Environment
New study shows how nanoparticles can clean up environmental pollutants
By By Jonathan Mingle | MIT News correspondent | 25 Jul 2015
Nanomaterials and UV light can “trap” chemicals for easy removal from soil and water
Oceans slowed global temperature rise, scientists report
24 Jul 2015
In recent years, extra heat from greenhouse gases has been trapped between 300 and 1,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific and Indian oceans, which will begin moving up kicking off a warming cycle
Researchers find prawn solution to spread of deadly disease
22 Jul 2015
A Stanford-led study finds that freshwater prawns can serve as an effective natural solution in the battle against a potentially deadly parasitic disease that infects about 230 million people
People living in areas near hydraulic fracturing more likely to be hospitalised for heart conditions: Study
18 Jul 2015
How clouds get their brightness
18 Jul 2015
Global sea levels have risen six meters or more with just slight global warmin, says tudy
13 Jul 2015
Typhoon Chan-hom makes landfall in eastern China
11 Jul 2015
Single-catalyst water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen 24/7
06 Jul 2015
Stanford University scientists have invented a low-cost water splitter that uses a single catalyst to produce both hydrogen and oxygen gas 24 hours a day, seven days a week
UK receives record energy in the UK on Thursday
04 Jul 2015
BP agrees to record $18.7 billion settlement over Gulf of Mexico oil spill
03 Jul 2015
The $18.7 bn deal would meet damage claims of the federal government, the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, as also over 400 local government entities along the coast
Renewable sources to supply over half of Europe’s electricity by 2030
27 Jun 2015
Europe is likely to get over half of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of the next decade if EU countries met their climate pledges
Road traffic noise linked to deaths and strokes
24 Jun 2015
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