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Biden Administration puts 20-year ban on mining in 225k acres in northeastern Minnesota; huge blow to Twin Metals copper project

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The latest wrangling over this area reaches back to 2017, when the US Forest Service filed an application for withdrawal of 234,328 acres of NFS land in the Superior National Forest. This is a far different context than that which existed at the time of the 2017 withdrawal application or its 2018 cancellation.

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Exclusive: Massimo Frascella, design director of Jaguar Land Rover quits the company | Autocar Professional

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He began his career at Stile Bertone – a design firm – following on to work on some critical projects like Lincoln Mercury at Ford and Kia Motors, before joining Land Rover as Creative Studio Chief in 2011. His journey at JLR which started with Evoque in 2011, was followed by Velar and Defender back-to-back in 2017 and 2018.

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Study finds heavy-petroleum fuels raising vanadium emissions; human emissions outpacing natural sources by factor of 1.7

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Breathing vanadium-rich aerosols has unknown but potentially adverse health impacts, according to the researchers, who note that the human impacts on the global vanadium cycle parallel impacts on the global cycles for lead and mercury. Klein, and Avner Vengosh (2017) “Global biogeochemical cycle of vanadium” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1715500114.

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Harvard study finds human health risks from Canadian hydroelectric projects

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Microbes convert naturally occurring mercury in soils into methylmercury in newly flooded soils—such as when dams are built for hydroelectric projects—by degradation of labile organic carbon and associated changes in geochemical conditions. Pregnant women and children are especially at risk for health impacts of methylmercury.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. A hundred years ago, centimeter-scale tilt switches used a conductive blob of mercury rolling along a glass tube to close an electric circuit.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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Eventually the linings [of devices] break, and when they're rained upon, the very toxic materials [they contain] — mercury, lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium — come out. Sadly, it could also be sent to a country where they don't have the right tools or expertise to dismantle old electronics.

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Science Fiction Short: Hijack

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So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. E In a 2013 study, Sandberg and his colleague Stuart Armstrong suggested deploying automated self-replicating robots on Mercury to build a Dyson swarm.

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