Environment & Geology

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Chemistry World March 4, 2013 David Bradley	Microbial mobilization may offer arsenic solution Contamination of groundwater by naturally occurring arsenic salts has been an insidious environmental problem affecting millions of people across the Indian sub-continent for decades.
Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Anthony King	PharmaSea to scour ocean depths for new drugs A new project will soon see scientists trawling the ocean bottoms for new bioactive compounds. Scientists on the PharmaSea mission will haul samples of mud and sediment from the deep sea, isolating marine organisms in the hunt for novel drug candidates.
Chemistry World February 19, 2013 Patrick Walter	Bacteria clean-up after Gulf of Mexico disaster After the Deepwater Horizon disaster at Macondo prospect spilled 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, bacterial communities made a significant and little noticed contribution to the clean-up.
Chemistry World February 14, 2013 Patrick Walter	Drugs to blame for anti-social fish Swedish scientists say that low levels of psychotherapeutic drugs can change the way fish behave and could be altering the balance of entire aquatic food webs.
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Dave Levitan	Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss
Chemistry World January 25, 2013 Rebecca Brodie	Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident While the Japanese tsunami of March 2011 was devastating in its own right, the long term health consequences because of the damage to the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi are also of serious concern.
Chemistry World January 23, 2013	Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Nicole Kresge	The Past, Present, and Future Earth What does the 4.6 billion year history of Earth tell us about our modern planet? About 150 Washington, D.C., area high school students and 15 teachers from around the United States learned the answers to these questions at the 2012 HHMI Holiday Lectures on Science.
Chemistry World December 12, 2012 Mathew Heal	Environmental chemistry With this new edition of Elements of Environmental Chemistry, by Ronald Hites and Jonathan Raff, comes an additional author and a slight expansion in coverage. Two new chapters -- PCBs, dioxins and flame retardants and Climate change supplement the previous ones.
Chemistry World November 29, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Olive oil coating could save York Minster Could olive oil be the answer to protecting ancient buildings from atmospheric pollutants? Researchers have developed a breathable, water-repellent coating based on oleic acid -- the main fatty acid component of olive oil.
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