Trace metals are nutrient elements, like zinc, that animals and plants need in small amounts to function properly. Animals generally get trace metals in their diets or through environmental exposures, while plants take their ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2024
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Flowers grown on inexpensive floating platforms can help clean polluted waterways, over 12 weeks extracting 52% more phosphorus and 36% more nitrogen than the natural nitrogen cycle removes from untreated water, according ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2024
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As the new year arrived in 2016, my home city of Newcastle upon Tyne was briefly the center of global attention—for a puddle. The Drummond Puddle, as it was grandly known, was a watery hazard placed perfectly where converging ...
Ecology
Dec 29, 2023
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Trees planted in urban areas can provide shade and contribute to a lower air temperature. For these services to be optimal, it is important to let asphalt give way to trees, according to research from the University of Gothenburg.
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2023
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Water, as one of the essential natural resources, is vital for the growth of any region. How much water a city has access to and how water is distributed is a crucial part of sustainable development.
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2023
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While apartheid—South Africa's brutal racial segregation laws of the 20th century—officially came to an end in the early 1990s, its harmful effects persist today, says Stanford historian Gabrielle Hecht in her new book, ...
Environment
Nov 14, 2023
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Researchers from ICIQ in Spain have designed micromotors that move around on their own to purify wastewater. The process creates ammonia, which can serve as a green energy source. Now, an AI method developed at the University ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 14, 2023
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When Emalie Hayes and her colleagues began exploring ways to test wastewater for the COVID-19 virus, little did she know that the simple, inexpensive device she developed would end up being used around the world to identify ...
Environment
Nov 7, 2023
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Newly announced closures of Glencore's copper and zinc mines in Mt Isa will add to a huge number of former mines in Australia. A 2020 study by Monash University's Resources Trinity Group found more than 80,000 inactive mine ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2023
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Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have been monitoring groundwater quality in wells across the country for more than three decades, looking for harmful chemicals or residual substances that may cause harm ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2023
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