Both institutions were looking for ways to reduce their solid waste streams and enhance their sustainability efforts

Research suggests that drinking water near hydraulic fracturing sites is undergoing chemical changes

A global research team discovered that more than 80 percent of ecological processes that form the foundation for healthy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems already show signs of responses to climate change

“Managing crop pests without fully understanding the impacts of tactics—related to resistance and nontarget plants or insects—costs producers money,” researcher says

“Hopefully hydrologists will be able to utilize our new method to assess pollutant fluxes, and see if pollution management techniques are working long-term.”

Marine plastic debris is an olfactory trap for seabirds

In recent years HPLC/MS/MS and UPLC have become the sensitive and specific techniques of choice for the detection of algal toxins in water

The first perovskite solar cells could go on the market next year, and some have been reported to capture 20 percent of the sun’s energy

“Our most important finding is that the Boron isotope ratios are highly variable, indicating that the source of carbon within the mantle changed with geological time on Earth” 

 The surprising relationship between ocean spray, bacteria, and the weather

Bacteria can convert mercury, which occurs naturally in the soil, to methylmercury when the land is flooded, such as when dams are built for hydroelectric power generation

The team led by Sami Nabhan of the Freie Universität Berlin studied ancient rock formations from South Africa's Barberton greenstone belt