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Environment
Photo-sensitive materials to remove harmful pesticides from drinking water
Scientists have developed a new method to clean atrazine from drinking water using a new photo-sensitive material and sunlight.
California’s risk of a flooding catastrophe – in Los Angeles
There is a flooding catastrophe awaiting California — not only in the Sacramento Delta, but in the Los Angeles region.
Climate predictions: Sometimes less is more
Toward better climate predictions using the ocean as the atmosphere’s memory.
Almost 40% conversion efficiency predicted in new perovskite solar cell
A new material shows great potential with an impressive theoretical maximum conversion efficiency of 38% in a perovskite/Si tandem solar cell architecture.
Machine learning scopes out previously “invisible” microplastics
A new approach combines 3D coherent imaging with machine learning to detect microscale microplastics in filtered water samples.
Financing net zero
Global warming: a collision of science, economy, and politics. Could finance be the key?
The world’s most efficient lithium-sulfur battery
Monash University researchers have developed the world’s most efficient lithium-sulphur battery, capable of powering a smartphone for five continuous days.
Nano-silicon samurai: Surface engineered sponges to clean up oil
Nano-silicon is an attractive tool in the field of environmental remediation, specifically when it comes to cleaning up oil spills from underwater drilling and hydraulic fracking.
Why We Need to Shift Governance Beyond the Blue Water Basin
Global water resources are increasingly becoming scarce. Many water basins are closing due to unsustainable modes of extraction and more than 800 million people still lack access to safe and sufficient drinking water. Although water is constantly moving through the...
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