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Monitoring Pollution and Detecting Disease

Monday, September 21st, 2009 - 17:46:22 - Ehud Rattner

Nitric oxide, a gas well known to scientists for its myriad functions, has proven challenging to measure accurately outside the laboratory. A team of...

Countries Betting Tech Can Clean Up Coal

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 - 12:24:38 - Sarah Gingichashvili

In the high-stakes game of climate change, the United States and other countries are betting on the idea that technology can make dirty coal cleaner...

Greening the Internet

Saturday, July 11th, 2009 - 14:45:32 - Anuradha Menon

Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article...

Plastics and Marine Debris
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
The Algalita Marine Research Foundation chronicles the problem of marine debris in our ecosystem in this video entitled...

Carbon Nanotubes Dangerous to the Environment
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Scientists from the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) have discovered worrying properties of carbon...

The Microbial Hydrocarbon Diet

Friday, June 12th, 2009 - 18:32:28 - Anuradha Menon

Bioremediation of industrial sites and petrochemical spillages often involves finding microbes that can gorge themselves on the toxic chemicals. This...

Carbon Nanotubes: Environmental Hazard?

Sunday, May 10th, 2009 - 16:02:20 - Ehud Rattner

Carbon nanotubes have made a meteoric career in the past 15 years, even if their applications are still limited. However, recently it was discovered...

EPA Declares Greenhouse Gases a Threat

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 - 18:03:29 - Ehud Rattner

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare, a move that gives the Obama...

Biofuel for $2.49/Gallon from Wood or Straw

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 - 14:48:56 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers push gasification pyrolysis as a means to more affordably process wood and other substances into biofuel. Germany, known as a hotbed for...

Declining Male Fertility and Water Pollution

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 - 17:51:23 - Ehud Rattner

New research strengthens the link between water pollution and rising male fertility problems. The study, by Brunel University, the Universities of...

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