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Shipping is Silently Adding Toxic Metals to the Oceans

According to a new study, ships are considered as the polluting “elephants in the room” and there has been no debate on this in spite of a worldwide drive to make oceans cleaner.

25 Feb 2021

Geochemists Provide an Overview of Microplastics Mass Distribution in the North Sea

Shipping traffic can be a major source of tiny plastic particles floating in the sea, especially out in the open ocean. In a paper published in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology, a team of German environmental geochemists based at the University of Oldenburg's Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment and led by Dr Barbara Scholz-Boettcher for the first time provides an overview of microplastics mass distribution in the North Sea.

24 Feb 2021

Study Shows How Air Pollution Affects Human Health and Climate

For the first time, scientists from the University of Helsinki have resolved how the ultrafine particles in the air have an impact on health and the climate.

24 Feb 2021

Scientists Find Unexpected Drop in Ammonia Emissions Due to COVID-19 Lockdowns

Most Chinese working in the cities return to work today after a 7-day public holiday of Spring Festival.

19 Feb 2021

Rare Earth Elements are Contaminating Consumer and Environmental Plastics

According to a new study, some of the rarest metals found on Earth - utilized in smartphones and other electrical equipment manufacturing - are increasingly being found in day-to-day consumer plastics.

18 Feb 2021

New Data Show Overuse of Reliever Medication in Asthma is Responsible for 250,000 Tonnes of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Every Year in the UK

New analysis of respiratory inhaler medicine use in the UK shows that 83% of all short-acting beta-2-agonist (SABA) relievers for asthma are prescribed to patients who are potentially overusing their reliever medication (prescribed =3 inhalers/year).

18 Feb 2021

Emission-Free Renewable Power Generation can Improve China’s Air Quality

Poor air quality accounts for premature death in around 1.2 million Chinese citizens every year.

17 Feb 2021

Study Confirms the Presence of Tobacco Smoke-Driven Particulates in Airborne Particulate Matter

In a courtesy call to HE the President of Malta at San Anton Palace on Thursday, February 11, 2021, Dr Noel Aquilina from the Department of Chemistry, accompanied by Professor Emmanuel Sinagra, Head of the Department of Chemistry and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Malta, presented the findings of a landmark study.

15 Feb 2021

Emissions of CFC-11 are Back on Decline After a Brief Resurgence

A new study reports that worldwide emissions of a potent substance alleged to deplete the Earth’s ozone layer, which is the protective barrier that absorbs the harmful UV rays from the Sun—have decreased very fast and are now again on the decline.

12 Feb 2021

Report Highlights the Need to Deal with Low-Carbon Transition Risks Seriously

On February 19, the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, the United-States, will rejoin the Paris Agreement. This will kickstart a year of intensifying policy activity ahead of the United Nations Climate Change conference (COP26) in November, when countries will re-commit to their emissions reduction goals.

12 Feb 2021