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Nov 25th, 2020, 11:49 am
Texas hospital performs complicated, 10-person kidney swap

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A Texas hospital's kidney swap program faced one of its greatest logistical challenges when doctors pulled off a 10-way organ transplant that saved the lives of five people.

Doctors at Houston Methodist hospital said the complicated swap originated when John "HB" Berliski lost both of his kidneys to polycystic kidney disease and his wife, Tara, offered to give him one of hers.

The doctors explained to the couple that while they were a match, John Berliski had type AB blood, which means he is a universal recipient and could accept a kidney from anyone. The unique situation made the couple ideal participants in the hospital's kidney swap program.

Misael Gonzalez, who was also diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, was offered a kidney by his mother, Teresa Salcedo, but they decided to join the kidney swap program so he could receive an organ from a younger donor.

Meanwhile, Debra Lewing, who was diagnosed with IgA nephropathy, was offered a kidney by her boss, Dawn Thomas, but the women discovered their blood types did not match.

The six people ended up in the same kidney swap chain, along with a pair of cousins and a pair of sisters, and five kidneys were taken from donors and placed into recipients. John Berliski received a kidney from an AB type donor, who can only donate to another AB type patient, while his wife's kidney went to Justin Barrow, whose cousin was not a close enough match.

"It's a very complex, logistical task, but the happiness the patients display, the fact that they can get their transplants, really have new hope for resuming their life, is very gratifying," Dr. Osama Gaber, director of surgery at Houston Methodist, told KTRK-TV.

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Nov 25th, 2020, 11:49 am
Nov 25th, 2020, 1:20 pm
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It's always about a global pandemic threatening life as we know it,
protests around the world, stupid politicians, natural disasters,
or some other really bad story.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

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Naked sunbather chases wild boar through park after it steals his laptop bag
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A naked sunbather was seen chasing wild boar through a park after it stole his laptop bag.
Amusing photographs from Germany show the man running after the animal to try and claim the plastic bag back.
But the cheeky boar and its two piglets appear to be too quick for the sunbather, who can't keep up with their speedy little trotters.
As the incident unfolds, groups of friends and family sat on the grass watch on and laugh.
Heads are seen turning in surprise and amusement in the hilarious photographs.
The incident happened at Teufelssee Lake - a bathing spot in the Grunwell Forest in Berlin, Germany.

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Nov 25th, 2020, 1:20 pm

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Nov 25th, 2020, 1:45 pm
World's deepest swimming pool opens in Poland

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A newly opened business in Poland is offering training services for scuba divers in its 148-foot-deep pool -- the deepest swimming pool in the world.

Deepspot, which opened its doors during the weekend in Mszczonow, boasts a 148-foot-deep pool that holds more than 280,000 cubic feet of water -- the same amount as 27 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The pool features underwater caves, recreations of Mayan ruins and a shipwreck reproduction. The pool is designed for scuba training and will be used to train divers for the Polish army and firefighters, officials said.

The business also features a hotel with underwater views, a tunnel for spectators to watch the divers, a restaurant and several meeting rooms.

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Nov 25th, 2020, 1:45 pm
Nov 25th, 2020, 3:41 pm
This Paralyzed Gymnast Rebounded to Start a Tea Company—And it’s One of Oprah’s Favorite Things in 2020

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The course of human life can change in the blink of an eye. That’s what happened when at age 14, Canadian gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel took a bad spill that left her paralyzed.

On track at the time as an Olympic hopeful, Lindsay-Noel already had strength and spirit. In the 12-year journey since she became a quadriplegic, she’s discovered she also has a strong sense of resilience.

Lindsay-Noel approached rehab with the same vigor she’d approached gymnastic training but admits it took time for her to come to terms with the idea she’d never walk again. No longer an athlete, she was also forced to re-evaluate her life and her goals. It was a hard lesson to learn, but in the end, one that proved invaluable.

“I was getting to re-write my narrative—divorcing an identity—only, a lot earlier. I grew up really fast, and earlier. Most people learn by the time they are adults that things can change suddenly. I found out early,” she said in an interview with Toronto’s The Star newspaper.

In college, Lindsay-Noel majored in radio and television arts so she would use her talent for voiceover work and keen entrepreneurial spirit to launch a podcast, “Tea Time with Tay,” based on her passion for all things tea.

From there, she went on to create her own line of organic tea blends and tea accessories, Cup of Té, and took them to market.

One of the things that makes Lindsay-Noel’s company unique is its core values that include giving back: Cup of Té donates $1 from the sale of each of their starter kits to aid mental health causes and initiatives vital to her community, including CAMH Suicide Prevention.

