The solids from wastewater plants are usually dumped into landfills because they are contaminated with heavy metals. Now there is a way to remove the metals so the waste can be used as fertilizer.
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The Great Lakes contain reservoirs of legacy contaminants, mostly in their sediments, that are vulnerable to resuspension.
Urban pollutants are a health concern in growing cities. Scientists are turning to honey bees to help monitor contaminants in soil, water, air and plants.
Until the recent observation of merging neutron stars, how the heaviest elements come to be was a mystery. But their fingerprints are all over this cosmic collision.
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.
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.
Food-borne diseases will continue to thrive unless Africa’s meat inspection programmes are upgraded.
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.
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.
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Senior research fellow, Marine Biological Association
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Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Inequalities, Social Justice, and Policy, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
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PhD Candidate in Environmental Science, Macquarie University
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PhD researcher, Cornell University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Professor of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington
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Chair professor, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Environmental Chemist, Macquarie University
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Professor of Physics, Syracuse University
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Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
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Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
