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Time to Fight Corrosion – For the Environment’s Sake

The global cost of corrosion exceeds US$2.5 trillion annually, or three percent of global GDP. Moreover, the environmental consequences are enormous.

From BUMAX AB 25 Nov 2019

Metal Pollution in Warming Oceans is a Serious Threat to Soft Coral Sea Fans

In an age of warming oceans, the copper metal is an emerging threat to the colorful, elegant sea fans that sway through the coral reefs in the waters near Puerto Rico.

20 Nov 2019

Most Efficient Method for Converting Sewage Sludge into Methane

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new method to convert restaurant grease and sewage sludge into methane. To date, this is the most efficient method ever developed.

14 Nov 2019

SIG and Pioneer Foods Co-launch Eco-friendly Carton Packaging

SIG Combibloc Obeikan and Pioneer Foods have announced the launch of the first combismile carton pack in the Middle East and Africa region.

7 Nov 2019

Is Vital Freshwater Hidden Beneath the Sea?

Solutions to escalating global water supply issues are demanding innovative scientific investigation, such as Flinders University’s Professor Adrian Werner making important advances in assessing freshwater reservoirs that exist beneath the ocean.

6 Nov 2019

New Research Suggests Global Ice Age Changed the Face of the Planet

Curtin University researchers have discovered that a global ice age more than 600 million years ago dramatically altered the face of the planet, leaving a barren, flooded landscape and clear oceans.

16 Oct 2019

Study Explores How Small Crustaceans Respond to Climate Change

The process of natural selection is common knowledge, through which organisms adjust to their environments. But what occurs when there are no barricades to gene flow and organisms are floating freely between highly variable environmental surroundings?

1 Oct 2019