Top Emerging Impacts on Ocean Biodiversity Over the Next Decade, According to Experts There are fifteen issues that scientists warn we need to solve right away, including the mining of lithium from the deep sea, overfishing of species…
The Poor Suffer Disproportionately from Wildfires The 2022 wildfire season is off to a ferocious start, with fires raging from California to Alaska. It’s a foreshadowing of what promises to be…
Researchers Find ‘Future-Proof’ Way to Remove Phosphorus from Wastewater Using Bacteria Scientists from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National University of Singapore’s Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) have created…
Kepler 186b – an Exoplanet Kepler 186b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-type star. It is an exoplanet 582 light-years away from Earth. Kepler-186b is in orbit…
The Device Simulates Life’s First Steps in Space A new device promises to reveal how the building blocks of life form in space. It simulates the formation of molecules in the freezing darkness…
Environmental Injustice is Key to Understanding Climate Change Debate, According to New Study A recent study from the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami (UM) discovered that Miami’s history of environmental…
Zinc Iodide – an Inorganic Compound The inorganic compound with the formula ZnI2 is zinc iodide. It is a white solid that readily absorbs water from the surrounding environment. It is…
Researchers Discover the Mechanism behind the Development of Fruit and Seed in Flowering Plants The world’s growers have a harder time producing food as a result of rising global temperatures and declining pollinator populations. This question is addressed in…
A Tiny Crustacean fills the role of the Sea’s Bees It can be difficult to live as a single seaweed along a rocky coastline. Despite the fact that there are plenty of potential mates out…
Cloud Research Clarifies the Effects of Aerosols According to new research, aerosol particles in the atmosphere have a greater impact on cloud cover but less impact on cloud brightness than previously thought.…
Study Finds that Saliva, Semen, and Other Clinical Samples from Infected Patients Frequently Detect Monkeypox Virus According to a recent study conducted by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a facility financed by the “la Caixa” Foundation, and the Hospital…
Potassium Chromate (Structure, Production, Applications) Potassium chromate, commonly known as tarapacaite, is a yellowish, crystalline, inorganic compound that emits toxic chromium fumes upon heating. The formula for potassium chromate is…