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Rosselia Trace Fossils, Upper Pebbley Beach Formation (Permian), New South Wales , Michael C. RYGEL ; CC BY-SA 3.0 ,  Link Geochemical signatures of sedimentary and diagenetic processes in the trace fossil Rosselia from the Pliocene in Taiwan (LIOU et al., 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-26772-0 Also... Process ichnology and the elucidation of physico-chemical stress (GINGRAS et al. , 2011) https://www.academia.edu/download/53045412/j.sedgeo.2011.02.00620170508-27083-1khgwhs.pdf Website : Genus Rosselia Dahmer (1937) [ Fossilid.info ] https://fossiilid.info/13434?mode=in_baltoscandia&lang=en

TC Energy says has not found cause of Keystone oil pipeline leak (Juby BABU, Reuters ; December 11, 2022) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tc-energy-says-has-not-found-cause-keystone-oil-pipeline-leak-2022-12-11/ Kansas oil spill is Keystone pipeline's biggest ever, according to federal data ( NPR/Associated Press ; December 10, 2022) https://www.npr.org/2022/12/10/1142088091/kansas-oil-spill-is-keystone-pipelines-biggest-ever-according-to-federal-data?ft=nprml&f= Friends of the Kaw Responds to the Keystone Pipeline Oil Spill in the Kansas River Watershed (Dawn BUEHLER, Friends of the Kaw Press Release; December 9, 2022) https://kansasriver.org/friends-of-the-kaw-responds-to-keystone-pipeline-oil-spill-in-the-kansas-river-watershed/ Kansas River Map , Kmusser , CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Oil Spill in Kansas Prompts Shutdown of Keystone Pipeline System (Derrick Bryson TAYLOR, New York Times ; December 8, 2022) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/us/keystone-pipeline-oil-...

Five Sisters Hot Springs , Midway & Lower Geyser Basin, CANTER/NPS ; Link Longitudinal analysis of the Five Sisters hot springs in Yellowstone National Park reveals a dynamic thermoalkaline environment (PEACH et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22047-w Subsurface Archaea associated with rapid geobiological change in a model Yellowstone hot spring (COLMAN et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00542-2 Map of Yellowstone National Park showing locations of thermal basins , USGS ; Link Seasonal hydrologic and geologic forcing drive hot spring geochemistry and microbial biodiversity (COLMAN et al. , 2021) https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10288280 Yellowstone Hot Springs are Organic Chemodiversity Hot Spots (GONSIOR et al. , 2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32593-x Cinder Pool , Norris Geyser Basin , USGS ; Link

Deception Island , W. BULACH ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Nobel gas isotopes reveal degassing-derived eruptions at Deception Island (Antarctica):  Implications for the current high levels of volcanic activity (ÁLVAREZ-VALERO et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-23991-3 Deception Island Map , Fitzgabbro ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Also... Paroxysmal eruptions tracked by variations of helium isotopes: Inferences from Piton de la Fournaise (La Réunion Island) [BOUDOIRE et al. , 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66260-x Controls on explosive-effusive volcanic eruption styles (CASSIDY et al. , 2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05293-3 New geochemical insights into volcanic degassing (EDMONDS, 2008) https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/51375736.pdf

Aerial Photo of Redbank Mine , Northern Territory Government, Australia ;  Link Northern Territory government investigating options to rehabilitate remote 'toxic' Redbank mine  (Daniel FITZGERALD, ABC Rural News ; October 16, 2022) https://amp-abc-net-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/101530170 Selected Documentation : Redbank Copper Mine - Environmental Quality Report | NT EPA (March 2014) https://ntepa.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/284743/redbank_environmental_quality_report.pdf Website : Redbank   ( Mining Legacies ) https://www.mininglegacies.org/mines/northern-territory/redbank/

U(VI) removal from diluted aqueous systems by sorption-flotation (CONSTANTIN et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19002-0?utm_source=srep_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_41598_12_1_20221011&utm_content=EAES_1 Also... Efficient Removal of Uranium (VI) from Aqueous Solutions by Triethylenetetramine-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanohorns (WANG et al. , 2020) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.0c02715 The Removal of Uranium onto Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron Particles in Anoxic Batch Systems (CRANE and SCOTT, 2014) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnm/2014/956360/ Blue Sky Uranium Mine (Kakadu National Park, Australia) , Rhonda W. ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

