Better water testing, safer produce
Credit: Natalie Brassill, University of Arizona. March 20, 2019 - Salads were recently in the news--and off America's dinner tables--when ...
Tag: Hydrology/Water Resources
UTA researcher designing sustainable practices for small gold-mining communities
Responsible miningCredit: UT Arlington Artisanal and small-scale gold mining is a way of life for many small towns in Colombia ...
Climate change negatively affects waterbirds in the American West
CORVALLIS, Ore. - New research shows that recent climate change is having profound effects on wetlands across the American West ...
Nitrogen pollution’s path to streams weaves through more forests (and faster) than suspected
Collaboration compiled data from 13 states and 1 province over 21 yearsCredit: Stephen Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service NEWTOWN SQUARE, Penn. ...
Solar-powered moisture harvester collects and cleans water from air
UT Engineers combine hydrogels that are both highly water absorbent and can release water upon heating to create unique material ...
New method to reduce uranium concentration in contaminated water
Credit: Author In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, researchers from China have proposed a ...
NSF International and NEHA to host Legionella Conference 2019
Conference organizers seek oral and poster presentations on water conservation, Legionella outbreak prevention and related public health topics NSF International ...
Prestigious title awarded for marine robotics
Professor Stefan Williams has been recognized by the IEEECredit: Lachlan Toohey/University of Sydney With a career focused on robotics and ...
Defects help nanomaterial soak up more pollutant in less time
Rice U. researchers find new way to remove PFOS from industrial wastewaterCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (March 13, 2019) ...
Climate change could devastate painted turtles, according to new study
Credit: Nicole Valenzuela AMES, Iowa - An Iowa State University biologist is sounding the alarm for the painted turtle, one ...
Coal power stations disrupt rainfall: global study
Ultrafine particles from exhaust gas filters 'worse than road traffic'Credit: Professor Wolfgang Junkermann Modern coal-fired power stations produce more ultrafine ...
Portland State receives $2 million federal grant to study ocean electrical generation
Credit: Portland State University The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a $2 million, three-year grant to Portland State University ...
No silver bullet for helping the Great Barrier Reef
Improving water quality can help the Great Barrier Reef, but won't suffice to rescue itCredit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor Recent flooding and ...
North Texas Regional Center of Expertise gets approval from UN
New centerCredit: UT Arlington What began as a brainstorming session last year about how to unify sustainability efforts across North ...
David versus Goliath: the fight against environmental crimes
The world of ecological trialsCredit: Ernest Prat i Rieradevall "What? The river looks like milk?" is the hard-hitting sentence that ...
Probing water’s skin
Credit: KAUST 2019 From the wind-whipped surface of the open ocean, to trillions of tiny water drops in clouds, the ...
A ‘Post-Antibiotic World?’
Antibiotic resistance is spreading from wastewater treatment plants The products of wastewater treatment have been found to contain trace amounts ...
A faster, more accurate way to monitor drought
Thermal stress measurements sound the alarm about drought conditions soonerCredit: Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. -- More than 2 billion people ...
Researchers find potential new source of rare earth elements
Study could benefit the US clean energy and electronics industriesCredit: USDA ARS Researchers have found a possible new source of ...
PE, PP and PS: The most abundant type of microplastics in Mediterranean coastal waters
Effects of the plastic civilizationCredit: GRC Marine Geosciences - University of Barcelona Polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene are the most abundant ...