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2019 EPA Guidance Document Released: "Planning for Natural Disaster Debris"

Planning for Natural Disaster Debris ( EPA 530-F-19-003 ; April 2019) https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-04/documents/final_pndd_guidance_0.pdf Also... Risks of Exposure and Vulnerability to Natural Disasters at the City Level (GU et al. , 2015) https://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/Publications/Files/WUP2014-TechnicalPaper-NaturalDisaster.pdf Website: Natural Disasters - Empirical View Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2019) - "Natural Disasters". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters' [Online Resource] https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters

NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars

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NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars : While their causes are still unknown, one of three shaking events looks a lot like the quakes detected on the Moon by the Apollo missions. (News Release, NASA-JPL ; April 23, 2019) NASA's InSight Places SEIS on the Ground ( NASA-JPL ; December 19, 2018) NASA InSight Lander ( NASA-JPL , 2014) Website: MARS InSight Mission  ( NASA ) https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/

Air Pollution and Radiation-Fog within the Central Valley, CA

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Falling levels of air pollution drove decline in California's tule fog (Kara MANKE, Berkeley News ; April 10, 2019) https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/04/10/falling-levels-of-air-pollution-drove-decline-in-californias-tule-fog/ N. B.:   "Tule fog" that occurs within the Central Valley, CA during winter is generally known as  "Radiation fog" Selected Research Articles: Wintertime water-soluble aerosol composition and particle water content in Fresno, CA (PARWORTH et al. , 2017) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2016JD026173 Winter fog is decreasing in the fruit growing region of the Central Valley of California (BALDOCCHI and WALLER, 2014) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014GL060018 A Multiple-Case Analysis of  Nocturnal Radiation-Fog Development in the Central Valley of California Utilizing the GOES Nighttime Fog Product (UNDERWOOD et al. , 2004) https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/152...

Preservation of Qin Dynasty Terracotta Army Weapons Elucidated - Study

Scientists shed light on preservation mystery of Terracotta Army weapons (Public Release, EurekAlert !; April 4, 2019) https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/ucl-ssl040219.php Featured Research Article: Surface chromium on Terracotta Army bronze army weapons in neither an ancient rust treatment nor the reason for their good preservation (MARTINÓN-TORRES et al. , 2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-40613-7 Also... Now you can 'WALK' among the soldiers of China's Terracotta Army thanks to a stunning 360-degree interactive video (Peter LLOYD, Daily Mail UK Online ; 19 May 2017) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4521776/China-s-Terracotta-Army-gets-digital-boost-360-video.html