Toxic byproducts of Agent Orange continue to pollute Vietnam environment, study says
Credit: Photo by US Army Flight Operations Specialist 4 John Crivello in 1969 URBANA, Ill. - During the Vietnam War, ...
Tag: Geology/Soil
Getting to the core of underwater soil
Scientists collect data, map little-understood soilsCredit: Mark Stolt Soils all over the Earth's surface are rigorously tested and managed. But ...
More extreme coastal weather events likely to increase bluff erosion, landslide activity
Credit: Ben Leshchinsky, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Unstable slopes on Oregon's coastline could see a 30 percent jump ...
130,000 years of data show peatlands store carbon long-term
First study of the extent of global peatland and carbon storage over the last 130,000 years fills in key knowledge ...
Did volcanoes kill the dinosaurs? New evidence points to ‘maybe.’
New precise ages for Deccan Traps volcanoes ties the second major eruption pulse to the mass extinctionCredit: Gerta Keller, Department ...
Captured carbon dioxide converts into oxalic acid to process rare earth elements
Credit: Nathan Shaiyen/Michigan Tech Until now, carbon dioxide has been dumped in oceans or buried underground. Industry has been reluctant ...
CLEAR at UTA continues collaboration with the Apache Corporation
Analyzing surface, groundwaterCredit: UT Arlington The Collaborative Laboratories for Environmental Analysis and Remediation at The University of Texas at Arlington ...
UBC researchers explore an often ignored source of greenhouse gas
Carbon dioxide is released during irrigation with lake water In a new study from UBC's Okanagan campus, researchers have discovered ...
Surprising findings on forest fires
Researchers at the University of Bonn used drill cores to trace back the fires of the past 600,000 yearsCredit: (c) ...
Synchrotron light to analyse mining waste in marine sediment in the Portman bay
Fighting marine pollutionCredit: GRC- Marine Geosciences /University of Barcelona The light of ALBA Synchrotron will enable revealing the environmental impact ...
Research forms complex picture of mercury pollution in a period of global change
Toxic metal's fate in marine food webs uncertain due to anthropogenic impacts HANOVER, N.H. - February 14, 2019 - Climate ...
Ancient fossilized tracks suggest multicellular life far older than previously thought
Controversial discovery suggests early complex organisms may have originated 2.1 billion years ago--more than 1.5 billion years sooner than previous ...
Study yields new clues to predict tipping points for marsh survival
By analyzing hundreds of estuaries at multiple spatial scales, new research identifies factors that drive marsh loss but may be ...
Carbon gas storage cavern is the best way to obtain clean energy from a fossil fuel
The Research Center for Gas Innovation is developing technology to separate CO2 and methane in oil and gas exploration and ...
Undersea gases could superheat the planet
Carbon reservoirs on the ocean bottom caused global warming before -- and could do it again, according to research by ...
Scientists discover oldest evidence of mobility on Earth
Fossils dating back 2.1 billion years provide first ever evidence of movement in multicellular organisms Ancient fossils of the first ...
Many Arctic lakes give off less carbon than expected
Credit: David Butman/University of Washington The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. One consequence ...
Ben-Gurion University, Bayer and Netafim to collaborate on research optimizing drip irrigation
Credit: Netafim/BGU BEER-SHEVA, Israel...February 7, 2019 - Bayer, Netafim and BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of Israel's Ben-Gurion University ...
Samara Polytech scientists have developed medications and vitamins for residual soil
Complex blends and bioadditives are called 'LSF'Credit: @SamaraPolytech The highly efficient biotechnological complex "LSF" ("Living Source of Fertility") starts the ...
USDA grant to blend data with agriculture for improved production
Technology in agricultureCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington math professor will use a U.S. Department of Agriculture ...