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Ocean oxygen starvation
Oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the areas in which predatory fishes and other marine organisms can live or enter in search of food, according to a...
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Flush with nanoparticles
What happens to carbon-based nanoparticles when they enter groundwater? Can municipal water supplies filter them out? And, if they cannot will they cause health problems? These are crucial questions...
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Inconvenient ice sheets
The present environmental crisis over climate change hinges on the validity of global temperature measurements, observations of local conditions, such as changes in the ice caps, and computer models...
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Climate change lifesaver
Adding lime to the oceans may help reverse the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a report in the journal Chemistry & Industry. Petrochemicals giant Shell is pumping money into a...
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Testing times for chameleon chromium
A new standard for chemical testing has been developed for a carcinogenic chromium salt. The hexavalent chromium ion was at the heart of the pollution controversy on which the movie Erin Brokovich was...
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Ocean-going stalks fight global warming
Burying crop residues at sea may help reduce global warming, according to researchers in the USA. They suggest that transporting millions of tonnes of bailed up cornstalks, wheat straw, and other crop...
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Mercury mystery unearthed
A recent study shows just how long mercury pollutants can persist in the environment and continue to cause problems. The study demonstrates that riverbank and floodplain soils contaminated by a textile...
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Black gold
An estimated 513 billion barrels of “technically recoverable” heavy oil lie in Venezuela’s Orinoco Oil Belt, a 50,000 square kilometre region in the East Venezuela Basin Province. Worldwide consumption...
View ArticleThe benefits of biotech to farmers
The biotech industry boosted farming across the globe to the tune of almost $65 billion during the period 1996 to 2009, according to the latest analysis published in the International Journal of...
View ArticleHow can we tap into water security?
A global environmental crisis is gradually bubbling to the surface. It may not be apparent to those suffering the rainy seasons or annual floods, but to those in areas where fresh water is in short...
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