Volcanic Arc System ,  MagentaGreen ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Geochemical variability as an indicator for large magnitude eruptions in volcanic arcs (WEBER and SHELDRAKE, 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19902-1 Effects of aseismic ridge subduction on geochemistry of frontal arc magmas (CHIARADIA et al. , 2020) https://eartharxiv.org/repository/object/507/download/1097/ Mineralogy and Geochemical Variation of Igneous rocks from Ungaran and Murio Volcano and its Processes related to Subduction Zone Magmatism of Sunda Arc (MARIN et al. , 2019) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/279/1/012017/pdf Formation of massive iron deposits linked to explosive volcanic eruptions (OVALLE et al., 2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33206-3 Geochemical variation within the northern Ryukyu Arc:  magma source compositions and geodynamics implications (SHINJO et al. , 2000) http://repository.geologyscience.ru/bitstream/handle/123456789/...

The synthetic rocks helping us understand how sought-after rare earth elements form : Researchers from Trinity have shed new light on the formation of increasingly precious rare earth elements (REEs) by creating synthetic rocks and testing their responses to varying environmental conditions... Featured Research Article : Targeted Crystallization of Rare Earth Carbonate Polymorphs at Hydrothermal Conditions via Mineral Replacement Reactions (SZUCS et al. , 2022) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gch2.202200085 Rare Earth Elements and their Spectra , Umop503 ; Link

Vegetable Garden , P199 ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region (VEJVODOVÁ et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-17461-z Risk assessment of heavy metals in souls and edible parts of vegetables grown on sites contaminated by an abandoned steel plant in Havana (ALFARO et al. , 2022) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luiz-Henrique-Vieira-Lima/publication/354591706_Risk_assessment_of_heavy_metals_in_soils_and_edible_parts_of_vegetables_grown_on_sites_contaminated_by_an_abandoned_steel_plant_in_Havana/links/628a7bf46e41e5002d3b7be3/Risk-assessment-of-heavy-metals-in-soils-and-edible-parts-of-vegetables-grown-on-sites-contaminated-by-an-abandoned-steel-plant-in-Havana.pdf Hazardous heavy metals accumulation and health risk assessment of different vegetable species in contaminated soils from a typical mining city, central China (WANG et al. , 2021) https://www....

Satellite Image of Earth's Interrelated Systems and Climate , NASA ; Link Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) [COUSINS et al. , 2022] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765 Also... Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary of Novel Entities (PERSSONS et al. , 2022) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158 Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) , Manuel Almagro RIVAS ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Perfluorononanoic Acid (PFNA) , Mplanine ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Perfluorohexanesulfonic Acid (PFHxS) , Pimbim ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS) , Link Plus... EPA to designate 'forever chemicals' as hazardous substances (Matthew DALY, Associated Press ; August 26, 2022) https://apnews.com/article/health-climate-and-environment-government-politics-a0fcd1fe52839474093735923e68dfaa

Elbaïte , Robert M. LAVINSKY ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Crushed, Zapped, Boiled Baked And More: Nature Used 57 Recipes To Create Earth's 10,500+ Mineral Kinds ( Carnegie Institute for Science ; July 1, 2022) https://carnegiescience.edu/news/crushed-zapped-boiled-baked-and-more-nature-used-57-recipes-create-earths-10500-mineral-kinds Also... Historical natural kinds and mineralogy: Systematizing contingency in the context of necessity   (CLELAND et al. , 2020) https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2015370118 An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kinds clustering (HAZEN, 2019) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345525240_An_evolutionary_system_of_mineralogy_Proposal_for_a_classification_of_planetary_materials_based_on_natural_kind_clustering/fulltext/5fa87e92a6fdcc0624201016/An-evolutionary-system-of-mineralogy-Proposal-for-a-classification-of-planetary-materials-based-on-natural-kind-clustering...

Soil Survey 09 , USDA ; Link Effects of soil properties on heavy metal bioavailability and accumulation in crop grains under different farmland use patterns (XU et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13140-1 Bioavailability and bioaccessibility in soil:  A short review and a case study (PETRUZELLI et al. , 2020) https://www.aimspress.com/article/id/5032 Bioavailability of arsenic in agricultural soils under the influence of different soil properties (SINGH and SRIVASTAVA, 2020) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42452-019-1932-z Spatial distribution of total and bioavailable heavy metal contents in soil from agricultural, residential and industrial areas in Sudan (ASHAIEHK et al ., 2019) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abubakr-Idris/publication/322107398_Spatial_distribution_of_total_and_bioavailable_heavy_metal_contents_in_soil_from_agricultural_residential_and_industrial_areas_in_Sudan/links/5a5a47feaca2727d60860cd5/Spatial-distribu...

Where Carbon goes when water flows (WARD et al. , 2017);  CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Superlinear scaling of riverine biogeochemical function with watershed size  (WOLLHEIM et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28630-z Characterization of riverine dissolved organic matter using a complementary suite of chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods (LLOYD et al. , 2022) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10533-022-00913-z The implications of lag times between nitrate leaching and riverine loads for water quality policy                                 (MCDOWELL et al ., 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95302-1 Riverine Export of Aged Carbon Driven by Flow Path Depth and Residence Time  (BARNES et al., 2018) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebecca-Barnes-15/publication/322352225_Riverine_Export_of_Aged_Carbon_Driven_by_Flow_Path_Depth_and_Residence_Tim...

Yonderup Cave (Site 2a) ,   Andy BAKER ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Plato's Cave:  Stalagmites reveal Australia's pre-colonial bushfire history (Jessie HAWLEY, University of New South Wales Sydney ; 14 April 2022) https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/platos-cave-stalagmites-reveal-australias-pre-colonial-bushfire-history Featured Research Article* : Past fires and post-fire impacts reconstructed from a Southwest Australian Stalagmite (MCDONOUGH et al. , 2022) https://eartharxiv.org/repository/object/2249/download/4642/ (*) = Provided link is to the published Research Article Manuscript . Also... Bushfire signals identified in cave formations for the first time (European Geosciences Union, University of New South Wales Sydney ; 21 July 2016) https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/bushfire-signals-identified-cave-formations-first-time Featured Research Article : A post wildfire response in cave drip water chemistry (NAGRA et al. , 2016) https://hess.co...

MOORE et al. , 2022 ; Link The expanding network of mineral chemistry throughout earth history reveals global shifts in crustal chemistry during the Proterozoic (MOORE et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-08650-x Also... dragon:  A New Tool For Exploring Redox Evolution Preserved in the Mineral Record (SPIELMAN and MOORE, 2020) https://eartharxiv.org/repository/object/93/download/184/

Southern Tibetan Plateau , European Space Agency (ESA) ; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO , Link Stanford researchers use hot springs to map where continental plates collide beneath Tibet (Danielle Torrent TUCKER, Stanford University News ; March 14, 2022) https://news.stanford.edu/2022/03/14/hot-springs-reveal-continental-plates-collide-beneath-tibet/ Featured Research Article: Limited underthrusting of India below Tibet: 3He/4He analysis of thermal springs locates the mantle suture in continental collision (KLEMPERER et al. , 2022) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113877119 Indian Plate , Alataristarion ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

Floodplain soils contamination assessment using the sequential extraction method of heavy metals from past mining activities (KANIANSKA et al., 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06929-7 Water-sediment interactions and mobility of heavy metals in aquatic environments (MIRANDA et al ., 2021) http://hpkx.cnjournals.com/ch/reader/view_news.aspx?id=20210823154857001 Geochemical fractionation of heavy metals in sediments of the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia (AL-MUR, 2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0078323419300624 Concentrations and pollution assessment of heavy metals within surface sediments of the Raohe Basin, China (WEI et al. , 2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49724-7 pH effect on heavy metals release from a polluted sediment (ZHANG et al., 2018) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jchem/2018/7597640/ Contaminación del agua en el oconal de  Mesapata  (Water Contamination in the Oconal de Mesapata), Cecilia Solange Es...

New Data Shows Subsidence Continues in Water Year 2021, But Pace Slower than Seen in Previous Droughts [News Release, California Department of Water Resources (CA DWR) ; February 16, 2022] https://water.ca.gov/News/News-Releases/2022/Feb-22/New-Data-Shows-Subsidence-Continued-in-Water-Year-2021-Pace-Slower-than-Previous-Droughts Boats on Lake Oroville during the 2021 Drought , ©  Frank SCHULENBERG; CC BY-SA 4.0, Link Also... How Bad is the Western Drought?  Worst in 12 Centuries, Study finds (Henry FOUNTAIN, New York Times ; February 14, 2022) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/climate/western-drought-megadrought.html Selected Research Articles: Modelling 65 years of Land Subsidence in California's San Joaquin Valley  (LEES et al. , 2021) https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-609832/latest.pdf Development of spatially varying draw-down functions for land subsidence estimation   (CHU et al. , 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581821000...

