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Conger Ice Shelf Collapse - Wilkes Land Region, Antarctica

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Bertie MILES, NASA Conger ice shelf has collapsed: what you need to know according to experts (Hilmar GUNDMUNSSON , Adrian JENKINS, and Bertie MILES, The Conversation ; March 28, 2022) https://theconversation.com/conger-ice-shelf-has-collapsed-what-you-need-to-know-according-to-experts-180077 Satellite data shows entire Conger Ice Shelf has collapsed in Antarctica  (Donna LU, The Guardian UK ; March 24, 2022) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/satellite-data-shows-entire-conger-ice-shelf-has-collapsed-in-antarctica Iceberg C-38 has Calved as the Conger Ice Shelf Broke Free in the Wilkes Land Region (Press Release, US National Ice Center ; March 17, 2022)  https://usicecenter.gov/PressRelease/IcebergC38 Websites : Ice Shelf Collapse in East Antarctica ( Earth Observatory - NASA ) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149640/ice-shelf-collapse-in-east-antarctica Quick Facts on Ice Shelves ( National Snow and Ice Data Center ) https://nsidc.org/cryosp...

The Quantum Boomerang Effect

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Elemental Particle Interactions, ParticlesAndMath ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Quantum Boomerang (Sonia FERNANDEZ, The Current - UCSB ; February 28, 2022) https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2022/020561/quantum-boomerang#:~:text=Physicists%20at%20UC%20Santa%20Barbara,kicked%20out%20of%20their%20locations. Featured Research Article : Observation of the Quantum Boomerang Effect (SAJJAD et al. , 2022) https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.011035 Also... Quantum boomerang effect:. Beyond the standard Anderson model (JANAREK et al. , 2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11019 Quantum boomerang effect: Beyond the standard Anderson model   (TESSIERI et al. , 2021) https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.063316 Quantum boomerang effect for interacting particles (JANAREK et al. , 2020) https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03021955

Eroding Coastlines and Exposure of Toxic Waste from Historic Landfills

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Jurassic Coast , George HODAN ; Link Toxic waste revealed as eroding coastlines exposed old landfills (Anne TURNS, The Guardian UK; 17 March 2022) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/17/toxic-waste-revealed-as-eroding-coastlines-expose-old-landfills Selected Research Articles : Coastal Landfills and Rising Sea Levels: A Challenge for the 21st Century (STRINGFELLOW et al. , 2021) https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/document/82821 Potential contamination of coastal zones by eroding historic landfills (BRAND et al. , 2019) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X19304631 Potential pollution risks of historic landfills on low-lying coasts and estuaries (BRAND et al. , 2017) https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.1264