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Groundwater Vulnerability Assessments - Ganges Delta

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Ganges Delta 2017 ,  Antti LIPPONEN ;  CC BY-SA 2.0 ,  Link Research Articles : Hydro-chemical based assessment of groundwater vulnerability in the Holocene multi-aquifers of Ganges Delta (SAHA et al. , 2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-51917-8 Also... Extreme exposure of fluoride and arsenic contamination in shallow coastal aquifers of the Ganges Delta, transboundary of the Indo-Bangladesh region  (RUIDAS et al. , 2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987123001925 Assessment of river water-groundwater-seawater interactions in the coastal delta of Bangladesh based on hydrochemistry and salinity distribution (NASHER and AHMED, 2021) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42452-021-04389-8.pdf Ganges-Brahmaputra-Mehgna Basins , Pfly ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link

Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Gas Generation from Saline Lakes: Great Salt Lake vs. Salton Sea

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Great Salt Lake by Copernicus Sentinel-2 , European Space Agency (ESA) ; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO , Link The Salton Sea shows why Utah should pay attention to Great Salt Lake's stench (Saige MILLER, KUER 90.1/Deseret News ; January 2, 2024) https://www.deseret.com/2024/1/2/24022595/the-salton-sea-shows-why-utah-should-pay-attention-to-great-salt-lakes-stench Research Articles : Geochemical transformations of sulfur in salt lakes (Transbaikalia) [BORZENKO, 2023] https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2023/48/e3sconf_apecvi2023_02009.pdf Spatiotemporal pattern of gypsum blooms in the Salton Sea, California, during 2000-2018  (MA et al ., 2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243419308621 Decline of the world's saline lakes (WURTSBAUGH et al. , 2017) https://www.fs.usda.gov/rm/pubs_journals/2017/rmrs_2017_wurtsbaugh_w001.pdf Salton Sea, Imperial Valley, California USA... , Pierre MARKUSE ; CC BY-SA 2.0 ,  Link

Mercury Biogeochemical Cycling - Deposition and Redox Processes

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LI et al. , 2023 Mercury deposition and redox transformation processes in peatland constrained by mercury stable isotopes                    (LI et al ., 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43164-8 Also... Artic Methylmercury Cycling (JONSSON et al. , 2022) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722045430 Organochemical Characterization of Peat Reveals Decomposition of Specific Hemicellulose Structures as Main Cause of Organic Matter Loss in the Acrotelm (SERK et al. , 2022) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365595054_Organochemical_Characterization_of_Peat_Reveals_Decomposition_of_Specific_Hemicellulose_Structures_as_the_Main_Cause_of_Organic_Matter_Loss_in_the_Acrotelm/download Arctic mercury cycling (DASTOOR et al. , 2022) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359393988_Arctic_mercury_cycling/link/62693b8ebca601538b6d30dd/download

Study of Lake Peipsi (Peipus) - A Shallow Polymictic Lake

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Lake Peipus , NASA; Link Spatio-temporal variations in sediment phosphorus dynamics in a large shallow lake:  Mechanisms and impacts of redox-related internal phosphorus loading (TAMMEORG et al. , 2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723066718 Hazardous radioactivity levels and heavy mineral concentrations in beach sediments of Lake Peipsi, northeastern Estonia (JARVËLILL et al. , 2018) https://sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/logos-2018-0001 Peipsi jarv location ; Link Water of Lake Peipsi , Geonarva ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link  

Pollution of the Bharalu: a Tributary to the Brahmaputra River - Guwahati City, Assam, India

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Guwahati City, Assam, India , Anushila BHARALI ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link 2023:  Which are the most polluted rivers in India? ( Ground Report India : June 5, 2023) https://groundreport.in/351-polluted-rivers-in-india-a-list-of-states/ Sewage pollution drives drastic deterioration of Brahmaputra in last six years (Deepa PADMANABAN, The Third Pole ; December 15, 2021) https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/pollution/sewage-pollution-drives-deterioration-brahmaputra/ Neither sewerage, nor sewage treatment plant, the Bharalu is a sewage channel  (Nidhi JAMWAL, GaonConnection; March 3, 2020) https://en.gaonconnection.com/neither-sewerage-nor-sewage-treatment-plant-smart-city-guwahatis-bharalu-river-is-a-sewage-channel/ Bharalu River in Guwahati remains Highly Polluted even after 10 years [Saumya MISHRA, Guwahati Plus (Gplus) ; January 10, 2019] https://www.guwahatiplus.com/guwahati/bharalu-river-in-guwahati-remains-highly-polluted-even-after-10-years Selected Research Articles: Heavy Metals c...

Assessment of Soil Organic Carbon & Dynamics

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Chlorine-36 , Jcwf ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link 36Cl, a new tool to assess soil carbon dynamics   (GRAPELOUP et al. , 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-41555-x Also... A global meta-analysis of soil organic carbon in the Anthropocene (BEILLOUIN et al. , 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39338-z

Climate Change and Scree Weathering Influence on Alpine Water Catchment Geochemistry

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Scree , Steve REDMAN (MORA)/NPS ; Link Underdeveloped tills soils in scree areas are an overlooked important phosphorus  source for waters in Alpine catchments (KAŇA  et al. , 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42013-4 Identification of the factors determining the concentration and spatial distribution of Zn, Pb and Cd in the soils of the non-forest Tatra Mountains (southern Poland) [CIARKOWSKA and MIECHÓWKA, 2022] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-022-01201-3 Climate change accelerates recovery of the Tatra Mountain lakes from acidification and increases their nutrient and Chlorophyll A concentrations (KOPÁČEK  et al. , 2019) https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2108&context=wats_facpub Climate Change Increasing Calcium and Magnesium Leaching from Granitic Alpine Catchments (KOPÁČEK  et al. , 2017)* https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs .est.6b03575 (*) = Article Abstract and Supporting Info...