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Traces of pharmaceuticals found in central Indiana waterways
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pharmaceuticals have been found in freshwater ecosystems in rural areas of central Indiana, says a new study from Ball State University.
Carbon capture shows major potential in China
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies may represent a cost-effective, viable option to help China continue to meet its growing energy demands while also delivering deep and sustained ...
Toxic legacy seeps from melting Alpine glaciers: study
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Swiss researchers have found that Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice for decades.
Tamiflu Metabolite Found in Sewage Discharge, River Water
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study published September 28th ahead of print in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers measured oseltamivir carboxylate (OC), the active metabolite of the popular anti-i ...
Living, Meandering River Constructed
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a feat of reverse-engineering, Christian Braudrick of University of California at Berkeley and three coauthors have successfully built and maintained a scale model of a living meandering ...
Australian town in 'world-first' bottled water ban
Sep 26, 2009 |
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An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban.
Purchase Carbon Offsets at the Airport
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the activities that puts a great deal of carbon dioxide into the environment is air travel. Air travel is one of the ways that individuals contribute to an increase in pollution and ...
Cars running on ethanol can pollute too: Brazil study
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Cars running on sugarcane ethanol can produce as many harmful pollutants as those using ordinary petrol (gasoline), according a study published by Brazil's environment ministry.
Australia overtakes US as biggest polluter: report
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Australians have overtaken Americans as the world's biggest individual producers of carbon dioxide, which is blamed for global warming, a risk consultancy says.
Hot microbes cause groundwater cleanup rethink
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO researchers have discovered that micro-organisms that help break down contaminants under the soil can actually get too hot for their own good.
Dramatic biological responses to global warming in the Arctic
Sep 10, 2009 |
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"The Arctic as we know it may soon be a thing of the past," says Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University. Post leads a large, international team that carried out ecosystem-wide ...
Global warming causes outbreak of rare algae associated with corals, study finds
Sep 09, 2009 |
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A rare opportunity has allowed a team of biologists to evaluate corals and the essential, photosynthetic algae that live inside their cells before, during, and after a period in 2005 when global warming caused ...
Denitrification, its importance once diluted, may be back on top, study says
Sep 02, 2009 |
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After more than a decade of inquiry, a Princeton-led team of scientists has turned the tables on a long-standing controversy to re-establish an old truth about nitrogen mixing in the oceans.
Oceanographers examine mercury levels of pelagic fish in Hawaii
Sep 01, 2009 |
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In the open ocean, species of large predatory fish will swim and hunt for food at various depths, which leads to unique diets in these fish. Oceanographers and geologists in the School of Ocean and Earth Science ...
Risky schemes may be only hope for cooling planet: scientists
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Sci-fi proposals to cool the planet are laden with risk but may be Earth's only hope if politicians fail to tackle global warming, scientists said on Tuesday in their biggest evaluation to date of "geo-engineering" ...
