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Affordable carbon-loving materials for reduced industrial emissions

July 28, 2020
News
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are advancing gas membrane materials to expand practical technology options for reducing industrial carbon...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials
Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Sciences, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science
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The truth about turtles

July 19, 2020
Feature
A research team from Florida State University (FSU) has discovered a world of microscopic life on the back of loggerhead turtles which might explain the geographic spread of aquatic meiofauna....
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, In Depth, Marine Biology, Oceanography, Parasitology
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Algae as living biocatalysts for a green industry

July 13, 2020
News
Better still: living algae can be used as biocatalysts for certain substances, and they bring the co-substrate along, producing it in an environmentally friendly manner through photosynthesis.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environment, Environmental
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Extinct Oligocene dolphins were apex predators

July 9, 2020
News
A report in the journal Current Biology, offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in what is now South Carolina. The...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Oceanography, Paleobiology
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Scientists and policy experts raise COVID-19 and climate crises analogues

July 8, 2020
Insight
Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of COVID-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went largely ignored until rising infection rates forced policymakers to take action. Likewise, climate and environmental scientists...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Health, Medical/Health, Policy
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COVID-19 Earth observation dashboard

June 25, 2020
News
In response to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) have joined forces to use the collective scientific power of their...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental
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The many lifetimes of plastics

June 16, 2020
News
Infographics strive to give us a sense of how long plastic goods will last in the environment but is this information reliable? Many of us have seen informational posters at...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials
Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Oceanography
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Magma movements suggest long-term seismic risk for Northern Europe

June 11, 2020
News
Scientists have discovered new evidence for active volcanism next door to some of the most densely populated areas of Europe. The study 'crowd-sourced' GPS monitoring data from antennae across western...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology, Geophysics, Tectonics, Volcanology
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Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces

June 11, 2020
News
One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the disease remains alive after someone infected with it coughs or sneezes. Once the droplets...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Medical/Health, Virology
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Researchers uncover a world of life on the back of a turtle

June 4, 2020
News
Much to the delight of all Hindu’s and fans of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, researchers have demonstrated that there is indeed a world of life on the backs of loggerhead...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Oceanography, Zoology
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