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Removing Toxic Chemicals From Water — New Environmentally-Friendly Method

June 24, 2020
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Swansea, UK — Researchers from Swansea University have developed a new environmentally friendly method for removing toxic chemicals from water. A newly invented machine, called the Matrix Assembly...

Flushing Toilets Create Clouds of Virus-Containing Particles

June 16, 2020
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Washington, DC — Researchers used a computer simulation to show how a flushing toilet can create a cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets that is large and widespread and lasts long enough that...

You Are What You Eat Is as Important for Fish as It Is for People

June 9, 2020
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Vancouver, BC — There is truth in the saying “you are what you eat”; even more so if you are a salmon or herring swimming off the British Columbia coast, a recent UBC study discovered. Juvenile...

Recycling Plastics Together, Simple and Fast

June 4, 2020
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Nagano, Japan — Recycling plastic faces several challenges, one of which is recycling different types of plastics together, because they have varying properties, each of which need to be addressed...

New Discovery could Highlight Areas Where Earthquakes are Less Likely to Occur

June 4, 2020
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Cardiff, UK — Scientists from Cardiff University have discovered specific conditions that occur along the ocean floor where two tectonic plates are more likely to slowly creep past one another as opposed...

Measuring Climate Change

June 2, 2020
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Newark, DE — One of the earth’s biggest allies in the fight against global warming is the world’s oceans. Since the industrial revolution, the burning of fossil fuels has caused carbon...

New Biosensor Visualizes Stress in Living Plant Cells in Real Time

June 2, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Plant biologists have long sought a deeper understanding of foundational processes involving kinases, enzymes that catalyze key biological activities in proteins. Analyzing the processes...

Superworms Digest Plastic, with Help from Their Bacterial Sidekicks

May 28, 2020
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Washington, DC — Resembling giant mealworms, superworms (Zophobas atratus) are beetle larvae that are often sold in pet stores as feed for reptiles, fish and birds. In addition to their relatively...

Warming Climate Is Changing Where Birds Breed

May 27, 2020
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Logan, UT — Spring is in full swing. Trees are leafing out, flowers are blooming, bees are buzzing, and birds are singing. But a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Environmental Contaminants Alter Gut Microbiome, Health

May 26, 2020
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Champaign, IL — The microbes that inhabit our bodies are influenced by what we eat, drink, breathe and absorb through our skin, and most of us are chronically exposed to natural and human-made environmental...

Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction Can Be Reconciled

May 20, 2020
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Göttingen, Germany — Palm oil is often associated with tropical deforestation above all else. However, this is only one side of the story, as agricultural scientists from the University of Göttingen...

Researcher Envisions Energy and Environment Landscape After COVID-19

May 20, 2020
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Stanford, CA — As people shelter in place to slow the spread of COVID-19, daily carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have dropped by as much as 17 percent globally, according to a new study by the Global...

The Exposome: When Our Environment Drives Health and Disease

May 18, 2020
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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg — Science, has published in its January issue two papers by Associate Prof. Emma Schymanski, Head of the Environmental Cheminformatics research group at the University of...

You cannot Avoid Microplastics

May 14, 2020
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Odense, Denmark — Microplastics are everywhere – including in our drinking water, table salt and in the air that we breathe. Having studied the scope of microplastics in a number of countries,...

DNA Metabarcoding Reveals Metacommunity Dynamics in a Threatened Boreal Wetland

May 13, 2020
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Guelph, ON, Canada — The ability to accurately detect changes in ecosystem biodiversity caused by human activity has long challenged environmental scientists and ecologists, but a new study, published...

Sewage Poses Potential COVID-19 Transmission Risk, Experts Warn

May 7, 2020
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Stirling, UK — Environmental biologists at the University of Stirling have warned that the potential spread of COVID-19 via sewage “must not be neglected” in the battle to protect human...

Sustainable Recovery of Nutrients from Urine

May 7, 2020
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New York, NY — Ammonia is a key component of fertilizer and vital in supporting plant growth and ultimately providing food for populations around the world. It is also a major pollutant that, after...

Study Shows How Microorganisms Survive in Harsh Environments

May 5, 2020
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Research Triangle Park, NC — In northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, microorganisms are able to eke out an existence by extracting water from the rocks they colonize. An...

Make Wastewater Drinkable Again

April 28, 2020
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Houston, TX — Delivering water to city dwellers can become far more efficient, according to Rice University researchers who say it should involve a healthy level of recycled wastewater. Using Houston...

Big Data Reveals We’re Running Out of Time to Save Environment and Ourselves

April 27, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — The use of big data can help scientists’ chart not only the degradation of the environment but can be part of the solution to achieve sustainability, according to a new...

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