The University of Tennessee System announces One Health Initiative
Effort to focus on animal, environmental issues with implications for human healthCredit: Tory Salvador, UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University ...
Tag: Pollution/Remediation
Rules of life: From a pond to the beyond
Credit: Elser Lab/ASU The Cuatro Cienegas Basin, located in Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico, was once a shallow sea that became ...
Research team works to develop new ways to detect air pollutants
Credit: Greg Atkins for Virginia Tech Hazardous air pollutants like benzene found in gasoline have been linked to cancer, asthma, ...
University of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands collaborate on watershed management
Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Guam The University of Guam and natural resource officials in Saipan and Rota exchanged ...
NSF CAREER award to measure air pollution with bicycle sensors
Credit: Emily Roediger for Virginia Tech When you walk or bike around your city or neighborhood, how do you choose ...
California agricultural employers, workers approach smoke concerns differently
UC Davis examines health and safety awareness around mounting threatCredit: Hector Amezcua/UC Davis In 2018, California wildfires burned more than ...
Algae team rosters could help ID ‘super corals’
A coral's symbiotic community may predict how well it resists climate stressCredit: Paintings in graphic by Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee HOUSTON ...
Modified clay can remove herbicide from water
Credit: Feng Yan et al. By creating neatly spaced slits in a clay mineral, University of Groningen Professor of Experimental ...
X-ray microscopy at BESSY II: Nanoparticles can change cells
Credit: Burcu Kepsutlu/HZB Today, nanoparticles are not only in cosmetic products, but everywhere, in the air, in water, in the ...
Blasting ‘forever’ chemicals out of water with a vortex of cold plasma
Drexel University researchers show how cold plasma can eliminate PFAS in waterCredit: Drexel University Researchers from Drexel University have found ...
George Mason receives NIH grant to study environmental pollutants and endometriosis links
First of its kind study to determine whether chemicals detected in the uterus are associated with endometriosis and its severityCredit: ...
New commuter concern: Cancerous chemical in car seats
Airborne pollutant emanates from the insideCredit: David Volz/UCR The longer your commute, the more you're exposed to a chemical flame ...
Scientists reveal whole new world of chemistry by stepping indoors
CSU researchers report on the chemistry of bleach cleaning as part of the HOMEChem experimentCredit: Callie Richmond Colorado State University ...
Waterbug from european rivers found in the Iberian Peninsula
New family of Heteroptera in the fauna of CataloniaCredit: Ekkerhardt Wachmann Aphelocheirus aestivalis, a waterbug found in mid and high ...
Forest soils recovering from effects of acid rain
Credit: Jennifer Knoepp Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation ...
Red coral effectively recovers in Mediterranean protected areas
Credit: @Aldo Ferrucci Protection measures of the Marine Protected Areas have enable red coral colonies (Corallium rubrum) to recover partially ...
Coral Reef Research Collection wins $100,000 International Science Prize
Credit: (c) ZSL A team of scientific editors has been awarded US $100,000 by Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers in recognition ...
Australia’s orroral valley fire consumes over 155,000 acres in a week
Credit: NASA NASA's Terra satellite saw yet another fire, known as the Orroral Valley Fire, break out in the Canberra ...
Microplastic hotspots
UD study maps areas of high concentrations in the Delaware BayCredit: Photo courtesy of Jonathan Cohen Every year, about 8 ...
Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams
Enough energy to power all households in the USA and Mexico; enough nutrients to meet ~13% of world fertilizer needs; ...