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LeibnizIGB

#Water at war: An international team of researchers has analysed the environmental consequences of the destruction of the Kachovka dam in #Ukraine. In particular, the toxic contamination of the exposed sediments of the former reservoir poses a long-term risk: igb-berlin.de/en/news/water-wa

www.igb-berlin.deWater at war: the long-term environmental consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine | IGB
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Isabel Richards

New paper on the telegraph line is out! It’s a #microhistory of Strangways Springs//Pangki Warruna, exploring its evolution from a #pastoral property to a #telegraph station to a #railway stop, and how these transitions shaped innovation in #Australia 🤩📝

We also highlight the importance of #water in creating and sustaining these innovations (as is the case for technologies of today like #AI 😉).

link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkWool, Wires and Water: Technological Transitions at Strangways Springs - International Journal of Historical ArchaeologyThe Strangways Springs artesian mound spring complex in South Australia reveals a layered history in which resources, technology, labor, and culture are significant and changing variables. The site exists in Arabana country, and for thousands of years provided a location for human shelter, artesian waters, and life sustaining resources. The arrival of sheep stations in the “Far North” of South Australia represented a significant rupture and the creation of a new kind of economy based on wool. The establishment of an overland telegraph repeater station brought the latest technological developments to this remote frontier, which had the information of the world available instantly. Other developments such as the railway and wool scouring further secured the importance of locations like Strangways Springs in the continent's colonial infrastructure. This microhistory uses archaeology, archival research, and photography to explore these technological transitions and their impacts at Strangways Springs in the nineteenth century, providing important insights into the sociotechnical nexus that characterized emerging colonial worlds and new forms of modernity in settler Australia.
#openaccess#cybernetics#archaeology
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Trump’s #EPA clearly shows it doesn’t understand the assignment
31 separate actions roll back restrictions on #air and #water #pollution.
#LeeZeldin exulted over the plan to rescind EPA’s 16yo determination #greenhousegas is a danger to #publichealth and welfare, known as #endangermentfinding
Zeldin announced EPA would revise a key definition that guides environmental protection under #CleanWaterAct, a change advocates say would threaten water supplies for millions in #US
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Picture of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin
Ars Technica · Trump’s EPA clearly shows it doesn’t understand the assignmentBy Inside Climate News
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Allison Kendall
Photographed from aboard the charming tug MV Swell, darkness falls across the deep forest and still water of K'ootz/Khutze Inlet in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia, Canada. The beautiful sailing ship Maple Leaf is anchored alongside a ghostly waterfall.

Prints available in my print shop: https://www.apkphotography.com/Pages/Prints

#reflection #dark #moody #wilderness #BritishColumbia #Canada #westcoast #greatbearrainforest #boat #sailing #waterfall #water #reflections
A sailboat is anchored in calm water near a thickly forested shoreline. A ghostly white waterfall descends the steep tree-covered cliffs and reflects in the dark water below.
#reflections
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Allison Kendall
Photographed from aboard the charming tug MV Swell, darkness falls across the deep forest and still water of K'ootz/Khutze Inlet in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia, Canada. The beautiful sailing ship Maple Leaf is anchored alongside a ghostly waterfall.

Prints available in my print shop: https://www.apkphotography.com/Pages/Prints

#reflection #dark #moody #wilderness #BritishColumbia #Canada #westcoast #greatbearrainforest #boat #sailing #waterfall #water #reflections
A sailboat is anchored in calm water near a thickly forested shoreline. A ghostly white waterfall descends the steep tree-covered cliffs and reflects in the dark water below.
#reflections
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Peter Gleick

Several years ago we prepared a comprehensive assessment for California of the risks of fracking for #water resources, concluding it wasn't the amount of water needed but the massive threat to groundwater from contamination.
Texas is proving the point. Excellent article here.

powering-the-planet.ghost.io/t

Powering the Planet · A Dirty Water War in the Texas DesertHistory is likely to show that the idea of permanently polluting huge amounts of water and then trying to bury that water deep underground under high pressure likely was a really bad idea.
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