Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

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/