"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

After three decades, most polluted U. S. neighborhoods haven't changed (Nicola GROOM, Reuters ; July 30, 2020) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-environment-pollution/after-three-decades-most-polluted-u-s-neighborhoods-havent-changed-idUSKCN24V3BS Featured Research Article: Mapping the clean air haves and have-nots (MA, 2020) https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6503/503 N. B.:  Article abstract only! Also... Disparities in a common air pollutant are visible from space [News Release, American Chemical Society (ACS) ; August 5, 2020] https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2020/august/disparities-in-common-air-pollutant-visible-from-space.html Website : Disparities In the Impact of Air Pollution ( American Lung Association ; April 20, 2020) https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/disparities By Jisaac9 ( Own work ) - http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/particle-sizes-d_934.html ( archive ...

"Breaking" news!  A new idea of how Earth's outer shell broke into tectonic plates (Media Release, University of Hong Kong; 19 July 2020) https://hku.hk/press/news_detail_21307.html Featured Research Article: Breaking Earth's shell into a global plate network (TANG et al. , 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17480-2 Also... The Development of Continental Margins in Plate Tectonic Theory (FALVEY, 1974) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Falvey/publication/276271191_FALVEY_DA_1974_-_The_development_of_continental_margins_in_plate_tectonic_theory_The_APEA_Journal_vol_14_pp_95-107/links/555437fc08ae980ca6087217/FALVEY-DA-1974-The-development-of-continental-margins-in-plate-tectonic-theory-The-APEA-Journal-vol-14-pp-95-107.pdf By "Eric Gaba for Wikimedia Commons", CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link

Dramatic Increase in Flooding, Drought Expected in California by 2100 : California may see a 54 percent increase in rainfall variability by the end of this century, according to new research from the lab of Assistant Professor Da Yang, a 2019 Packard Fellow and atmospheric scientist with the University of California, Davis. (Diane NELSON, UC Davis ; July 17, 2020) Also... Four Theories of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (ZHANG et al. , 2020) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019RG000685 Madden-Julian Oscillation:  Bridging Weather and Climate (ZHANG, 2013) https://journals.ametsoc.org/bams/article/94/12/1849/91852

FSU researchers find sun and rain transform asphalt binder into potentially toxic compounds (Kristin COYNE, Florida State University ; July 13, 2020) https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2020/07/13/fsu-researchers-find-sun-and-rain-transform-asphalt-binder-into-potentially-toxic-compounds/ By Seighean - Own work , Public Domain, Link Also... Thermal behaviors and harmful volatile constituents released from asphalt components at high temperature (XIA et al. , 2019) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wenjing_Xia4/publication/332160417_Thermal_behaviors_and_harmful_volatile_constituents_released_from_asphalt_components_at_high_temperature/links/5d65afb9299bf1f70b123b6c/Thermal-behaviors-and-harmful-volatile-constituents-released-from-asphalt-components-at-high-temperature.pdf Effects of Environmental Factors on the Chemical Composition of Asphalt Binders (MENAPACE et al. , 2018) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ilaria_Menapace/publication/3...

Curtin study could rewrite Earth's History (Media Release, Curtin University ; July 8, 2020) https://news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/curtin-study-could-rewrite-earths-history/ Featured Research Article : Archean lithospheric differentiation:  Insights from Fe and Zn isotopes (DOUCET  et al. , 2020) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luc-Serge_Doucet/publication/342322466_Archean_lithospheric_differentiation_Insights_from_Fe_and_Zn_isotopes/links/5ef4646592851c35353fc8f2/Archean-lithospheric-differentiation-Insights-from-Fe-and-Zn-isotopes.pdf Artist’s Impression of the Archean Eon By Tim Bertelink - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link