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Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse: Micro Beaver Full Moon (November 18 - 19, 2021)

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Partial Lunar Eclipse ,   grchb ; CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse Taking Place Next Week will be Visible in All 50 States (Precious SMITH, NatureWorld News ; November 11, 2021) https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/48183/20211111/longest-partial-lunar-eclipse-taking-place-next-week-will-be-visible-in-all-50-u-s-states.htm Full moon calendar 2021:  When to see the next full moon (Kimberly HICKOK, Space.com ; November 2, 2021) https://www.space.com/16830-full-moon-calendar.html Website : What's Up: November 2021 ( NASA ) https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2655/whats-up-november-2021/ Lunar Eclipse Vectors by Vecteezy

Pica Glasses a Product of Pleistocene Exploding Comet - Atacama Desert, Chile

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Wild 2:  If You Were There , NASA ; Link Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by ancient exploding comet (News Release, Brown University ; November 2, 2021) https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-11-02/comet Featured Research Article: Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile (SCHULTZ et al. , 2021) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-pdf/doi/10.1130/G49426.1/5456021/g49426.pdf Supplementary Materials (SCHULTZ et al. , 2021) https://ndownloader.figstatic.com/files/31088650 Cuenca de la Pampa del Tamarugal , Juan VILLALOBOS ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

Benton Harbor, Michigan and its Lead Contaminated Drinking Water Crisis

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St. Joseph River in Benton Harbor ,  Humbles Art ;   CC BY-SA 4.0 ,  Link Michigan City on edge as lead water crisis persists (Michael PHILLIS, Associated Press ; November 3, 2021) https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-environment-and-nature-michigan-poverty-12586348a94d5d57de7de6e15df23421 EPA Orders Benton Harbor, Michigan to Protect Residents from Lead Contaminated Drinking Water (Margie KELLY, NRDC ; November 2, 2021) https://www.nrdc.org/media/2021/211102-0 EPA directs City of Benton Harbor Michigan to Take Immediate Actions to Improve the Safety Aland Reliability of it's Drinking Water (Press Release, USEPA ; November 2, 2021) https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-directs-city-benton-harbor-michigan-take-immediate-actions-improve-safety-and In Benton Harbor, Residents' Complaints of Lead-Tainted Water Carry Echoes (Kelly House, Circle of Blue ; October 20, 2021) https://www.circleofblue.org/2021/world/in-benton-harbor-residents-complaints-of-le...