A forensics company has identified 11 of 12 compounds that could be considered health concerns in imported drywall.
After a week of drinking from polycarbonate bottles, participants showed a two-thirds increase in bisphenol A in their urine.
University of Milan research shows that inhaling certain particulates may alter gene function.
The Water Environment Research Foundation will support new or ongoing projects that preserve resources and transform how wastewater and stormwater facilities protect public health.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of California Santa Barbara have quantified oil residue in seafloor sediments from natural petroleum seeps.
The organizations will pool resources to impact alternative sources of water supply.
The National Science Foundation reports that researchers have found signs of a changing climate in nearly every corner of the globe over nearly 60 years.
The MIT Integrated Global Systems Model includes detailed treatment of possible changes in human acitivites.
The company says it has made major advances in consolidated bioprocessing, a process that produces biofuels from cellulosic biomass.
Abraham Katzir has modified special fibers that can detect "colors" that distinguish between pure and contaminated water.
Much work still needs to be done to assess what risk, if any, of the presence of superbugs in aquatic environments poses to humans.
Institute will focus on ways of cleaning up problematic constituents in water and wastewater sources.
Texas-based researchers have studied sediments from the Mississippi, Yellow, and Yangtze River deltas and say they contain information on changes in nitrogen application in the drainage basins as well as flooding and hurricane events.
The eight-year study may help pulp and paper mill companies refine their environmental strategies.
As an Energy Frontier Research Center, the university will be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.