Stanford environmental molecular science institute will study pollutants, one molecule at a time
...n, to the very complex, including field studies at polluted sites, such as the Hanford Nuclear Facility in Washington, and Bangladesh, where about 25 million people drink arsenic-contaminated water,'' Brown said. ''We'll take a very complex natural setting that contains heavy metal pollutants and take it apar...... into the air and encounter gaseous nitric acid in polluted air from factories to form an entirely new particl...dust storms kick up these particles and they enter polluted areas, the particles change," Laskin said. "To what extent this is happening globally, as more of th...Scientists decipher genome of bacterium that helps clean up major groundwater pollutants
...and New Jersey. "Because chlorinated solvents have polluted so many water sources, there is a pressing need for new techniques to clean up such pollutants," says TIGR Associate Investigator John Heidelberg, the senior author of the Science paper. Heidelberg, who has led several projects to sequence microbes w...Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake
...ttention has focused on the fate of the now highly polluted water body. After massive fish kills and avian mortality in the 1990s, federal agencies targeted the lake for one of the nation's largest restoration projects. Wood says the discovery also shows that the Salton Sea, with its high load of nutrients, m...Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show
... might become a viable alternative for cleaning up polluted soil. The new research findings, published Feb. 1...one of the most cost-effective methods of cleaning polluted soil available. "Phytoremediation can help clean up the selenium, but the thing that's holding peopl...Plants become green Mr. Clean to combat toxic messes
...ally disruptive alternative to digging up enormous polluted sites. "There are sites where we have no choice but to consider such alternatives," Rugh said. "There are places impacted by these chemicals where it's impossible to dig them all up, dredge them or burn them. It's not economically possible; it simpl...Scientists find both damage and promise for renewal in devastated Iraqi marshlands
...er reports that the marshlands had been chemically polluted with toxic organic compounds such as PCBs and pesticides. And "water flowing into the marshes from the Euphrates and especially the Tigris was of higher quality than we originally hypothesized," the authors wrote. As a result of that water influx, th...Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem
...al approach to getting rid of TCE involves pumping polluted groundwater to the surface, where it can be expose...ineering a system that will allow us to get at the polluted groundwater," said Joe Hughes, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Institute...Defenseless plants arm themselves with metals
... genetic information to develop plants to clean up polluted sites. Technologies developed at the center will be commercialized through a partnership with the Midwest Hazardous Substance Research Center, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional hazardous substance research center. Salt collaborated in t...Earth's services in peril, report concludes
...for more food depleted soils, over-fished oceans, polluted waters. Abrupt changes and "tipping points" may soon be reached in many ecosystems, resulting in catastrophic climatic or biological changes over a very short time with little warning. Poverty and degradation of nature may turn into a downward spir...Thumbnail sampler of 10 diverse physiology papers from IUPS 2005
...arming can post a deadly threat for populations in polluted areas because previously non-toxic concentrations may become toxic and fatal with warming. Next step will be to study to what extent metal pollution reduces temperature tolerance limits of oysters and to apply that knowledge to study other ectothermi...Water research initiatives at UW-Madison
... an aesthetically pleasing, viable way to mitigate polluted storm-water runoff and ground-water loss that often occur as a result of urban development and impervious surfaces such as rooftops, roads and parking lots. Rain gardens typically consist of a top soil layer for growing plants and a lower, permeable ...How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health
...stems, such as the Baltic Sea, have become heavily polluted by POPs. In spite of decreases since the 1970s, th... slum sewage and agricultural chemicals. POPs from polluted soils are washed off the land into the sea. Additionally, the atmosphere plays an important role in ...Scientists take major step to improve river restoration efforts
...y meet the needs of the surrounding community than polluted and degraded rivers."...River restoration field booms, matures
...y meet the needs of the surrounding community than polluted and degraded rivers." According to the authors of the Science article, more consistent monitoring of projects after they are completed and sharing this data with other practitioners is the next step in the evolution of the river restoration field. On...Restoring polluted rivers hindered by lack of coordination
DURHAM, N.C. -- If the nation's increasingly polluted rivers are to be rehabilitated, the restoration projects must be better organized and coordinated, according to a national group of experts in the field. To aid this coordination, the researchers have performed the first-ever analysis of currently ...Researchers estimate polluted O.C. beaches cost public $3.3 million annually
... ear and skin infections caused by exposure to the polluted waters in a typical year. This is the first study ...e the economic impact of illnesses associated with polluted recreational waters, although similar calculations have been done regarding air pollution. A public ...Researchers develop new method for facile identification of proteins in bacterial cells
...biological organisms as a means of decontaminating polluted soils and water," said Dr. Halden. Johns Hopkins University is seeking partners who would like to license this patent-pending methodology. Inquiries may be directed to Deborah Alper at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at dalper@jh...Natural electrical potential difference affects water transport in clay
...coastal areas, the distribution of substances from polluted sludge or waste sites and the storage of radioactive or toxic waste in deep clay layers. Until now, computer models for water transport did not consider transport due to electrical potential differences. However the effects of an electrical potentia...Water quality a major focus of $14 million grant to the University of Arizona
...our neighbor with whom we share a border -- a very polluted border, I may add."...