Geochemistry News
May 18, 2024
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May 14, 2024 — Polystyrene is made from styrene building blocks and is the most widely used plastic in terms of volume, for example in packaging. Unlike PET, which can now be produced and recycled using biotechnological methods, the production of polystyrene has ...
May 17, 2024 — A new commentary paper puts forth a transformative solution to the unsustainable reliance on fossil resources by the chemical industry: catalysis to leverage sustainable waste resources, ushering the ...
May 17, 2024 — Marine microbes control the flux of matter and energy essential for life in the oceans. Among them, the bacterial group SAR11 accounts for about a third of all the bacteria found in surface ocean ...
May 15, 2024 — Semiconductors are the foundation of all modern electronics. Now, researchers have developed a new method where organic semiconductors can become more conductive with the help of air as a dopant. The study is a significant step towards future cheap ...
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May 16, 2024 — The treatment of animals rates higher than green issues when consumers choose meat and dairy products. That's according to a new study, which ...
May 15, 2024 — In a warmer climate, summers warm much faster than winters, according to research into fossil shells. With this knowledge we can better map the consequences of current global warming in the North Sea ...
May 10, 2024 — The discovery of how a critical enzyme 'hidden in nature's blueprint' works sheds new light on how cells control key processes in carbon fixation, a ...
May 15, 2024 — Understanding how salt marsh grass stays healthy is of crucial ecological importance, and studying the ways bacteria interact with these plants is ...
May 16, 2024 — After spinning for under two years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers are developing battery technologies to fight climate change in two ways, by expanding the use of renewable energy and capturing airborne carbon dioxide. Researchers recently created and ...
May 15, 2024 — A new analysis suggests that if it could be extracted with complete efficiency, lithium from the wastewater of Marcellus shale gas wells could supply ...
May 15, 2024 — Spending time in nature is good for us. And knowing more about nature's effects on our bodies could not only help our well-being, but could also improve how we care for land, preserve ecosystems and ...
May 15, 2024 — Thirteen years after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), a breakthrough in analysis has permitted a world first: direct imaging of radioactive cesium (Cs) atoms ...
May 15, 2024 — New modelling reveals that low-carbon concrete can recycle double the amount of coal ash compared to current standards, halve the amount of cement required and perform exceptionally well over ...
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May 15, 2024 — Researchers who contributed to the development of record-breaking solar cells a few years ago, expanded their invention. The self-assembled monolayers can now be applied not only in inverted but also ...
May 14, 2024 — A new system could enable simple, low-cost detectors for monitoring water for lead contamination, and potentially other heavy metals as ...
May 14, 2024 — A prototype of a more durable material increases the biodegradability of food packaging, partially replacing its bioplastic with cellulose fibers extracted from the branches and leaves of the avocado ...
May 14, 2024 — Grassland provides many services for humans, animals and nature, such as feed production, carbon storage and recreation. Researchers spent two years investigating permanent grassland, its ...
May 14, 2024 — Severe wildfires can drive chemical changes in soil that affect ecosystem recovery and risks to human health. A new study finds broader surveillance and modeling of these changes could inform ...
May 14, 2024 — A team of scientists has developed a novel technique to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) from treated flue gas directly into high-value chemicals and fuels. This innovation sidesteps the conventional ...
May 13, 2024 — Today's rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis of ancient ...
May 10, 2024 — Researchers have taken a key step toward closing the silver nanoparticles knowledge gap with a study that indicates the particles' shape and surface chemistry play key roles in how they affect ...
May 10, 2024 — New research into molten rock 20km below the Earth's surface could help save lives by improving the prediction of volcanic ...
May 9, 2024 — A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known by chemists as PFAS or poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances. It involves treating heavily ...
May 9, 2024 — The Canadian wildfires of June 2023 exposed a large portion of the Northeastern United States to unprecedented levels of smoke. A new model that combines wildfire smoke forecasts and data from ...
May 9, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean. The newly-discovered ...
May 9, 2024 — The global chemical industry is a major fossil fuel consumer and climate change contributor; however, new research has identified how the sector could clean up its green credentials by getting ...
May 8, 2024 — Two species of marine bacteria from the North Sea have established an unusual and sometimes destructive relationship to produce the important vitamin B12. The team's experiments show that the ...
