Geochemistry News
April 27, 2025
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Apr. 24, 2025 — A study describes a new method of recycling silicone waste (caulk, sealants, gels, adhesives, cosmetics, etc.). It has the potential to significantly reduce the sector's environmental impacts. This ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in marine sediments, leading to additional emissions ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Scientists have identified a novel species of bacteria that acts as electrical wiring, potentially ushering in a new era of bioelectronic devices for use in medicine, industry, food safety, and environmental monitoring and ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Biodegradation is an important natural process during oil spill cleanup. A new study revealed that using spill treating agents does not negatively impact naturally occurring ...
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Apr. 21, 2025 — Despite advances in wastewater treatment, tiny plastic particles called microplastics are still slipping through, posing potential health and environmental hazards, according to new ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Based on fundamental research, a new startup is upending decades-old approaches for the way the world extracts lithium and other ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — To protect against rising sea levels in a warming world, coastal cities typically follow a standard playbook with various protective infrastructure options. For example, a seawall could be designed ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Farmers apply nitrogen fertilizers to crops to boost yields, feeding more people and livestock. But when there's more fertilizer than the crop can take up, some of the excess can be converted into ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — The consequences of wildfires in or near urban areas go beyond the damage to buildings and ecosystems, to the threat of contamination of drinking water according to water quality and treatment ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A research group examined terrestrial reliance of 19 ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — From the Japanese cypress to the ponderosa pine, wood has been used in construction for millennia. Though materials like steel and concrete have ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — A new study has investigated how the relationship between mean annual precipitation (MAP) and grassland biomass changes when one or more nutrients ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — In birds, singing behaviors play a critical role in mating and territory defense. Although birdsong can signal individual quality and personality, ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Switching from diesel to electric trains dramatically improved the air quality aboard the San Francisco Bay Area's Caltrain commuter rail line, reducing riders' exposure to the carcinogen black ...
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Apr. 16, 2025 — Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results show that this material -- which is manufactured with living cells at low ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...
Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across Colombia's eastern ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Desalination plants, a major and growing source of freshwater in dry regions, could produce less harmful waste using electricity and new ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Scientists use small peptides to enhance symbiosis between plants and fungi, offering a sustainable alternative to artificial fertilizers. Plant biologists discover new plant molecule, CLE16, as well ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — New DNA probes allow for efficient surveying of the hidden lives of squids and octopuses in the deep sea. This development provides an effective tool for marine ecological research and conservation ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Every year, thousands of tons of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer composed of sugars that has high density and strength, offering potential ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Scientists have developed a scalable method to produce porous graphene membranes that efficiently separate carbon dioxide. The breakthrough could significantly reduce the cost and footprint of carbon ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Earth's rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet's molten youth using advanced quantum mechanical simulations, ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Study reveals commonly detected environmental levels of clobazam -- a medication often prescribed for sleep disorders -- increased the river-to-sea migration success of juvenile salmon in the wild. ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Scientists have developed an innovative system -- called MetaFlowTrain -- that allows the study of metabolic exchange and interactions within microbial communities under different environmental ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Bacteria play key roles in degrading organic matter, both in the soil and in aquatic ecosystems. While most bacteria digest large molecules externally, allowing other community members to share and ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — New research into the overlooked environmental impact of pet dogs has found far-reaching negative effects on wildlife, ecosystems and ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned 'Silent Spring,' alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds -- the bald ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon where vast areas of the ocean glow at night, sometimes for months. This glow, likely caused by Vibrio harveyi bacteria, has been reported by sailors ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Preparing catalysts by sending hot, steamy car exhaust over them could improve their efficiency and reduce the amount of rare and expensive metals required in vehicle catalytic converters and many ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — 'Forever chemicals' are everywhere. But only a handful have been evaluated for potentially toxic effects. Researchers think there may be a faster, cheaper way to figure out which ones might ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Living Fungus-Based Building Material Repairs Itself for Over a Month
- Scientists Find Evidence That Overturns Theories of the Origin of Water on Earth
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
- Making Desalination More Eco-Friendly: New Membranes Could Help Eliminate Brine Waste
Monday, April 14, 2025
- New Plant Molecule Encourages Plant-Fungi Symbiosis to Improve Crops
- Fishing for Cephalopod DNA Allows for Efficient Marine Surveying
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Key Mechanism to Obtain Brown Algae-Derived Compounds With Biotech Applications