“This was especially important to me because growing up, tea was a source of comfort and a catalyst for great conversations,” she explained. “And if there were ever a conversation that needed to be continued, it would be one that strives to break down the stigmas that are wrongfully perpetuated on those with mental illness.”

Serendipitously, her story and product line found their way to the editorial offices of O Magazine, where they resonated, big-time. Although she could scarcely believe it, Cup of Té made the annual Holiday list of Oprah’s Favorite Things.

While Lindsay-Noel concedes her road hasn’t been an easy one, she’s looking forward to whatever comes next in her personal evolution with hope.

“Luckily for me, ten years later, and with a village of support, I’m grateful to know that that first dream would not be my last,” she said.

In making her own dreams come true, Lindsay-Noel believes she’s opening the door for others to succeed as well. “My story demonstrates the power of community and what can happen when people are supported by the love of friends, family, and strangers,” she said.

“There’s life after tragedy. I’m hoping to break other glass ceilings. I’m a female, Black, disabled, small business owner… and I’m still here. NO is not a real word in the capacity of your life.”

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Nov 25th, 2020, 4:46 pm
Help from B.C. man allows American family to reunite in Alaska

Lynn Marchessault and her two children, two dogs and a cat were on their way to Alaska to join her husband, who serves in the U.S. military.

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CP-Web. Beaver Creek RCMP Cpl. Robert Drapeau, left to right, Gary Bath, Lynn Marchessault, Payton Marchessault, Rebecca Marchessault and Tim Marchessault pose in this recent handout photo near the Canada-U.S. border crossing near Beaver Creek, Yukon. A family reunion trip for the woman from Georgia that left them stranded ended on a bright note when Bath drove them to the Alaskan border following an appeal for help.

A woman from Georgia says her family’s reunion was saved by a man from B.C. who drove them to the Alaskan border after she got stranded in a snowstorm and appealed for help.

Lynn Marchessault began her trip with her two children, two dogs and a cat on Nov. 10 from Georgia to the Alaska border to join her husband, who is in the U.S. military.

“I had never driven in the snow,” she said. “It was like a whiteout kind of snowstorm. I wasn’t really familiar with that, or even knew what it was called until this day.”

The family’s pickup truck was pulling a trailer and did not have the appropriate winter tires to get through the winding, mountainous roads when they stopped at a highway lodge for temporary workers in Pink Mountain, B.C., on Nov. 17.

She began looking for someone passing through the area who could drive them and Gary Bath, a Canadian ranger and military veteran, stepped up to the wheel.

Marchessault said she and her husband talked to Bath and his family on the phone before they embarked on the rest of their trip.

“I felt good about it from the beginning, like I knew these were good people and that it was a good choice to make,” she said.

Marchessault said her trip was supposed to have taken place about two months ago but it got delayed by COVID-19, adding that she was “naive” about the road conditions.

Bath, who lives in Fort St. John, said he wanted to help the family be together for Christmas, and he was doing something nice for fellow service members.

“A little bit like Santa Claus in this case,” he said with a chuckle.

Marchessault said the 1,700-kilometre drive to the Alaskan border northwest of Beaver Creek, Yukon, is “not a road for the faint of heart.”

“Oh my goodness, beautiful views, amazing views, but some of those parts of the road were a little bit scary for me,” she said laughing.

“I mean, Gary’s just over there driving like a champ, you know, been doing it his whole life. But for me, I was like ‘Oh my goodness.’ Sometimes I would tell him I have enough anxiety and sweaty palms over here in this seat for the both of us and then he would just kind of chuckle.”

Bath said the two-day trip was “quite windy and really bumpy” but “not too bad.”

The two families hope to meet up soon.

“I’m so glad that the whole thing was over, but it was so hard to say goodbye to Gary and leave him,” Marchessault said.

“We really bonded. I think we’ve become good friends. He’s a great and grand guy and his wife is pretty awesome.”

Source: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-new ... -in-alaska
Nov 25th, 2020, 4:46 pm

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Nov 25th, 2020, 5:13 pm
This business supports garment workers in Bangladesh by selling surplus clothes

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Many big retailers have cancelled clothing orders due to lockdowns. Lost Stock sells surplus items direct to consumers, supporting garment workers in Bangladesh

With shops across Europe and the US closed due to lockdowns, many retailers have cancelled orders for clothes leaving factories with piles of surplus stock and unable to pay staff. During the first lockdown, orders worth more than $2bn (£1.5bn) were reportedly cancelled or suspended in Bangladesh alone.

Enter Lost Stock, an impactful retail business that sells boxes of surplus clothes from manufacturers in Bangladesh directly to customers in the UK, providing factories with much needed revenue and workers with money to feed their families.

