All Earth articles – Page 41
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Feature
Antidepressant pollution
What are the consequences of medicating wildlife against anxiety and depression? Ida Emilie Steinmark reports
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Research
Oxygen first formed in the universe at least 13 billion years ago
Study of interstellar dust pushes earliest known discovery of oxygen back by 100 million years
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News
Potassium permanganate turns Canadian town's water pink
Accidental release of chemical used in water treatment gives residents a shock
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Research
Unexpected levels of monoterpenes found in UK homes
Overusing household cleaners may reduce indoor air quality
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Research
Excess VW emissions could cause 1200 deaths
Nitrogen oxides pollution from cars with emissions cheating devices could mean some die a decade earlier
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News
Countries poised to roll out deep sea mining in new 'gold rush'
Tests underway on extracting resources from the ocean floor to meet the world’s growing hunger for metals
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Research
Cloudy with a chance of catalysis
Simulation of hydrogen bond interactions gives valuable new insights into how acid rain forms
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Research
Human-made minerals add to evidence for Anthropocene epoch
List of minerals that form either directly or indirectly as a result of humanity’s activities offers insights into our impact on Earth’s geology
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Research
Biochar takes the pharmaceuticals out of urine
Method for cleansing waste urine could see it used as a fertiliser
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Research
New type of metal–organic compound discovered in meteorites
Magnesium complex could offer new insights into formation of our solar system
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Research
Organic compounds found on dwarf planet Ceres
Spectral signatures detected by Dawn space probe
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Business
DuPont settles fluorinated chemical lawsuits
DuPont and spinoff Chemours will pay more than $670m to settle around 3500 personal injury claims relating to PFOA exposure
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News
French presidential hopeful courts US climate researchers
Emmanuel Macron has invited America’s climate scientists to bring their expertise to France
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Research
Film printed by the metre can cool homes without any power
Material can reflect sun’s ray and emit heat for cheap air conditioning
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News
US university offers compensation after groundwater contamination
Leeching of 1,4-dioxane from animal research waste buried in the 1960s and 70s leads Dartmouth College to propose pay-outs for affected households
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Research
Ocean chemistry changes triggered Earth's greatest extinction event
The Great Dying 250 million years ago has its roots in the intrusion of deadly sulfide rich waters into oxygenated shallows with lessons for today
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Research
Finding a synthetic nanoparticle in a haystack
New analytical approach can detect engineered nanoparticles in the environment
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Research
Wastewater plant upgrade fixes fish feminisation problem
Gender balance has been restored in a Canadian river by cutting levels of endocrine disruptors
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Feature
Chemical fossils
Andy Extance finds out what organic molecules made by microorganisms and plants far in the past can tell us about climate