Oklahoma Earthquake
In September 3, 2016 the earthquake "Pawnee" may be the largest ever recorded in Oklahoma. The earthquake was previously at a magnitude of 5.6. Even Though, Oklahoma has experienced more earthquakes of late and in May 2014. The USGS and the Oklahoma Geological Survey sounded a rare alarm. They issued an earthquake warning for the first time in any state east of the Rockies. The agencies warned that the risk of a damaging earthquake larger than magnitude of 5.0 had increased in central Oklahoma. The USGS believes that us human cause the earthquakes by our daily day activities over the past 7 years. Reached has suggested much of the increased seismic activity is cause by wastewater from oil and gas production being injected into wells deep underground, hydraulic fracturing according to the USGS these activities may trigger these earthquakes. Scientists calculated that north-central Oklahoma and the southern most part of Kansas were the two spots in the region with the greatest risk of experiencing a human-induced earthquake.
http://www.livescience.com/56019-oklahoma-largest-earthquake-on-record.html
http://www.livescience.com/56019-oklahoma-largest-earthquake-on-record.html
Little Doubt Typhoons Have Become More Intense, Study Finds. In the Northwest Pacific, there is a hotpot for tropical cyclones. The storms that strike East and Southeast Asia have been increasing more than those that stay out at sea over the last four decades. The proportion of land falling storms that reach Category 4 or 5 strength the storms that wreak the most damage. The increases seem to be the result of warmer ocean waters/rising global temperatures in coastal areas. The Northwest Pacific sees the most tropical cyclone activity of any ocean because of the deep well of ocean heat available to fuel typhoons, as such storms are called there.
http://www.livescience.com/55990-landfalling-typhoons-have-become-more-intense.html
Ghost fears spear as rising seas kills trees
Trunks of dead coastal forests are being discovered up and down the mid-Atlantic coastline. They are killed by the advance of rising seas. Scientists called them the "ghost forests." Forests protect against global warming, but they are dieing worldwide because fires, disease and invasive species etc. The ghost forests show sea level rise can be another cause of deforestation. The poison that kills the trees is salt, delivered to their roots. As seas continue to rise they are killing coastal forests. In New Jersey, and elsewhere, they will have less forestland unless we do something about it, humans or nature.
http://www.livescience.com/56116-ghost-forests-appear-as-rising-seas-kill-trees.html
http://www.livescience.com/55990-landfalling-typhoons-have-become-more-intense.html
Ghost fears spear as rising seas kills trees
Trunks of dead coastal forests are being discovered up and down the mid-Atlantic coastline. They are killed by the advance of rising seas. Scientists called them the "ghost forests." Forests protect against global warming, but they are dieing worldwide because fires, disease and invasive species etc. The ghost forests show sea level rise can be another cause of deforestation. The poison that kills the trees is salt, delivered to their roots. As seas continue to rise they are killing coastal forests. In New Jersey, and elsewhere, they will have less forestland unless we do something about it, humans or nature.
http://www.livescience.com/56116-ghost-forests-appear-as-rising-seas-kill-trees.html
Ice cores reveal a slow decline in atmospheric oxygen over the last 800,000 years
According to researchers at Princeton University analyzed ice cores collected in Greenland and Antarctica to determine levels of atmospheric oxygen over the last 800,000 years. The record shows that atmospheric oxygen has declined 0.7 percent relative to current atmospheric-oxygen concentrations, a reasonable pace by geological standards, the researchers said. During the past 100 years, however, atmospheric oxygen has declined by a comparatively speedy 0.1 percent because of the burning of fossil fuels, which consumes oxygen and produces carbon dioxide. Curiously, the decline in atmospheric oxygen over the past 800,000 years was not increase in the average amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, though carbon dioxide concentrations do vary over individual ice age cycles. The researchers called upon a theory for how the global carbon cycle, atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's temperature are linked on geologic timescales. "The planet has various processes that can keep carbon dioxide levels in check," said first author Daniel Stolper, a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Department of Geo-sciences. The researchers discuss and talk about a process known as "silicate weathering" in particular, where in carbon dioxide reacts with exposed rock to produce, eventually, calcium carbonate minerals, which trap carbon dioxide in a solid form. As temperatures rise due to higher carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, silicate-weathering rates are hypothesized to increase and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere faster.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161003141140.htm
Washing clothes releases thousands of micro-plastic particles into environment
More than 700,000 microscopic fibers could be released into waste water during each use of a domestic washing machine, with many of them likely to pass through sewage treatment and into the environment, according to a study of Plymouth University .They examined the mass, abundance and size of fibers present in waste effluent following washes of synthetic fabrics at standard temperatures of 30˚C and 40˚C. It found hundreds of thousands of tiny synthetic particles could be released in each wash, confirming earlier work at Plymouth University that the washing of clothes is a major source of microscopic fibers within the aquatic environment.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161003103651.htm
More than 700,000 microscopic fibers could be released into waste water during each use of a domestic washing machine, with many of them likely to pass through sewage treatment and into the environment, according to a study of Plymouth University .They examined the mass, abundance and size of fibers present in waste effluent following washes of synthetic fabrics at standard temperatures of 30˚C and 40˚C. It found hundreds of thousands of tiny synthetic particles could be released in each wash, confirming earlier work at Plymouth University that the washing of clothes is a major source of microscopic fibers within the aquatic environment.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161003103651.htm
Will US be a clean energy or fossil fuel super power?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/b41481cee16a9ec6c480407d58baaf67.htm
Global wildlife populations: 58 percent decline, driven by food and energy
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161027113306.htm
World’s largest study shows effects of long-term exposure to air pollution and traffic noise on blood pressure
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161025084744.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/b41481cee16a9ec6c480407d58baaf67.htm
Global wildlife populations: 58 percent decline, driven by food and energy
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161027113306.htm
World’s largest study shows effects of long-term exposure to air pollution and traffic noise on blood pressure
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161025084744.htm