Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB have developed a biobased and functionalized flocculant to efficiently treat complex wastewaters. Furthermore, toxic phenols are removed ...
Biochemistry
May 3, 2024
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Deep-water corals in the Gulf of Mexico are still struggling to recover from the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, scientists report at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans. Comparing images of more than ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2024
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Biological dispersants enhance the breakdown of the more toxic chemicals in crude oil better than synthetic chemical dispersants, a new study shows.
Environment
Oct 19, 2021
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In a bad way, a very bad way, the Huntington Beach oil spill is the enviro-disaster equivalent of the giant panda.
Environment
Oct 13, 2021
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After a storage tank in Norilsk, northern Russia, collapsed in late May, 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel was released into the environment. Strong winds caused the oil to spread more than 12 miles from the source, contaminating ...
Environment
Jul 14, 2020
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It has long been the dream of infectious disease researchers around the world to create a safe, non-toxic way to kill mosquitoes.
Ecology
Feb 13, 2020
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Spills from oil and gas operations can contaminate local water and soil with high levels of toxic chemicals, salts and radioactivity, but in many cases there is insufficient information to determine how long ago the spill ...
Environment
May 10, 2016
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The chemical dispersant used to counteract the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 may not be as harmful to fish as first thought, says new research from Queen's professor Peter Hodson and his team of ...
Environment
Dec 4, 2013
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The last time Rebecca Braslau got a bad case of poison oak, she found herself pondering the chemical structure of urushiol, the toxic oil in poison oak and its relatives, poison ivy and poison sumac (all species of Toxicodendron).
Other
Nov 9, 2012
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Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain) have been the first to discover the presence of certain aldehydes in food, which are believed to be related to some neurodegenerative diseases and some ...
Other
Feb 22, 2012
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