“We focused on Bangladesh because their economy is so reliant on clothing manufacture and there isn’t really the same support network that you’d find in other countries,” founder Cally Russell told Positive News.

Lost Stock aimed to sell 50,000 boxes by the end of 2020, but by August the company had more than doubled that. It has since started selling boxes to customers in Australia, the USA and some parts of Europe.

“I hope that maybe coronavirus will actually build a better world for us all, because we’ll think about things differently. What we’ve seen with this project is that, at a time of hardship in the world, people have decided to do some good with their purchases,” Russell said.
Nov 25th, 2020, 5:13 pm

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Nov 25th, 2020, 5:21 pm
Canadian lottery winner was unaware of jackpot for over a month

A Canadian man said he was completely unaware that he had won a lottery jackpot of more than $75,000 until he took a big stack of tickets into a store to scan over a month later.

Stan Monkman of Ponoka, Alberta, told Western Canada Lottery Corp. officials he bought a Lotto Max ticket with Extra from the 7-Eleven store in Ponoka in late August, but the Sept. 1 drawing came and went without his checking the numbers.

Monkman said he ended up taking a big stack of unchecked tickets to a local store more than a month and a half later and discovered the Extra add-on to his ticket had matched the last six digits in the drawing, 1-1-7-7-3-7-4, earning him $76,924.

"Well, it took me a little bit by surprise," Monkman said of discovering his jackpot weeks after the drawing.

Monkman said he plans to use some of the money to make upgrades to his home and share some with his children.

Source: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/11/25 ... 606338244/
Nov 25th, 2020, 5:21 pm
Nov 25th, 2020, 5:35 pm
Fan's $3Gs billboard in Brampton, Ontario captures attention of Kevin Hart

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What happens when you mix social media marketing with a big fan of comedian Kevin Hart?

Answer: A $3,000 billboard.

When Rizwan “Sunny” Rabbani heard that Hart was in Brampton filming a movie, “The Man From Toronto,” the My Bollywood Body gym owner knew he had to get the actor’s attention.

He decided to shell out $3,000 for a billboard near Bramalea GO station that reads, “Yo Kevin, I heard you’re in Toronto. I’m a big fan. Can I take a selfie?” Rabbani boldly included his phone number and Instagram user name on the ad.

“At least two to three times a week, especially when I’m down, I love watching his stand-up comedy,” Rabbani said of the actor.

“I came up with a mock-up design and reached out to Pattison advertising company. I wanted the best billboard location within the vicinity that (my gym) is at. I posted on my Instagram and asked my own followers if they can tag me and Kevin Hart. We were looking for 1,000 reposts.

“In less than 24 hours, Kevin Hart started following me on Instagram.”

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But not only that, Hart agreed to meet Rabbani, who lives in Bradford.

“He said, ‘Man, this is dope as hell. Please DM your number and I will arrange for sure.'”

Rabbani said he received more than 300 phone calls Monday — with at least 200 from “Kevin Hart.”

“So I’m not sure if I missed the real one or not,” he said. “I wasn’t expecting it to go viral. I wasn’t expecting everyone was going to start prank calling me and sending me texts.”

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Rabbani called Hart’s offer “very kind and humble.”

“I’m not looking for Kevin to come to my gym and we’re going to pump iron,” he said. “Honestly, all I want to do is meet the guy and take a few pictures.”

Pattison Outdoor on Friday tweeted a photo of the billboard and included a quote from hockey legend Wayne Gretzky: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”

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The billboard will stay up for another three weeks.

TheToronto Sun has reached out to Hart, who tweeted an inspiring message Tuesday.
“The world is yours and everything in it is out there … the sky is the limit … Happy Tuesday, Mothaf***as!”
Nov 25th, 2020, 5:35 pm

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Nov 25th, 2020, 7:07 pm
Peace talks more successful if women are involved

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Truces between nations have more chance of succeeding if women are involved in peace talks. That’s according to research by UN Women and the Council on Foreign Relations, which found that armistices were 64 per cent less likely to fail when women had a seat at the table.

Women, however, are often excluded from formal peace processes: between 1992 and 2019, they accounted for, on average, just 13 per cent of negotiations, 6 per cent of mediators and 6 per cent of signatories in major peace processes.

