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Hermann Bermúdez will present evidence of this “mega-earthquake” at the upcoming GSA Connects meeting in Denver this Sunday, 9 October through the presentation, The Chicxulub Mega-Earthquake: Evidence from Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. Earlier this year, with support from a GSA Graduate Student Research Grant, Bermúdez visited outcrops of the infamous Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event boundary in Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi to collect data, supplementing his previous work in Colombia and Mexico documenting evidence of the catastrophic impact.

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Dr. Brachfeld, with laboratory assistance from Dr. Melissa Hansen, led the magnetic work. “Burning coal creates visually and magnetically distinctive iron-rich ferrospheres. They provide a fingerprint for detecting coal ash in the environment, and tracking mechanical and chemical evolution of the ash after burial in lake sediment.” The study demonstrates that coal ash particles are entering the environment, and not strictly through catastrophic events like the 2008 Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill. Atmospheric emissions of coal ash prior to the Clean Air Act may have settled onto nearby land and then washed into the lakes. Ash may be transported to lakes by overland runoff of precipitation, and ordinary effluent from the storage ponds may leak into the lakes. The study, conducted with colleagues at Duke University and Appalachian State University, has been covered by the , , �����Ի� .

The study is published in , and will be the subject of three presentations at the upcoming Fall 2022 Meeting of the Geological Society of America, .

That sort of surface — rooftops, buildings, pavement — absorbs solar energy better than other surfaces… It helps heat it up during the day, but especially heats it up more during night, when it releases that heat back to the atmosphere. So our nighttime temperatures don’t get as cool, which means that it’s easier to heat up the next morning.

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Yes, it’s getting too late with each passing day, but if we just say no, it will not make a difference. So if we don’t do anything, that is much worse than doing something. I always argue that not taking an action is basically adding to the problem rather than being part of the solution. It’s not like we have to solve the full problem… but we have to believe that if we take incremental steps, we can make collective change

So no, the plastic bag ban is not going to solve the issue of environmental pollution alone. But Lal said concerted efforts to address the problem, by governments and regular people, will go a long way toward improving things.

We (New Jersey) have one of the steepest decarbonization goals and one piece of it, the transit part, we are not working fast enough. We have to do more.

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You are trying to combat climate change impact and you are contributing to the climate change.

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Over the last few days the natural paintings by Mother Nature as you can call them are all courtesy of the wildfires in California, Oregon and Canada news, 12 New Jersey’s Marci Rubin has more on how and why the ash rom 3,000 miles away is here in New Jersey.

You can see this gray fogginess here in the lower valley. That’s the smoke. Beyond that almost visible ridge would be the Meadowlands…I can see the stadium normally. Can’t see that now.

New Jersey used to look to the east for the effects of climate change in rising sea levels and more violent coastal storms. Now state officials may have to be just as concerned about the effects coming from the west, experts say.

It’s a perfect example of the distant effects of climate change. The climate event is in the West, but it’s having a real impact on people thousands of miles away.

As of Wednesday night, there were 78 active wildfires burning in the West. The fires on the West Coast, coupled with the wildfires in Canada, are blanketing much of the United States with noxious smoke affecting air quality and triggering health alerts thousands of miles away. In New York, thick clouds of smoke could be seen across the Manhattan skyline.

If fires are more frequent, if they are more intense — we could very well see more of these kinds of events

All that smoke from the wildfires out west created hazy conditions here in the Tri-State Area on Tuesday. As CBS2’s Nick Caloway reports, on a normal, clear day, you can usually see Manhattan from Ridgewood. Tuesday, all you could see was a thick haze.

You can pretty much always see the skyline, at least a silhouette, if it’s a hazy day. This is unprecedented

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