
Environment
Sea life may suffer as plastic bits alter metals in water
This interplay between plastics and metals could affect how each affects the environment — and suggests opportunities for controlling their risks.
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This interplay between plastics and metals could affect how each affects the environment — and suggests opportunities for controlling their risks.
Long, thin bacteria that conduct electricity may be able to help clean up oil spills and reduce emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
Evidence from the dung may push the onset of animal raising back 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Teamwork makes green-work! Collaborating scientists came up with an electrifying farming trick that could make sunlight optional.
Younger stormwater ponds can release more carbon in gases than they absorb, a study finds. That could aggravate global warming.
Data show a major class of long-used “eco-friendly” copper chemicals unexpectedly react with soil, making gases harmful to Earth’s protective ozone layer.
This word can refer to rotting flesh or the transformation of radioactive atoms.
Instead of warming the climate, methane gas can be collected to help farmers. Along the way, it may also save some fish.
Bacteria get a bad rap for making people sick, but only a tiny portion of these single-celled creatures cause disease.
When heat waves and droughts collide, water is precious. Some thirsty plants try to cool off by opening tiny pores — only to lose water even faster.