“Continued failure to include women in peace processes ignores their demonstrated contributions and overlooks a potential strategy to respond more effectively to security threats around the world,” the Council on Foreign Relations concluded.
Nov 25th, 2020, 7:07 pm

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Nov 25th, 2020, 8:36 pm
Eye in the sky: Full moon looks like a giant eye as it passes behind a rock arch in Utah

    • Photographer Zach Cooley captured the stunning image at Arches National Park in Utah, on October 28
    • He said months of planning went into getting the unique shot, but that still didn't guarantee his success
    • Fortunately, Cooley said the moon was in the perfect place for the shot - that looks like a huge, angry eye

A talented photographer has captured a stunning image of a full moon passing through a rock arch, making the final picture look like a giant eye.

Zach Cooley captured the amazing shots at Arches National Park, Utah, on October 28.

In Zach's photos, a full moon is seen passing across the arch, and hovering in the middle of it so that the image looks like a huge and mysterious eye, angrily staring at the viewer.

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Zach Cooley captured this amazing shot of the moon through a rock archway at the perfect moment - making it look like a huge mysterious eye. He took the photograph at Arches National Mark in Utah at the end of October after months of planning

Zach said: 'Planning for this shot was difficult and it began several months in advance.
'Despite cross-referencing the moon position in multiple applications, there's nothing close to a guarantee you'll be in the right place, just a few steps in any direction and you won't get the shot.

'I had never been so nervous for a photo as the moment approached, and never happier with the result of planning as the moon appeared where I was hoping and passed perfectly through the arch.'

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Arches National Park is in eastern Utah, and adjacent to the Colorado river. As the name suggests, the park is famous for its natural sandstone arches, of which more than 2,000 can be found in its 76,000 acres.

Its most famous arch - the Delicate Arch - is a freestanding arch that is 52 feet (16 meters) tall, and is one of the most widely recognised landmarks in the state, found on Utah license plates and a commemorative stamp.

It also features Balanced Rock - a rock the size of three school buses - that can be seen next to the park's main road balancing freely at about 55 feet off the ground, and weights the same as an ice-breaker ship.

Since a climber famously scaled Delicate Arch in 2006, the National Park Service has banned all climbing on any of the named arches within the park all year-round, along with placing anchors for slacklining.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -Utah.html
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Nov 26th, 2020, 8:32 am
Deer steals hunter's gun, flees into woods

A hunter in the Czech Republic was charged by a deer that snagged the man's gun on its antlers and fled into the woods with the weapon, police said.

Police in the South Bohemian Region said a hunter contacted authorities to recount the story of how he lost his gun while hunting near the village of Horni Plana.

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The man said one of the hunting dogs in his group startled a stag in a wooded area, causing the panicked deer to run directly toward him.

The deer's antlers ripped the man's sleeve and ended up snagged on his .22 Hornet rifle, which had been slung over his left hand at the time.

The animal ran off into the woods with the hunter's unloaded gun still attached to its antlers, the man told police.

Police said another hunter reported spotting a deer with a rifle dangling from its antlers more than half a mile from the scene.

Investigators said the hunter was required to report the loss of the rifle under the Czech Republic's Firearms and Ammunition Act.

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Nov 26th, 2020, 8:32 am

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Nov 26th, 2020, 12:43 pm
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I sometimes get REALLY DEPRESSED reviewing the news these days.
It's always about a global pandemic threatening life as we know it,
protests around the world, stupid politicians, natural disasters,
or some other really bad story.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Welcome to The mobi weekly news magazine
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26

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Here is your chance to become an "ACE REPORTER" for our weekly news magazine.
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Naked sunbather chases wild boar through park after it steals his laptop bag
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A naked sunbather was seen chasing wild boar through a park after it stole his laptop bag.
Amusing photographs from Germany show the man running after the animal to try and claim the plastic bag back.
But the cheeky boar and its two piglets appear to be too quick for the sunbather, who can't keep up with their speedy little trotters.
As the incident unfolds, groups of friends and family sat on the grass watch on and laugh.
Heads are seen turning in surprise and amusement in the hilarious photographs.
The incident happened at Teufelssee Lake - a bathing spot in the Grunwell Forest in Berlin, Germany.

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Nov 26th, 2020, 1:13 pm
Hammerhead shark circles oblivious swimmer in Florida

A Florida photographer captured drone footage of an oblivious swimmer's close encounter with a huge hammerhead shark that swam circles around the man.



Jason McIntosh posted a video to Instagram showing the scene that unfolded just offshore in Miami Beach when the approximately 10-foot hammerhead shark approached a man who was swimming on his back.

The swimmer, unaware of the shark, gives the drone camera a thumbs-up while the hammerhead approaches.

The shark swims circles around the man, who nearly strikes the predatory fish in the head with his foot at one point.

The hammerhead eventually loses interest and swims away, leaving the swimmer untouched.
Nov 26th, 2020, 1:13 pm

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Nov 26th, 2020, 2:23 pm
Dinosaur bones discovered in Ireland for the first time in history


FOR the first time in history, dinosaur bones have been discovered on the island of Ireland.

