To feed a growing population, our global food system relies on sufficient farmland. But over the past 40 years, one-third of arable land has been lost to erosion or sullied by pollution.
General Physics
Sep 7, 2017
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Oil spills not only have a direct impact on species and habitats, but may also set off a cascade of perturbations that affect the entire food web. These are the findings of new research published in an article in the special ...
Environment
Jul 10, 2017
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Scientists are getting an entirely new perspective of what happens to oil in a spill, thanks to a tool developed by researchers at Florida International University.
Environment
May 24, 2017
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Tests conducted last week of a novel technology that can greatly accelerate the combustion of crude oil floating on water demonstrated its potential to become an effective tool for minimizing the environmental impact of future ...
Environment
Mar 24, 2017
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Federal researchers have created a new tool to clean up oil spills by tinkering with the kind of foam found in seat cushions.
Materials Science
Mar 6, 2017
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It has been six years since the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Plants and animals were harmed and the places they call home destroyed. The money brought in by fisheries ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2016
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With its sights firmly fixed on Earth, Europe's eye in the sky never saw it coming.
Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2016
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Haddock is an important fish species that has its most important spawning ground in and around Norway's northern Lofoten archipelago, where oil production is being planned. However, research now reveals that the roe and larvae ...
Environment
Jul 28, 2016
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Hydraulic fracturing, a widely used method for extracting oil and gas from otherwise impenetrable shale and rock formations, involves not only underground injections composed mostly of water, but also a mixture of chemical ...
Environment
Jun 1, 2016
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Far offshore and a mile deep in the dark world below the Gulf of Mexico's gleaming surface, the catastrophic BP oil spill of 2010 did untold damage on the ocean floor. But scientists are unsure they can do much to heal places ...
Environment
May 30, 2016
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