June 27, 2023 —Governments and companies planning to pursue the circular economy need to involve scientists more directly, states a new ...
June 26, 2023 —A water purification system separates out salt and other unnecessary particles with an electrified version of dialysis. Successfully applied to wastewater with planned expansion into rivers and seas, ...
June 21, 2023 —Specially designed gardens could reduce the amount of a toxic chemical associated with tires entering our waterways by more than 90 per cent, new research ...
June 21, 2023 —A new farming system aims to solve one of the biggest problems in modern agriculture: the overuse of fertilizers to improve crop yields and the resulting chemical runoff that pollutes the ...
June 21, 2023 —Engineers are developing a cutting-edge process that can reduce energy consumption and cost of water ...
June 21, 2023 —Engineers have developed a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to remove heavy metals, including copper and zinc, from biosolids. The team's work advances other methods for ...
June 20, 2023 —The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), released just prior to an international climate convention in 2015, explicitly stated that human-caused greenhouse gas ...
June 19, 2023 —Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes -- or even directly from the air -- and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from ...
June 16, 2023 —'Weed early and often' is the key to a productive garden. Interestingly, certain species of ants are also avid gardeners, a practice they've refined over 50 million years. They too ...
June 16, 2023 —Researchers are exploring the different ways of harvesting materials from ...
June 15, 2023 —Although passenger vehicle catalytic converters have been mandatory for over 30 years, there is still plenty of room for improvement. For instance, they only work correctly when the engine is ...
June 13, 2023 —研究人员使用四种不同的端口一样ronments to investigate the levels of contaminants emitted from five different sources. They found that the combined emissions of metals and ...
June 12, 2023 —Scientists investigate the promising properties of a common, Earth-abundant ...
June 12, 2023 —Around the world, most people are regularly exposed to low or moderate levels of lead, cadmium and arsenic in the environment, increasing risk of coronary artery disease, stroke and peripheral artery ...
June 7, 2023 —Scientists have created a new material derived from seaweed that can store heat for re-use. It could be used to capture summer sun for use in winter, or to store heat from industry that currently ...
June 6, 2023 —Dreams have been considered a hallmark of human sleep for a long time. Latest findings, however, suggest that when pigeons sleep, they might experience visions of flight. Researchers studied brain ...
June 6, 2023 —Burning coal doesn't only pollute the air. The resulting ash can leach toxic chemicals into the local environments where it's kept. New research shows that the toxicity of various ash ...
June 1, 2023 —The seafloor is home to around one-third of all the microorganisms on the Earth and is inhabited even at a depth of several kilometers. Only when it becomes too hot does the abundance of ...
June 1, 2023 —Rising temperatures could push ocean plankton and other single-celled creatures toward a carbon tipping point that fuels more warming. The carbon-eaters could become carbon-emitters. But new research ...
May 30, 2023 —A detailed plan to transform product packaging and significantly cut plastic production and pollution has been developed by researchers. The study comes as government representatives meet in Paris to ...