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Apr 13, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
Rural, low-income communities with high proportions of elderly residents face the most potential exposure to fracking-related contamination in their groundwater, according to a new study. 🧵1/9 news.agu.org/press-release/… Image Over the past two decades, #fracking has boomed in the Appalachian Basin. But so have concerns about contaminated drinking water. 2/9
Apr 12, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
Scientists have mapped the biggest cumulative logjam, covering about 20 square miles of a delta high in the Canadian Arctic. And, it turns out, it stores A LOT of #carbon.
news.agu.org/press-release/… 1/10 Rivers and deltas throughout the #Arctic collect driftwood for hundreds of years. Because it’s so cold, centuries-old trunks are often preserved in pristine condition, indiscernible from a tree that fell a decade ago. news.agu.org/press-release/… 2/10