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“#European sea bass absorb virtually no microplastic in their muscle tissue” Round fluorescent microplastic under a manual fluorescent microscope. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Sinem Zeytin. In a new laboratory study, experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigated how many microplastic particles would be absorbed in the muscle tissue of…
“#Plugging orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells can create jobs, reduce pollution” Oil and natural gas wells require concrete to seal the area between the well casing and the surrounding borehole, but because of the high temperatures and pressures at depth, it has been hard to study how these specialized cements harden. Now, a…
“#A new species of darkling beetle larvae that degrade plastic” Credit: Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) An enormous plastic garbage island exists in the North Pacific that is seven times the size of the Korean Peninsula. The island, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is the result of 13 million tons of plastic…
“#Free trade can prevent hunger caused by climate change” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from KU Leuven, the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and RTI International investigated the effects of trade on global hunger as a result of climate change. The conclusion is clear: International trade can compensate for regional food shortages and…
“#China blows up dam in eastern province to ease flood risk” The Guanyinge temple, a 700-year old structure built on a rock in the Yangtze River in Wuhan, is surrounded by flood water Chinese authorities blew up part of a dam in eastern Anhui province to relieve flood pressure, local media reported, as heavy rains…
“#Cell death in porpoises caused by environmental pollutants” Cell death and risk assessment of finless porpoise fibroblasts by exposure to environmental pollutants. Credit: American Chemical Society A recent study just published in Environmental Science & Technology identified the toxicological risks of environmental pollutants to finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis). Manmade chemicals synthesized for human activities threaten…
“#A walk through the rainbow with PACE” When it comes to “ocean color”, both the wavelength and intensity of the colors leaving the ocean are important. Different species of phytoplankton and other substances in a body of water absorb and reflect different colors of light: clear open ocean water appears blue, water with lots of…
“#Trump can’t weaken California’s climate change carbon market, federal judge rules” Credit: CC0 Public Domain California beat President Donald Trump’s efforts to water down its signature climate-change initiative, a market-based program that’s designed to reduce carbon emissions. A federal judge in Sacramento on Friday dismissed a lawsuit the Trump administration filed challenging California’s cap-and-trade program,…
“#Brazil’s Bolsonaro under pressure to protect Amazon” Brazilian farmer Helio Lombardo Do Santos walks through a burned area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia state on August 26, 2019 Faced with investors demanding “results” in the fight against Amazon deforestation, Brazil’s government seems to be performing something of an about-face, although it will…
“#Honeybees reveal environmental pollution in their surroundings” Bees where the new tool was teste in Cordoba Credit: University of Cordoba Honeybee colonies are bioindicators of environmental contamination in the area, since they get coated in everything that there is in the environment, including pollutants, and they end up taking it all back to their bee…