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  The Dead Sea of West Texas A Pecos County well has leaked noxious salt water for almost two decades. No one is taking responsibility for getting it cleaned up. By Russell Gold December 8, 2021   Quot from the above article " Robert Mace About twenty-five miles north of Fort Stockton sits what looks, at first blush, like an oasis amid the West Texas desert. When I recently visited what might be Texas’s newest sizable body of water, its color was a pleasant sea green. A flock of ducks circled in the sky above and landed on the choppy surface. Yet Lake Boehmer covers more than sixty acres of scrubland with a noxious brew. You wouldn’t want to sate your thirst with its water, which is three times saltier than the ocean, with a sulfate level twenty-five times greater than legally allowed for drinking. Lake Boehmer belches hydrogen sulfide gas, which at low concentrations generates a rotten egg smell and at higher concentrations kills the occasional w...

  Omar Souleyman: singer held by Turkey over alleged militant links is freed Syrian questioned by police after reports he has ties to banned Kurdish People’s Protection Units

  ‘Our Biggest Challenge? Lack of Imagination’: The Scientists Turning the Desert Green In China, scientists have turned vast swathes of arid land into a lush oasis. Now a team of maverick engineers want to do the same to the Sinai. The Guardian Steve Rose

  Future Shock in the Countryside Earth’s rural areas are being transformed by climate change and technology. The Atlantic Darran Anderson

  How Western Civilization Could Collapse Some possible precipitating factors are already in place. How the West reacts to them will determine the world’s future, says Rachel Nuwer. BBC Future Rachel Nuwer

  The Soviet Union Is Gone, But It’s Still Collapsing And 5 other unlearned lessons from leading experts about modern Russia and the death of an empire. Foreign Policy Serhii Plokhy Bill Browder Dmitri Trenin Nargis Kassenova Alexander Cooley Andrei Soldatov