Each year, the world discards more than 10 million tons of spent coffee grounds, and most go to landfills or incinerators, ...

Freshwater scarcity is one of the most urgent challenges facing sustainable development, especially as many conventional desalination technologies require high energy input and costly infrastructure.

CAS Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing ...

A new nitrogen-doped biochar made from agricultural waste boosts ozone treatment by more than 100 times, helping break down a common insect repellent pollutant in water DEET is valued for its ...

Characterization of five enzymes involved in gibberellin production in rhizobia completes the elucidation of its biosynthetic pathway and indicates that bacteria have independently evolved this ...

Jason deCaires Taylor's new Solomon Islands siren isn't underwater yet. The rising sea is coming for it, on purpose.

In most water and industrial/agricultural wastewater treatment processes, traditional biological treatments do not work well owing to the high toxicity, high stability and non-biodegradable ...