How did an ancient plant from Latin America become Asia’s second-most-important cash crop?
Valued at dining room tables and factory floors alike, cassava is worth about $10 billion in Asia. The continued growth ...
Tag: Hydrology/Water Resources
MDI Biological Laboratory-led program reveals high arsenic in well water
Levels in many Maine and New Hampshire wells exceed maximumCredit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — A program to ...
Two is better than one
Scientists fit two co-catalysts on one nanosheet for better water purificationCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY - A collaboration of ...
Building a bean that resists leafhoppers
Credit: Tim Porch Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice. ...
River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic
Computer modelling deciphers complex interfaceCredit: Wallis et al Naturally occurring (geogenic) groundwater arsenic contamination is a problem of global significance, ...
Stream pollution from mountaintop mining doesn’t stay put in the water
Stream insects and the bankside spiders that eat them carry potentially toxic selenium runoff from water to landCredit: Photo by ...
Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions
As the human race continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have found that the planet's insects are also facing ...
Extreme rainfall days in metropolitan São Paulo have risen four-fold in seven decades
Study by researchers at Brazil's National Disaster Surveillance and Early Warning Center (CEMADEN) also shows a rise in the number ...
Most of Earth’s carbon was hidden in the core during its formative years
New work reveals how carbon behaved during Earth's violent formative periodCredit: Rebecca Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell and Marion Le Voyer, Kanani ...
Bison in northern Yellowstone proving to be too much of a good thing
Credit: Bob Beschta, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Increasing numbers of bison in Yellowstone National Park in recent years have become ...
HKU team develops new wastewater treatment process
HKU researchers develop a novel wastewater treatment process to effectively remove health hazardous chemical contaminantsCredit: @The University of Hong Kong ...
Control of anthropogenic atmospheric emissions can improve water quality in seas
HKU study shows that control of anthropogenic atmospheric emissions can improve water quality in China's coastal SeasCredit: Photo courtesy: Dr ...
Reducing reliance on nitrogen fertilizers with biological nitrogen fixation
Credit: Beverly J. Agtuca, Sylwia A. Stopka, Thalita R. Tuleski, Fernanda P. do Amaral, Sterling Evans, Yang Liu, Dong Xu, ...
Co-occurring contaminants may increase NC groundwater risks
Contaminant safety standards don't account for mixturesCredit: Vengosh Lab, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Contaminants that occur together naturally in ...
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