Chemistry researchers at Flinders University have 'struck gold' by discovering a new way to make 'green' polymers from low-cost building blocks with just a small amount of electricity.
Polymers
May 19, 2023
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A global "gold rush" has led to a significant increase of deforestation in the tropical forests of South America.
Environment
Jan 13, 2015
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The tropics are home to more than 75% of all species and are projected to support 50% of the world's human population by mid-century, but little is known about mercury pollution in these life-filled regions.
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2023
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A geologist is using conditional probability principles to improve the design of nuggetty gold mines.
Earth Sciences
Dec 5, 2013
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A team of researchers led by a Case Western Reserve University physicist is planning the world's largest, most sensitive experiment to catch the stuff of dark matter, stuff that's proved way beyond invisible.
General Physics
Oct 29, 2009
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A study of mercury contamination from rampant informal gold mining in Peru's Amazon says indigenous people who get their protein mostly from fish are the most affected, particularly their children.
Environment
Sep 10, 2013
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The revival of Scotland's long-dormant gold-mining industry is underway, after officials gave the go-ahead to start work at a Highland mine.
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2011
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Chemists at the University of Burgos (Spain) have manufactured a sheet that changes colour in the presence of water contaminated with mercury. The results can be seen with the naked eye but when photographing the membrane ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 6, 2013
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Destruction of the forests can be swift. Regrowth is much, much slower.
Environment
Oct 1, 2019
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Gold mining in a Democratic Republic of Congo national park is threatening the okapi, a stripy-legged relative of the giraffe, civil society groups warned on Tuesday.
Ecology
Oct 18, 2022
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