Evergreen needles act as air quality monitors
Measuring magnetic particles on needles reveals particulate air pollutionCredit: Paul Gabrielsen/University of Utah Every tree, even an evergreen, can be ...
Tag: Pollution/Remediation
City, University of London and Howden secure grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering
Project is targeted at reducing leakages in rotating machinery by 20% and improving the efficiency of oil free screw compressors ...
Ocean algae get ‘coup de grace’ from viruses
Viruses don't immediately kill algae but live in harmony with themCredit: MODIS, NASA; Steve Gschmeissner, Photo Researchers Inc.; Kay Bidle ...
The future of biofuels in the dark
Fellowship funds experiments in growing algae without sunlightCredit: Elizabeth Hann/UCR Algae could compete with petroleum as the fuel of the ...
NASA night-time image shows Hurricane Paulette’s large eye approach Bermuda
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Night-time imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite showed ...
Winds of change move western smoke into the Pacific
Credit: NASA Worldview NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing the winds ...
Novel virus-based colorimetric sensor can show true colors of airborne threats
Scientists employ genetically engineered viruses to produce intuitive color-coded sensors for detecting airborne chemicalsCredit: Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology ...
Dietary changes could produce big offsets to carbon emissions
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Eating less meat and dairy products in favor of plant-based proteins like those ...
Multiphase buffering by ammonia explains wide range of atmospheric aerosol acidity
Anthropogenic ammonia emissions and the water content matter more than dry particle composition for the acidity of atmospheric aerosols in ...
NASA’s Terra highlights aerosols from western fires in danger zone
Credit: NASA Worldview The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just ...
Inexpensive, non-toxic nanofluid could be a game-changer for oil recovery
The nanofluid is made from commercially available sodium using household blenderCredit: University of Houston Researchers from the University of Houston ...
CityU develops anti-bacterial graphene face masks
Anti-bacterial efficiency close to 100% under 10-min sunlight and promising results in deactivation of coronavirusesCredit: City University of Hong Kong ...
University of Illinois awarded $4.5 million to develop commercial carbon credit tools
Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The University of Illinois has been awarded $4.5 million from the U.S. Department ...
Urbanization and agriculture are land uses that most affect Brazil’s rivers
A literature review by researchers affiliated with universities in Brazil and the United States produces the first ever nationwide survey ...
California’s creek fire creates its own pyrocumulonimbus cloud
Credit: NASA Worldview On Friday September 4, 2020 at about 6:44 PM PDT the Creek Fire began in the Big ...
NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP captures fires and aerosols across America
Credit: NOAA/NASA On Sep. 07, 2020, NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite provided two different views of how fires are affecting the ...
Funding flows into liquid fuel strategy
NSF awards Haotian Wang $2 million to explore converting carbon dioxide into fuelsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 8, ...
Lockdown did not reduce “most harmful” type of air pollution in Scotland
Credit: University of Stirling The significant reduction in vehicle journeys during the COVID-19 lockdown did not reduce the level of ...
Scientists have discovered an environmentally friendly way to transform silicon into nanoparticles
Credit: Skoltech Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have developed a new method of silicon ...
UBC scientists find clues to queen bee failure
Credit: Alison McAfee Scientists at UBC are unravelling the mysteries behind a persistent problem in commercial beekeeping that is one ...