Plastic pellets, bio-beads and other microplastics are polluting coastlines around the world, with new research showing sharp regional differences in the types and concentrations of plastic found.
Environment
Sep 29, 2025
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Municipal wastewater treatment plants are ineffective at removing Prozac (fluoxetine) and other common pharmaceuticals in wastewater, causing the drugs to be discharged into lakes, rivers and streams where they pose a risk ...
Environment
Sep 24, 2025
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Microbes in water are like invisible travelers—and some carry disease with them. Keeping the water that flows through our treatment plants, rivers and taps healthy and safe from microbial infection is a challenge.
Ecology
Sep 17, 2025
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Microbes include bacteria, viruses, fungi, algae and archaea (single-celled microorganisms with a bacteria-like structure). They are invisible to the human eye, but they play a huge role, shaping ecosystems, producing food ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 15, 2025
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Toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or "forever chemicals," are in everything from Band-Aids and clothing to water and floss. However, new research reveals they are potentially even more widespread ...
Environment
Sep 10, 2025
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Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for human health and food security. "Most of the pollution comes from rivers and not from wastewater treatment ...
Environment
Sep 10, 2025
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Researchers at National Taiwan University designed a graphene oxide biochar TiO2 nanocomposite that combines adsorption capacity with superior photocatalytic activity. With strong material characterization and optoelectronic ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 8, 2025
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A team of Chilean researchers has identified, for the first time in the country, the presence of KPC-type carbapenemase-producing bacteria in wastewater samples from the Greater Concepción Metropolitan Area. The finding, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 1, 2025
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A new wastewater treatment system developed by RMIT University researchers could help prevent fatbergs—solid masses of fat, oil and grease (FOG) that clog sewers and cost water utilities globally billions to remove each ...
Environment
Aug 20, 2025
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It's hard to believe that there is anything positive that could come out of wildfires. They have devastated homes, taken lives, erased memories, leveled cities and destroyed our forests and wildlands. But a University of ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2025
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