Wastewater Treatment Plants in Xi’an

Dianao Zhang, Huijuan Li, Xia Li, Dong Ao and Na Wang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2101; DOI: 10.3390/w16152101

Article: Start-Up and Bacterial Enrichment of an Anammox Reactor with Polyurethane Porous Material: Performance and Microbial Community

Zichun Yan, Weibin Zhang, Zhibin Pei and Longzhen Jiao

Water 2024, 16(15), 2116; DOI: 10.3390/w16152116

Article: Thermodynamic Modeling and Optimization of Biomass and Bio-Renewable Organic Source Gasification in Supercritical Water Using Gibbs Free Energy Minimization

Zohre Moravvej, Zohreh Bazargani and Feridun Esmaeilzadeh

Water 2024, 16(15), 2123; DOI: 10.3390/w16152123

Article: Virtual Screening of Fluorescent Heterocyclic Molecules and Advanced Oxidation Degradation of Rhodamine B in Synthetic Solutions

Gabriela Vizuete, Fabián Santana-Romo and Cristina E. Almeida-Naranjo

Water 2024, 16(15), 2141; DOI: 10.3390/w16152141

Article: Wastewater Microbiome Analysis for Population Alcohol Abuse

Jiangping Wu, Yan Chen, Jiawei Zhao, Tanjila Alam Prosun, Jake William O’Brien, Lachlan Coin, Faisal I. Hai, Martina Sanderson-Smith and Guangming Jiang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2149; DOI: 10.3390/w16152149

Article: Environmental and Economic Evaluation of the Sequential Combination of Coagulation–Flocculation with Different Electro-Fenton-Based Configurations for the Treatment of Raw Textile Wastewater

Izabela Dobrosz-Gómez, Luis-Miguel Salazar-Sogamoso, Juan-Camilo Castaño-Sánchez, Daniel-Ovidio Salazar-López and Miguel-Ángel Gómez-García

Water 2024, 16(15), 2154; DOI: 10.3390/w16152154

Article: Analysis of Influencing Factors on the Efficiency of Electrochemical Scaling Equipment

Saiwei Zhang, Dongqiang Wang, Gangsheng Li, Hechun Yu, Xuewu Dong and Haiqin Jiang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2171; DOI: 10.3390/w16152171

Article: Efficient Adsorption of Pollutants from Aqueous Solutions by Hydrochar-Based Hierarchical Porous Carbons

Marija Ercegović, Jelena Petrović, Marija Koprivica, Marija Simić, Mirko Grubišić, Nikola Vuković and Jugoslav Krstić

Water 2024, 16(15), 2177; DOI: 10.3390/w16152177

Article: Enhancing Point-of-Use Sand Filters through Integration of Copper Mesh

Varun K. Kasaraneni, Nelson M. Anaya and Maria Taliani

Water 2024, 16(15), 2188; DOI: 10.3390/w16152188

Article: Wastewater Treatment for Nutrients and Pathogens in a Demonstration-Scale Outdoor Constructed Wetland System

Syed I. Hussain, David W. Blowes, Carol J. Ptacek, Brent C. Wootton, Gordon Balch and James Higgins

Water 2024, 16(15), 2198; DOI: 10.3390/w16152198

Article: Impact of Design and Mixing Strategies on Biogas Production in Anaerobic Digesters

Thomas Neuner, Michael Meister, Martin Pillei, Thomas Senfter, Simon Draxl-Weiskopf, Christian Ebner, Jacqueline Winkler and Wolfgang Rauch

Water 2024, 16(15), 2205; DOI: 10.3390/w16152205

Article: Phosphorus Fraction in Hydrochar from Co-Hydrothermal Carbonization of Swine Manure and Rice Straw: An Optimization Analysis Based on Response Surface Methodology

Xiaohua Su, Tao Zhang, Jingyang Zhao, Santanu Mukherjee, Nahaa M. Alotaibi, Salah F. Abou-Elwafa, Huu-Tuan Tran and Nanthi S. Bolan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2208; DOI: 10.3390/w16152208

Article: Trimethoprim Removal from Aqueous Solutions via Volcanic Ash-Soil Adsorption: Process Modeling and Optimization

Roberto Lavecchia, Antonio Zuorro, Oussama Baaloudj and Monica Brienza

Water 2024, 16(15), 2209; DOI: 10.3390/w16152209

 

Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance

Review: Waters of Contention: The GERD and Its Impact on Nile Basin Cooperation and Conflict

Amna Almesafri, Sohaila Abdulsattar, Alia Alblooshi, Raed A. Al-Juboori, Nicholas Jephson and Nidal Hilal

Water 2024, 16(15), 2174; DOI: 10.3390/w16152174

Article: Impacts of Climate and Land Use/Land Cover Change on Water Yield Services in Heilongjiang Province

Yang Liu, Yiding Zhang, Miao Yu and Changlei Dai

Water 2024, 16(15), 2113; DOI: 10.3390/w16152113

Article: Evaluation of the Impact of Comprehensive Watershed Management on Carbon Sequestration Capacity of Soil and Water Conservation: A Case Study of the Luodi River Watershed in Changting County, Fujian Province

Shaofeng Yue, Shidai Wu, Xiaoyan Li, Zhiguang Li, Yong Wu and Xiaojian Zhong

Water 2024, 16(15), 2115; DOI: 10.3390/w16152115

Article: Assessing the Relative and Combined Effect of Climate and Land Use on Water-Related Ecosystem Services in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

Yifan Wu, Minglei Yao, Yangbo Tang, Wei Li, Tao Yu, Wenlue Ma and Xiaojun Geng

Water 2024, 16(15), 2126; DOI: 10.3390/w16152126

Article: Enhancing Hydrological Variable Prediction through Multitask LSTM Models

Yuguang Yan, Gan Li, Qingliang Li and Jinlong Zhu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2156; DOI: 10.3390/w16152156

Article: Coupled Spatial–Temporal Evolution and Influencing Factors of Chemical Industry Development and Water Environment in Yangtze River Economic Belt

Yunbo Xiang, Shufang Ding and Zhijun Dai

Water 2024, 16(15), 2164; DOI: 10.3390/w16152164

Article: Developing Macroinvertebrate Biotic Indices in Nigerian Urban-Agricultural River Catchments: Is the Continuous Scoring System More Effective than Discrete Scoring System?

Augustine Ovie Edegbene, Francis Ofurum Arimoro and Oghenekaro Nelson Odume

Water 2024, 16(15), 2182; DOI: 10.3390/w16152182

Water Quality and Contamination

Review: Mechanisms, Applications, and Risk Analysis of Surfactant-Enhanced Remediation of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminated Soil

Lijun Wu, Jieru Zhang, Fenfei Chen, Junjie Li, Wen Wang, Shiyi Li and Lifang Hu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2093; DOI: 10.3390/w16152093

Article: Spatio-Temporal Variability of Water Quality in the Middle Danube—The Influence of Air Temperature and Discharge

Antoni Grzywna, Jasna Grabić, Monika Różańska-Boczula and Milica Vranešević

Water 2024, 16(15), 2081; DOI: 10.3390/w16152081

Article: Scenario-Based Modeling on Chlorophyll-a in Uiam Reservoir of Korea According to Variation of Dam Discharge

Dong Yeol Lee and Kyong Oh Baek

Water 2024, 16(15), 2120; DOI: 10.3390/w16152120

Article: Distribution of Natural Trace Elements in the Drinking Water Sources of Hungary

Bálint Izsák, Katalin Hegedűs-Csondor, Petra Baják, Anita Erőss, Norbert Erdélyi and Márta Vargha

Water 2024, 16(15), 2122; DOI: 10.3390/w16152122

Article: Solar-Powered Desalination as a Sustainable Long-Term Solution for the Water Scarcity Problem: Case Studies in Portugal

Rita Apolinário and Rui Castro

Water 2024, 16(15), 2140; DOI: 10.3390/w16152140

Article: Comprehensive Assessment of the Relationship between Metal Contamination Distribution and Human Health Risk: Case Study of Groundwater in Marituba Landfill, Pará, Brazil

Roberta C. de O. Soares, Ricardo Jorge A. de Deus, Monia M. C. Silva, Kleber Raimundo F. Faial, Adaelson C. Medeiros and Rosivaldo de A. Mendes

Water 2024, 16(15), 2146; DOI: 10.3390/w16152146

Article: Regulated Inductively Coupled Plasma–Optical Emission Spectrometry Detectible Elements in Utah Lake: Characterization and Discussion

Rachel A. Valek, Kaylee B. Tanner, Jacob B. Taggart, Rebecca L. Ryan, Anna C. Cardall, Lauren M. Woodland, Maddeline J. Oxborrow, Gustavious P. Williams, A. Woodruff Miller and Robert B. Sowby

Water 2024, 16(15), 2170; DOI: 10.3390/w16152170

Article: Ecological Potential of Freshwater Dam Reservoirs Based on Fish Index, First Evaluation in Poland

Piotr Pieckiel, Krzysztof Kozłowski and Tomasz Kuczyński

Water 2024, 16(15), 2169; DOI: 10.3390/w16152169

Article: Heavy Metal Distribution and Health Risk Assessment in Groundwater and Surface Water of Karst Lead–Zinc Mine

Jinmei Zhou, Zhongcheng Jiang, Xiaoqun Qin and Liankai Zhang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2179; DOI: 10.3390/w16152179

Article: Water Quality in Estero Salado of Guayaquil Using Three-Way Multivariate Methods of the STATIS Family

