More than half of the world's population currently lives in cities while projections show an increase to two thirds by 2050. Many people living in small areas means large amounts of waste, high resource consumption and loads ...
Environment
Jun 25, 2019
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When you get a drink of water from your fridge or sink, do you think about where that water came from? It has traveled through pipes from a water treatment plant where it underwent chemical processes to make it safe to drink. ...
Environment
May 27, 2019
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The geographic locations where Americans live are shifting in ways that can negatively affect the quality of their drinking water.
Environment
May 24, 2019
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An unknown number of byproducts are formed in the drinking water treatment process, and scientists don't know what many of them are. However, using advanced technology, researchers at Linköping University have been able ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 24, 2019
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The development of new drugs is a good thing for both humans and animals. But unfortunately, the medications we take can have untoward consequences.
Plants & Animals
May 23, 2019
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Harmful algal blooms pose a unique toxic threat in Lake Erie's central basin, new research has found.
Environment
May 16, 2019
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As small as a grain of dust—but of great global significance. The word microplastics is familiar to many, but the dangers are virtually unexplored. In recent years, plastic pollution has become an ever-increasing burden ...
Environment
May 14, 2019
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A University of Oklahoma-led interdisciplinary global study expands the understanding of activated sludge microbiomes for next-generation wastewater treatment and reuse systems enhanced by microbiome engineering. Wastewater ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 13, 2019
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A system developed by EPFL spin-off TreaTech can turn sludge from wastewater treatment plants into mineral salts – which could be used in fertilizer, for example – and biogas. The firm's research is being funded by several ...
Environment
May 13, 2019
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Over the past few years I have become an academic expert in "sewage sludge" – the residual, semi-solid mix of excrement packed with microorganisms that is left behind within wastewater treatment plants. Every year the UK ...
Environment
Apr 29, 2019
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