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A sign marks the location of the Colonial Pipeline in Charlotte, N.CPhoto: Chris Carlson (AP)There’s more trouble with the Colonial Pipeline: The nation’s largest gasoline pipeline reported a spill in Tennessee in early July, adding onto more than a year of public problems with the company, from a catastrophic hacking to being responsible for the largest gasoline spill in decades.According to the company, a valve failure spilled more than 24,000 gallons of gasoline in Loudon, Tennessee; the spill was discovered July 4 by…

BTS members- Namjoon, Seokjin, Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Jimin, Taehyung and Jeon Jungkook, celebrated their 9th anniversary with Army on Monday by releasing  a pre-recorded concert video. As part of the video, besides exciting performances, the members also opened up about their favourite moment from the past 9 years. Leader Namjoon aka RM asked the members was, “What was the best or most memorable moment so far?” Jungkook said, "The best moment for me, although there were a lot of great moments, was the day when I joined…

On Thursday afternoon, an oil spill into the St. Mary’s River at the Ontario, Canada-Michigan border halted boat traffic between Lake Superior and Lake Huron for about three hours. This spill is small, relative to the massive incidents that usually make the news. Spills of this scale rarely make headlines, and that’s a problem: Small events are the large majority of oil spills, and together theyhave a big impact.5,300 gallons of oil originating from Algoma Steel fell into the river at around 10:30 am, according to a…

Last updated: May 20th, 2022 at 19:13 UTC+02:00 The waterways near Samsung’s semiconductor facility in Northeast Austin are recovering after an acid waste spill earlier this year. In January, the facility spilled roughly 763,000 gallons of acidic waste into its stormwater pond, leading to a fatal drop in pH levels and killing aquatic life in the connecting tributary of Harris Branch Creek. Thankfully, the ecosystem is now beginning to recover, according to Austin Monitor, citing Watershed Protection Department…

Study site showing locations of magnetite packs and core samples (modified from USGS, 2020). Transect A–A' is shown in Figure 2. Mineral columns are shown as red circles. Core samples are shown as black circles for core samples retrieved in 2016 (1604), 2017 (1713, 1709, 1714), and 2019 (1902, 1903, 1905). Credit: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (2022). DOI: 10.1029/2021JG006560 In August 1979, an oil pipeline…

As the underlying cause of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders, there is considerable interest in deepening our understanding of chronic inflammation and the way it takes hold in the human body. Shedding new light on this is a new study from scientists in Japan and the US, who have identified a form of inter-neuron communication as a key mechanism in the way inflammation spreads between joints in conditions like arthritis.Led by scientists at Japan's Hokkaido University, the work began with a function of…