Ana Grijalva-Endara, Juan Diego Valenzuela-Cobos, Fabricio Guevara-Viejó, Patricia Antonieta Macías Mora, Jorge Stalin Quichimbo Moran, Geovanny Ruiz-Muñoz, Purificación Galindo-Villardón and Purificación Vicente-Galindo

Water 2024, 16(15), 2196; DOI: 10.3390/w16152196

Article: Toxic Congo Red Dye Photodegradation Employing Green Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Using Gum Arabic

Huda S. Alhasan, Alaa R. Omran, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Amr Hussein Mady and Mohammad R. Thalji

Water 2024, 16(15), 2202; DOI: 10.3390/w16152202

Article: Implications of Water Quality Index and Multivariate Statistics for Improved Environmental Regulation in the Irtysh River Basin (Kazakhstan)

Ultuar Zhalmagambetova, Daulet Assanov, Alexandr Neftissov, Andrii Biloshchytskyi and Ivan Radelyuk

Water 2024, 16(15), 2203; DOI: 10.3390/w16152203

Editorial: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Rivers

Alla Khosrovyan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2091; DOI: 10.3390/w16152091

Urban Water Management

Article: Developing Water Quality Formulations for a Semi-Distributed Rainfall–Runoff Model

Merav Tal-maon and Avi Ostfeld

Water 2024, 16(15), 2072; DOI: 10.3390/w16152072

Article: Research on Runoff Management of Sponge Cities under Urban Expansion

Hongliang Sun, Shangkun Wu, Qiyu Dong, Xue Zhou, Jixian Yang and Gang Li

Water 2024, 16(15), 2103; DOI: 10.3390/w16152103

Article: Innovation in Water Management: Designing a Recyclable Water Resource System with Permeable Pavement

Shu-Rong Yang, Xing-Rong Chen, Hao-Xuan Huang and Hsin-Fu Yeh

Water 2024, 16(15), 2109; DOI: 10.3390/w16152109

Article: Metal/Metalloid Presence and Health Risks in Drinking Water Plants—Insights from Nanjing, China

Yang Huang, Yuhong Zheng, Chunjing Chen, Lilin Xiong and Ran Liu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2119; DOI: 10.3390/w16152119

Article: Estimating and Reducing Leakages in the Water Distribution Networks of Small Settlements: The Case of Agios Germanos in the Prespes Municipality

Panagiota Galiatsatou, Philipos Ganoulis, Dimitrios Malamataris and Panagiotis Prinos

Water 2024, 16(15), 2127; DOI: 10.3390/w16152127

Article: Water and Energy Conservation across Provinces and Sectors in China: Based on a Complex Network Perspective

Siyang Hong, Caiyun Deng and Hongrui Wang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2132; DOI: 10.3390/w16152132

Article: Multi-Objective Optimization of Urban Drainage System by Integrating Rule-Based Control with Permeable Pavement

Zhengsheng Lu, Liming Shi, Hong Zhou and Jun Liu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2200; DOI: 10.3390/w16152200

Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics

Article: Changes in Snow Cover and Its Surface Temperature across the Tibetan Plateau Region from 2000 to 2020

Zhihan Li, Qikang Chen, Zhuoying Deng, Minjie Yang, Qi Zhou and Hengming Zhang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2073; DOI: 10.3390/w16152073

Article: Optimisation of Bridge Pier Winding Flow Numerical Simulation Scheme Based on Delft3D

Xiao Liu, Qing-Sheng Chen, Zhao-Ning Zeng and Zhuang Dong

Water 2024, 16(15), 2079; DOI: 10.3390/w16152079

Article: Timescales of Ecological Processes, Settling, and Estuarine Transport to Create Estuarine Turbidity Maxima: An Application of the Peter–Parker Model

Lilian Engel and Mark Stacey

Water 2024, 16(15), 2084; DOI: 10.3390/w16152084

Article: Comparative Analysis of Snowmelt-Driven Streamflow Forecasting Using Machine Learning Techniques

Ukesh Thapa, Bipun Man Pati, Samit Thapa, Dhiraj Pyakurel and Anup Shrestha

Water 2024, 16(15), 2095; DOI: 10.3390/w16152095

Article: The Aqueducts of Lugdunum

Paul M. Kessener

Water 2024, 16(15), 2117; DOI: 10.3390/w16152117

Article: Dynamic Response Characteristics of Rotating and Fixed Components of the Kaplan Turbine under Low and Medium Heads

Hongyun Luo, Guiyu Wang, Xiaobin Chen, Chengming Liu, Lingjiu Zhou and Zhengwei Wang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2137; DOI: 10.3390/w16152137

Article: Evaluation of Seasonal Reservoir Water Treatment Processes in Southwest Florida: Protection of the Caloosahatchee River Estuary

Thomas M. Missimer, Seneshaw Tsegaye, Serge Thomas, Ashley Danley-Thomson and Peter R. Michael

Water 2024, 16(15), 2145; DOI: 10.3390/w16152145

Article: Effect of Flow Interference between Cylinders Subjected to a Cross Flow over a Cluster of Three Equally Spaced Cylinders

Jia Dong, Xianrui Shi and Genhua Yan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2165; DOI: 10.3390/w16152165

Article: Correlation between Discharge Noise and Flow Field Characteristics of Hydraulic Turbine

Min Shi, Yu Wang and Xiaochun Lu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2176; DOI: 10.3390/w16152176

Article: Study on Part-Load Cavitation in High-Specific-Speed Centrifugal Pump

Zhenhua Shen, Chao Wang, Jinfeng Zhang, Shijun Qiu and Rong Lin

Water 2024, 16(15), 2180; DOI: 10.3390/w16152180

Article: A Theoretical Derivation and Comparison Method for the Optimal Location for Energy Dissipation Boxes

Weixiang Ni, Yanan Hu and Zhonghua Li

Water 2024, 16(15), 2189; DOI: 10.3390/w16152189

Article: Construction Stability Analysis and Field Monitoring of Shallowly Buried Large-Section Tunnels in Loess Strata

Fang Zheng, Wenqiang Li, Zhanping Song, Jiahui Wang, Yuwei Zhang, Naifei Liu, Kehui Xiao and Yan Wang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2192; DOI: 10.3390/w16152192

Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems

Article: Effects of Fresh Groundwater and Seawater Mixing Proportions and Salt-Freshwater Displacement on Coastal Aquifer Microbial Communities

Lin Chen, Meng Ma, Xiao Li, Kun Yu, Chuanshun Zhi, Long Cheng, Hongwei Ma, Zhuo Wang and Xin Qian

Water 2024, 16(15), 2078; DOI: 10.3390/w16152078

Article: Computer Vision Techniques for Morphological Analysis and Identification of Two Pseudo-nitzschia Species

Martin Marzidovšek, Patricija Mozetič, Janja Francé and Vid Podpečan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2160; DOI: 10.3390/w16152160

Oceans and Coastal Zones

Article: Detection of Copper Ions in Seawater Using a Graphitised Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes-Copper Ion Carrier Modified Electrode

Chao Zhang, Wei Tao, Chengjun Qiu, Wei Qu, Yuan Zhuang, Yang Gu, Huili Hao and Zizi Zhao

Water 2024, 16(15), 2128; DOI: 10.3390/w16152128

Water Erosion and Sediment Transport

Article: Effects of Frozen Layer on Composite Erosion of Snowmelt and Rainfall in the Typical Black Soil of Northeast China

Qing Bai, Lili Zhou, Haoming Fan, Donghao Huang, Defeng Yang and Hui Liu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2131; DOI: 10.3390/w16152131

Article: Baffle-Enhanced Scour Mitigation in Rectangular and Trapezoidal Piano Key Weirs: An Experimental and Machine Learning Investigation

Chonoor Abdi Chooplou, Ehsan Kahrizi, Amirhossein Fathi, Masoud Ghodsian and Milad Latifi

Water 2024, 16(15), 2133; DOI: 10.3390/w16152133

Article: Influence of a Meandering Channel on the Threshold of Sediment

Nasim Rismani, Hossein Afzalimehr, Seyed-Amin Asghari-Pari, Mohammad Nazari-Sharabian and Moses Karakouzian

Water 2024, 16(15), 2162; DOI: 10.3390/w16152162

Article: Can Surface Water Color Accurately Determine Sediment Concentration and Grain Size? A Hyperspectral Imaging Study

David Bazzett and Ruo-Qian Wang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2184; DOI: 10.3390/w16152184

Article: The Impact of Foreshore Slope on Cross-Shore Sediment Transport and Sandbar Formation in Beach Berm Nourishment

Xinglu Liu, Xiaofeng Luo, Chuanteng Lu, Gongjin Zhang and Wei Ding

Water 2024, 16(15), 2212; DOI: 10.3390/w16152212

Water Use and Scarcity

Article: Assessment of Trunk Diameter Fluctuation-Derived Indices for Detecting Water Stress in Sweet Cherry Trees

Pedro J. Blaya-Ros, Víctor Blanco, Roque Torres-Sánchez, Fulgencio Soto-Valles, Martín E. Espósito and Rafael Domingo

Water 2024, 16(15), 2186; DOI: 10.3390/w16152186

Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture

Article: Soil-Microbial Interactions in Rice-Loach-Shrimp Integrated Farming: Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Intensification

Wentao Zeng, Yidan Zhang, Wen Luo, Yuling Zhu, Hao Yin, Xuan Lan and Shaowen Ye

Water 2024, 16(15), 2083; DOI: 10.3390/w16152083

General

Review: Hydra for 21st Century—A Fine Model in Freshwater Research

Goran Kovačević, Petra Korać, Davor Želježić, Mirela Sertić Perić, Petra Peharec Štefanić, Damir Sirovina, Maja Novosel and Sanja Gottstein

Water 2024, 16(15), 2114; DOI: 10.3390/w16152114

Review: Development-Ecological Protection Conflicts and Coordination at West Taijinel Salt Lake

Xizhuoma Zha and Shaofeng Jia

Water 2024, 16(15), 2139; DOI: 10.3390/w16152139

Review: A Review of Drip Irrigation’s Effect on Water, Carbon Fluxes, and Crop Growth in Farmland

Hui Guo and Sien Li

Water 2024, 16(15), 2206; DOI: 10.3390/w16152206

Article: New Frontiers in Water Distribution System Management and Monitoring: First Development of a Water Safety Plan Based on Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) in Neptune Fountain, Bologna, Italy

Maria Rosaria Pascale, Domenico Simone Roggio, Ester Barbieri, Federica Marino, Carlo Derelitto, Luna Girolamini, Cristiana Bragalli, Gabriele Bitelli and Sandra Cristino

Water 2024, 16(15), 2075; DOI: 10.3390/w16152075

Article: Crop Water Use and a Gravity Model Exploration of Virtual Water Trade in Ghana’s Cereal Agriculture

Alexander Sessi Kosi Tette, Golden Odey, Mirza Junaid Ahmad, Bashir Adelodun and Kyung-Sook Choi

Water 2024, 16(15), 2077; DOI: 10.3390/w16152077

Article: Leveraging Participatory Science for Tackling Water Supply Challenges in Water-Scarce Developing Regions

Mohammed Itair, Isam Shahrour, Ayman Dbeis, Hanbing Bian and Subhi Samhan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2080; DOI: 10.3390/w16152080

Article: Effect of Rotation Speed and Fulvic Acid Concentration on Biogenic Secondary High-Iron Mineral Synthesis

Haitao Huang, Yichao Ji, Chong Wang, Kanghui Geng, Xianhui Wu and Caichun Wei

Water 2024, 16(15), 2092; DOI: 10.3390/w16152092

Article: A Study on the Maximum Scour Depth of River-Crossing Tunnels

Meiqing Yang, Luojie Feng, Feng Xu, Fencheng Yang, Junhong Zhang, Bingqing Xu, Yuan Lv and Yongjun Huang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2097; DOI: 10.3390/w16152097

Article: Comparative Study on Phytoplankton Treatment Effectiveness of the Ballast Water Management System with Four Different Processes

Yan Zhang, Wei Feng, Yating Chen, Junzeng Xue and Huixian Wu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2098; DOI: 10.3390/w16152098

Article: Guidelines for the Energetic Characterization of a Portable Drip-Type Rainfall Simulator for Soil Erosion Research

Maria Angela Serio, Francesco Giuseppe Carollo, Roberto Caruso and Vito Ferro

Water 2024, 16(15), 2100; DOI: 10.3390/w16152100

Article: An Alternative Source of Funding to Mitigate Flood Losses through Bonds: A Model for Pricing Flood Bonds in Indonesian Territory

Sukono, Monika Hidayanti, Julita Nahar, Riza Andrian Ibrahim, Muhamad Deni Johansyah and Nurnadiah Zamri

Water 2024, 16(15), 2102; DOI: 10.3390/w16152102

Article: Comparative Study of In Situ Chlorophyll-a Measuring Methods and Remote Sensing Techniques Focusing on Different Applied Algorithms in an Inland Lake

János Grósz, Veronika Zsófia Tóth, István Waltner, Zoltán Vekerdy and Gábor Halupka

Water 2024, 16(15), 2104; DOI: 10.3390/w16152104

Article: Feasibility of Groundwater Extraction in Nitrate-Impacted Groundwater Source in Serbia: Hydrodynamic Modeling and Nitrate Tracing

Marija Perović, Vesna Zuber-Radenković and Miloš Zorić

Water 2024, 16(15), 2105; DOI: 10.3390/w16152105

Article: Strategy for Adapting Environmental Flow Proposals to Situations with High Agricultural Demands

Domingo Baeza, Patricia Chacón and Eugenio Rico

Water 2024, 16(15), 2106; DOI: 10.3390/w16152106

Article: Water Conservancy Hub Geometric Modeling Based on Point Clouds

Jian Sun, Feng Ye, Peng Zhang, Lin Lan, Nadia Nedjah and Hao Duan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2125; DOI: 10.3390/w16152125

Article: A Study on Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) Concentration Distribution and Its Hydrodynamic Mechanisms in Liaodong Bay, China

Xincang Liu, Jiahui Deng, Lianjie Zhang, Ping Wang, Guangshuai Zhang, Xiangke Dong and Jiawen Sun

Water 2024, 16(15), 2135; DOI: 10.3390/w16152135

Article: Study on the Spatiotemporal Evolution and Driving Factors of Water Resource Carrying Capacity in Typical Arid Regions

Lan Yang, Zhengwei Pan, He Li, Dejian Wang, Jing Wang, Congcong Wu and Xinjia Wu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2142; DOI: 10.3390/w16152142

Article: Effects of Nano-Titanium Dioxide on the Horizontal Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Microplastic Biofilms

Yangyuan Zhou, Guosheng Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Weiying Li, Ningzheng Zhu, Jinpei Bo, Xiangzhou Meng, Yao Chen, Yu Qin and Huajie Liu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2155; DOI: 10.3390/w16152155

Article: Calcium Carbonate Formation in Groundwater-Supplied Drinking Water Systems: Role of CO₂Degassing Rate and Scaling Indices Applicability

Raghda Hamdi and Mohamed Mouldi Tlili

Water 2024, 16(15), 2159; DOI: 10.3390/w16152159

Article: Tree-Based Machine Learning and Nelder–Mead Optimization for Optimized Cr(VI) Removal with Indian Gooseberry Seed Powder

Lakshmana Rao Kalabarige, D. Krishna, Upendra Kumar Potnuru, Manohar Mishra, Salman S. Alharthi and Ravindranadh Koutavarapu

Water 2024, 16(15), 2175; DOI: 10.3390/w16152175

Article: Poplar P-RC APMP Effluent with Anaerobic Treatment: An Efficient Three-Stage Anaerobic Reactor

Laibao Ding, Qingwen Tian, Ran Yang, Jinwei Zhu, Qi Guo, Fuping Liu, Sophia Zheng and Guigan Fang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2173; DOI: 10.3390/w16152173

Article: Defluoridation of Water Using Cu-Mg-Binary-Metal-Oxide-Coated Sand

Kiana Modaresahmadi, Amid P. Khodadoust and James Wescott

Water 2024, 16(15), 2178; DOI: 10.3390/w16152178

Article: Energy Loss and Noise Reduction of Centrifugal Pump Based on Bionic V-Groove Geometry

Yinchu Wang, Liang Dong, Runze Zhou, Chao Guo and Cui Dai

Water 2024, 16(15), 2183; DOI: 10.3390/w16152183

Article: Applying Machine Learning Methods to Improve Rainfall–Runoff Modeling in Subtropical River Basins

Haoyuan Yu and Qichun Yang

Water 2024, 16(15), 2199; DOI: 10.3390/w16152199

Article: Flood Extent Delineation and Exposure Assessment in Senegal Using the Google Earth Engine: The 2022 Event

Bocar Sy, Fatoumata Bintou Bah and Hy Dao

Water 2024, 16(15), 2201; DOI: 10.3390/w16152201

Article: Improving Knowledge and Awareness and Contributing to Policy Making on River Pressures through a Citizen Science Approach: Tagus Web Viewer Case (Spain)

Beatriz Larraz, Raúl Urquiaga, Antonio Martínez and Beatriz Martín

Water 2024, 16(15), 2214; DOI: 10.3390/w16152214

Correction: Correction: Syah et al. Current Challenges and Advancements on the Management of Water Retreatment in Different Production Operations of Shale Reservoirs. Water 2021, 13, 2131

Rahmad Syah, Alireza Heidary, Hossein Rajabi, Marischa Elveny, Ali Akbar Shayesteh, Dadan Ramdan and Afshin Davarpanah

Water 2024, 16(15), 2096; DOI: 10.3390/w16152096

Correction: Correction: Bănăduc et al. Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century. Water 2024, 16, 1483

Doru Bănăduc, Angela Curtean-Bănăduc, Sophia Barinova, Verónica L. Lozano, Sergey Afanasyev, Tamara Leite, Paulo Branco, Daniel F. Gomez Isaza, Juergen Geist, Aristoteles Tegos, Snežana B. Simić, Horea Olosutean and Kevin Cianfanglione

Water 2024, 16(15), 2193; DOI: 10.3390/w16152193

Technical Note: Experimental Study on Upstream Water Level Rise of Submerged Rock Weirs

Wen Zhang, Xingnian Liu and Binrui Gan

Water 2024, 16(15), 2136; DOI: 10.3390/w16152136

 

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

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

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

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

Rhinopteraspis dunensis - Devonian jawless fish were likely filter feeders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 23 July 2024 hydrothermal explosion at Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone

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

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

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

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

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

Evolution of birds following the Chicxulub Impact 65 myo

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

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

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

Carboniferous was Age of Giant Insects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Formation of blue sapphires in volcanoes

