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UH Chemist Aims to Create Environmentally Friendly Plastics

Polyolefins, a type of plastic, has become ubiquitous in modern life and can be found in plastic bags to paints, and from sporting goods to auto parts.

21 Feb 2018

Biochar to Replace Depleting Peat Moss in Agriculture?

Plant enthusiasts are acquainted with peat moss as the main component of potting mix, but harvest of the material is turning out to be unsustainable.

9 Feb 2018

Study Reveals Hazards of Land-Based Pollution Caused by Microplastics

Minute plastic particles pose a threat to creatures on land and could have damaging effects similar or even more challenging than in the oceans.

6 Feb 2018

A More Efficient Approach to Convert Methane into Beneficial Chemicals

Scientists at Southern California have revealed a new, more efficient pathway for converting methane — a potent gas adding to climate change — directly into basic chemicals for making agrochemicals, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.

6 Feb 2018

Benefits of Urban Forests

Planting 20% more trees in megacities would increase the benefits of urban forests, like pollution reduction, energy reduction and carbon sequestration.

19 Jan 2018

Lead Battery Recycling Plants in 7 African Countries Have Extensive Lead Contamination

Extensive lead contamination was found in lead battery recycling plants and surrounding communities in seven African countries. The contamination levels in soil ranged up to 14% lead with average concentrations of 2% lead.

17 Jan 2018

Researchers Seek Biological Solution to Trap or Recycle Carbon Dioxide

Researchers have found that E. coli bacteria could possess the key to an efficient technique of trapping and storing or recycling carbon dioxide (CO2).

9 Jan 2018

New Study Reveals Higher Environmental Impact from Cookstove Emissions

Cookstoves are a main part of numerous homes across Asia: families frequently use readily available and inexpensive biofuels — such as dung or crop chaff— to cook the food needed to live.

3 Jan 2018

Dramatic Decline in Organic Aerosol Across the U.S. May Account for Saving More Lives

Research shows the Clean Air Act was likely responsible for a dramatic decline in atmospheric organic aerosol.

26 Dec 2017

Study Reveals Unforeseen Side Effect to Cleaning Up Pollution over Urban Areas

According to a new research from Caltech, an imbalance between the trends in two common air pollutants is unpredictably activating the formation of a class of airborne organic compounds not typically found in the atmosphere over urban areas of North America.

19 Dec 2017