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#aquifer — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aquifer, aggregated by home.social.

  1. #ClimateChange will increase impacts of #volcanic eruptions

    June 28, 2023, Portland State University

    "Volcanic disasters have been studied since Pompeii was buried in 79 A.D., leading the public to believe that scientists already know why, where, when and how long volcanoes will erupt. But a volcanologist said these fundamental questions remain a mystery."

    However, we do know that, "#SeaLevel rise, #GlacialMelting, #aquifer depletion, and #mountain #erosion can all affect the likelihood and frequency of volcanic eruptions."

    #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #Volcanoes

    sciencedaily.com/releases/2023

  2. 'It will poison everything.' #NativeAmericans protest #YuccaMountain #Nuclear Waste site

    by Ed Komenda, May 22, 2019

    "“Those transportation routes go through any number of sensitive habitats where a #derailment or a truck accident could cause significant impacts on water or on wildlife that live along those transportation corridors,' Donnelly [Nevada state director for the Center for Biological Diversity] said.

    "The office of #Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford identified the complexity of waste transport as one of many reasons storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain does little to protect the #environment and people. Other concerns include national security (waste shipments as terrorist targets) and geology (Yucca's aquifer drains to the #AmargosaValley – home to more than 1,400 people and several #endangered species). [And is seismically unstable]

    "'#Contamination from Yucca Mountain could very easily contaminate the #aquifer,' Donnelly said, 'and thus contaminate all sorts of springs that harbor some kind of endemic life.'"

    #NoNukes #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism

    rgj.com/story/news/2019/05/22/