The fossil bones from two different species were unearthed on the east coast of Co. Antrim.

It's understood that the fossils are that of a four-legged herbivore called a scelidosaurus, as well as a two-legged carnivore named sarcosaurus, following an extensive scientific study.

The fossil bones, which were confirmed to be from early Jurassic rocks, were discovered in two separate finds near the town of Islandmagee, first in the late 19th century, and again in the 1980s by the late teacher and fossil collector Roger Byrne.

It was originally thought that the bones belonged to the same animal, but following lengthy examination by experts from the University of Portsmouth and Queen's University Belfast, it was confirmed they in fact belong to two different species.

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Professor David Martill, who worked on the research of the fossils, said the two species couldn't be any more different from one another

"One of them is, if you take your everyday view of a meat-eating dinosaur, it had a mouth full of razor-sharp serrated teeth," Prof Martill said.

"The scelidosaurus was running around on all fours with its back legs higher than its head. It would have been adorned with big spikes capped with the sort of sheath that a claw is made of.
"If it came and kneed you it would rip you apart. Although it was a herbivorous animal, it wasn’t a defenceless animal."

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Ulster Museum will put the fossils on display when it eventually reopens once Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.

Due to the fact that Ireland was underwater for most of the period that dinosaurs roamed the earth, there was very little chance that dinosaur fossils would ever be found here.

One theory, put forward by research leader Dr Mike Simms, is that the dinosaurs remains were perhaps swept out to sea, before settling in the Jurassic seabed, only to be unearthed some 200 million years later.

Source: https://www.irishpost.com/news/dinosaur ... ory-198687
Nov 26th, 2020, 2:23 pm
Nov 26th, 2020, 4:47 pm
Scientists Discover Billions of Gallons of Hidden Freshwater off Hawaii Coast

The recent discovery is believed to solve all the issues related to availability of freshwater in Hawaii and other neighboring islands

The island communities like Hawaii, which are surrounded by Ocean water, have to rely on collecting freshwater stored in the ground for drinking, irrigation, and commercial industries. The American state located in the Pacific Ocean is at serious risk due to climate-driven droughts and less rainfall. But scientists found a new way to solve the problem.

A team of researchers used a unique technique that relies on tracing electrical resistance and discovered the way Hawaii's volcanic soil collects and hides away freshwater under the ocean's salty surface. The access to the freshwater could give Hawaii and other volcanic islands the solution they are searching for.

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This finding, which was published in the journal Science Advances, has implications for the world's volcanic islands – a potentially renewable source that could prove invaluable as the climate of the planet rapidly changes.

According to Eric Attias, a geophysicist of the University of Hawaii said the recent discovery provides a "paradigm shift" from the conventional hydrologic conceptual models that have been vastly used by several studies and water organizations in Hawaii as well as other volcanic islands to calculate sustainable yields and aquifer storage for the past 30 years. He hopes that the recent findings will "enhance future hydrologic models, and consequently, the availability of clean freshwater in volcanic islands."

Detection of Freshwater

The researchers started their work to find out freshwater after re-examining existing calculations between the expected and measured freshwater on the island. As per the researchers, there was almost a 40 percent discrepancy in the amount of freshwater that should be there, opposed to the amount which seemed to be there and this led to the search for missing fresh water.

The traditional geohydrological studies mainly focus on the sources of the freshwater that found floating on the surface of the ocean water. But these studies may miss the freshwater, hidden in the porous rock layers, said the researchers involved in the recent study. So, the team of scientists shifted their focus under the salty ocean and decided to use a new imaging technique to reveal what is hidden below the surface.

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Conceptual model of freshwater path from rainfall to offshore

The team used a method called marine controlled-source electromagnetic imaging to calculate the changes in electrical resistance—that changes dramatically between fresh and salty water—in the water near the shore. The researchers released torpedo-like imaging systems into the sea to take the measurement. This process as per the Attias is much like performing an MRI scan of the brain.

The measurements reveal where is the missing freshwater and then the team found a massive amount of stored water between the layers of the ocean and water-laden basalt. As per the researchers, they estimated that these newly found reservoirs contain around 920 billion tons of freshwater.

In the study, the scientist assumes that there is a possibility that the hidden water was able to sneak away from the shore of the island through the channels by the porous ash and basalt. If confirmed, this could the first time to document this natural process. They believe that this much-hidden freshwater could play a major role to solve the water issue of the island and in other volcanic islands.



Source: https://www.ibtimes.sg/scientists-disco ... oast-53672
Nov 26th, 2020, 4:47 pm

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