Study of North Atlantic Ocean reveals decline of leaded petrol emissions

A new study of lead pollution in the North Atlantic provides strong evidence that leaded petrol emissions have declined over the past few decades. For the first time in around 40 years, scientists ...

Posted 2016-09-28 14:16:47

Solution blooming for fracking spills?

Wastewater from oil drilling and hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – is often laden with salts and can spill, contaminating soils. In a recent study, researchers tested a method that ...

Posted 2016-09-28 18:05:19

Water crisis in Bangladesh

Overpumping of groundwater to supply one of the planet's largest cities could be jeopardizing the future water supply for citizens living outside the city center, say researchers working in Dhaka, ...

Posted 2016-09-28 19:35:50

Wind turbines killing more than just local birds

Wind turbines are known to kill large birds, such as golden eagles, that live nearby. Now there is evidence that birds from up to hundreds of miles away make up a significant portion of the ...

Posted 2016-09-29 18:38:08

Ocean conditions contributed to unprecedented 2015 toxic algal bloom

A new paper is the first to connect the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 to the unusually warm ocean conditions - nicknamed "the blob" - in winter and spring of that ...

Posted 2016-09-29 18:48:00

Lake brownification, eutrophication decrease the content of essential fatty acids in fish used in human diets

Eutrophication and brownification change phytoplankton community structure and decrease the production of essential omega-3 fatty acids in lakes. Perch growing in oligotrophic clear-water lakes ...

Posted 2016-09-30 16:02:44

Research provides understanding about expansion and contraction of the tropical rain belt

New research looks at the monsoon rains that fell in northern Australia over the past 3,000 years. The scientists explored the rainfall amounts by looking at the isotopes of oxygen in ...

Posted 2016-10-01 14:15:20

Desalinating (and drinking) seawater: Towards novel desalination membranes with enhanced performance

An innovative way to improve the performance of desalination membranes has been revealed by researchers. In the future, membranes for reverse osmosis manufactured with these novel criteria could ...

Posted 2016-10-03 13:24:30

Washing clothes releases thousands of microplastic particles into environment

More than 700,000 microscopic fibres could be released into waste water during each use of a domestic washing machine, with many of them likely to pass through sewage treatment and into the ...

Posted 2016-10-03 14:36:51

Watering solar cells makes them grow in power

Perovskite solar cells are the rising star in the photovoltaic landscape. Since their invention, less than ten years ago, their efficiency has doubled twice and it is now over 22% - an astonishing ...

Posted 2016-07-27 13:06:02