Benard Omogo, who earned a Ph.D. from the U of A in 2014, is a visiting scholar from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya and an instructor of chemistry and biochemistry at the ...

The industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal, long regarded as a symbol of urban environmental neglect, is being reimagined through ...

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POPs – Persistent Organic Pollutants – pose a significant risk to human health and the environment around the entire globe. They are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation ...

The next step involves designing more efficient Z-type heterojunction photocatalysts for the degradation of various organic pollutants, conducting practical environmental remediation experiments ...

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate ...

At CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, an international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has conducted especially precise measurements of atmospheric ...

Some plastics accumulate in the oceans because of their slow degradation rates. Some estimates place ... tracers can help understand how microplastics get contaminated by organic pollutants and how ...

allowing the photocatalytic degradation of a model organic pollutant. Interestingly, the composites also functioned as Brønsted acid catalysts and removed water pollutants even in the absence of ...