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

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

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

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

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

Need to rethink atmospheric oxygen levels during the Great Oxidation Event

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

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

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

Forecasting the probability of aftershocks

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

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

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

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

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

Praearcturus & Brontoscorpio – giant 400 myo scorpions were probably crustaceans

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

First land animals likely evolved in warm tidal nursery pools

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

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

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

Visualizing the largest silver producing countries

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

Visualizing the global demand for oil from 2022 to 2045

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

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

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

Methane-burping microbes discovered in hot springs in Yellowstone 

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

Rethinking theories about the origin and early history of the Moon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New theory on “cause” of Pleistocene Ice Ages

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

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

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

Rain-induced landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, India

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

Shishania aculeata – Cambrian spiny slug reveals origins of mollusks

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

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

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

Humans may be influencing ozone levels in upper troposphere

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

Role of groundwater in recharging lakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Polystyrene packaging material could contribute to mental health issues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monotremes - Egg-laying mammals are unique

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visualizing the most visited US National Parks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - 5 August 2024 - compiled by E.J. Hanford 

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

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

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

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

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

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

New interactive map tracking offshore wind developments in US coastal waters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Restoring sea urchins to the Caribbean reefs

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

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

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

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 29 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Small crater formed during minor hydrothermal explosion in April 2024 at Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone 

• https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/a-small-hydrothermal-explosion-norris-geyser-basin \

Hydrothermal explosion in Biscuit Basin in July in Yellowstone

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/07/update-hydrothermal-explosion-rocks-corner-yellowstone-national-park 
• https://www.sciencealert.com/the-ground-just-exploded-in-front-of-tourists-at-yellowstone-heres-why 
• Explanatory Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8K1STQijrM 
• Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbdZujDCgnQ 
• Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO199yyfNoU 

Yellowstone hydrothermal explosion is likely not indicator of larger eruption

• https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/media-center-blog/2024/07/25/expert-pitch-wvu-geologist-says-yellowstone-hydrothermal-explosion-is-not-an-indicator-of-a-larger-eruption 

Enhanced geothermal requires use of the same fracking technology used for O&G drilling – includes use of toxic chemicals that can contaminate groundwater

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/fracking-geothermal-energy-plant-technology/ 

Food for thought:  Does Adventist Flood Geology Make Sense?  Part 2:  Can a flood explain geological results? And Part 3:  Of YEC & Miracles

• Part 2:  https://atoday.org/does-adventist-flood-geology-make-sense-part-2-can-a-flood-explain-the-geological-results/ 
• Part 3:  https://atoday.org/does-adventist-flood-geology-make-sense-part-3-of-yec-miracles/ 
• Part 1:  https://atoday.org/does-adventist-flood-geology-make-sense-part-1-the-two-small-ark/

Applying machine learning to early Plate Tectonics

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-machine-secrets-early-plate-tectonics.html 
• Paper:  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405160121

First map of Te Riu-a-Māui (Zealandia) 

• https://www.indy100.com/news/earth-lost-continent-zealandia-2668788237 
• Paper:  https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/289178116.pdf 

Search for missing geologist Daniel Robinson still not resolved after three years

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13621239/missing-geologist-daniel-robinson-arizona-disturbing-theories.html 

US DOE completed outdoor shake table testing of pair of full-scale dry storage cask systems for spent nuclear fuel – part of above-ground consolidated interim storage facility project 

• https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/doe-completes-earthquake-testing-spent-nuclear-fuel-storage-systems
• interim storage:  https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/department-energy-moves-forward-consolidated-interim-storage-facility-project-spent 

Seeking the future of geothermal energy in Iceland – Iceland Geothermal Conference

• https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/geothermal/magma-and-hot-rocks-iceland-seeks-the-future-of-geothermal-energy 

Re-writing the evolution of snakes – Hibernophis breithaupti – new Early Oligocene species found in Wyoming

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/hibernophis-breithaupti-13121.html 

Electroscincus zedi – 99 myo mid-Cretaceous newly-discovered species of skink found in Burmese Amber

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/electroscincus-zedi-13119.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-66451-w

Late Cenozoic fossil record in East African Rift System adds to record of human evolution

• https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/hominin-evolution-eastern-africa-13124.html 

Deadly mudslides in Ethiopia triggered by heavy rains

• https://www.dailynews.com/2024/07/23/mudslides-have-killed-more-than-200-in-ethiopia/ 

Eruption of Mt Etna prompted closure of Catania Airport in Sicily

• https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/sicilys-catania-airport-closed-after-etna-volcano-in-southern-italy-began-spewing-ash-lava/3283354 

History of earthquakes in Dallas County in Texas

• https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/largest-earthquakes-felt-in-dallas-after-texas-quake-rattles-region-19927237 

Destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 due to catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius & massive earthquake

• https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2024/07/18/pompeii-skeleton-discovery-earthquake 
• https://www.science.org/content/article/two-pompeii-victims-survived-first-wave-eruption-then-earthquake-hit 
• Paper:  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2024.1386960/full 

Swarm of nearly 40 earthquakes centered beneath Lake Tahoe along Stateline Fault

• https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/two-score-temblors-rattle-middle-of-lake-tahoe/ 

Rocks preserve climate details at time of carbonate formation

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240723123338.htm 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703724001984 

Saharan dust regulates hurricane precipitation – dust as condensation nucleii

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1052188 
• Paper:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn6106 

Investigating impact of wind turbines on intensity of lightning – Lake-Effect Electrification (LEE)

• https://new.nsf.gov/news/when-lightning-strikes-check-wind-turbines 
• Abstract:  https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2212177&HistoricalAwards=false 

El Niño forecasts extended to 18 months in advance using XRO model

• https://new.nsf.gov/news/scientists-extend-el-nino-forecasts-18-months 

New geochronology technique now places age of Hamersley iron deposits in Australia at 1.4 and 1.1 byo

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240722175859.htm 

Mining sites worsen risks from wildfires by releasing arsenic

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240723123513.htm 
• Paper:  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad461a 

Giant armadillo-like mammals butchered by humans in Argentina 21,000 years ago during Last Glacial Maximum

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240717162440.htm 
• Paper:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0304956 

Systematic changes in tectonic stress state & reduction in fault reactivation potential near salt walls in Paradox Basin

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/faults-along-salt-walls-are-less-stressed-in-the-paradox-basin 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JB028891’’

Raindrops grow with turbulence in clouds – rain formation bottleneck

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-raindrops-turbulence-clouds-weather-climate.html 

Major earthquake (M7 – M8) around 2,500 years ago caused significant shift in course of Ganges River delta – seismites – liquefaction & avulsion

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-earthquake-changed-ganges-river 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47786-4 

Magnetite and methane-producing bacterial abundant in sediment cores in South China Sea

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/microbes-likely-form-magnetite-in-the-south-china-sea 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JB028312 

July 2024 landslides in Gofa Zone, Ethiopia

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/gofa-zone-landslide
• Update:  https://eos.org/uncategorized/gofa-zone-ethiopia-2 

Low frequency of rock avalanches in NE Baffin Island

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/baffin-island-1 
• Paper:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10346-024-02315-8 

Assessing potential risk to worldwide mineral commodity supplies from seismic activity

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/first-study-quantify-global-earthquake-risk-mineral-supplies 
• USGS OFR 2024-1028:  https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2024/1028/ofr20241028.pdf 

Global variability of composition & temperature at the 410-km discontinuity

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/global-variability-composition-and-temperature-410-km-discontinuity-receiver-function 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X24003224 

Vesicularity influence on grain morphology in basaltic pyroclasts from Mauna Loa & Kīlauea

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/influence-vesicularity-grain-morphology-basaltic-pyroclasts-mauna-loa-and-kilauea 
• Paper:  https://appliedvolc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13617-024-00145-w 

Integrating gaging station data with image archives for remote sensing of river bathymetry

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/integrating-depth-measurements-gaging-stations-image-archives-spectrally-based-remote 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024WR037295

Whale falls concentrated off the coast of Los Angeles, California

• https://hakaimagazine.com/news/more-whale-falls-found-off-los-angeles-than-in-the-rest-of-world-combined/ 

LANDSAT views of the pits of the Telfer Gold Mine in the Great Sandy Desert of Australia

• https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153079/peering-into-the-pits-of-telfer-mine

Last Sunday was “hottest day in all recorded history” – unless you consider the geologic history of Earth which shows it was relatively cool

• https://apnews.com/article/hottest-day-climate-change-heat-wave-warming-71e3e9d1fbfdc8503ef36eabec9390bd 

Elsevier investigation Geoscience Frontiers journal for allegations of “peer” review by frequent co-authors

• https://retractionwatch.com/2024/07/23/elsevier-investigating-geology-journal-after-allegations-of-pal-review/ 

Next “big one” could hit New Madrid area in the central US – USGS estimates 25-40% chance of >6.0 in next 50 years & 10% chance of repeat of 1811-1812 earthquake sequence – preparedness has begun

• https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/the-central-u-s-is-up-for-a-major-earthquake-and-no-ones-really-ready/ 

Stable mantle chemistry dates back to early geologic history of Earth and continued over prodigious evolution

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1051883 

Solar radiation linked to activity in deep interior of Earth

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1052225
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50337-6 

Lake Kivu is saturated with CO2 & methane at depth – potential for imminent limnic explosion

• https://whttps://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/lake-kivu-the-ticking-time-bomb-that-could-one-day-explode-and-unleash-a-massive-deadly-gas-cloud/ar-BB1qGpJd 
• Lake Nyos disaster:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster 

M5.1 earthquake in West Texas

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/magnitude-5-1-earthquake-strikes-texas-the-second-in-less-than-a-week/ar-BB1qGZtl 
• https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/tx2024ophu/executive 

Tis the season for the time-honored field camp experience at Montana Tech 

• https://mtech.edu/news/2024/07/students-learn-hands-on-skills-have-lots-of-fun-in-montana-techs-field-geology-course.html 

Size of dinosaurs should be population based rather than using a single fossil specimen – Just how big was T. rex?

