From improving food security to their use as biotechnology power horses, Trichoderma fungi are increasingly being exploited by industry. Current advances in the field are brought together and highlighted in a special issue of Microbiology published online on 27 December. Trichoderma are free-living fungi widely used in agricultural biotechnology…
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Filed under: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture on January 1st, 2012 | No Comments »
Researchers from the University of Southampton have contributed to a major international United Nation’s (UN) report into the current status of the world’s land and water resources for food and agriculture…
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The latest episode in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) award-winning “Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions” podcast series discusses the discovery that household washing machines seem to be a major source of so-called “microplastic” pollution — bits of polyester and acrylic smaller than the head of a pin — that researchers now have detected on ocean shorelines […]
Filed under: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture on December 24th, 2011 | No Comments »
A report by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health provides an expanded review of six new air quality regulations proposed or recently adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA). These include the first national standards for reducing dangerous emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from power plants…
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Filed under: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture on December 23rd, 2011 | No Comments »
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent 75 days on the job carrying out some very important homework - measurements in a “typical dwelling” of the release, distribution and fate of particles almost as tiny as the diameter of a single DNA molecule. Particles ranging in size from 100 nanometers down […]
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Nearly two-thirds of Israeli Jews, 64 percent, favor establishing a nuclear free zone in the Middle East - even when it was spelled out that this would mean both Israel and Iran would have to forego nuclear weapons - finds a new University of Maryland poll…
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A team of scientists have used the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite to confirm major reductions in the levels of a key air pollutant generated by coal power plants in the eastern United States. The pollutant, sulfur dioxide, contributes to the formation of acid rain and can cause serious health problems…
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Chicago area residents have wondered for years about the health risks of using the Chicago River for recreation…
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The Antarctic ozone hole, which yawns wide every Southern Hemisphere spring, reached its annual peak on Sept. 12. It stretched to 10.05 million square miles, the ninth largest ozone hole on record. Above the South Pole, the ozone hole reached its deepest point of the season on Oct. 9, tying this year for the 10th […]
Filed under: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture on October 24th, 2011 | No Comments »
Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale researchers in Nature Geoscience. Their findings could change the way scientists model the movement of carbon between land, water and the atmosphere…
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