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Pollution

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Novel Coronavirus Detected, Monitored in Wastewater

April 24, 2020
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Tempe, AZ — Within weeks of arriving on the world stage, SARS-CoV-2 has managed to encircle the globe, leaving illness, mortality and economic devastation in its vast wake. One of the central challenges...

What Are the Environmental Impacts of Cancer Drugs?

April 8, 2020
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Hoboken, NJ — Chemotherapeutic drugs, also known as antineoplastic agents, that are prescribed to treat a range of cancer types, enter the aquatic environment via human excretion and wastewater treatment...

Scientists Say It Is Time to Save the Red Sea’s Coral Reef

March 6, 2020
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Stony Brook, NY — An international group of researchers led by Dr. Karine Kleinhaus, of the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), calls upon UNESCO to declare the...

Heatwave Exposure Linked to Increased Risk of Preterm Birth in California

February 26, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — More than just causing discomfort, regional heatwaves have been associated with a number of health risks, particularly for children and the elderly. A new study by researchers at...

Scientists Call on Government to Increase Ambition to Save Our Ocean

February 26, 2020
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Plymouth, UK — In the last decade there has been rapid expansion in the area of ocean designated as a Marine Protected Area (MPA). Despite this progress, marine biodiversity continues to decline,...

Stressed Corals Set up Progeny for a Better Life

February 19, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Changes in DNA methylation patterns during a coral’s lifetime can be passed down to their progeny. KAUST researchers believe they have found the first evidence of this...

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