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-jurassic-park-got-wrong-study-finds-the-t-rex-was-much-bigger-than-we-first-thought/ar-BB1qxBb0 
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240724123027.htm 
• Paper:  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.11658 

Record winter snowfall events cannot counteract human-induced declining groundwater levels in Western US

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-make-troubling-discovery-while-studying-effects-of-record-snowfall-in-drought-affected-region-i-expected-that-would-really-help/ar-BB1qKj7k
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL107913 

Odaraia alata - Taco-shaped mandibulate from the Burgess Shale

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/odaraia-alata-13129.html 
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/odaraia-alata-fossil-1.7271424 

Note the headline is wrong – clues to disappearance of megafauna in North America around 10,000 to 15,000 years ago

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/clues-to-mysterious-disappearance-of-north-america-s-large-mammals-50-000-years-ago-found-within-ancient-bone-collagen/ar-BB1npfzp 
• Paper:  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/mammal-science/articles/10.3389/fmamm.2024.1399358/full 

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

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

EV sales dropped 4.7% to 36.2% for various car brands in California

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/19/tesla-sales-drop-17-in-california/ 

Biden administration finally recognizes plastic pollution “crisis” and wants phase out of single-use plastics by 2035 – too little, too late

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072024/biden-administration-acknowledges-plastic-pollution-crisis/ 

Some realities of the Hyundai Metaplant in Georgia – promises already broken

• https://thecurrentga.org/2024/07/18/as-workers-train-hyundai-metaplant-salary-picture-takes-shape/ 

Commemorating the 1979 Church Rock spill nuclear disaster in New Mexico – uranium mill tailings dam failed & contaminated Navajo Nation with 94M gallons of radioactive waer & 1,100 tons of uranium waste

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072024/new-mexico-walk-commemorates-navajo-nation-nuclear-disaster/ 

Warning:  dozens of illnesses and possible death linked to “microdosing” of gummies & chocolate bars

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/dozens-of-illnesses-across-28-states-are-now-linked-to-a-company-s-microdosing-gummies-and-chocolate-bars/ar-BB1qmryz

Idaho agriculture pumping massive amounts of water from East Snake River Plain Aquifer & causing water shortages – Idaho issuing red curtailment notices to pumps – 2016 mitigation plan calls for managing river & groundwater aquifer as one entity

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072024/idaho-snake-river-aquifer-water-shortages/ 

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, outlining rules for redeveloping site containing 46,000 tons of coal ash – 2013 draft cleanup plan failed to adequately protect the public from arsenic, cobalt & other toxic metals – Brownfields site

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21072024/north-carolina-chapel-hill-toxic-coal-ash/ 

Enhanced geothermal requires use of the same fracking technology used for O&G drilling – includes use of toxic chemicals that can contaminate groundwater

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/fracking-geothermal-energy-plant-technology/ 

Relocated “nuisance” beavers restore wetlands and watersheds – beavers are foundation species that produce and maintain habitats

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nuisance-beavers-relocated-1.7268057 

125,000-gallons of raw sewage spilled & entered Lake Tahoe – forces closure of two beaches

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/2-tahoe-beaches-close-after-85-000-gallon-sewage-spill-at-carnelian-bay/ar-BB1qrrNn

US District Court orders sales of O&G leases to proceed – BLM failed to adequately link tie environmental impacts to decision to hold auction – BLM has until 25 Jan 2025 to finalize environmental assessment

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22072024/wyoming-public-land-oil-gas-leases-to-proceed/ 

Variation of excess all-cause mortality during the pandemic 2020-2023 – biological stress due to draconian mandates, medical interventions & vaxxing

• https://correlation-canada.org/covid-excess-mortality-125-countries/ 
• Report:  https://correlation-canada.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-07-19-Correlation-ACM-World-125-countries-Rancourt-Hickey-Linard.pdf 

Global Technological Hazard:  CrowdStrike software caused Microsoft Windows to crash

• https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/40066-worldwide-transportation-chaos-after-widespread-software-crash 

EPA announces it will throw another $4.3 Billion into “climate” projects – all in the name of the mythical “man-made global warming”

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/07/22/biden-epa-local-climate-projects/ 

Outbreak of Nippah virus in India

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/if-it-passes-easily-from-human-to-human-we-are-in-for-a-big-problem/ar-BB1qxhhl

Azerbaijan calling for $1B contributions from at least 10 countries & corporations to Climate Finance Action Fund to address “man-made global warming” – a joke? A “distraction” from COP29 – “climate washing”

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/23/azerbaijan-calls-for-1-billion-fund-to-address-global-warming-is-this-a-joke/ 

US DOE completed outdoor shake table testing of pair of full-scale dry storage cask systems for spent nuclear fuel – part of above-ground consolidated “interim” storage facility project 

• https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/doe-completes-earthquake-testing-spent-nuclear-fuel-storage-systems
• interim storage:  https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/department-energy-moves-forward-consolidated-interim-storage-facility-project-spent 

Is cleaning up bacteria in the Seine River for the Olympics a model for cleaning up other urban rivers?

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-23/how-paris-cleaned-up-the-seine-ahead-of-2024-olympics-and-where-to-swim 

Fire is necessary for Sequoias seeds to sprout but megafires resulting from human fire suppression are killing mature trees

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23072024/california-sequoia-groves-impacted-by-wildfires/ 
• Paper:  https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.4789
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112724002287 

Fire ants are invading Montecito, California

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-true-california-hot-spot-fire-ants-invade-town-loved-by-celebrities/ar-BB1qvN4X

USEPA opens investigation into ASPECT failures in East Palestine, Ohio – delayed use and misuse

• https://whistleblower.org/press/epa-opens-investigation-into-aspect-failures-in-east-palestine/ 

Norwegian company blames milder temperatures for 4% drop in Q2 profits

• https://www.offshore-technology.com/news/equinor-has-seen-a-fall-in-q2-profit-2/?cf-view 

Cattle painkiller diclofenac, vulture population & human deaths in India

• https://www.sciencealert.com/shift-in-indias-vulture-population-linked-to-half-a-million-human-deaths 
• Paper:  https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/BFI_WP_2022-165.pdf

Inflation driving up home prices – visualizing salary needed to buy a home in 50 US Cities in 2024

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-salary-needed-to-buy-a-home-in-50-u-s-cities/ 

Deforestation to curb illegal drug activities threatens many resident & migratory species of birds

• https://theconversation.com/counter-drug-strategies-in-central-america-are-worsening-deforestation-threatening-many-species-of-birds-232368 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01365-z 

Visualizing the resting heart rates of 15 different animals

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-resting-heart-rates-of-15-different-animals/  

Visualizing countries with the highest adult obesity rates in 2022 – US is number 15

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-countries-with-the-highest-adult-obesity-rates/

Understanding the complex processes that make cheese – a living, fermented food

• https://theconversation.com/cheesemaking-is-a-complex-science-a-food-chemist-explains-the-process-from-milk-to-mozzarella-230829 

4 other ways humans can get pregnant:  

• https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-get-pregnant-through-bizarre-ways-here-are-4-of-them 

Understanding the chemical process of removing caffeine from coffee (or tea) – 3 common methods

• https://theconversation.com/retaining-flavor-while-removing-caffeine-a-chemist-explains-the-chemistry-behind-decaf-coffee-233196 

14 cases of West Nile virus confirmed in Clark County, Nevada, so far this year

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/14-west-nile-virus-cases-found-in-clark-county-so-far-in-2024/ar-BB1qySOB 

Hantavirus is endemic to the United States – typically fatal in about 36% of cases

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/officials-issue-health-warning-over-incurable-rodent-disease/ar-BB1qyAKO 

Reality TV contestant killed and ate a weka (Maori hen) which is a protected species

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rare-bird-killed-and-eaten-on-reality-tv-show-by-contestant/ar-BB1qxNJA 

Hydrothermal explosion of Biscuit Basin geyser in Yellowstone is little known hazard in the National Park

• https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/surprise-yellowstone-geyser-eruption-highlights-hazard-popular-park-112237859 

National flood risk models are not very reliable at predicting local scale impacts

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1052490 
• Paper:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004549 

Older adults want to cut back on medication – de-prescribing since many older adults are over-medicated

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1052488 

Ford loses $47,600 on every EV – Company on track to lose $5B by end of this year

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ford-loses-50-000-on-every-electric-car/ar-BB1qBrG8 

100-year-old reservoir east of Evergreen Way in Everett, Washington, to be replace by two smaller ones – concrete cover is sinking & concerns exist over collapse during potential earthquake – estimated cost $80M

• https://www.heraldnet.com/news/with-looming-earthquake-threat-everett-breaks-ground-on-80m-reservoirs/ 

Book review:  “After 1177 BC – The survival of civilizations”

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/1177-bc-bronze-age-societies-review 

WHOI releases strategy for addressing harmful & toxic algal blooms that threaten human health, economies, marine & freshwater ecosystems as well as inland waters – blaming climate change for Lake Erie

