Environmental science – Page 36
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ReviewBurning planet: the story of fire through time
Andrew C Scott’s book charts the natural history of wildfire and its ability to provide clues to events on Earth
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News£20 million UK fund to clean up plastics production
Money will help tackle environmental problems caused by plastics
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ArticleFrom lethal smog to clean air
There has been over 60 years of changing government regulation and innovative industrial R&D in the pursuit of cleaner air: from reducing NOx and carbon dioxide emissions to developing materials for electric cars
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ResearchFirst atomic images of mysterious ocean carbon
Atomic force microscopy reveals structures of deep ocean’s organic compounds
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NewsHarvard and Google team up to take on harmful construction chemicals
New centre is working with Google and others to reduce the use of chemicals linked to health and environmental problems
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ResearchTool to navigate chemical space aims to be ‘Google Maps of drugs’
Software allows links between 8000 drugs and 47,000 compounds of environmental concern to be explored in 3D
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ResearchCompelling evidence emerges for organic chemicals on the Red Planet
Discovery points to tantalising possibility that life might have existed on Mars billions of years ago
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ResearchUnexpected appearance of water makes a big difference to supramolecules
Self-assembly subtly altered by trace amount of water in solvents
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FeatureOil spill cleanup
Is the cure worse than the disease? Katrina Krämer looks at the new alternatives to traditional dispersants and surfactants
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ResearchMethane dunes at Pluto's heart
Heart-shaped region on the dwarf planet’s surface features dunes made out of solid methane
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NewsExoMars rover will carry tiny organic chemistry lab
Probe will drill down beneath the surface of the red planet in search of evidence life once existed there
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ResearchHippo dung is a serious matter for river ecosystems
Large amounts of organic material transferred into river systems by the animals can change entire ecosystems
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NewsNew chemistry enables UK negative carbon dioxide emissions pilot
Carbon capture is back at Drax, thanks to more energy efficient absorption technology
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NewsWhy antibiotic pollution is a global threat
Rising antibiotic resistance caused by pollutants needs action
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ReviewThe many lives of carbon
Dag Olav Hessen leaves no stone - or diamond - unturned in his account of element six
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ResearchIllegal CFC production may be slowing ozone layer recovery
Surprise increase in trichlorofluoromethane emissions linked to east Asia
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ResearchA galaxy far, far away holds oldest oxygen ever seen
Oxygen discovered 13 billion light years away hints at earliest star formation after big bang
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ResearchDorset geology gives clues to past life on Mars
Fossilised microorganisms at England’s south coast offer clues to those studying the red planet
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CareersAn Antarctic researcher's field diary
Karen Assmann records her latest expedition to the world’s southern continent
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NewsUK urged to crack down on F-gas emissions
Global phase-out of HFCs could reduce global warming by 0.5°C over the next century