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UPDATE:  Executive Order 13795, Section 4(b) Public Comment Period Extended ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ; July 26, 2017) http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/about/executive-order-13795.html N. B.  " Comments will continue to be accepted through Monday, August 14, 2017 " Original Notice:   Review of National Marine Sanctuaries and Marine National Monuments Designated or Expanded since April 28, 2007.  Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment [Federal Register; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ; June 26, 2017] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/06/26/2017-13308/review-of-national-marine-sanctuaries-and-marine-national-monuments-designated-or-expanded-since Video: Mariana Trench The Deepest & Most Unexplored Place on the Planet ( Top5s;  March 16, 2016)

A Water Weed is Damaging Ethiopia's Largest Lake and Putting Livelihoods at Risk (ENDALK, Globalvoices.org ; 10 July 2017) https://globalvoices.org/2017/07/19/a-water-weed-is-damaging-ethiopias-largest-lake-and-putting-livelihoods-at-risk/ Recent Event: Meeting on water hyacinth invasion problem of Lake Tana, Ethiopia ( KEPA/The Ethiopian Association in Finland ; March 10, 2018) https://www.kepa.fi/tapahtumat/meeting-water-hyacinth-invasion-problem-lake-tana-ethiopia Video :   Water Hyacinth invasion threatens livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Lake Tana (CGTN Africa; September 10, 2018) Selected Publications : Impact of Water Hyacinth,   Eichhornia crassipes (Martius) (Pontederiacea in Lake Tana, Ethiopia:  A Review (WORKU and SAHILE, 2018) https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/impact-of-water-hyacinth-eichhornia-crassipes-martius-pontederiaceae-inlake-tana-ethiopia-a-review-2155-9546-1000521.pdf Controlling Water Hyacinth in Lake Tana using B...

Trump Officials Urged to Stop Dumping of Offshore Fracking Waste Into Gulf of Mexico : Center for Biological Diversity: Record Request Shows Agency Ignoring Risks to Gulf Wildlife (Kristen MONSELL, Center for Biological Diversity ; July 11, 2017) Groups Sue EPA Over Dangerous Drilling and Fracking Waste [Press Release, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) ; May 4, 2016] https://www.nrdc.org/media/2016/160504 Selected Research Publications: Wastewater Disposal Wells, Fracking, and Environmental Injustice in Southern Texas (JOHNSON et al. , 2016) http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2015.303000 Troubled Waters ( Center of Biological Diversity ; September 2014) https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/offshore_fracking/pdfs/Troubled_Waters.pdf U. S. EPA: T he NPDES General Permit for New and Existing Sources and New Dischargers in the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category for the Western Portion of th...

Water is even weirder than we knew, supercool study shows (Ben GUARINO, Washington Post ; June 27, 2017) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/06/27/water-is-even-weirder-than-we-knew-supercool-study-shows/?utm_term=.119aafd4551f Odd properties of water and ice explained:  Water exists as two different liquids ( Science Daily ; June 26, 2017) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170626190610.htm Research Article Publications : Diffusive dynamics during the high to low density transition in amorphous ice (PERAKIS et al. , 2017) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/23/1705303114.full.pdf The inhomogeneous structure of water under ambient conditions (HUANG et al ., 2009) http://www.pnas.org/content/106/36/15214.full.pdf Website : Water, Ice and Aqueous Solutions [X-Ray Science of Liquids and Surfaces ( XSoLaS ), Chemical Physics division - Department of Physics ; Stockholm University] Video : What molecular structur...