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Seafood Study Finds Plastic in All Samples

August 14, 2020
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Exeter, UK — A study of five different seafoods has found traces of plastic in every sample tested. Researchers bought oysters, prawns, squid, crabs and sardines from a market in Australia and analysed...

Technology Can Help Speed Soil Recovery After Oil Spills

August 12, 2020
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Madison WI — After an oil spill or leak, it’s important to act fast. If the oil has gotten into soil, scientists need to rapidly assess how much oil there is and how far it spread. It’s...

Success in Promoting Plant Growth for Biodiesel

August 10, 2020
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Saitama, Japan — In JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, a group of Zhongrui Duan (Researcher, Waseda University) and Motoki Tominaga (Associate professor, Waseda University) et al. succeeded in...

Algal Symbiosis Could Shed Light on Dark Ocean

August 5, 2020
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East Boothbay, Maine — New research has revealed a surprise twist in the symbiotic relationship between a type of salamander and the alga that lives inside its eggs. A new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology...

Hot Urban Temperatures and Tree Transpiration

July 31, 2020
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Washington, DC — Shade from urban trees has long been understood to offer respite from the urban heat island effect, a phenomenon that can result in city centres that are 1-3 degrees Centigrade warmer...

COVID-19 Provides Rare Opportunities for Studying Natural and Human Systems

July 29, 2020
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Stanford, CA — Like the legendary falling apple that hit Isaac Newton and led to his groundbreaking insight on the nature of gravity, COVID-19 could provide unintended glimpses into how complex Earth...

Changes in Farming Urgent to Rescue Biodiversity

July 21, 2020
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Göttingen, Germany — Over 360 scientists from 42 countries – led by the University of Göttingen and Westlake University China – call for transition of food production systems to agroecological...

Research Suggests Crop Plants Are Taking up Microplastics

July 17, 2020
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Beijing, China — Microplastics (MPs), i.e., tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimetres in length, can now be found throughout the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems, and even in our seafood and...

A New Look at Deep-Sea Microbes

July 10, 2020
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Newark, DE — Microbial cells are found in abundance in marine sediments beneath the ocean and make up a significant amount of the total microbial biomass on the planet. Microbes found deeper in the...

Researchers Develop Software to Find Drug-Resistant Bacteria

July 7, 2020
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Pullman, WA — Washington State University researchers have developed an easy-to-use software program to identify drug-resistant genes in bacteria. The program could make it easier to identify the...

Algae as Living Biocatalysts for Green Industry

July 6, 2020
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Bochum, Germany — Better still: living algae can be used as biocatalysts for certain substances, and they bring the co-substrate along, producing it in an environmentally friendly manner through photosynthesis....

New Candidate for Raw Material Synthesis Through Gene Transfer

July 6, 2020
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Karlsruhe, Germany — Cyanobacteria hardly need any nutrients and use the energy of sunlight. Bathers are familiar with these microorganisms – often incorrectly called “blue-green algae”...

Global Threats: How Lessons From COVID-19 Can Prevent Environmental Meltdown

July 3, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of Covid-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went largely ignored until rising infection rates forced policymakers to take action. Likewise,...

New Process could Safeguard Water Quality, Environment and Health

June 25, 2020
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Wales, UK — A research team at Swansea University have developed a new method for fast removal and detection of wastewater pollutants that come from everyday pharmaceuticals like paracetamol, ibuprofen...

Effects from low-level concentrations of harmful chemicals preserved in three generations of fish

June 25, 2020
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Corvallis, OR — Fish exposed to very low levels of chemicals commonly found in waterways can pass the impacts on to future generations that were never directly exposed to the chemicals, according to...

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...

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