Radiochemical analysis of drain water sampled at the exhaust stack shared by Units 1 and 2 in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (SHIMADA et al ., 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05924-2 Also... Landside tritium over through years from Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and relationship between countermeasures and contaminated water (SHOGUZAWA et al., 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76964-9 Radiocesium in Ponds in the Near Zone of Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP (KONOPLEV et al ., 2016) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexei-Konoplev/publication/326483885_Radiocesium_in_Ponds_in_the_Near_Zone_of_Fukushima_Dai-ichi_NPP/links/5d3178c4299bf1547cc27435/Radiocesium-in-Ponds-in-the-Near-Zone-of-Fukushima-Dai-ichi-NPP.pdf Isotopic determination of U, Pu and Cs in environmental waters following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident (SAKAGUCHI et al., 2012) https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geochemj/46/4/46_2.0216/_pdf Fukushi...

(HOWELL et al. , 2022) Geological 'Goldilocks zone discovered in Earth's crust by scientists, where cobalt, copper and platinum are more likely to be found near the surface (Ryan MORRISSON, DailyMail.com ; 31 January 2022) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10460975/Geological-goldilocks-zone-discovered-scientists-precious-metals-near-surface.html Featured Research Article: Mobilisation of deep crustal sulfide melts as a first order control on upper lithospheric metallogeny (HOWELL et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28275-y?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_content=en_textlink&utm_campaign=3_nsn6445_deeplink_PID100032693&CJEVENT=8d196108837211ec81eeda820a82b836#Sec5

Iceberg A-68A Migration Course, European Space Agency (ESA); CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO , Link Mega iceberg releases 152 billion tonnes of fresh water into ocean (Press Release, University of Leeds UK ; 20 January 2022) https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environment/news/article/4997/mega-iceberg-released-152-billion-tonnes-of-fresh-water-into-ocean Featured Research Article: Observing the disintegration of the A68A iceberg from space (BRAAKMAN-FOLGMANN et al ., 2022) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425721005757/pdfft?isDTMRedir=true&download=true Supplementary Video 1 (BRAAKMANN-FOLGMANN et al., 2022) https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0034425721005757-mmc1.mp4

Credit:   Markus REICHSTEIN, Max PLANCK Institute for Biogeochemistry ; CC Licenses ,  Link Earth inhales and exhales carbon in mesmerizing animation (Stephanie PAPPAS, LiveScience ; January 13, 2022) https://www.livescience.com/carbon-sinks-globe-animation Websites : Research Group: Model-Data Integration ( Department of Biogeochemical Integration - Max PLANCK Institute for Biogeochemistry) https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgi/index.php/Research/ModelDataFusion Markus REICHSTEIN, Director  ( Department of Biogeochemical Integration - Max PLANCK Institute for Biogeochemistry) https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgi/index.php/People/MarkusReichstein

(Kara MANKE, Berkeley News ; January 11, 2022) https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/01/11/study-safe-drinking-water-remains-out-of-reach-for-many-californians/ Featured Research Article: Inequities in Drinking Water Quality Among Domestic Well Communities and Community Water Systems, California, 2011-2019 (PACE et al. , 2021) https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306561 Old Fashion Faucet , Cicinature ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Website: Drinking Water Quality Tool  ( Community Water Center ) https://drinkingwatertool.communitywatercenter.org/ca-water/

Portrait of Global Aerosols (NASA) ; Link Selected Research Articles: Open questions of transition metals driving secondary thermal processes in atmospheric aerosols (AL-ABADLEH and NIZKORODOV, 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-021-00616-w Aging of atmospheric aerosols and the role of iron in catalyzing brown carbon formation (AL-ABADLEH, 2021) https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/ea/d1ea00038a A Review on the Bulk and Surface Chemistry of Iron in Atmospherically-relevant Systems Containing Humic Like Substances (HULIS) [AL-ABADLEH, 2015] https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=chem_faculty Also... Aerosol Mixing State:  Measurements, Modeling and Impacts (RIEMER et al. , 2019) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018RG000615 Website :  Aerosol Optical Thickness [ NASA Earth Observations (NEO) ] https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MODAL2_M_AER_OD