Plastic pollution in freshwater lakes can become an established habitat for microscopic algae within just two weeks, according to new research.
Environment
Sep 6, 2021
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INRAE, Ifremer and the Universities of Bordeaux (France) and Orebrö (Sweden) have been studying the toll taken by lifelong exposure to toxic microplastics on key biological functions in fish. Two species of fish, one freshwater ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2021
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Sediments are regarded as a river's long-term memory. They mainly comprise particles that are eroded from the ground, ending up at some point in river deltas or the sea. However, sediments can also remain stable for a relatively ...
Environment
Aug 2, 2021
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Researchers from Newcastle University, UK, working with colleagues at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) in Thailand and the Institute of Urban Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, analyzed ...
Environment
Mar 30, 2021
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Just as environmentally conscious scientists predicted, our excessive use of plastics is coming back to bite us. Microplastics (MPs), plastic particles smaller than a few millimeters, can now be found everywhere, but more ...
Environment
Feb 25, 2021
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Plastic, with its unabated global production, is a major and persistent contributor to environmental pollution. In fact, the accumulation of plastic debris in our environment is only expected to increase in the future. "Microplastics" ...
Environment
Feb 11, 2021
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Seahorses epitomize the exuberance of evolution. They have the unique characteristic of male pregnancy, which includes the carrying of many embryos in a brood pouch that incubates and nourishes the embryos, similar to the ...
Ecology
Dec 21, 2020
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Dicarboximide fungicides dimethachlon, iprodione and procymidone have been widely used worldwide to control plant diseases in recent decades. Due to widespread and inappropriate application of these fungicides, their residues ...
Biochemistry
Dec 16, 2020
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Recently, a research team led by Prof. WU Lifang from the Institute of Intelligent Machines of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) isolated a bacterial strain with extreme tolerance to selenite. They also discovered ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2020
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Plastic pollution has been at the center of environmental debate for decades. While it is well known that plastic in the environment can break down into microplastics, be ingested by humans and other organisms, transfer up ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 15, 2020
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