In early 2025, wildfires spread in Los Angeles, destroying tens of thousands of homes and businesses. During the fires, smoke blanketed the region and online maps provided residents with rapid air quality information.
Environment
Aug 8, 2025
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A decade after Connecticut implemented its 2010 ban on pesticide use on school grounds, a comprehensive three-part series, "Impacts of the 2010 Connecticut School Grounds Pesticide Ban a Decade Later," examines the long-term ...
Environment
Jun 19, 2025
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Traditional water filters struggle to remove smaller PFAS molecules, but a new Monash-designed filter changes that. Researchers at Monash University have developed a water filtration membrane that effectively removes small ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 8, 2025
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As people look to reduce their water use for environmental and ecological reasons, rain barrels have gained popularity for catching rainwater that can be stored and used for irrigation. These green infrastructure tools can ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 7, 2025
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Wildfires increasingly threaten public drinking water systems, but guidance on how to address damage to these systems from a wildfire has been insufficient, conflicting or inaccurate.
Environment
Jan 13, 2025
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Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl (or Chernobyl) City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), according to a new study in PLOS ONE ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2025
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On 29 October, the unthinkable happened to thousands of people in the province of Valencia—in a matter of minutes, they went from going about their daily lives to being submerged or swept away by floodwaters, with many ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2024
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The Australian National Health and Medical research Council (NHMRC) has today released draft guidelines for acceptable levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in drinking water.
Environment
Oct 21, 2024
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Recently, a research group from the Hefei lnstitutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an approach that can facilitate rapid detection of both positive and negative ions of four toxic ...
Biochemistry
Oct 9, 2024
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Energy companies use persistent and personalized pressure to get landowners to give permission for hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and even when landowners decline, companies use legalized compulsion to conduct fracking ...
Environment
Aug 19, 2024
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