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Study Highlights the Need to Improve Estimates of Methane Emissions from Abandoned Wells

A recent McGill study published in Environmental Science and Technology finds that annual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas (AOG) wells in Canada and the US have been greatly underestimated - by as much as 150% in Canada, and by 20% in the US.

22 Jan 2021

The Devastating Effect that Wildfires have on Air Quality

Driven by climate change, wildfires are on the rise. New studies highlight the burden of such events on communities and human health.

21 Jan 2021

Study Provides Insights into Seafloor Marine Litter

The Messina Strait, a submarine bridge separating the island of Sicily from the Italian Peninsula, is the area with the largest marine litter density worldwide -more than a million objects per square kilometre in some parts-, as reported in a new review paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

20 Jan 2021

Orkney to Become Sustainable Aviation Test Environment

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) has embarked on a £3.7 million project to develop a sustainable aviation programme that could transform short flight travel between remote communities.

20 Jan 2021

New Wastewater Treatment Process Degrades Microplastics at Source

At the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), a research group under Professor Patrick Drogui has created a new process for the electrolytic treatment of wastewater that breaks down microplastics at the source.

19 Jan 2021

Ocean Acidification Restricts Algal Communities to Low Biodiversity, Complexity

The New Year’s saying “out with the old, in with the new” may not suit the marine environment.

18 Jan 2021

Kayrros Sees Decreased Emissions from Methane Hotspots in Kuwait, Iraq, Turkmenistan and U.S. in 2020, Offset by Increases in Kazakhstan, Russia and Algeria

Kayrros, the leading advanced data analytics company focused on satellite imagery and alternative data for enhanced decision-making, today releases its data showing the year-on-year shifts in emissions from large methane hotspots recorded across 12 oil and gas-producing regions in 2020 compared to the prior year.

18 Jan 2021

Seagrass Helps to Eliminate Plastics from Coastal Areas

A new study has reported that Posidonia oceanica seagrass—a kind of endemic marine phanerogam that plays a crucial ecological role in the marine environment—can trap and eliminate plastic materials abandoned at the sea.

15 Jan 2021

DuPont Clean Technologies to Develop Scrubbing Project with BELCO® Technology to Control the Emissions of Empresa Nacional de Petróleo (ENAP)

Chilean oil refiner ENAP Refinerías S.A. has selected BELCO® scrubbing technology, licensed by DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont), to improve emissions control from its 31,449 BPSD fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit at the Aconcagua refinery.

From Elessent Clean Technologies Inc. 15 Jan 2021