Environmental science
hideEnvironmental science is an expression encompassing the wide range of scientific disciplines that need to be brought together to understand and manage earth systems and the many interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components. Environmental Science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems. Individuals may operate as Environmental scientists or a group of scientists may work together pooling their individual skills. The most common model for the delivery of Environmental science is through the work of an individual scientist or small team drawing on the peer-reviewed, published work of many other scientists throughout the world.
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News tagged with environmental science
Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution — a well-recognized problem at major airports — may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. ...
Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation ...
Answering that age-old lament: Where does all this dust come from?
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Where does it come from? Scientists in Arizona are reporting a surprising answer to that question, which has puzzled and perplexed generations of men and women confronted with layers of dust on furniture and ...
Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues on Climate Change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Deep under the sea, a fossil the size of a sand grain is nestled among a billion of its closest dead relatives. Known as foraminifera, these complex little shells of calcium carbonate can tell you the sea ...
The White Stuff: Marine Lab Team Seeks to Understand Coral Bleaching
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With technology similar to that used by physicians to perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, researchers from six institutions -- including the National Institute of Standards and ...
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.
'Green' roofs may help put lid on global warming
Sep 23, 2009 |
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"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan are reporting.
Denver to Barcelona: Global cities and greenhouse gas emissions
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Denver released the largest amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) and Barcelona the smallest amount in a new study documenting how differences in climate, population density and other factors affect GHG emissions ...
Trash or treasure? Discarded US computers often get a second life
Sep 02, 2009 |
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More computers discarded by consumers in the United States are getting a second life in developing countries than previously believed, according to a new study -- the most comprehensive ever done on the topic ...
Black carbon is not chemically inert as previously thought
Aug 31, 2009 |
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A paper by two University of Delaware researchers was recently highlighted on the web site of Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), which publishes papers in advance of their appearance in the print version of the jo ...
Bioavailable contaminants come from the Exxon Valdez oil catastrophe
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Contaminants from natural coal deposits in the Gulf of Alaska are not easily bioavailable, unlike the crude oil from the Exxon Valdez tanker catastrophe. This clearly disproves the theory that natural coal ...
Plastic waste: better to burn?
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Burning plastic can give off less carbon dioxide than burying it, scientists claim in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.
Toxic Coal Ash Threatens Health And Environment
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Exposure to dust and river sediment containing toxic metals and radioactivity from a coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston power plant last December could pose risks ...
Coordination needed to support green-fingered youths
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 13, 2009 |
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The project, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), found that many young volunteers travelled long distances from cities to short-term projects in rural areas and felt they were being punished ...
Bioethanol's impact on water supply 3 times higher than once thought
Aug 05, 2009 |
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At a time when water supplies are scarce in many areas of the United States, scientists in Minnesota are reporting that production of bioethanol — often regarded as the clean-burning energy source of the future ...
