Experts call for regulations to ensure water affordability in US cities
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The goo from okra is known to thicken stews, but it can also clean water of some types of pollutants. Now, researchers report that combinations of okra and other food-grade plant extracts can remove microplastics from wastewater. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
Leading food safety and nutrition scientists are meeting June 21-23, 2022, at the National Press Club.
Arsenic is a major drinking water contaminant, often linked to the bedrock where wells are drilled in the Northeastern part of the United States. However, new research suggests that pesticides used 100 years ago may also be to blame.
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Research for this ingredient in traditional St. Patrick’s Day dish
Collaborative North American research institute supported 25 peer-reviewed papers, 31 webinars and earned over 140 media mentions since its launch in February 2021.
People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit by climate change, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today.
Authors of a new paper recently published in the peer-review journal PLOS One have developed a new Bloom Severity Index and a new Respiratory Irritation Index for red tide blooms in the Gulf of Mexico — the first standardized and objective way to gauge how severe red tides are.
Downy mildew affects cucumber crops in South Carolina every year and can cause huge crop losses, but Clemson University researchers say planting early can cut growers’ losses to just about zero.
IAFNS updates tool to compare metal exposures with safety limits
The key to preventing another global pandemic may be found at UNC Charlotte. Expanding upon the University’s award-winning development of a novel COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program and rapidly growing success in bioinformatics, the University is bringing together experts to explore ways to combat threats to human health.
An IU study found that exposure to lead in drinking water from private wells during early childhood is associated with an increased risk of being reported for delinquency during teenage years.
Levan Elbakidze, a researcher at West Virginia University's Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, has identified a money factor in water quality.
The Endocrine Society joined a coalition of physicians, scientists and public health and environmental organizations to send a formal petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), calling on the agency to rescind its approvals for bisphenol A (BPA) in adhesives and coatings and set strict limits on its use in plastics that contact food.
As many as a quarter of children in Flint, Michigan – approximately seven times the national average – may have experienced elevated blood lead levels after the city’s water crisis, and more children should have been screened, new Cornell University research finds.
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Each classification of water can be used differently, preserving this precious resource
An estimated 370,000 Californians rely on drinking water that may contain high levels of the chemicals arsenic, nitrate or hexavalent chromium, and contaminated drinking water disproportionately impacts communities of color in the state, according to a new analysis led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles.