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Ocean Cleanup Aims to Curb Ocean Plastic Pollution from Rivers by 2025

The Ocean Cleanup aims to tackle the 1,000 most polluting rivers, responsible for about 80 percent of ocean plastic pollution, before the end of 2025.

27 Nov 2019

New Material Converts Toxic Pollutant into Useful Industrial Chemicals

Whenever fossil fuels are burnt, they release a harmful pollutant. Now, an international group of researchers has developed a new, sophisticated material that captures this pollutant from the exhaust gas stream and changes it into valuable industrial chemicals using just air and water.

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

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Freshwater Areas Could Double due to Climate Change

Thousands of different organic molecules that have earlier gone unnoticed are present in every drop of freshwater.

19 Nov 2019

More Nitrous Oxide is Released into the Atmosphere than Previously Believed

A majority of the individuals know nitrous oxide (N2O) as “laughing gas,” which is utilized for its anesthetic effects. But what is not known is that N2O is, in fact, the third most significant long-lasting greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) gas and methane.

19 Nov 2019

Lower pH of Water in Subarctic Pacific Region has Increased N2O Production

The current increase in CO2 emissions has been altering the pH levels of oceans, pushing them to more acidic levels. The damaging effects of this phenomenon have already been observed in the coral reefs.

13 Nov 2019

Study Explores Link Between Fine Particles Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease

A research team led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an organization aided by “la Caixa,” has, for the first time, investigated the connection between ambient and household air pollution and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), a marker of atherosclerosis, in a population of a low-and-middle-income country.

11 Nov 2019

Study Finds Oceanic Black Carbon is Very Different from Black Carbon in Rivers

Researchers attempting to understand the global carbon cycle have long assumed that “black carbon” originates on land and reaches the ocean through streams and rivers.

8 Nov 2019

Study Suggests Restoring Native Vegetation Could Reduce Air Pollution

A new study suggests that growing trees and plants close to factories and other sources of pollution could decrease air pollution by an average of 27%.

7 Nov 2019

Strategies for Achieving Reduction in CO2 Levels are Constantly Evolving

Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have found that existing forecasts recommend that the U.S. electric power sector complies with the 2020 and 2025 CO2 reduction requirements in the Paris Agreement—even though the United States has declared its withdrawal.

6 Nov 2019