In the first step toward understanding how dogs—and perhaps humans—might adapt to intense environmental pressures such as exposure to radiation, heavy metals, or toxic chemicals, researchers have found that two groups ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 8, 2023
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The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed tighter limits on wastewater pollution from coal-burning power plants that has contaminated streams, lakes and underground aquifers across the nation.
Environment
Mar 8, 2023
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Heavy metals such as lead and cadmium are present in batteries, cosmetics, food and other things that are part of everyday life. They are toxic when they accumulate in the human organism, potentially causing several health ...
Biochemistry
Jan 23, 2023
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Polish authorities on Thursday said toxic algae was to blame for mass fish deaths in the Oder river, ruling out industrial pollution as the cause.
Ecology
Sep 29, 2022
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Pittsburgh's steel industry may be largely in the past, but its legacy lives on in city soils. New research led by Pitt geologists shows how historical coking and smelting dropped toxic metals in Pittsburgh's soil, particularly ...
Environment
Sep 20, 2022
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A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Singapore's National Parks Board (NParks), has demonstrated that some plant species could help to remove toxic heavy metals and metalloids ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2022
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India's major rivers are thick with heavy metals, dyes, toxic chemicals and pharmaceutical products, a study shows.
Environment
Dec 1, 2021
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In what should be a win-win-win for the environment, a process developed at Rice University to extract valuable metals from electronic waste would also use up to 500 times less energy than current lab methods and produce ...
General Physics
Oct 4, 2021
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A team of volcanologists who observed the colossal 2018 eruption of Kīlauea, Hawai'i, have tracked how potentially toxic metals carried in its gas plumes were transported away from the volcano to be deposited on the landscape.
Earth Sciences
May 26, 2021
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Removal of pollutants from the air, or atmospheric deposition, is a natural cleaning mechanism. However, the removed toxic materials don't just disappear on the Earth. China's Soil Pollution Survey released in 2014 shows ...
Environment
Mar 2, 2021
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