Tag: Pollution/Remediation

Ultrafine particles from exhaust gas filters 'worse than road traffic'Credit: Professor Wolfgang Junkermann Modern coal-fired power stations produce more ultrafine ...

A study in China's Zheijiang Province shows that people in China's rural communities are more vulnerable to both hot and ...

Improving water quality can help the Great Barrier Reef, but won't suffice to rescue itCredit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor Recent flooding and ...

Credit: King's College London and Airparif For the first time, a joint air pollution study across two mega-cities - London ...

Exposure to ultrafine particulates, the smallest particles in air pollution, restricts blood flow and nutrients to the uterus Microscopic particles ...

New centerCredit: UT Arlington What began as a brainstorming session last year about how to unify sustainability efforts across North ...

Credit: NIEHS A new study finds vitamin D may be protective among asthmatic obese children living in urban environments with ...

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite revealed northerly ...

The world of ecological trialsCredit: Ernest Prat i Rieradevall "What? The river looks like milk?" is the hard-hitting sentence that ...

A new app launched today by King's College London and the British Safety Council provides outdoor workers, and their employers, ...

The United States could fulfill its greenhouse gas emission pledge under the Paris Climate Agreement by virtually eliminating coal as ...

Credit: Kanazawa University Diesel engines are widely used in agricultural machinery, vehicles, and ships because of their high thermal efficiency. ...

Antibiotic resistance is spreading from wastewater treatment plants The products of wastewater treatment have been found to contain trace amounts ...

This finding, publishing March 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, suggests new ways to monitor changes in the world's ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a method of plastics upcycling--transforming discarded ...

Declaration will 'shine a light on the human and financial resources needed to implement restoration globally.'Credit: Julie Chenot The United ...

Credit: Santiago García Rivera Marine litter is a growing problem in the Mediterranean Sea, but few studies have focused on ...

Why incumbents seeking reelections benefit from negotiating In business as well as international politics, the best and ideal agreement is ...

Study could benefit the US clean energy and electronics industriesCredit: USDA ARS Researchers have found a possible new source of ...

New research by scientists at the University of Nottingham suggests that environmental contaminants found in the home and diet have ...