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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new method that can easily purify contaminated water using a cellulose-based material. This discovery could have implications for countries with poor water treatment technologies and combat the widespread problem of toxic dye discharge from the textile industry.
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Animal agriculture is a major source of water pollution in the United States, as manure runoff carries excess nutrients into rivers and lakes. Because of their non-point source nature, most farms are not regulated under the federal Clean Water Act. This leaves pollution control up to the states, resulting in a patchwork of different approaches that are difficult to evaluate. A new study from the…
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Decades of poor environmental and water management turned the Nile River Delta from a unique ecological habitat in the Sahara to one of the largest polluted areas on the planet, with tens of millions of people and migrating birds at risk of exposure to water-borne contaminants.
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Mashup Score: 0Scientists call for global push to eliminate space junk - 1 year(s) ago
As almost 200 countries agree a legally-binding treaty to protect the High Seas, a collaboration of experts in ocean plastic pollution and satellite technology has urged world leaders to learn lessons from the management of the High Seas and act now to protect Earth’s orbit
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Seeking solutions to counteract a rapid rise in plastic trash, scientists at UC San Diego have developed biodegradable material that is designed to replace conventionally used plastic. In a new study, an interdisciplinary team of researchers has shown that the material biodegrades in seawater.
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Researchers spent five years searching for a better way to forecast and manage Lake Geneva’s ecological response to the threat of phosphorus pollution to which the effects of climate change must now be added. The team publishes its new hybrid empirical dynamic modeling (EDM) approach and demonstrates that it not only leads to substantially better prediction, but also to a more actionable…
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Mashup Score: 2Research discovers new bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea to travel around the ocean - 2 year(s) ago
The team showed for the first time that these deep-sea, plastic loving bacteria make up only 1% of the total bacterial community. Reporting their findings in the journal Environmental Pollution, the team found that these bacteria only stick to plastic and not the non-plastic control of stone.
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