• https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/habs-report-2023/
• Strategy report:  https://hab.whoi.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HARRNESS-2024-online-1.pdf 
• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26072024/lake-erie-harmful-algal-blooms-climate-change/ 

OCED awarded $27.5M for Pacific NW Hydrogen Hub – part of $7B federal subsidies

• https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/072424-pacific-northwest-hydrogen-hub-awarded-275-mil-to-begin-projects-first-phase

What is wrong with this picture?  Squatter sentenced to 40 years in prison for taking over condo in Florida but illegals who stampeded US Border were released

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/squatter-gets-40-years-illegally-210526878.html 
• https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-migrants-accused-border-stampede-released-el-paso-judge-easter-sunday 

Texas WDB authorized $3+B for water & wastewater projects including expanding reservoir in Brazoria County

• https://theconstructionbroadsheet.com/texas-officials-award-b-to-state-water-projects-p1825-175.htm 

Klamath Dam Removal project ahead of schedule

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/klamath-dam-removal-19585388.php 

10-year $1.9B Westchester County Water Tunnel project begins construction – Kensico-Eastview Connection

• https://patch.com/new-york/pleasantville/10-year-1-9b-westchester-county-water-tunnel-project-breaks-ground 

New federal rule requires safety measures for storm drain openings – people were getting sucked in

• https://www.propublica.org/article/new-hud-rule-storm-drain-safety-flooding 

Biden administration increases subsidies by $371M to accelerate permitting of 20 high-voltage interstate transmission projects  

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/25/biden-harris-administration-invests-371-million-in-20-projects-to-accelerate-transmission-permitting-across-america/ 

Perspective:  US should pay for & help build nuclear power plants in other countries – ADVANCE Act permits exporting US nuclear technology to countries not on “123 Agreements” list

• https://www.iwf.org/2024/07/22/america-should-emulate-south-korea-on-nuclear-energy/

Efforts to repeal BLM Conservation Priority Land Rule

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26072024/western-states-industry-groups-unite-to-block-blm-land-policy/ 

Oh, No!  Federal government wants to get involved in efforts to “safeguard” groundwater supplies

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072024/federal-safeguards-for-dwindling-groundwater-supplies/ 

Main stream media created all the “man-made global warming hype” forcing therapists to develop “climate psychology” to address “eco-anxiety” & address distorted cognition

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26072024/eco-anxiety-is-rational-response-climate-psychology/ 

US Bureau of Reclamation Draft Environmental Assessment says Salton Sea lake bed is not a source of significant environmental pollution

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27072024/california-salton-sea-exposed-lakebed/ 
• Draft EA:  https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g2000/envdocs/IID/00_FinalDraftEAIID_508ADAFinal.pdf 
• Paper:  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajae.12472 

Technological hazard:  impending cyber apocalypse

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/27/the-cyber-apocalypse-may-be-just-one-software-update-away/ 

Add stupid humans to the ‘perfect storm” conditions in California and massive wildfires erupt

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/california-s-fire-luck-just-ran-out/ar-BB1qJxXw 

Flooded water cistern in Houston collapsed beneath luxury housing development plaza – homes evacuated

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/luxury-homes-evacuated-as-large-crater-emerges/ar-BB1qLBOX?\ 

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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 29 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

Memorializing WWII Port Chicago Naval Magazine disaster along shores of Suisun Bay, California, & role it played in civil rights movement as segregated workers non-violent civil disobedience – Thurgood Marshall Regional Park & calls for exoneration of workers who were court-martialed & convicted of mutiny 

• https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/17/port-chicago-disaster/

Promoting more structural “control” to “protect” nuclear power plants from tsunamis & severe flooding

• https://www.neimagazine.com/analysis/protection-from-tsunamis-and-flooding/ 

Cocaine in coastal waters near Rio de Janeiro, Argentina, may be changing behavior of sharks – enters waters through discharge of human urine and feces by sewage outfalls, from illegal drug labs or dumped overboard by smugglers

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/22/cocaine-sharks-throng-brazilian-waters-drug-in-ecosystem/ 
• https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-sharks-found-waters-brazil 
• https://www.sciencealert.com/cocaine-sharks-discovered-in-brazil-raise-alarm-over-ocean-pollution 

Sunset Beach in Port Waikato, New Zealand, closed “until further notice” due to coastal erosion

• https://www.nzherald.co.nz/waikato-news/news/sunset-beach-port-waikato-closed-until-further-notice-due-to-coastal-erosion/WH7PHGH34JCH5J22GJHI2AVFNE/

Concern increases as blue land crabs sighted along South Atlantic coast in Georgia, South & North Carolina

• https://www.wtoc.com/2024/07/23/sighting-blue-land-crabs-cause-concern-coastal-georgia/ 

Increasing demand of sand fuels lucrative & dangerous illegal industry – coastal sand mining destroys complex ecosystems, affects water quality & depletes groundwater

• https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-07-23/coastal-restoration-saving-sand/ 

Sandy beaches succumbing to coastal erosion in Tunisia

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-tunisia-sandy-beaches-eaten-coastal.html 

Monster oyster weighing 5.5 pounds harvested off coast of Mersea Island, Essex

• https://www.kulr8.com/news/national/monster-oyster-weighing-over-5-pounds-harvested-off-coast/article_85134e08-0d05-509c-bda3-456339d9a262.html 

NWS conducting study to improve understanding of coastal flooding in Tampa Bay, Florida

• https://www.aol.com/news/study-aims-analyze-coastal-flooding-031426124.html 

Residents debate impacts of planned offshore wind port on Sears Island in Maine

• https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/wind/offshore-wind-port-siting-stirs-debate-among-coastal-mainers 

Proponents of $3B Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project to restore part of SE Louisiana coastline tout expected economic benefits – legal disputes have disrupted construction

• https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-coastal-renovation-project-e772d9ef5e9c8bdb842fd4ed469eaac0 
• Study:  https://mississippiriverdelta.org/diversionconstructionreport2024/ 

Proposal to relocate capital city away from flooding, overcrowding, garbage & poorly managed Monrovia, Liberia, 

• https://www.voanews.com/a/flooding-drives-liberia-to-mull-capital-city-move/7707654.html 

Yes, there are marshes in New York City but they are plagued by sewage runoff & lack of sediment

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24072024/new-york-city-marshes-threatened-by-sea-level-rise-storm-surges/ 
• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24072024/new-york-city-marshes-plagued-by-sewage-runoff-lack-of-sediment/ 

Ongoing restoration of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse 

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/07/brick-brick-prism-prism 

British Geological Survey coastal erosion data

• https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/spotlight-on-bgs-coastal-erosion-data/ 

Oyster sanctuaries and restoration of Chesapeake Bay

• https://scitechdaily.com/biological-beacons-how-oyster-sanctuaries-are-guiding-ecological-restoration-in-chesapeake-bay/ 

MT Terra Nova tanker carrying 1,400,000 liters (370,000 gallons) of fuel capsized in Philippines causing massive oil spill

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/oil-tanker-capsizes-spilling-1-400-000-litres-sparking-fears-of-environmental-disaster/ar-BB1qAsIT 

Media scare tactics predicting “vanishing islands” not based in reality – growth of islands has been recognized for a number of years contrary to media hype – but “fact checkers” disagreed in support of climate change agenda

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/researchers-stunned-after-analyzing-nearly-1-000-vanishing-islands-i-m-not-sure-we-really-knew-what-we-would-find/ar-BB1pUnui 
• 2018:  https://phys.org/news/2018-02-pacific-nation-bigger.html 
• 2018 Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1 
• 2020:  https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/06/asia/pacific-islands-growing-intl-dst-hnk/index.html 
• 2021:  https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/pacificbeat/pacific-islands-getting-bigger-despite-sea-level-rise/13035520 
• 2022 fact checkers:  https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32F42UX 

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Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 22 July 2024

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 22 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Total electron content data in Yellowstone part of network monitoring Coronal Mass Ejections

• https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/total-electron-content-data-three-gps-stations-yellowstone-national-park 

Groundwater flow model for the Des Moines River alluvial aquifer in Iowa

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/groundwater-flow-model-des-moines-river-alluvial-aquifer-near-des-moines-iowa
• USGS SIR 2024-5059:  https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2024/5059/sir20245059.pdf 

Paleostress modeling of Andean Plateau over 20 million years

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/tracing-millions-of-years-of-geologic-stress-in-the-andean-plateau 

Discovery of the “Pontus Plate” 

• https://www.good.is/geologists-stunned-at-discovery-of-earths-ancient-mega-plate-they-didnt-know-about-at-all 
• Paper:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X23002617 

Crocodile species reveals coastal living in Nevada during the Middle Triassic

• https://www.earth.com/news/benggwigwishingasuchus-eremicarminis-new-triassic-crocodile-species/ 

Volcanic loads and flexure of the Pacific Plate at the Hawaiian Ridge – but no magmatic underplating

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/a-strong-pacific-plate-bends-under-the-hawaiian-volcanic-chain 
• Paper 1:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JB027218 
• Paper 2:  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JB028118 

Impacts of 13 July 2024 landslide in Ha Giang in Vietnam

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/vietnam-roads-1 

Impacts of 12 July 2024 landslide in Simaltal in Nepal

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

Drone footage of 6 July 2024 landslide in unlicensed gold mine at Tulabolo in Sulawesi

• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/tulabolo-landslide-1 
• Paper:  https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/18/6774 

Areal extent of Great Salt Lake impacts precipitation – 25% decrease in area translates to 10% decrease in total precipitation during storm event

• https://eos.org/articles/the-size-of-the-great-salt-lake-affects-storm-precipitation 

Ash from 2022 eruption of Hunga decimated slow-moving species on seafloor

• https://eos.org/articles/the-tonga-eruption-left-deep-sea-life-buried-in-ash 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01411-w 

BRICS roundtable on geology held in Moscow, Russia – Iran attended

• https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/501262/Iran-attends-BRICS-roundtable-on-geology 

Food for thought:  Does Adventist Flood Geology Make Sense?  Part 1:  The Too-Small Ark

• https://atoday.org/does-adventist-flood-geology-make-sense-part-1-the-two-small-ark/ 

Solvang Library free workshop focus on understanding the field of geologic map reading – Thomas Dibblee & historic mapping of the Santa Barbara, California, area terrain

• https://www.noozhawk.com/plot-your-course-to-understanding-the-field-of-geologic-map-reading/ 

Global ecosystems could be threatened by declining groundwater levels – mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems on a global scale

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1051597 
• Interactive map:  https://codefornature.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-gde 

Improved understanding of river dynamics & cutoff regimes

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1051607 

Will geologic hydrogen become a viable alternative energy source?

