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Chemistry World
October 7, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Ocean acidification threat to UK coral reefs The latest studies on ocean acidification indicate that it's not just tropical corals that are under threat from ocean acidification, but cold water corals too.   |
Chemistry World
October 7, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
EPA decides against regulating perchlorate in water The announcement on 3 October - a preliminary decision that will not be finalized until a month allowed for public comment - received a mixed response from toxicologists. |
Chemistry World
October 6, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Global ozone pollution warning Current controls are failing to protect human health and the environment from increasing ground-level ozone, according to a report by the Royal Society. |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Greener explosives show promise Eco-friendly explosives based on nitrogen compounds could soon compete with conventional detonators and propellants used in pyrotechnics, mining, and military applications. |
Popular Mechanics
October 1, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic. |
Chemistry World
September 29, 2008
Richard Van Noorden |
EU Bans Mercury Exports The European Union has banned exports of mercury from 2011, in order to cut emissions of the toxic metal into the environment. |
Science News
October 11, 2008
Sid Perkins |
Continental Clash Cooled The Climate The collision between India and Asia set off events that likely caused long-term cooling in Earth's climate. |
Science News
October 11, 2008
Sid Perkins |
New Contender For Earth's Oldest Rocks Northern Quebec may host intact rocks as old as 4.28 billion years. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2008 |
Engineers to Quake-Proof Cal Stadium on Free-Floating Blocks Seismic engineers apparently have solved one of the world's great retrofit puzzles: how to keep UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium from crumbling into a pile of concrete rubble during a major earthquake. |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2008
Michael Milstein |
5 Eco Crimes Unmasked by DNA Sleuths' High-Tech Spy Game New DNA databases have begun to help environmentalists and regulators uncover the truth behind everything from the origin of ivory from poached elephants to cheating in fishing contests. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Andrew Curry |
Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam In theory, we could re-create conditions that last existed when mammoths walked the earth and the environment was healthier and more diverse. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Damon Tabor |
Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative. |
Chemistry World
September 16, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
US Disease Agency Criticised for Great Lakes Pollution Study The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is re-evaluating pollution data on the Great Lakes of eastern North America after criticism from an independent panel. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Barbara Juncosa |
Climate Change May be Sparking New and Bigger "Dead Zones" Climate change seems to be starving some waters of oxygen. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Eitan Haddok |
Birth of an Ocean: The Evolution of Ethiopia's Afar Depression Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one few scientists have ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Krista West |
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve |
Scientific American
September 2008
Michael Tennesen |
Gauging Biodiversity by Listening to Forest Sounds Noise from human activity threatens an animal's reproductive success |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2008 |
Impertinent Questions Kristine Harper's book, Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology, tells the story of how the digital computer changed the science of forecasting |
Chemistry World
September 2008
Maria Burke |
Something in the water Drugs have been finding their way into our water supplies for as long as they have been in use, so should we worry? |
Chemistry World
September 2008
Victoria Gill |
Editorial: Liquid asset Many predict that the major conflicts of the coming century will be fought over water. And the unpredictable impacts of climate change mean that we cannot simply rely on surface water resources to continue to be replenished by rain. |
Chemistry World
September 2008
Elizabeth Milson |
Sustainable water Water treated to an appropriate standard is required not only for drinking but also to satisfy all our domestic, industrial and agricultural needs. |
Chemistry World
September 2008
Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Decades of constant oceanic currents have resulted in a huge area of the Pacific that has become a veritable black hole of human-produced waste. |
Chemistry World
August 29, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
Drinking water safe after China plant blast The most serious chemical factory explosion to occur China for over a decade has not caused major damage to the environment, according to local authorities. |
Chemistry World
August 29, 2008
Fred Campbell |
Breaking the bonds of global warming US scientists have managed to prise apart the highly unreactive carbon-fluorine bond at room temperature, potentially paving the way to the efficient disposal of hydrofluorocarbons -- highly stable and long-lived greenhouse gases. |
Popular Mechanics
August 29, 2008
Kristen Hays |
Katrina Lessons in Mind, Oil Companies Prep Platforms for Gustav When Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf of Mexico three years ago, it ripped the drilling rig atop Royal Dutch Shell's Mars platform from its clamps and slammed it back onto the top deck in a crumpled pile of steel. |
Popular Mechanics
August 28, 2008
Paul Tolme |
As Geothermal Energy Heats Up, 5 Next-Gen Projects Take Shape Unlike wind and solar power, which are intermittent, geothermal energy is base-load power -- available 24/7, 365 days a year. And the price of geothermal energy is stable, unlike economically volatile coal and natural gas. |
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