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East African Rift System Geochemistry

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Kenya Rift Valley Volcanoes and Lakes , Uwe DEDERING/Amatth2 ;  CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Geochemical fingerprinting of plume in Suswa silicic volcanics, Kenya rift  (HONG et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22868-5 Also... The East African Rift System (ROONEY et al. , 2025) https://flore.unifi.it/bitstream/2158/1427895/1/xfinal_Rooney_2025_ear_review.pdf Geochemistry and sources of fluoride and nitrate contamination of groundwater in six districts of the Dodoma region in Tanzania (BANYIKWA, 2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227623002399 Groundwater resources in the East African Rift Valley: Understanding the geogenic contamination and water quality challenges in Tanzania (LIGATE et al. , 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227621001356
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Sustainable Phytoremediation Strategy for Heavy Metal Contamination in Soils

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Heavy Metal Accumulation and Plant-Mediated Nanoparticles Synthesis in Euphorbia tirucalli:  A Sustainable Remediation Strategy (YANAMANDRA et al. , 2025) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.5c06070
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Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils - Amojú River Basin; Jaén, Peru

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Vista panorámica de Jaén, desde el cerro en el Sector Santa Teresita ,  Ronar ESPINOZA ;  CC BY-SA 3.0 ,  Link Geospatial distribution of heavy metals in rice soils of northwestern Peru (TARILLO et al ., 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-16638-6
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Proposed Reapproval of Drift-Prone, Disruptive Dicamba Herbicide Use by US EPA

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Estimated Agricultural Pesticide Use (Dicamba, 2019), USGS ; Link TRUMP EPA Announced Plan to Reapprove Dangerous Drift-Prone Pesticide Dicamba (News Release, Center for Biological Diversity ; July 23, 2025) https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-epa-announces-plan-to-reapprove-dangerous-drift-prone-pesticide-dicamba-2025-07-23/ EPA announced Proposed Decision to Approve Registration of New Uses of Dicamba, Outlines New Measures to Protect Human Health, Environment (Press Release, US EPA ; July 23, 2025) https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/epa-announces-proposed-decision-approve-registration-new-uses-dicamba-outlines-new Also... Dicamba drift:  New use of an old herbicide disrupts pollinators (News Release, University of Michigan ; March 4, 2025) https://news.umich.edu/dicamba-drift-new-use-of-an-old-herbicide-disrupts-pollinators/ Featured Research Article: Off-target drift of the herbicide Dicamba disrupts plant-pollinator interactions via novel pat...
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Geochemical studies on the end-Triassic mass extinction event (ETE)

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CAMP Magmatism in the context of Pangaea ,  Williamborg ;  CC BY-SA 3.0 ,  Link Pulses of ocean acidification at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary (TRUDGILL et al ., 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61344-6 Mechanisms of global climate change during the five major mass extinctions (KAIHO, 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-01203-y.pdf Also... How the world of the end-Triassic extinction was similar to today - and how it differed (Howard LEE, Ars Technica ; February 8, 2023) https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/what-messages-does-the-end-triassic-extinction-hold-for-today/ Contrasting terrestrial and marine ecospace dynamics after the end-Triassic mass extinction event (CRIBB et al. , 2023) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2232 Molecular and isotopic evidence reveals the end-Triassic carbon isotope excursion is not from massive exogenous light carbon (FOX et al. , 2020) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.19176611...
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Microplastics Incorporation and Transport in Soil

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(SEVERE  et al. , 2025) The Transport of Microplastics from Soil in Response to Surface Runoff and Splash Erosion (SEVERE et al. , 2025) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5c04795
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Geogenic Arsenic Exposures in Drinking Water and Impacts on Human Health

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( NIGRA  et al. , 2025 ) Exposure to Low Levels of Arsenic in Public Drinking Water Linked to Lower Birthweight, Preterm Birth (Stephanie BERGER, Columbia University - Irving Medical Center ; June 17, 2025) https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/exposure-low-levels-arsenic-public-drinking-water-linked-lower-birthweight-preterm-birth Featured Research Article: Public Water Arsenic and Birth Outcomes in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort (NIGRA et al. , 2025) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835321#250399059 Also... ( MARTINEZ-MORATA  et al. , 2022 ) Nationwide geospatial analysis of county racial and ethnic composition and public drinking water arsenic and uranium (MARTINEZ-MORATA et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35185-6 Websites : Arsenic, Inorganic (IRIS Toxicological Review; Final Report, 2025;  US EPA) https://iris.epa.gov/document/&deid=363892 Arsenic and Drinking Wa...
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