In 2020, a historic drought struck California’s Central Valley, where one-quarter of the food produced in the United States is grown, causing farmers to pump vast amounts of water from wells to keep their crops alive. All that pumping reduced the water pressure within the porous sediments storing that water deep underground.
As a result, those sediments compacted over the next 2 years—causing land surfaces in the northern part of the Central Valley, known as the Sacramento Valley, to sink by more than half a meter.
This kind of subsidence is typically reversible, or “elastic.” Rainfall seeps into the ground and refills the empty sediment pores, causing the surface to rebound.
But in 2021, the aquifer compacted so quickly and extensively that it likely permanently lost its capacity to store water, researchers report.
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A new analysis in Science of DNA from Chilean mummies has revealed the earliest known strain of ancient smallpox from the Americas.
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Today, our long-range sanctions once again worked to limit Russia’s oil revenues, which it uses to finance the war and the killing of Ukrainians.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck the aggressor’s facilities more than 1,300 kilometers from the front line. The Bashneft-Novoil refinery was hit in Bashkortostan. In the Yaroslavl region, nearly 700 kilometers from our border, the Slavneft-YANOS refinery was hit.
Our responses to Russian aggression in the Black Sea were also successful. In particular, two military patrol boats and shadow fleet vessels were struck.
I thank all the warriors of the Defense Forces who are systematically expanding our long-range capabilities and thereby increasing the chances for diplomacy. Russia must choose peace.
"When a conversation slows, I no longer see it as a sign of failure. I see it as evidence that we are finally doing the harder work of understanding one another." #ScienceWorkingLife https://t.co/kjg4qo0oiM
@TRHLofficial@TRHLofficial 😒Since I admitted that I have my own level of thinking. One thing I realized about these speakers behind microphones is that: they can not bring anything front which is not important Maybe they were observing other moves in the game of chess.
.@SecMullinDHS on Haitians with terminated TPS: “We’re going after them right now…These individuals can either self-deport or we’ll arrest you and send you back. It’s that simple.”
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Nobody should fill out the same form five times.
Scan a QR code, share your records, walk in — it should be that simple.
Thanks to @CMSGov's health tech ecosystem, we’ve given $2.2 billion worth of time BACK to the American people.
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MUST READ: @VP JD Vance highlights the Trump Administration's historic effort to crush fraud around the country. Every dollar stolen by a criminal is a dollar that fails to reach the Americans who need it, and this administration won't put up with it any longer.
Don't miss the Fraud Task Force roundtable today at 10 A.M. EST.
A jab of a protein produced by bullfrogs rescued mice from a lethal dose of saxitoxin, a neurotoxin that's deadly to many animals and causes paralytic shellfish poisoning, researchers report.
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