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Citizen Scientists Help Detect Microplastics on Remote Arctic Beaches

Citizen Scientists Help Detect Microplastics on Remote Arctic Beaches

Tourists acting as citizen scientists have helped a research team detect microplastics on remote Arctic beaches. The global scale of plastic production means that these tiny fragments of plastic are now ubiquitous, and scientists fear that ocean currents will cause plastic to accumulate in the Arctic, damaging ecosystems.

24 Jul 2023

Greening in the South American Andes may Have Dramatic Impact on Environment and Ecosystems

Greening in the South American Andes may Have Dramatic Impact on Environment and Ecosystems

Analysing satellite data spanning the past 20 years, the research team based at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge examined how vegetation has been changing along the Pacific coast of Peru and northern Chile. This area is known for its unique and delicate arid and semi-arid environments.

24 Jul 2023

Virginia Tech Researchers Receive Funding for Technology-Enabled Water Surveillance and Control Project

Virginia Tech Researchers Receive Funding for Technology-Enabled Water Surveillance and Control Project

Peter Vikesland believes high-tech tools could help increase the flow of quality water in an equitable manner.

24 Jul 2023

Changing People’s Views of Public Transportation Could Help Fight Against Climate Change

Changing People’s Views of Public Transportation Could Help Fight Against Climate Change

After graduating from college, Nick Caros took a job as an engineer with a construction company, helping to manage the building of a new highway bridge right near where he grew up outside of Vancouver, British Columbia.

24 Jul 2023

Cleaning Up Carbon from Manchester’s Wastewater

Cleaning Up Carbon from Manchester’s Wastewater

Sewage biogas produced in Manchester is all set to become a sustainable feed source for graphene and hydrogen production thanks to a pioneering partnership between Levidian and United Utilities.

From Levidian Nanosystems Limited 24 Jul 2023

What Factors Influence Arsenic Mobilization and Release?

What Factors Influence Arsenic Mobilization and Release?

A study was conducted by investigators from the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences to evaluate the effects of environmental factors and microbial communities on arsenic (As) mobilization.

24 Jul 2023

Biosurfactants: An Eco-Friendly Way to Clean Up Oil Spills

Biosurfactants: An Eco-Friendly Way to Clean Up Oil Spills

An estimated 1500 million liters of oil leak into the ocean each year. This causes widespread environmental pollution because oil encompasses hazardous compounds like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which can be toxic or mutagenic to organisms.

24 Jul 2023

New Research on Dynamics of Barents–Kara Sea-Ice Anomalies

New Research on Dynamics of Barents–Kara Sea-Ice Anomalies

One of the most important winter climate system change patterns in the mid-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere is the “warm Arctic-cold Eurasia” pattern.

24 Jul 2023

Georgia Tech Researchers at the Forefront of Climate Change Research

Georgia Tech Researchers at the Forefront of Climate Change Research

From the thousands of feet of frozen glaciers to the rising seas off Savannah's coast, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are measuring, modeling, and predicting just how climate change is impacting our oceans.

21 Jul 2023

Bird Extinctions More Likely Due to Local Factors Than Climate Change

Bird Extinctions More Likely Due to Local Factors Than Climate Change

Over the last 30 years European breeding birds have shifted their range by, on average, 2.4 km per year, according to new research.

21 Jul 2023

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melted Much More Recently Than Previously Thought

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melted Much More Recently Than Previously Thought

A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape - perhaps covered by trees and roaming wooly mammoths - in the recent geologic past (about 416,000 years ago), according to a new study in the journal Science.

21 Jul 2023

El Niño and Warm Atlantic Ocean Temperatures Combine to Create a Challenging Hurricane Season

El Niño and Warm Atlantic Ocean Temperatures Combine to Create a Challenging Hurricane Season

Record-breaking high temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean combined with El Niño spell uncertainty for the Atlantic hurricane season.

21 Jul 2023

Pumped Storage Hydropower Could Help Alaska Reduce Carbon Emissions

Pumped Storage Hydropower Could Help Alaska Reduce Carbon Emissions

Scientists study the role of pumped storage hydropower in Alaska's clean energy future.

21 Jul 2023

New Catalyst Could Help Natural Gas Engines Reduce Methane Emissions

New Catalyst Could Help Natural Gas Engines Reduce Methane Emissions

Individual palladium atoms attached to the surface of a catalyst can remove 90% of unburned methane from natural-gas engine exhaust at low temperatures, scientists reported today in the journal Nature Catalysis.

21 Jul 2023

New Study Reveals the UK’s Least Green Cities

New Study Reveals the UK’s Least Green Cities

New research has revealed the UK’s least green cities, with Nottingham coming out on top.

21 Jul 2023

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New Products for Energy Research: Battery & Solar Materials

New Products for Energy Research: Battery & Solar Materials

Explore battery and solar materials for your energy research.

From Merck KGaA

Thermo Scientific™ Energy 11 Twin-Screw Extruder

Thermo Scientific™ Energy 11 Twin-Screw Extruder

The Energy 11 Twin-Screw Extruder is a versatile piece of equipment designed for various applications in battery research and development.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific – Materials Characterization

ARL QUANT’X ED X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer

ARL QUANT’X ED X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer

The ARL QUANT'X is a complete energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer solution for all your elemental analysis needs.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis

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