Researchers partner with brewery to collect urine and generate fertilizer
When customers of Sudwerk Brewery Co. in Davis, Calif., answer nature's call, they can do their part to help nature.
Environment
Aug 4, 2016
1
234
News tagged with fertilizer treatments
Microbiologists discover enigmatic comammox microbes
Nitrification plays a key role in Earth's natural nitrogen cycle and in agriculture. Now an international team of scientists led by Holger Daims and Michael Wagner, microbiologists at the University of Vienna, has discovered ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 30, 2015
0
55
Algae from wastewater solves two problems
In one of the first studies to examine the potential for using municipal wastewater as a feedstock for algae-based biofuels, Rice University scientists found they could easily grow high-value strains of oil-rich algae while ...
Biotechnology
Apr 2, 2015
12
2942
Minnesota sets goals for fixing Gulf of Mexico dead zone
Minnesota's top pollution officials are setting ambitious goals - primarily for farmers - to cut back on the millions of tons of pollution that each year flow out of the state and down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2013
0
0
Using poo to combat climate change
Human waste could be the next weapon in the fight against climate change.
Environment
Sep 18, 2013
0
0
Microbial battery: Team uses 'wired microbes' to generate electricity from sewage
Engineers at Stanford University have devised a new way to generate electricity from sewage using naturally-occurring "wired microbes" as mini power plants, producing electricity as they digest plant and animal waste.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 16, 2013
14
0
Crowdfunding gets personal with GoFundMe
Brenda Lynn says her autistic 3-year-old son, Kaleo, hardly speaks, and his inability to express himself frustrates him - except when using his speech therapist's iPad.
Internet
Feb 8, 2013
0
0
Researchers identify a simple way to precipitate phosphorus from the wastewater of a pulp mill
Researchers at Aalto University have developed a simple method for reducing the amount of phosphorus in the wastewater of a pulp mill. The method is called simultaneous precipitation using iron sulphate. A separate treatment ...
Other
Nov 21, 2012
0
1
Nanosilver from clothing can pose major environmental problems
(Phys.org)—Silver nanoparticles can have a severe environmental impact if their utilisation in clothing continues to increase. If everyone buys one silver nanoparticle-treated sock a year, the silver concentration in waste ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 1, 2012
9
1
Energy from microbes for drying sewage sludge
A new biodrying process from Siemens quickly converts sewage sludge into a usable form while saving energy. When dried with the new process, sludge from wastewater treatment can be used as fertilizer, dumped in landfills ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 13, 2012
0
1