• https://gritdaily.com/geologic-hydrogen-energy-addresses-climate-change/

Largest methane leak ever recorded in an oil well located in Karaturun East field in Kazajistan

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-largest-methane-leak-oil.html 
• Paper:  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00399

Ground surface conditions impact speed & distance of leaking methane from underground pipelines

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-ground-surface-conditions-impact-distance.html 
• Paper:  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00039

UNESCO Geopark assessment of the Niagara Region

• https://www.thoroldtoday.ca/local-news/regions-geology-showcased-to-unesco-geopark-evaluators-9234680 

Geologists searching for fragments of woolly mammoth bones along Buzău River valley in Romania

• https://www.romania-insider.com/geologists-look-mammoth-bone-fragments-romania-buzau-river-valley-2024

Does “climate change’ (i.e., the mythical man-made global warming) play a noticeable role in affecting the rate of Earth rotation and length of day?  AI algorithms suggest it is an “unprecedented” rate – yeah, right, it will exceed the 2.40 milliseconds per century due to changes in lunar gravitational forces 

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/How_melting_icecaps_impacts_the_rotation_of_Earth_999.html 
• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Oh_my_long_days_Melting_ice_caps_slow_Earths_spin_999.html 

The Moon continues to increase orbital distance from Earth, slowing Earth rotation & increasing hours in a day – 1.4 byo a day lasted just over 18 hours & will increase to about 25 hours in another 200 million year

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-moon-is-slowly-drifting-away-from-earth-and-it-s-beginning-to-impact-us/ar-BB1qm6Yp 

Probabilistic assessment of post-fire debris-flow inundation relative to forecasted precipitation

• https://www.usgs.gov/publications/probabilistic-assessment-postfire-debris-flow-inundation-response-forecast-rainfall 
• Paper:  https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/24/2359/2024/ 

66 million years of mammalian diversity reflected in the fossil record of North America – functional diversity

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240717121128.htm 

Gravity waves sparked pair of perfect cloud ripples above uninhabited Crozet Islands in 2023

• https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/earth-from-space-gravity-waves-spark-pair-of-perfect-cloud-ripples-above-uninhabited-islands 

New Jersey salt marsh sediments evidence history of hurricanes to the 1500s

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1051875 
• Paper:  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.3622 

Sulfur may have key to the first water on Earth

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sulfur-key-first-water-earth 

Nördlingen, Germany, is built over and from material, including diamonds, in the Nördlinger Ries crater

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-13636443/german-town-covered-diamonds-asteroid-nordlingen.html 

If geology were easy, anyone could do it!  Visible Geology online tools aim to help students understand “geological ideas, like stratigraphic stuff”

• https://magazine.cim.org/en/news/2024/online-educational-tool-aims-to-simplify-geology-en/ 

OMG!  I always thought geologists were scientists – now, to find out someone is saying white supremacy is embedded in geology and paleontology!!!  All I can say to that author is: get a real life and get over yourself but first, apologize to all geologists!

• https://www.thecollegefix.com/white-supremacy-embedded-in-geology-pale-ontology-professor/ 

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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 22 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

UN now says world human population will peak at 10.3 billion in the 2080s – that is not a good thing as it will be 10 times the carrying capacity for humans on Earth

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/UN_says_world_population_to_peak_at_103_billion_in_the_2080s_999.html 
• https://sdg.iisd.org/news/global-population-to-peak-this-century-world-population-prospects-2024/ 
• https://www.un.org/en/UN-projects-world-population-to-peak-within-this-century 

Holocene flooding & sedimentation history of the Nile River focused human society

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01499-x 

History of Santa Susanna Field Lab in California with partial meltdown of nuclear reactors in 1959

• https://www.dailynews.com/2024/07/12/activists-mark-65-years-since-partial-meltdown-at-santa-susana-field-lab/ 

FDA underreported adverse side effects of covid vaxxing to prevent ‘vaccine hesitancy’ – pushed false “safe & effective” narrative – mRNA “never should have been mandated”

• https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/12/former-cdc-director-says-fda-underreported-adverse-side-effects-of-covid-injections-to-prevent-vaccine-hesitancy/ 

Some truths about the very expensive ($42.45B) federally funded Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program – funds delayed and hijacked for other projects

• https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/2d39xkexn1gy9gmppxjwg/industry-voices/the-5-uncomfortable-truths-of-the-broadband-equity-access-and-deployment-program-bead 
• https://www.mackinac.org/blog/2024/why-government-funded-internet-isnt-happening-again 

20 Starlink satellites put into wrong orbit will become space junk falling back to earth

• https://www.dailynews.com/2024/07/12/spacex-rocket-accident-leaves-companys-starlink-satellites-in-wrong-orbit-2/ 

Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge and the endangered species list may help battle proposed lithium mine in Nevada

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15072024/nevada-community-fights-lithium-mine-near-wildlife-refuge/ 

New York enacted Green Amendment in 2021 to protect the environment – took Supreme Court judge to say “complying with the Constitution is not optional for a state agency”- battle over Seneca Meadows landfill

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15072024/new-york-climate-activists-march-for-green-amendment/ 

Kentucky allows self-driving vehicles on the road – will that be a good thing or a bad thing as a legislative framework for the future?

• https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article289862749.html 

Groundwater may be “forever” tainted by PFAS chemical contamination – 4 major hot spots correlate with areas of high population density, groundwater use & specific industrial activities

• https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2024/07/groundwater-at-risk-as-pfas-pollution-spreads-west-virginia-university-finds/ 
• Paper:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299789 

Holistically approaching mounting waste challenges in India

• https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2024/07/holistic-waste-management-india/ 

Illegal wildlife trade is booming – threatens biodiversity & balance of ecosystems

• https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1198910180/animals-illegal-wildlife-trade-trafficking 

Should you worry about invasive Juro spiders across the East Coast?

• https://www.npr.org/2024/06/14/1198910262/joro-spiders-invasive-species-east-coast 

Romancing the River:  The Desert River

• https://sibleysrivers.com/romancing-the-river-the-desert-river/

6 people in Grand Hyatt hotel in Bangkok found dead of cyanide poisoning

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/six-people-found-dead-hotel-141325137.html 
• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thai-police-say-cyanide-killed-6-foreigners-bangkok-hotel-2024-07-17/ 

Significant number of college students lack even rudimentary grasp of American history & political system

• https://www.goacta.org/2024/07/acta-releases-alarming-new-survey-showing-dangerous-level-of-civic-illiteracy-among-college-students/ 
• Survey:  https://www.goacta.org/resource/losing-americas-memory-2-0/ 

Humboldt County, California, animal shelter is “out of space” & reducing adoption fees

• https://www.times-standard.com/2024/07/16/im-out-of-space-humboldt-county-animal-shelter-cuts-adoption-fees/ 

Ongoing California war on solar – restrictions on community & rooftop solar – NEM 3.0 

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/16/california-continues-its-war-on-solar-to-please-investor-owned-utilities/ 

Technological hazard – possible design “mess up” when high rise window bursts & falls from 13th floor in Boston – to report on cause and plans for repairs

• https://whdh.com/news/civil-engineer-says-someone-may-have-messed-up-on-design-installation-after-boston-window-falls/ 

Dubai plans 40-mile-long “High Line” filled with 1M trees – Dubai Green Spine

• https://www.fastcompany.com/91154458/dubais-plans-for-a-40-mile-long-high-line-will-transform-the-desert-city-into-something-much-more-livable 

Alerts on “imminent failure” of 90-year-old Nashville City Reservoir Dam in Illinois – residents evacuated

• https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/nashville-dam-failure-cause-revealed-illinois-top-water-official/63-cfceb0dc-0cb1-4bfd-b907-ffac837382d1 

IAEA conference on nuclear knowledge management & human resources development

• https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/sustainability-through-capacity-building-iaea-hosts-conference-on-nuclear-knowledge-management-and-human-resources-development

Planned mining for chert in Alabama is already impacting bald eagles

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17072024/alabama-lake-guntersville-unexpected-chert-mine/ 

The social costs of carbon credits in Senegal – not a good thing

• https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-social-cost-of-carbon-credits/ 

Native American Tribes & environmental activists hoping to stop uranium mining near the Grand Canyon & prevent transportation on state and federal roads across Navajo Nation lands

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17072024/arizona-activists-press-officials-to-stop-uranium-mining-near-grand-canyon/ 

