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Over the past decade, communities have detected volatile organic compounds in their water distribution systems following wildfires,
as a result of damage and depressurization.
Together, these studies first outline a comprehensive experimental framework
— developed to quantify the effects of localized (single-structure) water system depressurization as a mechanism for VOC contamination in water systems following wildfire events
— and then apply that framework to gath…

Learn About Water System Contamination After Wildfires
Two peer-reviewed journal articles investigate volatile organic compound contamination after water system depressurization.

@… I too love filmstrips!! I want to figure out a way to show resource congestion on them!

#maha #USpol #health

I hope Andy Burn 'em has some advisor who actually reads Environmental Research Letters. The review essay by Emily Grubert, summarizing a frustrating 25 years of research with no apparent effect on climate overheating, is blunt.
" For people and places that rely on fossil fuel production and face major transition challenges (Xenarios et al 2026), failing to be explicit about the degree to which transition must proceed, or the extent to which alternatives might actually be ava…

I have long assumed this to be the case: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/community/884421/most-drivers-not-following-basic-road-rules-aa-research-shows but it's good to have confirmation. Sorta.

@… I didn’t apply filmstrips and comparisons to the Built Awesome category for resource (file size) reasons on the site. I think it’s possible to readd it back in at some point but I just want to take care there as this site does pressure GitHub’s free tier 😅

Astronomers hypothesized that the Milky Way was flipped on its side following a direct hit from a wayward galaxy long before the solar system was born.
The cataclysmic collision is thought to have taken place about 10bn years ago
when the Milky Way was struck head-on by an incoming dwarf dubbed the Gaia Sausage.
The Milky Way tore the interloper to shreds and absorbed its stars,
but the chaos unleashed in the event probably flipped the entire disc of the Milky Way by m…

Milky Way flipped in collision with dwarf galaxy 10bn years ago, astronomers say
Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

Australia may have had a much larger Indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans than previously thought, a new study has found.
The research, based on computer modelling, suggests that about
⭐️93 per cent of the pre-European population was removed in under 80 years
following the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788.
And this population, researchers at Flinders Universityestimated, was
⭐️up to seven times larger than previously thought.
“Understan…

Australia may have had a much larger Indigenous population before Europeans arrived
Only about seven per cent of Aboriginal people survived colonisation

Firefighters battling enormous wildfires in the United States say
the federal government is failing them at a time when supercharged blazes have made their jobs exponentially more dangerous.
While the US continues to grapple with a critical shortage of federal firefighters
– with especially large gaps in essential management positions
– the Trump administration has increased pressure on firefighting forces to rapidly and aggressively contain the flames.

‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season
US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire