Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

New!   Dam  déjà  vu:  2 Brazil mining waste disasters in 3 years raise alarms (Zoe SULLIVAN and Caio DE FREITAS PAES, Mongabay News ; 11 February 2019) https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/dam-deja-vu-2-brazil-mining-waste-disasters-in-3-years-raise-alarms/ Dam holding back mine waste collapses in Brazil; 200 missing (Anna Jean KAISER and Markcelo SILVA DE SOUSA; Associated Press ; January 25, 2019) https://www.apnews.com/b2d9d51f12c74b5ba0b755dfaedd3341 Brazil dam collapse: hundreds missing after mining disaster (Dom PHILLIPS,  The Guardian ; 25 January 2019) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/brazil-dam-collapse-news-latest-mining-disaster-brumadinho Prefeito de Brumadinho diz que tragédia deixou 'pelo menos 50 mortos'  (Tatiana MORAES,  Hoje Em Dia ; 25 January 2019)     https://www.hojeemdia.com.br/horizontes/prefeito-de-brumadinho-diz-que-trag%C3%A9dia-deixou-pelo-menos-50-mortos-1.688856 Web...

Update: France to ban dozens of glyphosate weedkillers amid health risk debate (Gus TROMPIZ and Sybille de LA HAMAIDE, Reuters ; December 9, 2019) https://in.reuters.com/article/us-france-glyphosate/french-regulator-says-to-ban-some-glyphosate-based-products-idINKBN1YD1BG ANSES announces the withdrawal of 36 products containing glyphosate (News Release, ANSES ; 09 décembre 2019) https://www.anses.fr/en/content/anses-announces-withdrawal-36-products-containing-glyphosate ___________ French court bans sale of controversial weedkiller (Barbara CASASSUS, Nature ; January 24, 2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00259-x French court cancels Monsanto weedkiller permit on safety grounds ( Reuters , Janaury 15, 2019) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayer-monsanto-france-idUSKCN1P91F6 Glyphosate : la justice annule l’autorisation de mise sur le marché du Roundup Pro 360 ( St é phane FOUCART, Le Monde ; le 15 janvier 2019) https://www.lemonde.fr...

The Call for Papers for the 2019 ACS National Fall Meeting & Exposition in San Diego, CA from August 25 - 29, 2019 is now open!   Being a GEOC Symposium Organizer for this event, please find the title and description of my accepted Symposium as follows: Geogenic and Anthropogenic Sources of Trace Elements within Surface and Groundwater Systems and their Effects on Water Quality C. Mei-Ling HAMILTON Environmental Geochemist & Educator meilinghamilton@yahoo.com c.meilinghamilton@gmail.com Freshwater is a finite, non-renewable resource. As water demand from Agricultural, Industrial and Public Sectors increase, available freshwater extracted from waterways and aquifers are becoming critically stressed, overdrafted, and/or contaminated from geogenic and anthropogenic sources. The focus of this GEOC Symposium is the geochemical characterization of heavy metal(loid)s, salts, and other trace compounds present within natural riverine and aq...

Concerns over increase in toxic brine from desalination plants (Matt MC GRATH, BBC UK ; January 14, 2019) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46863146 N. B.:   The featured Research article entitled, "The state of desalination and brine production:  A global outlook" (JONES et al. , 2019) published in the journal Science of the Total Environment is available for download at the end of the aforementioned BBC UK News report. Featured Research Article: The state of desalination and brine production:  A global outlook   (JONES  et al. , 2019) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir_Smakhtin/publication/329476006_The_state_of_desalination_and_brine_production_A_global_outlook/links/5c1e939892851c22a33fcf61/The-state-of-desalination-and-brine-production-A-global-outlook.pdf Selected Research Articles: Environmental issues in seawater reverse osmosis desalination:  Intakes and outfalls (MISSIMER and MALIVA, 2018) https://www.sc...