- Scalable Graphene Membranes: A Leap for Carbon Capture
- Missing Nitrogen: A Dramatic Game of Cosmic Hide-and-Seek Deep Within Our Planet
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- Drug Pollution Alters Salmon Migration
- New Study on Natural Oil Seeps in the Deep Sea
- A New Tool for Parsing the 'metabolic Dialogue' Between Microorganisms
- In Croatia's Freshwater Lakes, Selfish Bacteria Hoard Nutrients
- Man's Best Friend May Be Nature's Worst Enemy, Study on Pet Dogs Suggests
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Coral Reefs Exude Myriad Chemicals, Fueling Dynamic Microbial Recycling of Nutrients
- Tree Rings Track Atmospheric Mercury Cheaply
- Mapping Mercury Contamination in Penguins of the Southern Ocean
- With New Database Researchers May Be Able to Predict Rare Milky Seas Bioluminescent, Glowing Event
- Serendipitous Discovery Could Lead to More Efficient Catalysts
- 'Forever Chemicals' Are Everywhere: Most of Their Health Effects Are Unknown
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Scientists Discover Microbes in Earth's Deep Soil
- Researchers Discover Why Plastic Sheds Dangerous Fragments
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Machine Learning Helps Construct an Evolutionary Timeline of Bacteria
- Carbon Capture Technology to Produce Clean Fuel from Air
- Electrochemical Method Supports Nitrogen Circular Economy
- Researchers Recycle Wind Turbine Blade Materials to Make Improved Plastics
- Carbon Capture Could Become Practical With Scalable, Affordable Materials
- An Answer to Green Energy in Hydrogen-Generating Marine Microbes
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Sensing Sickness: New Method for Boosting Bee Health
- Early Earth's First Crust Composition Discovery Rewrites Geological Timeline
- Electrochemical Process Separates Valuable Industrial Chemicals from Animal Waste
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Rocky Mountain Snow Is Contaminated, Study Shows
- We Know Nanoplastics Are a Threat -- This New Tool Can Help Us Figure out Just How Bad They Are
Monday, March 31, 2025
- Scientists Pioneer Method to Tackle 'forever Chemicals'
- The Proportion of Harmful Substances in Particulate Matter Is Much Higher Than Assumed
Friday, March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Melting Ice, More Rain Drive Southern Ocean Cooling
- How Calcium May Have Unlocked the Origins of Life's Molecular Asymmetry
- Human Urine, a Valuable Resource as Fertilizer for Sustainable Urban Agriculture, Study Concludes
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Coral Diseases and Water Quality Play a Key Role for Coral Restoration and Survival Efforts
- Earliest Days of Earth's Formation
- A Cleaner Future for Tires: Scientists Pioneer Chemical Process to Repurpose Rubber Waste
- Cleaning Microplastics
- Researchers' Breakthrough Method Reveals Clouds Amplify Global Warming Far More Than Previously Understood
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Ocean Eddies -- The Food Trucks of the Sea
- Eco-Friendly, Nylon-Like Plastic Using Microorganisms
- Refining Siberia's Land Cover Data: A Leap Forward for Climate Science
Monday, March 24, 2025
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Recycled Cements Drive Down Emissions Without Slacking on Strength
- Peatlands' Potential to Capture Carbon Upgraded as Temperatures Rise
- Restored Stream Supports New Wild Salmon Run
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- New Carbon-Negative Material Could Make Concrete and Cement More Sustainable
- Unknown Microorganisms Used Marble and Limestone as a Habitat
- Sulfur Bacteria Team Up to Break Down Substances in the Seabed
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Whose Air Quality Are We Monitoring?
- Quantum Light Source for Eco-Friendly Production of Biogas
- Time Is Not the Driving Influence of Forest Carbon Storage
- Eco-Friendly Method to Efficiently Convert Methane to Ethanol
Monday, March 17, 2025
- New Discovery in Plant-Pest Warfare Could Lead to Sustainable Farming Solutions
- Without Oxygen: How Primordial Microbes Breathed
- Researchers Demonstrate New Technique for Boosting Plant Growth With Bacteria
Friday, March 14, 2025
- 'Microlightning' In Water Droplets May Have Sparked Life on Earth
- Smoke from Wildland-Urban Interface Fires More Deadly Than Remote Wildfires
- Artificial Photosynthesis: Researchers Mimic Plants
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- How Industrial Waste Gases Could Replace Fossil Fuels in Everyday Consumer Products
- Study: 'Sustainable Intensification' On the Farm Reduces Soil Nitrate Losses, Maintains Crop Yields
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Scientists Develop Solar-Powered Method to Convert Sewage Sludge Into Green Hydrogen and Animal Feed
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Cheap and Environmentally Friendly -- The Next Generation LEDs May Soon Be Here
- Microplastics Could Be Fueling Antibiotic Resistance
- Researchers Unveil Comprehensive Zeolite Structures, Advancing Development of Catalysts for Petrochemical and Renewable Energy
- Plastic Recycling Gets a Breath of Fresh Air
Monday, March 10, 2025
- Common Approaches for Assessing Business Impact on Biodiversity Are Powerful, but Often Insufficient for Strategy Design
- Are Volcanoes Behind the Oxygen We Breathe?
- Climate Change Will Reduce the Number of Satellites That Can Safely Orbit in Space
Friday, March 7, 2025
- Earth's Orbital Rhythms Link Timing of Giant Eruptions and Climate Change
- Developing the Inherent Functionality of Highly Pure Porous Organic Polymers
- The Unforseen Effects of Melting Glaciers on Arctic Coastal Ecosystems
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- New Discovery Could 'revolutionize Carbon Fiber Industry'
- Satellite Image Analysis Delivers New Insight Into the Functional Diversity of Tropical Forests
- The Ozone Hole Is Healing, Thanks to Global Reduction of CFCs
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Iron Oxides Act as Natural Catalysts to Unlock Phosphorus to Fuel Plant Growth
- New Computer Vision System Can Guide Specialty Crops Monitoring
- Breakthrough With Biofuel: How Alcohol Damages Microbes That Produce It
- Heat from the Sun Affects Seismic Activity on Earth
Monday, March 3, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
- Eco Friendly, Inexpensive System for Storing High-Power Energy from Pine Biomass
- Studying the Evolutionary History of Continent-Sized Regions in the Deep Mantle
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Discovery of a Common 'weapon' Used by Disease-Causing Fungi Could Help Engineer More Resilient Food Crops
- Turning Waste Organic Compound Into Useful Pharmaceuticals and Energy Using a Technique Inspired by Photosynthesis
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Are Our Refrigerants Environmentally Safe? The Lingering Questions About the Chemicals Keeping Us Cool
- Possible Links Between PFAS Exposure and Childhood Cancers
- Environmental Impact of Unexploded Ordnance in the Baltic Sea
- New Spatial Mechanism for the Coexistence of Tree Species
- Hidden Allies: Trees and Fungi