May 8, 2024 — Freshwater bacteria with small genomes frequently undergo prolonged periods of adaptive stagnation. Based on genomic analyses of samples from European lakes, researchers uncovered specific ...
May 7, 2024 — A research group explores how the makeup of rocks, specifically their permeability -- or how easily fluids can flow through them -- affects the frequency and intensity of slow slip events. Slow ...
May 7, 2024 — In the ever-expanding search for energy resources, a new study has emerged from Mozambique's Maniamba Basin. Mozambique's Maniamba Basin could be a big source of natural ...
May 6, 2024 — By using experimental electrochemical analyses, mass spectrometry, and computational quantum chemistry modeling, the researchers created an 'atomic-scale storyline' to explain how ozone is ...
May 3, 2024 — A new study of air pollution in U.S. homes reveals how much gas and propane stoves increase people's exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant linked to childhood asthma. Even in bedrooms far ...
May 3, 2024 — Researchers uncovered compelling evidence that Earth's magnetic field was in a highly unusual state when the macroscopic animals of the Ediacaran Period -- 635 to 541 million years ago -- ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Scientists Develop an Affordable Sensor for Lead Contamination
- Avocado Pruning Residues Used to Produce More Sustainable Food Packaging
- Mosaic Grassland Landscapes Are the Most Beneficial
- How Wildfires Change Soil Chemistry
- Transforming Waste Carbon Dioxide Into High-Value Chemicals With a Cost Reduction of About 30%
Monday, May 13, 2024
Friday, May 10, 2024
- Research Explores Ways to Mitigate the Environmental Toxicity of Ubiquitous Silver Nanoparticles
- Clues from Deep Magma Reservoirs Could Improve Volcanic Eruption Forecasts
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- New 'forever Chemical' Cleanup Strategy Discovered
- Improved Wildfire Smoke Model Identifies Areas for Public Health Intervention
- New Rhizobia-Diatom Symbiosis Solves Long-Standing Marine Mystery
- Getting Dirty to Clean Up the Chemical Industry's Environmental Impact
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
- Marine Bacteria Team Up to Produce a Vital Vitamin
- Limited Adaptability Makes Freshwater Bacteria Vulnerable to Climate Change
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- Researchers Show That Slow-Moving Earthquakes Are Controlled by Rock Permeability
- From Fossils to Fuel: Mozambique's Maniamba Basin's Energy Potential
Monday, May 6, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
- Quantifying U.S. Health Impacts from Gas Stoves
- Did a Magnetic Field Collapse Trigger the Emergence of Animals?
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- New Nevada Experiments Will Improve Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions
- New Eco-Friendly Lubricant Additives Protect Turbine Equipment, Waterways
- For Microscopic Organisms, Ocean Currents Act as 'expressway' To Deeper Depths
- Human Activity Is Causing Toxic Thallium to Enter the Baltic Sea, According to New Study
- Sugar-Based Catalyst Upcycles Carbon Dioxide
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Missing Link in Species Conservation: Pharmacists, Chemists Could Turn Tide on Plant, Animal Extinction
- Researchers Develop an AI Model to Reduce Uncertainty in Evapotranspiration Prediction
- Climate Change and Mercury Pollution Stressed Plants for Millions of Years
- Methane Emissions from Landfill Could Be Turned Into Sustainable Jet Fuel in Plasma Chemistry Leap
- Biodegradable 'living Plastic' Houses Bacterial Spores That Help It Break Down
- A Virus Could Help Save Billions of Gallons of Wastewater Produced by Fracking
- Discovery of Mechanism Plants Use to Change Seed Oil Could Impact Industrial, Food Oils
- Unlocking the Genetic Mysteries Behind Plant Adaptation: New Insights Into the Evolution of a Water-Saving Trait in the Pineapple Family (Bromeliaceae)
Friday, April 26, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Scientists Released Long-Term Data of Ground Solar-Induced Fluorescence to Improve Understanding of Canopy-Level Photosynthesis
- The Longer Spilled Oil Lingers in Freshwater, the More Persistent Compounds It Produces
- Warming Arctic Reduces Dust Levels in Parts of the Planet
- Key to Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Human Activities Have an Intense Impact on Earth's Deep Subsurface Fluid Flow
- Nanofibers Rid Water of Hazardous Dyes
- Researchers Find Oldest Undisputed Evidence of Earth's Magnetic Field
