(PhysOrg.com) -- Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is caused when sulphur in mine tailings reacts with water and oxygen in the environment to produce sulphuric acid. It is a major environmental issue, with AMD a concern for lake acidification ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 15, 2010
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In Colombia, large areas are teeming with mines that are almost impossible to detect with traditional methods. In collaboration with partners from South America, engineers at the German Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Technical ...
Engineering
Mar 18, 2016
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(AP)—Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Flying low and slow above the wild, pristine terrain of Alaska's North Slope in a specially instrumented NASA plane, research scientist Charles Miller of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., surveys ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2013
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A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed in the World Wildlife Fund's latest update on the greater Mekong region.
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2022
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A new article highlights how statistics are deeply involved within the algorithms that made Pokémon Go the hit it has become.
Mathematics
Sep 19, 2016
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Over 50 billion tons of sand is mined every year—and it's pushing species to the brink of extinction.
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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Since Daniel Defoe's shipwreck tale "Robinson Crusoe" was first published nearly 300 years ago, thousands of editions and spinoff versions have been published, in hundreds of languages.
Computer Sciences
Sep 7, 2018
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(Phys.org) —Reports given by experts in the space-health field suggest it might take longer for humans to build a colony on Mars than has been expected. Such experts speaking to attendees at the recent "Humans 2 Mars Summit" ...
Researchers have warned that mining threats to biodiversity caused by renewable energy production could surpass those averted by climate change mitigation.
Environment
Sep 2, 2020
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