India: Modi’s War on Science
While India is increasingly producing science outputs, there are several steps back due to the scientific temperament of the political circles. Read more [...]
Tag Archives: pollution
Five Innovative Technologies Improving Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment
As people use water in various industrial processes, they tend to pollute it. To protect the environment and ensure people have clean drinking water, people need to treat wastewater. Read more [...]
The Poetry of Science – Episode 11: The Cost of Shale
This episode is inspired by recent research, which suggests that fracking may be responsible for the increase in atmospheric methane that has been observed over the past decade. Read more [...]
The Poetry of Science – Episode 3: Plastic Paradise
This episode uncovers research which has has found an estimated 414 million pieces of human-made rubbish on Australia’s remote Cocos Islands. Read more [...]
Ecology of the Gulf of Finland and the Neva Bay: plastic pollution of the marine environment
Petersburg scientists are sounding the alarm over the pollution of the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga with plastic bottles and household chemicals. In accordance with the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea region, cooperation between Russia and the EU Read more [...]
Tracking the movement of all plastic litter in the ocean is crucial
At the end of October the European Parliament approved EU’s plans to ban, by 2021, throwaway plastics, which make up over 70% of the marine litter. This is part of the newly launched EU’s plastics strategy and of speeding up global action on marine Read more [...]
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