Environment & Geology

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Chemistry World March 16, 2011 James Urquhart	Monitoring oil sand toxicity Researchers in the UK and Canada have identified for the first time some of the individual components of toxic naphthenic acid mixtures present in waste water from oil sands.
Chemistry World March 10, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Aerosol data from BP spill Analysis of atmospheric data suggests that emissions of intermediate volatile organic compounds and semi-volatile organic compounds were low compared with those of volatile organic compounds.
The Motley Fool March 7, 2011 David Lee Smith	Fracking Has Added Another Problem Is fracking the reason Arkansas' earthquakes are up more than 20 times in a year?
Chemistry World March 4, 2011 Carl Saxton	Real-world treatment for dye-contaminated effluents US scientists have found that a dye oxidation process using low levels of an iron catalyst could be used to degrade highly contaminated wastewater under ambient conditions.
BusinessWeek March 3, 2011 Efstathiou & Chipman	Fracking: The Great Shale Gas Rush Natural gas derived from the process is lifting the economy, but it's environmentally risky. The Obama Administration may need to rethink its hands-off policy on fracking, despite the national job and energy benefits.
Chemistry World March 1, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Earth's missing xenon could be hiding in quartz For decades scientists have known that the abundance of xenon is curiously lower than predicted from comparisons with the other noble gases. Now chemists in Canada have evidence that it is residing in the ground beneath our feet.
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Jason Scott	Aussie Farmers, Chinese Miners Vie for Water In Western Australia, a long drought is about to have deeper repercussions as Chinese-backed iron ore mines will prove thirsty
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Mitzi Baker	When Worlds Collide The right time and place led to a new RNAi-like pathway in bacteria for biochemist Jennifer Doudna and geobiologist Jill Banfield.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	Warming Malaria Climate change is expanding the disease-causing pathogen's comfort zone.
TIME Asia February 7, 2011 Krista Mahr	Testing the Waters The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's natural wonders, covering an area larger than Italy and drawing nearly 2 million tourists every year to boat, swim, snorkel and dive amid its elaborate flora and fauna. It's also one of the planet's most fragile ecosystems
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