Microwaving sewage waste may make it safe to use as fertilizer on crops
My team has discovered another use for microwave ovens that will surprise you.
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Microwave treatment is an inexpensive way to clean heavy metals from treated sewage
A team of Florida State University researchers studying new methods to remove toxic heavy metals from biosolids—the solid waste left over after sewage treatment—found the key is a brief spin through a microwave.
Environment
Dec 5, 2019
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Trump administration eases Obama-era rules on coal pollution
The Trump administration accelerated the pace of its environmental rollbacks for the country's coal-fired power plants Monday, proposing to weaken two Obama-era rules aimed at cleaning up dangerous heavy metals and ash from ...
Environment
Nov 4, 2019
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Choosing trees with a liking for heavy metal
Which species of trees should we be planting in the urban environment to best soak up pollutants containing toxic heavy metals? Stefanos Tsiaras of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Theano Samara of the Forest Research ...
Environment
Aug 21, 2019
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Researchers push for better policies around toxic chemicals
From high levels of lead found in school drinking water to industry sites releasing toxic heavy metals into the air, over 40 years of regulations in the United States have failed to protect human and environmental health ...
Environment
Jul 12, 2019
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Example of microplastic pollutants disrupting predator-prey relationship found
A team of researchers with the French National Centre for Scientific Research has found an example of environmental microplastics disrupting a predator-prey relationship. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, ...
Removing toxic mercury from contaminated water
Water contaminated with mercury and other toxic heavy metals is a major cause of environmental damage and health problems worldwide. Now, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, present a totally new way ...
Materials Science
Nov 21, 2018
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Reducing water scarcity by restoring contaminated groundwater aquifers
The fight against water scarcity is becoming one of the main 21st century challenges, with securing a clean supply key to efforts. The REGROUND project has developed a novel, green ground water-innovation and is ready to ...
Environment
Nov 20, 2018
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Scientists equip chemical sensors with 'traps' to detect toxic substances
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and the University of Chemistry and Technology (Prague, Czech Republic) have created novel chemical sensors for Raman spectrometers, devices that measure the quantitative and qualitative ...
Materials Science
Jul 25, 2017
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Harmless elements can replace toxic lead in electronics
Most smartphones and other electrical or electronic products contain small amounts of lead, which doesn't sound like a big problem on its own. But when there are many billions of such products, either in daily use or gone ...
Materials Science
Jul 12, 2017
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