I'm reading Where The Crawdads Sing at the moment, and I'm up to the bit where Kya is reading A Sand County Almanac. I need to reread that after this.

"Aldo Leopald taught her that floodplains are living extensions of the rivers, which will claim them back anytime they choose. Anyone living on a floodplain is just waiting in the river's wings."

Here's a Relative Elevation Model of the Rakaia River I did a few months ago.

#Rivers #Floods

EPA opens investigation of Colorado's oil&gas permitting process and ties to racial discrimination.
Our only oil refinery is in the middle of a heavily hispanic, lower income area. And guess what, the refinery regularly "malfunctions" and just happens to spew pollution into a poor and brown community.
Lots of reasons to shut that place down and environmental justice is another good reason.

https://coloradosun.com/2022/12/29/epa-environmental-racism-colorado-air-pollution/

#environmentalJustice #discriminatoryPollution #climateChange #COGCC #Colorado

Living near brownfields, highways, and heavy traffic linked to high toxic metal levels in blood in Detroit study-- remediating polluted post-industrial sites in heavily populated areas crucial.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36034484

#NICHDimpact #Pollution #EnvironmentalJustice #Health #Detroit

Reddy Kilowat promising #fusion in the 1950s

@nuclearhumanities @sts @histodons