How to identify heat-stressed corals
'Coral hospital' tool could help safeguard reefs facing climate changeCredit: D. Bhattacharya Researchers have found a novel way to identify ...
Tag: Pollution/Remediation
Faster, greener way of producing carbon spheres
- advance could improve carbon capture technologyCredit: ESRI, Swansea University A fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon ...
A scientific project studies the pollution pathways of the Mediterranean coastal lagoons
Researchers from the ICTA-UAB and the UPCT will analyze the entry routes of nutrients, trace metals and pollutants caused by ...
The quest for carbon capture: WVU engineer explores the ways through four federally-funded projects
Credit: Paige Nesbit/WVU One silver lining to COVID-19 restrictions, based on a recent report, is a 2.4 billion-ton plummet in ...
Scientists develop new land surface model including multiple processes and human activities
Credit: Longhuan WANG Human activities, such as urban planning, irrigation and agricultural fertilization, can affect terrestrial carbon, nitrogen and water ...
Taking greenhouse gas analysis on the road, er, rails
Train-mounted sensors are a cost-effective way to monitor emissions over an entire cityCredit: University of Utah Research-grade air quality sensors ...
Improving multi-sectoral ocean management to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Credit: © IRD - Thibaut Vergoz They have shown that certain multi-sectoral mechanisms, such as marine protected areas, are the ...
Upcycling: new catalytic process turns plastic bags into adhesives
Converting polyethylene packaging into high-value products incentivizes plastics recyclingCredit: UC Berkeley image by Liye Chen While many cities and eight ...
Satellite tracking supports whale survival
Study traces pygmy blue whale migration from Australia to IndonesiaCredit: Pixabay Extensive satellite tracking has revealed important new knowledge about ...
Effects of organohalogen pollution are coded in gene expression profiles of Baltic salmon
Credit: Reprinted with permission from Environmental Science & Technology. © 2020 American Chemical Society Hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) have ...
Marine pollution: How do plastic additives dilute in water and how risky are they?
Scientists provide improved method to estimate public exposure to hazardous micropollutants from plastic wasteCredit: Seung-Kyu Kim from Incheon National University ...
COVID-19: indoor air in hospitals and nursing homes require more attention
Recommendations on how to reduce SARS-CoV-2 aerosol dispersalCredit: Beate Richter, TROPOS Leipzig/New Delhi/Rome. A variety of measures are necessary to ...
Natural environmental conditions facilitate the uptake of microplastics into living cells
University of Bayreuth study: A coating of biomolecules may act as a kind of Trojan horse that allows plastics to ...
‘Sparkling’ clean water from nanodiamond-embedded membrane filters
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c15194 Although most of the planet is covered by water, ...
NUS engineers discover new microbe for simpler, cheaper and greener wastewater treatment
The new strain of bacterium can remove both nitrogen and phosphorous from sewageCredit: National University of Singapore Researchers from the ...
Colorado mountains bouncing back from ‘acid rain’ impacts
Credit: William Bowman A long-term trend of ecological improvement is appearing in the mountains west of Boulder. Researchers from the ...
AGU panel explores environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as observed from space
Credit: Credits: NASA/Nima Pahlevan COVID-19 has changed the way we live and work, as various health and safety restrictions keep ...
How clean electricity can upgrade the value of captured carbon
A new paper in Nature Energy outlines an electrochemical method for converting captured carbon into useful products, from fuels to ...
Health Affairs: Reprocessing single-use med devices boosts circular economy for hospitals
Researchers find healthcare supply chains major sources of pollution and greenhouse gas emissionsCredit: Association of Medical Device Reprocessors Regulated medical ...
Shining a light on the weird world of dihydrogen phosphate anions
Credit: UNSW Sydney Scientists at UNSW Sydney, together with collaborators from Western Sydney University and The Netherlands, were surprised to ...