Wide awake: Light pollution keeps magpies and pigeons tossing and turning
Study first to measure neurological responses to light pollution in wildlifeCredit: Photographer Doug Gimesy Researchers are urging city-dwellers to switch ...
Tag: Pollution/Remediation
Dragonflies reveal mercury pollution levels across US national parks
Local research project spurs first nationwide survey of the toxic metalCredit: Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program. HANOVER, N.H. - ...
Plastics found in sea-bed sharks
Credit: Jake Davies Microplastics have been found in the guts of sharks that live near the seabed off the UK ...
How does ridesourcing substitute for public transit network?
New research by SMART finds that one third of ridesourcing substitutes public transitCredit: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Study ...
Microplastics in shrimp harmless to animal health and no effects on consumption quality
Credit: Credits: SEAaq/UAB A research team from the SEAaq group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona conducted analyses to determine ...
Everything you ever wanted to know about leech sex but were afraid to ask
Credit: Karen Kidd Today, we pull the veil back on the secret sex lives of leeches and how researchers at ...
Florida harmful algal blooms produce multiple toxins detrimental to human health
Cyanobacterial blooms released downstream from Lake Okeechobee coincided with red tides placing Florida's west coast in a toxic viceCredit: Paul ...
NASA analyzes new eastern Pacific Ocean Tropical Depression 7E
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The seventh tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean has formed. NASA's Terra satellite used infrared light ...
Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap
Rice's trap-and-zap strategy for antibiotic resistant bugs becomes wrap, trap and zapCredit: Alvarez Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 20, ...
Cell death in porpoises caused by environmental pollutants
Cells isolated from a stranded dead porpoise predict the threat of pollutants to the porpoise population in the wild.Credit: Reprinted ...
A new species of darkling beetle larvae that degrade plastic
Credit: Hyung Joon Cha (POSTECH) There floats an enormous plastic garbage island in the North Pacific that is seven times ...
Geoengineering is just a partial solution to fight climate change
The technology's regional impacts depend on how much greenhouse gas emissions are reducedCredit: AGU/Brian West Could we create massive sulfuric ...
Pesticides speed the spread of deadly waterborne pathogens
UC Berkeley researchers show how agricultural chemicals can increase transmission of the schistosome parasiteCredit: Planetary Health Alliance photo by Hillary ...
Antarctica more widely impacted by humans than previously thought
Only 16% of the continent's Important Bird Areas are located within negligibly impacted areasCredit: Steven Chown Antarctica is considered one ...