UK environment secretary Thérèse Coffey has demanded that water companies share plans for how they will reduce sewage discharges into rivers. They could start by coming clean on how much sewage is being dumped. If we don't ...
Environment
Feb 23, 2023
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To feed the world's growing population, farmers need to grow a lot of crops. Crops need water to grow and thrive, and the water used to irrigate crops makes up an estimated 70% of global freshwater use. But many areas across ...
Biotechnology
Feb 20, 2023
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From Colorado's high desert to the wooded hills of Pennsylvania, millions of oil and gas wells sit deserted, plunging thousands of feet into the earth. Many haven't been plugged, some leak greenhouse gases.
Environment
Feb 16, 2023
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Acesulfame is a sweetener in sugar-free drinks and foods. As it cannot be metabolized in the human body, the sweetener ends up in wastewater after consumption and remains largely intact even in sewage treatment plants. A ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2023
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More than half of Switzerland's native fish species are threatened with extinction or are already extinct within the country's waters, a new assessment showed Wednesday.
Ecology
Feb 8, 2023
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Over ten years ago, a tsunami triggered a disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Japan's east coast. After the accident, large amounts of radioactivity contaminated the ocean leading to the imposition of ...
Environment
Jan 23, 2023
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Testing the contents of a simple sample of wastewater can reveal a lot about what it carries, but fails to tell the whole story, according to Rice University engineers.
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 19, 2022
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A research group led by Prof. Lu Zhiyi at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a facile and cost-effective strategy to regenerate powdered activated ...
Materials Science
Dec 19, 2022
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Emerging contaminants (ECs) including pharmaceuticals (PhCs), endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), benzotriazoles (BTRs), benzothiazoles (BTHs) and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), pose a potential ecological threat when ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2022
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The climate crisis challenges our water supply in many ways, from deadly hurricanes to widespread and severe droughts. To combat water scarcity, neighborhoods and communities must reconsider the design of their wastewater ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2022
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