How year-round crops could reduce farm pollution in the Mississippi River
Don Wyse's field of winter barley used to be mostly empty in the spring.
Ecology
Aug 04, 2022
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News tagged with sewage treatment plant
Methane emissions reach new highs despite pandemic—four times more sensitive to climate change than first thought
Eliminating emissions of CO₂ is high up the environmental agenda—but the world should not lose sight of the threat from methane. There has been a disturbing recent surge in atmospheric methane, which is more than 25 times ...
Environment
Jul 06, 2022
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Harmful bacteria survive on wet wipes washed up on beaches, study finds
Harmful bacteria on sewage-associated plastic waste washed up on beaches can survive long enough to pose a risk to human health, new research has found.
Environment
May 30, 2022
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Method to cultivate microbial communities in a permanently stable manner
The capabilities of complex microbial communities are used for numerous biotechnological processes. This requires special compositions of the microbial communities. However, these are often unstable and susceptible to disruption. ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 17, 2022
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A new threat emerges for US lakes and rivers. Your lawn or toilet may be partly to blame
Runoff from roads, lawns, farms and old septic tanks is polluting US waterways, driving harmful algae blooms.
Environment
Mar 31, 2022
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In deep sediments, microbes become the victims of tiny bacteria
Tiny predatory bacteria attack microorganisms. These ultramicrobacteria are widely distributed, for example, in sewage treatment plants and in the seafloor. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 23, 2022
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Illinois falls behind federal goal to reduce phosphorus and nitrogen flowing into its waterways
Hundreds of miles south of Chicago, decomposing algae in the Gulf of Mexico makes life so perilous for fish they swim away—or die.
Environment
Dec 23, 2021
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Novel study looks at nitrogen credit trading to spur growth of riparian buffers
Watershed-wide nutrient credit trading has been suggested as a mechanism for reducing pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay, but a new study by Penn State researchers suggests that the high cost of producing nitrogen credits ...
Environment
Jun 10, 2021
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Scientists develop low-cost sensor that can detect COVID-19 in wastewater
Scientists from the University of Strathclyde and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have demonstrated a low-cost sensor that can detect fragments of the virus responsible for COVID-19 within wastewater.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 10, 2021
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Traces of drugs found in a dam that supplies Nigeria's capital city
Pharmaceuticals—drugs used to prevent or treat human and animal diseases—are essential for health and well-being. But the increasing use of these drugs means that remnants of them are showing up in the aquatic environment. ...
Environment
Jun 09, 2021
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