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Public Comment: Updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone Maps | CAL FIRE

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Elektra Fire, South of Sacramento (July 2022) ; State of California/ CAL  FIRE ; Link CAL FIRE releases updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone Map for public comment, will host 57 Public Hearings throughout CA ( CAL FIRE/YubaNet.com; December 14, 2022) https://yubanet.com/california/cal-fire-releases-updated-fire-hazard-severity-zone-map-for-public-comment-will-host-57-public-hearings-throughout-ca/ Website : Fire Hazard Severity Zone Maps ( CAL FIRE - Office of the State Fire Marshal ) https://osfm.fire.ca.gov/fire-hazard-severity-zones-maps-2022/

Continuous 26-year Sewage Spill: Hamilton Harbourfront; Lake Ontario, CANADA

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Hamilton Harbour , Mykola SWARNYK ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Indigenous water walkers and Haudenosaunee Development Institute ask Hamilton to listen amid sewage spill    (Bobby HRISTOVA, CBC News ; December 14, 2022) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/indigenous-reaction-sewage-spill-1.6661799 Hamilton estimates 337 million litres of sewage spilled into Harbourfront since 1996   (Bobby HRISTOVA, CBC News ; November 28, 2022) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-sewage-leak-hamilton-harbour-burlington-street-1.6666445 City of Hamilton discovers 26-year leak of sewage into Hamilton Harbour   (Bobby HRISTOVA, CBC News ; November 22, 2022) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-sewage-leak-hamilton-harbour-1.6660676 Websites : Haudenosaunee Development Institute ( Haudenosaunee Confederacy ) https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/departments/haudenosaunee-development-institute/ Burlington Street Sewage Spill & Response ( City ...

Recent Mauna Loa & Kilauea Volcanic Activity

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Hawaii Island Topographic Map , Sémhur/Kmusser ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Hawaii's chill volcano Mauna Loa and its feisty neighbor Kīlauea have quite a bit in common (Dave LEVITAN and Anna DEEN, The Grid ; December 1, 2022) https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/12/01/hawaiis-chill-volcano-mauna-loa-and-its-feisty-neighbor-kilauea-have-quite-a-bit-in-common/ Where Mauna Loa's lava is coming from - and why Hawaii's volcanoes are different from most (Gabe LASKE, The Conversation ; November 30, 2022) https://theconversation.com/where-mauna-loas-lava-is-coming-from-and-why-hawaiis-volcanoes-are-different-from-most-195633 2 new lava flows cascade down Mauna Loa as Hawaii sees neighboring volcanoes erupting (Amir VERA, Holly YAN and Elizabeth WOLFE, CNN ; November 29, 2022) https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/us/hawaii-mauna-loa-kilauea-eruption-tuesday/index.html Selected Research Article : Elastic interaction between Mauna Loa and Kīlauea evidenced by independent compon...

Where on Earth does the sun rise first? | LiveScience

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Sun Rise from the Sea (Point Pedro, Sri Lanka) , KSKarthikSiva ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Where on Earth does the sun rise first? (Donavyn COFFEY, LiveScience ; December 5, 2022) https://www.livescience.com/first-sunrise-earth#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20Kiribati's%20easternmost%20uninhabited%20island,Earth%20to%20welcome%20the%20sun.

New Minerals Discovered in Somalian El Ali Meteorite

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New minerals discovered in massive meteorite may reveal clues to asteroid formation (Adrianna MACPHERSON, University of Alberta ; November 28, 2022) https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/11/new-minerals-discovered-in-massive-meteorite-may-reveal-clues-to-asteroid-formation.html Vincent PERLERIN and Mike HANKEY/American Meteor Society ; link