Examining the bio-impact of toxic chemical cocktails in the environment
Purdue University scientists are unraveling the complicated toxicity of a mixture of what are often called "forever chemicals" found in many consumer products.
Purdue University scientists are unraveling the complicated toxicity of a mixture of what are often called "forever chemicals" found in many consumer products.
Plants & Animals
Oct 18, 2023
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As climate change warms the planet and droughts are anticipated to become more frequent and extreme, a new study reveals how reduced water flows and rising atmospheric temperatures are set to heat our rivers—creating major ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2023
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While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered the first tritylodontid bonebed found in the Navajo Sandstone in Utah. These ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 16, 2023
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California's extraordinarily wet year brought the state vast quantities of water that have soaked into the ground and given a substantial boost to the state's groundwater supplies, but not nearly enough to reverse long-term ...
Environment
Oct 16, 2023
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You might have noticed it after sliding on a rock in a Melbourne creek. Or it could have been wading through a Northern Territory waterhole. It's slime, and our rivers are full of it. That's a good thing.
Ecology
Oct 16, 2023
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For the past couple of decades, tens of thousands of people living in rural Sri Lanka have been devastated by kidney failure due to unclear causes, also known as CKDu. Similar incidences of mysterious kidney diseases have ...
Environment
Oct 11, 2023
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There is growing consensus that our planet is likely to pass the 1.5℃ warming threshold. Research even suggests global warming will temporarily exceed the 2℃ threshold, if atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) peaks at levels ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2023
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Seawater intrusion is the movement of saline water from the ocean or estuaries into freshwater systems. The seawater that has crept up the Mississippi River in the summer and early fall of 2023 is a reminder that coastal ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2023
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Hurricane Lidia left at least two people dead in Mexico after making landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm, causing flooding, damage and blocked roads before dissipating, authorities said Wednesday.
Environment
Oct 11, 2023
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Even though California enacted sweeping legislation nearly a decade ago to curb excessive agricultural pumping of groundwater, new research predicts that thousands of drinking water wells could run dry in the Central Valley ...
Environment
Sep 25, 2023
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