When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north not long ago to study how long-term warming in the Arctic affects carbon storage, ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 16, 2013 5 / 5 (7) 4 |

Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) —New research, just published, details how University of Cincinnati researchers have developed and tested a solar-powered nano filter that is able to remove harmful carcinogens and antibiotics ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Apr 19, 2013 4.9 / 5 (11) 0 |

Since the horse meat saga began in 2012, some of us have decided to eat more fish and seafood - after all, we have been told they are better for our health. Well, that may not be quite true today. While EU ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org) —A team of Canadian researchers has found that anthropogenic noise (noise created by people that impacts other species) in urban areas leads to less songbird diversity. In their paper published ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 12, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

Make a shopping list and buy "funny fruit," it will cut food waste and help "shape a sustainable future," the United Nations Environment Programme and Food and Agriculture Organzation said on Tuesday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 22, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1

(Phys.org)—Due to continuing high demand, depletion of non-renewable resources and increasing concerns about climate change, fossil fuel-derived transportation fuels face constant challenges from both a ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jan 08, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

U.S. government health regulators say a genetically modified salmon that grows twice as fast as normal is unlikely to harm the environment, clearing the way for the first approval of a scientifically engineered animal for ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 21, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 37

With an estimated two billion people using the Internet worldwide, a scientific paper has outlined why food safety professionals cannot afford to dismiss the use of social media as a communication tool.

Other Sciences - Other

Dec 06, 2012 not rated yet 1

For most of us it's just dirt, but for ecologists soil is the key to meeting some of the most daunting challenges facing our planet.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 25, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Plastic nanoparticles in seawater can have an adverse effect on sea organisms. Particles measuring about a thirty millionth of a millimetre, and therefore invisible to the naked eye, are responsible. Mussels ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 21, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—This month MBARI researchers are conducting a two-week-long, in-depth oceanographic experiment to track the nutrients that fertilize algal blooms off the coast of Central California. This research ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 18, 2012 not rated yet 0

A new study by Tiina Tuovinen, from the University of Eastern Finland, and her colleagues casts doubt over the validity of models used to assess the impact of radiation on human health. Their work is published online in Springer's ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 31, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) -- University of Sussex biologists studying Brazilian big-headed ants have discovered how one species uses powerful scent trails to quickly recruit helpers in transporting prized food in a competitive ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 02, 2012 not rated yet 0

Lake Bonney in Antarctica is perennially covered in ice. It is exposed to severe environmental stresses, including minimal nutrients, low temperatures, extreme shade, and, during the winter, 24-hour darkness. ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 23, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0