- A Chemical Mystery Solved -- The Reaction Explaining Large Carbon Sinks
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Asian Monsoon Lofts Ozone-Depleting Substances to Stratosphere
- 'Sunny Day Flooding' Increases Fecal Contamination of Coastal Waters
- Laser-Treated Cork Absorbs Oil for Carbon-Neutral Ocean Cleanup
Friday, April 19, 2024
- 'Itinerant Breeding' In East Coast Shorebird Species
- The Italian Central Apennines as a Source of CO2
- Weather Prediction Models Can Also Forecast Satellite Displacements
- Toxic Chemicals from Microplastics Can Be Absorbed Through Skin
- Warming of Antarctic Deep-Sea Waters Contribute to Sea Level Rise in North Atlantic, Study Finds
- Energy Scientists Unravel the Mystery of Gold's Glow
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Global Study Reveals Health Impacts of Airborne Trace Elements
- Ice Age Climate Analysis Reduces Worst-Case Warming Expected from Rising CO2
- New Class of Antimicrobials Discovered in Soil Bacteria
- Understanding Climate Warming Impacts on Carbon Release from the Tundra
- Plant Sensors Could Act as an Early Warning System for Farmers
- How Soil Microbes Survive in Harsh Desert Environments
- Paradox of Extreme Cold Events in a Warming World
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Coral Reef Microbes Point to New Way to Assess Ecosystem Health
- Researchers Shine Light on Rapid Changes in Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems
- Trash to Treasure -- Researchers Turn Metal Waste Into Catalyst for Hydrogen
- CO2 Worsens Wildfires by Helping Plants Grow
- Huge Database Gives Insight Into Salmon Patterns at Sea
Monday, April 15, 2024
- How Blue-Green Algae Manipulate Microorganisms
- Switch to Green Wastewater Infrastructure Could Reduce Emissions and Provide Huge Savings According to New Research
- Researchers Resolve Old Mystery of How Phages Disarm Pathogenic Bacteria
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Nanoscale Movies Shed Light on One Barrier to a Clean Energy Future
- Oxidant Pollutant Ozone Removes Mating Barriers Between Fly Species
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Using CO2 and Biomass, Researchers Find Path to More Environmentally Friendly Recyclable Plastics
- Novel UV Broadband Spectrometer Revolutionizes Air Pollutant Analysis
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- A Microbial Plastic Factory for High-Quality Green Plastic
- New Device Gathers, Stores Electricity in Remote Settings
- Scientist Helps Link Climate Change to Madagascar's Megadrought
- Subterranean Storage of Hydrogen
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Atmospheric and Economic Drivers of Global Air Pollution
- Using Pulp and Paper Waste to Scrub Carbon from Emissions
- Integrated Dataset Enables Genes-to-Ecosystems Research
Friday, April 5, 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- What Four Decades of Canned Salmon Reveal About Marine Food Webs
- Researchers Envision Sci-Fi Worlds Involving Changes to Atmospheric Water Cycle
- Tracing the Largest Solar Storm in Modern Times from Tree Rings in Lapland
- New Method Reveals Hidden Activity of Life Below Ground
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- Out of the Park: New Research Tallies Total Carbon Impact of Tourism at Yellowstone
- 'Tug of War' Tactic Enhances Chemical Separations for Critical Materials
- Unleashing Disordered Rocksalt Oxides as Cathodes for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries
- Water-Based Paints: Less Stinky, but Some Still Contain Potentially Hazardous Chemicals
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- New Step in Tectonic Squeeze That Turns Seafloor Into Mountains
- A New Estimate of U.S. Soil Organic Carbon to Improve Earth System Models
- Chemistry Researchers Modify Solar Technology to Produce a Less Harmful Greenhouse Gas
Monday, April 1, 2024
Friday, March 29, 2024
- Blueprint for Mandating Indoor Air Quality for Public Buildings in Form of Standards
- How Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Can Contribute to the Variability of Jet Streams in the Northern Hemisphere
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Manganese Plays a Surprising Role in Soil Carbon Sequestration
- Researchers Discover Key Gene for Toxic Alkaloid in Barley
- New Approach to Monitoring Freshwater Quality Can Identify Sources of Pollution, and Predict Their Effects
- Study Unlocks the Power of Visible Light for Sustainable Chemistry
- Parental Avoidance of Toxic Exposures Could Help Prevent Autism, ADHD in Children, New Study Shows