Pollution costs Uganda billions each year, but clean cooking pays for itself
A new health-economic model estimates that air and water pollution cost Uganda USD 4.34 billion annually, about 8.1 percent of ...
Tag: Water pollution
Greeks Know the Environment Is at Risk, But Their Actions Tell Another Story
A national survey of 1,410 Greek adults quantifies a persistent gap between high environmental awareness and weaker pro-environmental behavior, with ...
The Plastic Nile: Toxic Cargo of Microplastics Threatens River Life and Human Health
A new scoping review finds that microplastics in the Nile River carry heavy metals, organic pollutants, and antibiotics into fish ...
Old military maps reveal why salmon vanished from a German river system
Researchers used early nineteenth-century military maps to reconstruct how barriers, channel straightening, and intensifying floodplain land use drove the decline ...
Toxic Metals Are Piling Up in Brazil’s Freshwater Fish, Review Finds
A systematic review of 52 studies finds that mercury, lead, cadmium, and chromium routinely exceed safety limits in Brazilian freshwater ...
Ghana’s rivers, hospitals and landfills are steeped in antibiotic pollution, review finds
A systematic review of 46 studies shows antibiotic residues at record-breaking concentrations in Ghanaian hospital effluents and landfill leachates, with ...
Iron-Modified Nanotube Electrode Strips Persistent Pollutant from Water in Two Hours
An iron-modified titanium dioxide nanotube electrode combined with electricity, heat and ultraviolet light removed 92.1% of nitrobenzene from water within ...
Cobalt catalysts turn nitrate pollution into ammonia, review finds
A new review in Environmental Surfaces and Interfaces surveys how abundant, inexpensive cobalt-based electrocatalysts can convert nitrate pollution into ammonia ...
Microscopic Bodyguards: Algae Enlist Bacterial Partners to Survive a Toxic Pollutant
New research shows that microalgae remodel their surface microbiome under nonylphenol pollution and recruit the bacterium Brevundimonas sp. D-1, which ...
Water Quality Index Reveals Stark Pollution Divide Across Indian Wetland Complex
A new Water Quality Index study of the Rasik Beel Wetland Complex in West Bengal finds average water quality is ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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