Environmental
Scientists are reporting discovery of an improved way to remove carbon dioxide — the major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming — from smokestacks and other sources, including the atmosphere.
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More than 3,000 gallons of Huron River water were trucked to the University of Michigan campus recently to create 150 mini-Hurons that are used to study how environmental changes affect freshwater habitats like rivers and streams.
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With current news of additional radioactive leaks from the Fukushima nuclear power plants, the impact on the ocean of releases of radioactivity from the plants remains unclear.
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A team of bioprocessing engineers with Kansas State University's Advanced Manufacturing Institute has been issued a patent for a system that removes phosphorus from wastewater and addresses environmental regulations.
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A custom-made machine for packaging mealworms infected with beneficial nematodes could improve the delivery, timing and use of the wormlike organisms as biological control agents.
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Critical genetic secrets of a bacterium that holds potential for removing toxic and radioactive waste from the environment have been revealed in a study by researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
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A study of the Great Lakes and “dead zones” in Lake Erie was one of 41 projects chosen for support by the Joint Genomic Institute.
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Scientists explain how they used DNA to ID microbes present in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Michael Glavanovich receives calls with all kinds of strange requests. Once, a woman phoned to ask him if a piece of meat tossed into her yard for her dog contained poison.
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Chemists were testing the sensor when dust got stuck inside and they found they could measure the composition of single particles.
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Sandia National Laboratories has designed and built a mobile research facility to trace and identify the origin of greenhouse gases.
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A Michigan State University team has unraveled the secret of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste.
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