Enduring legacy of pulling out of Paris Accord which supports myth of man-made global warming & rolling back more than 100 regulations that allowed government over-reach 

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072024/trump-environmental-impact/ 

For past 100+ years has been illegal to swim in the Seine due to health concerns – now trying to cleanup for Olympic swimmers by cutting bacterial content by 75%

• https://theconversation.com/for-a-century-its-been-illegal-to-swim-in-the-seine-will-pariss-clean-up-make-the-river-safe-for-olympic-swimmers-231705 

Hidden health costs of replacing lead pipes with cheaper plastics in urban water supply systems

• https://theconversation.com/lead-water-pipes-created-a-health-disaster-in-flint-but-replacing-them-with-cheaper-plastic-as-some-cities-are-doing-carries-hidden-costs-232252 

Comparing additional taxes versus water quotas to manage agricultural consumption of water in agriculture in Guadalquivir River Basin in southern Spain

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-additional-taxes-quotas-consumption-agriculture.html 
• Paper:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11269-024-03865-1

Deep carbon storage in Montana is not without controversy

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072024/montana-deep-carbon-storage-controversies/ 

Dragonflies help improve understanding of source & environmental fate of mercury pollution

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-local-dragonflies-expose-mercury-pollution.html 
• Paper:  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c02436

Global apparel industry leaks millions of tons of plastic pollution into environment every year

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-apparel-industry-leaks-millions-tons.html 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49441-4 

Biden administration announces $325M housing subsidy to build 6,500 housing units & impose rent controls that are a “counter-productive policy idea that ultimately harms renters by distorting market pricing, discouraging new construction & degrading the quality of rental housing”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/map-shows-where-joe-biden-wants-to-build-more-houses/ar-BB1q6tdJ 

Nepal recovering more bodies from 12 July 2024 landslide in Simaltal in Nepal

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Nepal_retrieves_more_bodies_from_buses_swept_away_by_landslide_999.html 
• https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/simaltal-1 

US F&W seeking public comment on Alliant Wind Interstate Wind Project Habitat Conservation Plan

• https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2024-07/seeking-public-comment-alliant-wind-interstate-wind-project-habitat 

Once again, the fully vaxxed & boosted gets covid & tests positive – gives him reason to hide in the basement!

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-joe-biden-tests-positive-221548982.html 

8th Circuit Court one-sentence ruling blocked the entire “SAVE” student-loan repayment plan – need to repay entire loans & not have loans forgiven – they have a moral & legal obligation to repay loans

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/a-federal-court-has-now-blocked-biden-s-new-student-loan-repayment-plan-in-full-prohibiting-borrowers-from-getting-cheaper-payments-and-debt-cancellation/ar-BB1qemrw 

Impact of marijuana on drivers should not be underestimated

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-crash-that-killed-6-teens-ntsb-chief-says-people-underestimate-marijuana-s-impact-on-drivers/ar-BB1qdIpY 

US DEA began probe of allegations that drug cartels financed campaign of Mexican President Lopez Obrador -  shut down by US AG Eric Holder – evidence of high-level corruption 

• https://www.propublica.org/article/mexico-amlo-dea-probe-cartel-campaign-donations 

Government quandary:  loss of fuel tax revenues is a global issue

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/17/replacing-fuel-tax-a-government-quandary/

HALT Act aimed at reducing drunk driving

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/17/as-we-recognize-40-year-anniversary-of-drinking-age-law-usdot-must-act-on-lifesaving-auto-tech/ 

Mining & processing lithium for EV batteries & storage projects depletes & contaminates surface waters

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072024/lithium-crital-to-energy-transition-at-expense-of-water/ 

Technological hazard:  Global tech outage grounds airline flights & disrupts businesses & emergency services

• https://www.reuters.com/technology/global-cyber-outage-grounds-flights-hits-media-financial-telecoms-2024-07-19/ 

Removing hydroelectric dam at Fooses Reservoir near Salida, Colorado – too expensive to maintain

• https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/xcel-energy-removing-hydroelectric-dam-at-fooses-reservoir-near-salida 

Wadsworth landfill fire south of Pyramid Lake in Washoe County, Nevada, may burn for days

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/wadsworth-landfill-fire-may-burn-for-days/ar-BB1qfrY0 

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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 22 July 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

Scientists from WHOI want to dump 60,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide (lye) into ocean off Cape Cod – “safe”– messing round with forces beyond their ability to grasp – all in the name of mythical man-made global warming promise to "operate within a pH range considered safe for aquatic life (and) maintain strict environmental monitoring protocols"

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-cape-cod-scientists-dump-gallons.html 

Oceanic upwelling is driven to seafloor topographic features

• https://www.newsgram.com/research/2024/07/11/globally-significant-upwelling-is-driven-by-topographical-features-on-seafloor 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07411-2 

Debris recovery team mobilized on Nantucket beaches to survey for recovery of debris from offshore Vineyard Wind turbine damage incident - Nantucket beaches shut down by fiberglass debris washing ashore – now under federal investigation & suspension order

• https://renews.biz/94549/vineyard-wind-mobilises-debris-recovery/ 
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ruined-by-negligence-dave-portnoy-blasts-nantucket-wind-farm-after-broken-blade-shuts-down-beaches/ar-BB1qc7K2 
• https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/07/17/nantucket-beaches-reopen-after-vineyard-wind-debris-removal-feds-issue-suspension-order-for-wind-energy-company/ 
• https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/vineyard-wind-incident-was-not-first-time-ge-vernova-wind-turbine-came-apart-2024-07-18/ 

US Coast Guard says ships losing power/control are not uncommon – documented more than 200 just since 26 March – more than 100 in Chesapeake Bay since 2010 – not all incidents recorded

• https://wjla.com/features/i-team/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-chesapeak-bay-bridges-cargo-ship-ships-power-control-repairs-us-coast-guard-ntsb-investigation-dali-records-operations

The complex task of rebuilding coastal communities after hurricanes – the important questions is WHY rebuild in hurricane prone area? – throwing good money after bad & changing character of place

• https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-idalia-florida-rebuilding-coastal-communities-ffefd72ade9706f70f2941aee08cf866 

Plan to triple aquaculture production needs sustainable phosphorus management in Norway

• https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2024/07/norways-phosphorus-predicament-balancing-sustainability-and-growth-in-aquaculture/

Land subsidence in coastal cities can significantly reduce value of homes - video

• https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/07/11/sinking-land-could-cost-some-us-homeowners-8point1percent-of-their-home-value.html 

7 unforgettably scenic coastal road trips in the US

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/7-unforgettable-coastal-road-trips-in-the-us-121205905.html 

Seldovia Village Tribe first in Alaska to get tsunami preparedness certification – located in southern Kenai Peninsula on Kachemak Bay

• https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/seldovia-village-tribe-becomes-first-in-alaska-to-get-tsunami-preparedness-certification 

Baby bull sharks thriving in bays of Texas & Alabama 

• https://theconversation.com/baby-bull-sharks-are-thriving-in-texas-and-alabama-bays-as-the-gulf-of-mexico-warms-228353 
• Paper:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54573-0 

“Beach Report Card” for Southern California Beaches indicates 38 M gallons of raw sewage flowed in the Pacific 

• https://www.dailynews.com/2024/07/17/heal-the-bays-2024-beach-report-card-highlights-link-between-rain-ocean-health/ 
• https://healthebay.org/water-quality-at-california-beaches-dips-in-2023-24/ 

Construction begins on Long Island Sunrise Wind offshore wind farm to have 84 turbines to generate 924 MW– will it be completed? On-time? On-budget?

• https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/long-island-offshore-wind-farm-sunrise-wind-orested-smith-point-park/ 

Science of tides was crucial for D-Day invasion

• https://www.npr.org/2024/06/05/1198910140/d-day-ocean-tides-floods-climate 

Testing effectiveness of reactive barriers in preventing nitrate in groundwater from entering the Atlantic

• https://eos.org/articles/reactive-barriers-could-keep-nitrate-out-of-the-atlantic
• Abstract:  https://agu.confex.com/agu/hydrology24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1501676 

Projecting new $1B Port of Baltimore Terminal at Sparrows Point will have $1.54B economic impact

• https://www.ttnews.com/articles/baltimore-terminal-impact
• https://www.ttnews.com/articles/tradepoint-terminal-maryland 

Principal environmental approval by Northern Territory EPA in Australia for massive Powell Creek solar project, new battery storage project & HVDC transmission via 800 km of overhead transmission lines to Darwin and 4,300 km submarine cables to Singapore – approval allows to “progress the development, commercial & engineering activities to advance project to final investment decision, targeted for 2027”

• https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/07/17/major-australian-solar-project-2671-mile-undersea-cable-singapore-gains-environmental 

Houston, Texas, power grid & lessons learned this time from Hurricane Beryl – fossil fuel microgrids kept power on at critical facilities

• https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/distributed-energy-resources/houstons-post-beryl-outages-highlight-benefits-of-distributed-energy 

Tijuana River set all time flow of contaminated water laced with raw sewage – 44B gallons in 2023 – more in 2024

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/tijuana-river-sewage-flows-last-year-broke-all-records-since-2000-it-s-on-track-to-do-it-again/ar-BB1qeItN 

Technological Hazard:  Global vulnerability of submarine cables

• https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/19/global-vulnerability-to-the-disruption-of-undersea-cables-exposed/

"The strong do what they can and the weak do what they must" - Thucydides (heard @FareedZakaria with @carlbildt)