A salt solution for desalinating brine
Solar-powered brine crystallization could alleviate the environmental impacts of seawater desalination.
Solar-powered brine crystallization could alleviate the environmental impacts of seawater desalination.
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 22, 2021
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The largest-ever study of tree rings from Norilsk in the Russian Arctic has shown that the direct and indirect effects of industrial pollution in the region and beyond are far worse than previously thought.
Environment
Sep 25, 2020
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A team of researchers from the U.S., Bolivia, Brazil, Sweden, Peru and Colombia has found that most of the road projects currently planned for the Amazon rainforest have not been assessed for environmental or economic impacts. ...
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Environment
Oct 15, 2019
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Environment
Aug 15, 2019
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Environment
Apr 3, 2019
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Older power plants with once-through cooling systems generate about a third of all U.S. electricity, but their future generating capacity will be undercut by droughts and rising water temperatures linked to climate change. ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2019
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Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have, for the first time, uncovered the complex interdependence and orchestration of metabolic reactions, gene regulation, and environmental cues of clostridial ...
Biotechnology
Jun 24, 2015
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A new study challenges the orthodoxy of microbiology that in response to environmental changes, bacterial genes will boost production of needed proteins and decrease production of those that aren't. Researchers with the U.S. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 19, 2013
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Scientists at the University of York have uncovered new insights into the way seeds use gene networks to control when they germinate in response to environmental signals.
Biotechnology
Jun 10, 2013
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