The UN Sustainable Development Goals highlight the need to end destructive fishing practices to conserve marine resources and protect the ocean. However, there is no globally shared understanding of what destructive fishing ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2023
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Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can't last forever. But our group of materials scientists has developed a new ...
Polymers
Oct 20, 2023
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Along the Asian coastlines there are many areas where rural communities experience alarming rates of sea level rises due to land subsidence up to 10 cm per year. This causes tremendous challenges on how to live there and ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 3, 2023
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The shift away from using poultry litter for crop fertilization has transformed this once-valuable agricultural byproduct into an environmental liability for poultry producers. Addressing this challenge, a study led by Dr. ...
Biotechnology
Sep 21, 2023
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Scientists have enriched expanded polystyrene waste from a beach in Ireland to isolate a bacterium shown to contain three enzymes that could break down polyester.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 31, 2023
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Could plants be the answer to the looming threat of microplastic pollution? Scientists at UBC's BioProducts Institute found that if you add tannins—natural plant compounds that make your mouth pucker if you bite into an ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 16, 2023
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In a new study, scientists Stewart Edie of the Smithsonian, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, scallops and their relatives, ...
Evolution
Aug 15, 2023
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The number of people using food banks in the UK has increased from 26,000 in 2008–09 to more than 100 times that in 2023. Nearly one in five British households experienced moderate to severe food insecurity in September ...
Social Sciences
Aug 3, 2023
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Researchers at Tohoku University have unraveled the reasons behind the underperformance of a promising field of catalysis known as dual atom catalysts (DACs). Their findings shed light on the challenges faced by DACs in converting ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 26, 2023
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Inspired by the need to safeguard marine animals and promote sustainable solutions within marine environments, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia ...
General Physics
Jul 13, 2023
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