Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Map of Al-Khankah, Egypt,  Weather-forecast.com ;  Link Calibration-free picosecond LIPS for quantifying heavy metals in soils near Egyptian industrial sites (EL-SAEED et al., 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04395-5

Aerial View of the Lancang River, Jinggu Linxiang Section ,  瑞丽江的河水 ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link Sediment mercury and methylmercury dynamics during reservoir operation (LIU et al ., 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03255-6

Hydrogen ,  SE3-29X ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link Scientists define ingredients for finding natural clean hydrogen (News Release, University of Oxford ; 13 May 2025) https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/scientists-define-ingredients-finding-natural-clean-hydrogen Featured Research Article Natural hydrogen resource accumulation in the continental crust (BALLENTINE et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-025-00670-1

BLACK and YOUNG, 2025 Household-Level Variability of Nontarget Analytical Results for Drinking Water Provides a Tool for Uncovering Constituents Introduced by Distribution System Components (BLACK and YOUNG, 2025) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c14749

Mississippi River Delta (MODIS) ,  NASA ;  Link Chevron ordered to pay more than $740 million to restore Louisiana coast in landmark trial (Jack BROOK, AP News ; April 4, 2025) https://apnews.com/article/chevron-louisiana-land-loss-lawsuit-oil-e02e2bdd56095e79c4d2bce60bf957c9 Map of Louisiana Highlighting Plaquemines Parish , David BENBENNICK ; Link

Kakhovka Dam destruction , By Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2023 , Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133368474 Kakhovka dam attack exposed 'toxic time bomb' of heavy metal pollution (Julia ROBINSON, RSC   Chemistry World ; 18 March 2025) https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/kakhovka-dam-attack-exposed-toxic-time-bomb-of-heavy-metal-pollution/4021155.article Featured Research Article: Environmental effects of the Kakhovka Dam destruction by warfare in Ukraine (SHUMILOVA et al. , 2025) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn8655 Ukraine|Nova Kakhovka Dam Breach , ERCC ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link

Palawan Island, Philippines ,  Milenioscuro ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link Immobilization of Chromium by Iron Oxides in Nickel-Laterite Mine Tailings (DELINA et al. , 2025) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c05383 Also... Palawan imposes 50-year mining moratorium (Geraldford TICKE and Jordeene B. LAGARE, Inquirer.net ; March 9, 2025) https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2041339/palawan-imposes-50-year-mining-moratorium UNESCO World Heritage Site Puerto Princessa Subterranean River National Park https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/652/ Puerto Princessa Subterranean River Cave, Stalactites, Palawan, Philippines , Vyacheslav ARGENBERG ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link

Lake Nasser location ,  Mark DINGEMANSE ;  CC BY-SA 2.5 ,  Link Study of the hydrogeochemical processes and its impact on the quality of groundwater in the area between Abu Simbil and Tushka, Western Desert, Egypt (MOHALLEL, 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-90669-x Lake Nasser, Egypt ,  European Space Agency (ESA) ;  CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ,  Link

Map of the State of Pennsylvania, USA, with Main Roads, and Counties.    Kirill SHRAYBER ;  Link Quantification of PFAS in soils treated with biosolids in ten northeastern US farms (OVIEDO-VARGAS et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-90184-z Farmstead in Winter, Windsor Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , Nicolas/Dincher ; CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link .   

Jewel-toned Lakes of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau , NASA ; Link Heavy metals impact environmental capacity of oasis soils in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau dry zone (HAN et al ., 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-86059-y Tibetan Plateau , Alan Mak ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link