Combined river flows could send up to 3 billion microplastics a day into the Bay of Bengal
Credit: Photo by Sara Hylton, National Geographic. Taken on assignment for National Geographic's The Ganges River - with the combined ...
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A critical review of graphene quantum dots and their application in biosensors
Credit: Authors In a paper published in NANO, researchers from Hubei, China discuss the top-down and bottom-up strategies for the ...
Brazilian dam collapse could have been predicted with right monitoring technology
Credit: Google Earth One of Brazil's worst environmental disasters - a dam collapse that also killed more than 200 people ...
A new carbon budget framework provides a clearer view of our climate deadlines
Concordia's Damon Matthews outlines a more comprehensive method of calculating how much CO2 we can emit and still meet Paris ...
New tool removes chemotherapy drugs from water systems
UBCO researchers help protect people from toxic chemicalsCredit: UBCO 'What goes in, must come out' is a familiar refrain. It ...
Eliminating microplastics in wastewater directly at the source
A research team from INRS has developed a process for the electrolytic treatment of wastewater that degrades microplastics at the ...
Lead poisoning of children
Stanford researchers and others reveal pervasive health threats of unregulated battery recyclingCredit: Pure Earth Decades after the industrialized world largely ...
Posidonia marine seagrass can catch and remove plastics from the sea
A trap for plastics in coastal areasCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Posidonia oceanica seagrass -an endemic marine phanerogam with an important ...
Illinois residents value strategies to improve water quality
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. ¬- Illinois residents value efforts to reduce watershed pollution, and they ...
Research to advance environmental sound classification wins IEEE Best Paper Award
Credit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, January 13, 2021 - The paper "Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for ...
Northern lakes at risk of losing ice cover permanently, impacting drinking water
Credit: York University Postdoctoral Fellow Alessandro Filazzola TORONTO, Jan. 13, 2021 - Close to 5,700 lakes in the Northern Hemisphere ...
Pollinators not getting the ‘buzz’ they need in news coverage
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A dramatic decline in bees and other pollinating insects presents a ...
Flashing plastic ash completes recycling
Rice lab's turns pyrolyzed ash into graphene for improving concrete, other compoundsCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 13, 2021) ...
Copper-indium oxide: A faster and cooler way to reduce our carbon footprint
Scientists set a record for the highest conversion rate of carbon dioxide at low temperatures with copper-modified indium oxide, signifying ...
Shell scientist honored for research on how nature can help reduce carbon footprint
Christian A. Davies, Ph.D., has been named the recipient of the 2021 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Technology Innovation ...
University of Texas researcher recognized for pioneering work utilizing nanotechno
Guihua Yu, Ph.D. Named 2021 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award recipient in EngineeringCredit: TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and ...
Framework sheds light on nitrogen loss of producing common food items
Credit: Shu Kee Lam January 13, 2021 - The element nitrogen is a double-edged sword. It is essential for growing ...
Knowledge of cycad branching behavior improves conservation
Guam's branched cycads less vulnerable to destruction by non-native insectCredit: Montgomery Botanical Center Research on cycad trees in Colombia, Guam, ...
Harbor porpoises on the decline in the German North Sea
Greater conservation efforts are needed to protect the species, which has been affected by human activities at seaCredit: D. Nachtsheim ...
Eurasian eagle owl diet reveals new records of threatened giant bush-crickets
Credit: Dragan Chobanov Bird diets provide a real treasure for research into the distribution and conservation of their prey, such ...