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Neopelagic Communities and Their Survival on High Seas

A remarkable number of coastal marine invertebrate species have invaded the high seas, where they can now thrive and breed, significantly adding to the floating community composition.

18 Apr 2023

Novel Device For Collecting Microplastics

Microplastics (MPs), plastic debris smaller than 5 mm, implicitly destroy the environment. Traditionally, they have been collected and removed from water by filtering through meshes, which is ineffective.

17 Apr 2023

Pulling Energy Out of Thin Air: The Sky is the Limit for Hydrogen-Based Clean Energy

Finding ways to produce clean energy and sources that generate green electricity tend to be complex, long-winded, and generally not as easy as simply pulling energy out of thin air. Yet, a group of researchers in Australia has demonstrated just that after discovering an enzyme that can quite literally convert air into energy.

13 Apr 2023

PFAS: 'Forever Chemicals' and Their Environmental Risk

Now, an Open Access eBook published by UC Davis outlines and identifies key research areas and the effects of PFAs and other POPs on the environment and human and animal health.

12 Apr 2023

Novel Technology Can Remove 10 Gigatons of CO2 from the Atmosphere

A University of Texas at Arlington scientist is attempting to develop a process that uses seawater to eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

12 Apr 2023

Air Pollution Could Increase if Nuclear Power Plants are Shut Down

Nearly 20 percent of today's electricity in the United States comes from nuclear power. The U.S. has the largest nuclear fleet in the world, with 92 reactors scattered around the country. Many of these power plants have run for more than half a century and are approaching the end of their expected lifetimes.

11 Apr 2023

Mitigating Air Pollution: Understanding the Sources and Sinks of OH

Numerous pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere as a result of human activities, and without a molecule called hydroxide (OH), many of these pollutants would continue to aggregate in the atmosphere.

10 Apr 2023

Study Reveals Global Increase of Ozone-Depleting CFC Emissions

"We're paying attention to these emissions now because of the success of the Montreal Protocol," says Luke Western, lead author of the paper and a researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Global Monitoring Laboratory and the University of Bristol.

5 Apr 2023

New Simulation Creates Neighborhood-Scale Estimates of Air Quality in Chicago

If you live along one of the major interstate highways running through Chicago or directly next to Lake Michigan, you are regularly exposed to more air pollution than the rest of the city, a new Northwestern University study has found.

28 Mar 2023

Untreated Wastewater may Contribute to High Methane Emissions in Urban Areas

Research published in Environmental Research Letters has shown that methane emissions from urban areas are underestimated by a factor of three to four and that untreated wastewater may be a contributing factor.

24 Mar 2023