Fifty years later, DDT lingers in lake ecosystems
Credit: Joshua Kurek To control pest outbreaks, airplanes sprayed more than 6,280 tons of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) onto forests in New ...
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New to science New Zealand moths link mythological deities to James Cameron’s films
Credit: Birgit Rhode In an unexpected discovery from the South Island (New Zealand), two species of narrowly distributed macro-moths were ...
Electric vehicles would be a breath of fresh air for Houston
Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University researchers are expressing hope for the future of Houston's breathable air, despite ...
EWG: Nitrate pollution of US tap water could cause 12,500 cancer cases each year
Groundbreaking peer-reviewed study analyzes health and economic impacts of widespread chemical contamination from agriculture WASHINGTON - Nitrate pollution of U.S. ...
Skinny cod and grey seal reveals troubling changes to food web in the Baltic Sea
Credit: Olle Karlsson "It is important that you understand how the food web works when managing a fishery. It is ...
Rendering toxic explosives harmless
A UA-led team of engineers and scientists are researching new methods, including 'magic' microbes and chemical processes, to remove insensitive ...
Switchgrass hybrid yields insights into plant evolution
Credit: Courtesy of MSU Switchgrass is attractive as a potential bioenergy crop because it can grow for years without having ...
2019 ‘dead zone’ may be the second largest on record
A recent forecast of the size of the "Dead Zone" in the northern Gulf of Mexico for late July 2019 ...
57% of the plastic waste on the Tarragona coast is clothing fibers from washing machines
Researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili research group Tecnatox have analyzed the pollution of the sea, the marine sediment ...
Sediment from fishing choking out sea sponges, study shows
New research shows sediment stirred up by human activity is clogging glass sea sponges on Canada's west coastCredit: John Ulan ...
Fishers keen to help address the problem of marine litter
Credit: Fishing for Litter Commercial fishers are acutely aware of the potential for marine litter to cause lasting damage to ...
Social interactions impact climate change predictions, U of G study reveals
In a first-ever study measuring the impact of social behavior on climate change predictions, researchers found social processes, such as ...
Berkeley Lab technology provides clarity amid Hawaiian water contamination concerns
Scientists use a powerful microbial detection device to show that suggestions of sewage in Kauai's watershed were mostly false positivesCredit: ...
Thwarting oil-pipeline corrosion by identifying a nanoscale villain
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Steel pipes rust and eventually fail. To preempt disasters, oil companies and others have created computer models ...
Toxic metals found in reproductive organs of critically endangered eels
Mystery of shrinking population may be linked to eels devouring their own skeletonsCredit: Marko Freese. Thünen Institute for Fisheries Ecology ...
Microorganisms on microplastics
Organisms can grow on microplastics in freshwater ecosystems. The findings of a recent study undertaken by researchers from the Leibniz-Institute ...
Estimating microplastic consumption
Credit: Monique Raap, University of Victoria Since the mass production of plastics began in the 1940s, the versatile polymers have ...
New process to rinse heavy metals from soils
When poisonous heavy metals like lead and cadmium escape from factories or mines, they can pollute the nearby soil. With ...
Urban pollution enhances up to 400% formation of aerosols over the Amazon rainforest
This phenomenon affects cloud production and rainfall, with consequences for the local and global climate, which researchers have warned about ...
Plastic water bottles may one day fly people cross-country
Research group has found a way to turn plastic waste products into jet fuelCredit: Washington State University RICHLAND, Wash. - ...