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Researchers Identify New Method to Decrease Groundwater Pollution

Dried distiller’s grains with solubles (DDGS) is a co-product generally obtained during the processing of corn ethanol. This co-product is often used as feed for swine, poultry, and cattle.

9 Mar 2020

Sunscreen Pollution Proves Highly Toxic to Coral Reefs

Researchers believe that one of the major threats to coral reef systems is sunscreen pollution. Chemicals found in sunscreen products, proven to be highly toxic to coral reefs, are becoming increasingly abundant in reef environments.

24 Feb 2020

Amount of Methane Emitted by Human Activity has been Vastly Underestimated

Methane is known to be a potent greenhouse gas and contributes considerably to global warming. In the past three centuries, emissions of this gas in the air have increased by around 150%.

22 Feb 2020

Ancient Carbon Reservoirs Do Not Contribute to High Emissions of Greenhouse Gas

Permafrost present in the soil and in methane hydrates that occur deep within the ocean serve as huge reservoirs of carbon.

21 Feb 2020

International Partnership Takes Australian Environmental Cleanup Solution to World Markets

New Australian technology that could fix some of the world’s biggest environmental cleanup problems — oil spills, mercury pollution and fertiliser runoff — will soon be available to global markets following the signing of a landmark partnership in Adelaide.

19 Feb 2020

Replacing Petroleum with Wood in Chemical Industry to Reduce CO2 Emissions

At KU Leuven, an interdisciplinary team including economists and bio-engineers has delineated ways to use wood as an alternative to petroleum in the chemical industry.

14 Feb 2020

Scientist Develops Reusable Clay that Removes Toxic Herbicide from Water

Petra Rudolf, a Professor of Experimental Solid State Physics at the University of Groningen, has created neatly spaced slits in a clay mineral that allows her to filter water and remove a harmful herbicide.

13 Feb 2020

Indoor Air can be More Complex than Outdoor Air Systems

Delphine Farmer, an atmospheric chemist at Colorado State University, had spent her whole career exploring the eccentricities of outdoor air—how atmospheric particles and gases move, change, and interact, and how human activities affect the air inhaled by individuals. But when Farmer went indoors, she was forced to reassess her observations.

7 Feb 2020

Great Barrier Reef Water Pollution Threatens Dolphins

Rare snubfin dolphins in Queensland’s Fitzroy River and humpback dolphins in Port Curtis are under threat from exposure to increasing amounts of water contamination, according to Southern Cross and Flinders University marine researchers.

28 Jan 2020

Switch to GDI Engine Will Cause More Climate Warming in U.S. Urban Areas

A study performed by researchers at the University of Georgia College of Engineering reports that new automotive technology that offers increased fuel efficiency could have severe negative implications, such as major impacts on public health and climate.

24 Jan 2020