Environmental science – Page 45
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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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Cloudy with a chance of catalysis
Simulation of hydrogen bond interactions gives valuable new insights into how acid rain forms
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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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Biochar takes the pharmaceuticals out of urine
Method for cleansing waste urine could see it used as a fertiliser
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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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Organic compounds found on dwarf planet Ceres
Spectral signatures detected by Dawn space probe
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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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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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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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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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Finding a synthetic nanoparticle in a haystack
New analytical approach can detect engineered nanoparticles in the environment
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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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Chemical fossils
Andy Extance finds out what organic molecules made by microorganisms and plants far in the past can tell us about climate
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Theory of crack networks helps understand paint ageing
New model could benefit art conservators and geologists
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Electrochemistry cleans up when it comes to metal polluted seawater
Electrochemical technique can trap up to 24% of nickel in metal-rich seawater, in just seven days
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US plants cut toxic fumes by 56% since 2005
Air releases of hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid by US industrial facilities fell by more than 250,000 tonnes from 2005 to 2015
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US water crisis
The problems that the US city of Flint had with its water were just the first drip in a wider problem, finds Sarah Houlton
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Urban air pollution
Nina Notman meets the chemists breathing fresh air into urban air pollution research
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New evidence backs early formation theory for the moon
Isotope analysis reveals the moon is hundreds of millions of years older than some estimates suggest