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Shown as bright orange and pink highlights under X-ray fluorescent light, birds incorporate metals like zinc and bromine into feathers as they grow. Nature Scientific Reports

June 4, 2017

Hidden feather patterns tell the story of birds

Richard Banati, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Ordinary grey bird feathers placed under X-ray fluorescence reveal beautiful patterns of elements like zinc, telling a story of feather growth and the environments the birds have experienced.

Industrial emissions have blown across Mount Isa for decades. Mark P. Taylor

February 21, 2017

Mount Isa contamination ‘within guidelines’ but residents told to clean their homes

Mark Patrick Taylor, Macquarie University; Chenyin Dong, Macquarie University, and Paul Harvey, Macquarie University

Glencore has admitted responsibility for air pollution in Mount Isa, but its latest report puts the onus on residents to minimise their exposure to lead contamination in their homes.

August 16, 2016

Meat inspection must be beefed up in Africa to cull food-borne diseases

Oyebola Oyesola, Cornell University

Food-borne diseases will continue to thrive unless Africa's meat inspection programmes are upgraded.

Up until the 1940s, as much as half of U.S. water piping from main lines was made of lead. Thomashawk/flickr

January 25, 2016

Piping as poison: the Flint water crisis and America’s toxic infrastructure

Chris Sellers, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)

A wake-up call from Flint: the U.S. has made great gains in reducing lead exposure, but the country is still saddled with millions of miles of water-carrying lead pipes.

Lots of these: settling ponds precipitate iron oxide and other suspended materials from the Red and Bonita mines near the Gold King Mine. Eric Vance/EPA

August 27, 2015

Weighing the impact of the Gold King Mine spill – and hundreds of inactive mines like it

Ronald R H Cohen, Colorado School of Mines

Newly released data show how the hundreds of abandoned mines in the western US discharge the same volume as the Gold King Mine spill every two days.

Top contributors

Mark Patrick Taylor
Professor of Environmental Science, Macquarie University
Paul Harvey
Researcher of Environmental Science, Macquarie University
Ronald R H Cohen
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Chenyin Dong
PhD Candidate in Environmental Science, Macquarie University
Oyebola Oyesola
Graduate Student in Immunology and Infectious DIsease, Cornell University
Chris Sellers
Professor of History, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Richard Banati
Chair professor, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation