Removing CO2 from Plant Emissions Using Powdered Rocks
Chemical reactions with different types of crushed rocks might help steel, coal and cement plants as well as gas and oil facilities to produce...
Increased Pollution-Induced Health Risk Predicted in Asia
The air quality group Clean Air Asia, warned on Wednesday that increased energy consumption, together with rising vehicle emissions, will lead to a rapid...
California’s Nitrous Oxide and Methane Levels Equal to that of CO2
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have determined initial estimates for California’s nitrous oxide levels maybe have been incorrect. The levels may...
Airborne Mercury Contaminates Marine Creatures, Study Finds
Mercury levels in the ocean have been increasing steadily for the past century. The industrial revolution, coal burning, and mining have contributed greatly to...
US Life Expectancy Improves as Air Pollution Decreases
The Harvard School of Public Heath (HSPH) conducted the largest study to date to determine the relationship between reductions in fine particulate matter and...
Deepwater Horizon – BP’s Cure Worse Than the Spill
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, resulting from an explosion on board the drilling platform April 20, 2010, released nearly 5 million barrels of crude...
EcoBot III Cleans Sewage Water Powered by Human Waste
A robot that cleans human waste from wastewater was invented by a team of researchers from Wessex Water and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in...
Great Lakes Also Polluted with Micro-Plastics
Micro-plastics have been accumulating in the surfaces of oceans, affecting negatively marine life and humans, as well. Just recently, researchers have found that the...
Accurately Identifying Water Contamination Helped by Mathematics
Uncannily similar to the Camelford water pollution incident in Cornwall, England in the late 1980s, in 2009 there was an incident in Crestwood Illinois....
Newly Identified Source of Black Carbon: Kerosene Lamps
Kerosene lamps are known to be the main source of light for many households in most developing nations. A study conducted by researchers at...
