UC Riverside scientists are taking a modern approach to studying a murky subject—the quantity, quality, and sources of microplastics in Los Angeles County's urban streams.
Environment
Apr 18, 2023
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Cancer-causing chlorinated paraffins are still used in a wide range of everyday products sold in North America, despite their known health harm and being banned in Canada for a decade, according to a new study in Environmental ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 11, 2023
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A growing number of state legislatures are considering bans on cosmetics and other consumer products that contain a group of synthetic, potentially harmful chemicals known as PFAS.
Environment
Apr 7, 2023
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Cocoa beans can absorb toxic heavy metals such as cadmium from the soil. Some cultivation areas, especially in South America, are polluted with these heavy metals, in some cases considerably. In combining different X-ray ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 6, 2023
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Engineers at Duke University have produced the world's first fully recyclable printed electronics that replace the use of chemicals with water in the fabrication process. By bypassing the need for hazardous chemicals, the ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 6, 2023
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A chemical analyst and expert in micro-extraction at The University of Toledo created a more reliable, robust and efficient way to monitor pesticide exposure and help protect the health and safety of agricultural workers, ...
Biochemistry
Apr 6, 2023
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Here at the western edge of the Tulare Lake Basin dwells a smelly industrial site the size of 150 football fields. Roughly eight times a day, its operations are replenished with a truckload of human waste from the residents ...
Environment
Apr 6, 2023
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The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules that limit emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants from coal-fired power plants, updating standards imposed more than a decade ago.
Environment
Apr 5, 2023
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Many of us picture the Arctic as largely untouched wilderness. But that has long-since ceased to be true for all of the continent. It is also home to oilfields and pipelines, mines and various other industrial activities. ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 4, 2023
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A recent study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry revealed the key to a protein that commonly causes blindness. The biological process involves a protein that is essential for transporting toxic compounds out of the eye, ...
Biochemistry
Apr 4, 2023
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