Water Pollution

On the afternoon of January 15, activist Diane Wilson kicked off a San Antonio Estuary Waterkeeper meeting on the side of the road across from a Formosa plastics manufacturing plant in Point Comfort, Texas. After Wilson and the waterkeeper successfully sued Formosa, the company agreed to no longer release even one…

BALLERUP, Denmark, Jan. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- LiqTech International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIQT) ("LiqTech"), a clean technology company that manufactures and markets highly specialized filtration technologies, will host an investor day on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 commencing at 2:00pm CET local time (8:00am EST in New York), at the Company's facility in…

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Forecasts of rain and storms are expected to bring some relief to land scorched by Australia's months-long bushfires, but heavy downpours now bring the risk of landslides and water pollution, meteorologists and water authorities said. T…

BGU researchers' new invention tracks water pollution in real time

We all know that garbage has a terrible impact on our environment take a look at the plastic bottles washing up on our beaches and in our waterways. But when it comes to the question of bottles versus aluminium cans, does one container have an even worse impa…

Sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) is a brown algae that has many uses in cosmetics, food and even ... biofuel. GreenWave An ocean-farming nonprofit is kick-starting the next generation of scientists and farmers through an internship program in New Haven…

Chennai-based computer scientist R. Ramanujam will receive the The Indira Gandhi prize for popularisation of science for the year 2020. The prize was instituted by Indian National Science Academy in 1986 and is given once in three years to either a career med…

Who says pollution solutions cant be beautiful? Indus is a water pollution cleaning system made from ceramic tiles and algae. The resulting wall is very aesthetically pleasing and may prove to be a low cost way of dealing with dyes and chemicals. The system…

This story is part of the GP100, our annual roundup of the best products of the year. To see the full list of winners, grab the latest issue of Gear Patrol Magazine. The apparel industry is one of the worlds top industrial polluters, and its been that way fo…

Freshwater mussels have long been used by humans as decorations, tools, and for food. Ancient Europeans used freshwater mussel shells as ornaments. Ancient Mayans used the shells as paint pots, pendants, and clothing decorations. The mound-building tribes of …