How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and the environment?
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 3, 2016
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Microplastics are increasingly seen as an environmental problem of global proportions. While the focus to date has been on microplastics in the ocean and their effects on marine life, microplastics in soils have largely been ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2016
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The modern challenge of nuclear waste storage and disposal has researchers at Washington State University looking back at ancient materials from around the world.
Materials Science
Apr 26, 2016
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The Energy Department has proposed a 17-year delay in building a complex waste treatment plant at its radioactively contaminated Hanford site in Washington state, pushing back the full start-up for processing nuclear bomb ...
Environment
Nov 20, 2015
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Sadia Kabir is exploring a new world in the basement of Farris Engineering Building. The Ph.D. engineering student works in the research group headed by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biologicall ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 19, 2015
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Deformities, feminisation and fall in reproductive capacity are some of the effects that living organisms can be afflicted by due to changes in the endocrine system caused by these compounds. A study conducted on the Basque ...
Environment
Oct 8, 2015
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Rivers and streams could be a major source of antibiotic resistance in the environment.
Environment
Feb 13, 2015
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Britain's first bus powered entirely by human and food waste took to the road in Bristol on Thursday.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 20, 2014
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The natural photo degradation of diazepam (valium) and similar medicines – followed by bacterial breakdown – may reduce their potentially harmful impact on the UK's freshwater environment, a team of researchers has said.
Environment
Sep 30, 2014
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Washington State University researchers have developed a unique method to use microbes buried in pond sediment to power waste cleanup in rural areas.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 18, 2014
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