Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

( NIGRA  et al. , 2025 ) Exposure to Low Levels of Arsenic in Public Drinking Water Linked to Lower Birthweight, Preterm Birth (Stephanie BERGER, Columbia University - Irving Medical Center ; June 17, 2025) https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/exposure-low-levels-arsenic-public-drinking-water-linked-lower-birthweight-preterm-birth Featured Research Article: Public Water Arsenic and Birth Outcomes in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort (NIGRA et al. , 2025) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835321#250399059 Also... ( MARTINEZ-MORATA  et al. , 2022 ) Nationwide geospatial analysis of county racial and ethnic composition and public drinking water arsenic and uranium (MARTINEZ-MORATA et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35185-6 Websites : Arsenic, Inorganic (IRIS Toxicological Review; Final Report, 2025;  US EPA) https://iris.epa.gov/document/&deid=363892 Arsenic and Drinking Wa...

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