Study describes cocktail of pharmaceuticals in waters in Bangladesh
Antifungals, antibiotics and other drugs were found in water in urban and rural areas, raising concerns about the spread of ...
Tag: Pollution/Remediation
Rare South American ground beetles sport unusual, likely multi-purpose antennal cleaners
Credit: Terry L. Erwin For 157 years, scientists have wished they could understand the evolutionary relationships of a curious South ...
Rising carbon dioxide levels will change marine habitats and fish communities
Credit: Nicolas Floc'h Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the consequent changes created through ocean acidification will cause severe ...
Soot may only be half the problem when it comes to cookstoves
Researchers find organic carbons are also absorbing light -- and likely harming people's healthCredit: Washington University in St. Louis A ...
Italian Society of Vegetation Science signs with Pensoft to publish its journal on ARPHA
The first 2020 papers of the open-access, peer-reviewed international journal Plant Sociology are now available on the journal's new, user-friendly ...
Reducing sulfur dioxide emissions alone cannot substantially decrease air pollution
Credit: Qianqian Zhang High loadings of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) during haze are mostly produced from the chemical reactions of ...
New NUI Galway study helps improve accuracy of future climate change predictions
Study published in Nature's journal -- Climate and Atmospheric ScienceCredit: NUI Galway New research published by NUI Galway's Centre for ...
Litter problem at England’s protected coasts
Credit: Marine Conservation Society Beaches in or near England's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have the same levels of litter as ...
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 ...
NASA finds heavy rainfall in powerful tropical cyclone Harold
Credit: Credit: JAXA/Jason West, NASA EOSDIS One of NASA's satellites that can measure the rate in which rainfall is occurring ...
Oil spill: where and when will it reach the beach? Answers to prevent environmental impacts
Credit: ©Svitlana Liubartseva, CMCC Foundation In October 2018, the Tunisian Ro-Ro passenger ship "Ulysse" rammed into the hull of the ...
How old are whale sharks? Nuclear bomb legacy reveals their age
Cold War testing radioactivity used to determine longevity of largest fish on EarthCredit: NOAA Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold ...
Our oceans are suffering, but we can rebuild marine life
Credit: Manu San Felix, National Geographic It's not too late to rescue global marine life, according to a study outlining ...
Pollen measurement system developed at TU Graz analyses fast, cheaply and automatically
Credit: © Nam Cao Pollen: essential for the pollination of many plants, but the bane of allergy sufferers. Pollen warning ...
Flooding stunted 2019 cropland growing season, resulting in more atmospheric CO2
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Severe flooding throughout the Midwest--which triggered a delayed growing season for crops in the region--led to a reduction ...
Reduced off-odor of plastic recyclates via separate collection of packaging waste
Findings of Fraunhofer IVV, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and University of AlicanteCredit: Fraunhofer IVV More than 60 odorous substances were identified ...
OSU research paves way to improved cleanup of contaminated groundwater
Credit: OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. - Beads that contain bacteria and a slow-release food supply to sustain them ...
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 ...
Ships’ emissions create measurable regional change in clouds
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory A container ship leaves a trail of white clouds in its wake that can linger in ...
All microgastrinae wasps from around the world finally together in a 1,089-page monograph
Credit: Dr. Jose Fernandez-Triana With 3,000 known species and thousands more left to describe, the wasps of the subfamily Microgastrinae ...