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Salt-Tolerant Bacteria with an Appetite for Sludge Make Biodegradable Plastics

December 15, 2020
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College Station, TX — The United States generates seven million tons of sewage sludge annually, enough to fill 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools. While a portion of this waste is repurposed for manure...

Academy Scientists Describe 213 Species in 2020

December 11, 2020
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San Francisco, CA — This past year, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 213 plant and animal species to the tree of life, providing deeper insight into the rich biodiversity of...

Engineers Discover New Microbe for Simpler, Cheaper and Greener Wastewater Treatment

December 10, 2020
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Singapore — Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new way to treat sewage that is much simpler, cheaper and greener than existing methods. Led by Associate...

Researchers Identify New Process to Produce Ammonia with a Much Smaller Carbon Footprint

December 2, 2020
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Chicago, IL — Ammonia is the second most commonly produced chemical in the world and an important component of most fertilizers, but current industrial processes to make ammonia produce several millions...

Plastic contaminants harm sea urchins

December 1, 2020
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Exeter, UK — Plastics in the ocean can release chemicals that cause deformities in sea urchin larvae, new research shows. Scientists soaked various plastic samples in seawater then removed the plastic...

Study Reveals New Findings on Nature’s UV Sunscreens

December 1, 2020
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Wales, UK — Swansea University research has provided a new insight into the behaviour of nature’s own UV sunscreens when they are exposed to other parts of the light spectrum. Mycosporine-like...

Pesticide Deadly to Bees Now Easily Detected in Honey

November 27, 2020
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Waterloo, ON — A common insecticide that is a major hazard for honeybees is now effectively detected in honey thanks to a simple new method. Researchers at the University of Waterloo developed an...

Glyphosate may Affect Human Gut Microbiota

November 23, 2020
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Turku, Finland — Glyphosate is the most commonly used broad-spectrum herbicide. Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland have developed a new bioinformatics tool to predict if a microbe,...

Transparent Soil-Like Substances Provide Window on Soil Ecology

November 4, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — By using two different transparent soil substitutes, scientists have shown that soil bacteria rely on fungi to help them survive dry periods, says a study published today in eLife. The...

Ninety Years of Data Shows Global Warming Impacts on Foundation of Marine Ecosystems

November 3, 2020
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Ultimo, Australia — Understanding the impacts of global warming on phytoplankton- the foundation of marine ecosystems -is critical to predicting changes in future biodiversity, ocean productivity,...

Super-Resolution Microscopy and Machine Learning Shed New Light on Fossil Pollen Grains

October 27, 2020
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Urbana, IL — Plant biology researchers at the University of Illinois and computer scientists at the University of California Irvine have developed a new method of fossil pollen identification through...

Boost to Develop Microalgae into Health Foods

October 15, 2020
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Adelaide, South Australia — Dietary supplementation of fatty acids produced from microalgae have wide-reaching health benefits for humans, including the ability to reduce obesity, diabetes and fatty...

To Protect Nature’s Benefits, Focus on People

October 13, 2020
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Stanford, CA — To calculate the true value of a forest, we need to know how people benefit from it, according to new research published in Nature Sustainability. A healthy forest holds a treasure trove...

Carbon Storage from the Lab

October 6, 2020
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — Peatlands with their huge diversity of peat moss species store about 30 percent of the earth’s soil carbon. This means they store roughly twice as much carbon...

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Spreads More Indoors at Low Humidity

August 24, 2020
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Leipzig, Germany — Leipzig/New Delhi. The airborne transmission of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 via aerosol particles in indoor environment seems to be strongly influenced by relative humidity. This...

Effects of Nutrient Pollution in Marine Ecosystems are Compounded by Human Activity

August 17, 2020
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Cambridge, MD — Excessive nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, have devastating effects on coastal marine ecosystems by causing algal blooms that deplete oxygen in the water, killing marine...

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...

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