Victor

Victor, 9 days ago to Futurology

Evidence of Earth's First Rains Found Trapped Within Primordial Crystals. #water #history #science #geology https://www.sciencealert.com/evidence-of-earths-first-rains-found-trapped-within-primordial-crystals

Victor, 15 days ago to Trains

A #railroad worker figured out how to send thousands of gallons of drinking #water by rail from Mississippi to the Navajo Nation to alleviate the water crisis. #transportation #waterdelivery https://www.businessinsider.com/railroad-worker-delivers-water-by-rail-navajo-nation-water-crisis-2024-5

Victor, 2 months ago to Futurology

Seafood Products Association was getting ready to dispose of stored cans of seafood (salmon) that it had store for years. Before doing so, it decided to ask the University of Washington if it wanted stacks of dusty boxes of long-expired canned salmon. Researchers were able to recover parasites and reconstruct how infection burden that has changed over the course of 42 years in four salmon species and their effect on #marine mammal infection. #water #parasites #oceanhealth https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/decades-old-cans-of-salmon-reveal-changes-in-ocean-health/

Victor, 5 months ago to Canada

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is leading a 60-day public consultation to seek comments on proposed #fertilizer standards imported or sold in Canada. The policy focuses on the proposed implementation of a per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (#PFAS) standard for municipal #biosolids imported or sold as commercial fertilizers. #wastewater #sewage #Canada

Victor, 7 months ago to climate

San Francisco and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could soon embark on the largest #infrastructure project in the city’s history — preparing the bay shoreline for sea level rise, an endeavor that could last decades and cost more than $10 billion. #climatechange #water #sealevelrise #ocean #shoreline https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san-francisco-bay-shoreline-18473194.php

Victor, 7 months ago to random

Company using #wastewater to make concrete. https://youtu.be/YstNsLIaRME

Victor, 7 months ago to Futurology

Severe drought in Amazon's parched riverbanks reveals carved faces and figures from more than a thousand years ago. #drought #water #history https://youtu.be/wU4QeCl9xag

Victor, 8 months ago to Amazon

The extreme #drought sweeping across Brazil’s #Amazon #rainforest is already impacting hundreds of thousands of people and killing local #wildlife. #water #aridification #climatechange https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/water-life-drought-brazils-amazon-sharpening-fears-future-103815545

Victor, 8 months ago to random

Verily, an Alphabet precision health technology company, today announced it was selected by the #CentersforDiseaseControl (#CDC) to support the agency’s National #Wastewater #Surveillance System (NWSS). The CDC launched NWSS in September 2020 to coordinate and build the nation’s capacity to track the presence of #SARSCoV2 in wastewater samples collected across the country. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231002398948/en/U.S.-Centers-for-Disease-Control-and-Prevention-Selects-Verily-to-Support-National-Wastewater-Monitoring

Victor, 8 months ago to california

It appears that actuarial science will set the tone for accepting climate change rather than the voluminous quantity of climate data. Yes, hitting you financially will sober some deniers. #California will let #insurance companies consider #climatechange when setting their prices, a move aimed at preventing insurers from fleeing the state over fears of massive losses from #wildfires and other natural disasters. #water #flooding #floods #naturaldisasters https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/california-allow-property-insurers-factor-climate-risks-pricing-rcna116914

Victor, 9 months ago to Weather

Time to rethink current #weather models? The record-shattering 2021 heatwave in the Pacific Northwest (peaking at 49.6°C in Lytton, BC) raised the question, whether heat #extremes intensify faster than projected, and whether current generations of global models are unable to even reproduce such events. #climatechange https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40112-4

Victor, 9 months ago to Futurology

Big corporations, golf courses & hotels have been taking #water from locals for years. Despite her personal calamity, Tereariʻi, a grassroots attorney, already knew that the fight for Maui’s future was about to intensify, and at its heart would not be fire, but another element entirely: water. Specifically, the #waterrights of Native Hawaiians, rights that a long parade of plantations, real estate developers, and luxury resorts have been stifling for nearly two centuries. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii-fires-maui-water-rights-disaster-capitalism

Victor, 9 months ago to Futurology

The World Resources Institute released a new study that shows 25 countries are using 80 per cent of their #water supply every year. https://youtu.be/KzBw3jHos7M

Victor, 10 months ago to worldwithoutus

Scientists took the first close-up look at the underside of a Florida-sized #glacier in West #Antarctica, revealing some troubling trends. With the help of a 13-foot-long underwater robot, they discovered the glacier’s ice shelf is melting in a more complex manner than previously thought, according to two new studies published this week. #water #climatechange https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-rare-look-below-the-doomsday-glacier-reveals-surprising-melting-180981657/

Victor, 10 months ago to random

No need to exploit virgin desert land. The expansion of rooftop solar in New England is keeping the lights on during winter, surprising the region’s grid operator and challenging long-standing assumptions that the growth of renewable energy could destabilize the power system. https://www.eenews.net/articles/rooftop-solar-was-overlooked-now-its-closing-a-new-england-power-plant/

Victor, 10 months ago to Futurology

Post-Wildfire Debris Flows in California: CW3E has produced this StoryMap focused on post-#wildfire debris flows (PFDF) and their association with #Atmosphericrivers in California. #water #flood https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/Projects/DebrisFlowStoryMap/

Victor, 1 year ago to random

California #water manager ripped over poor #climatechange planning. The state auditor pointed to the California Department of Water Resources' outdated #forecasts that may not account for extremes brought on by climate change. https://www.courthousenews.com/california-water-manager-ripped-over-poor-climate-change-planning/