Poor water quality in English rivers is the result of chronic underinvestment and multiple failures in monitoring, governance and enforcement, a report from the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee has claimed.
Environment
Jan 17, 2022
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When environmental protection was a barely noticed issue on the political agenda, it was able to achieve massive support from the American public. The air pollution, water pollution, solid and toxic waste programs of the ...
Environment
Dec 28, 2021
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Hundreds of miles south of Chicago, decomposing algae in the Gulf of Mexico makes life so perilous for fish they swim away—or die.
Environment
Dec 23, 2021
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One of the environmental legacies of COVID-19 may well be vast amounts of plastic pollution. Since the beginning of the pandemic, scientists have warned of the long-term threat of littering face masks and other PPE into the ...
Environment
Nov 23, 2021
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A first-of-its-kind, high-resolution mapping analysis estimates the amounts of nitrogen and pathogens released into coastal ecosystems from human wastewater sources around the world. Cascade Tuholske (now affiliated with ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2021
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Newly discovered chemical reaction involving water-soluble particle surfaces is now being presented in a new study in Science. Initiated by a team from the University of Gothenburg, this study may be useful in the future ...
Materials Science
Nov 9, 2021
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An incident at the Hyperion sewage treatment plant in Playa del Rey has caused 17 million gallons of sewage to be discharged into the ocean.
Environment
Jul 13, 2021
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Watershed-wide nutrient credit trading has been suggested as a mechanism for reducing pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay, but a new study by Penn State researchers suggests that the high cost of producing nitrogen credits ...
Environment
Jun 10, 2021
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Scientists from the University of Strathclyde and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have demonstrated a low-cost sensor that can detect fragments of the virus responsible for COVID-19 within wastewater.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 10, 2021
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Pharmaceuticals—drugs used to prevent or treat human and animal diseases—are essential for health and well-being. But the increasing use of these drugs means that remnants of them are showing up in the aquatic environment. ...
Environment
Jun 9, 2021
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