1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (56+ words) Water utilities live and die by the forecast. When a crew opens a valve or takes a pipe offline for inspection, the entire calculation rests on an assumption about how much water customers will draw that day. Get that number…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (783+ words) Fluorinated waste streams have long been among the most stubborn environmental problems of the industrial age, and few sources illustrate the challenge better than aqueous film-forming foam, the firefighting agent that has contaminated soil and groundwater around airports, military bases…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (587+ words) A team of researchers in China has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of the jumping plant louse Bactericera gobica and, by combining it with nearly every other Triozidae mitogenome available, assembled the most comprehensive genetic dataset ever compiled for…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (55+ words) Every year, the global citrus industry discards millions of tonnes of orange peels, a fragrant mountain of waste rich in pectin, essential oils and polyphenols. Most of this material ends up in landfills or low-value animal feed, even though its…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (75+ words) Every year, humanity swallows roughly 35,000 metric tons of aspirin, and much of it does not simply vanish after doing its job. A sweeping new review published in Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry argues that one of the world’s oldest…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (669+ words) Cadmium is one of the most stubborn contaminants in the world’s farmland, and in China it has become a quiet but persistent threat to the food supply. The toxic heavy metal, which enters soils through mining, smelting, industrial emissions, and…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (55+ words) In the world of traditional Chinese medicine, few raw materials are as quietly ubiquitous as Cicadae Periostracum, the papery slough that cicadas abandon when they molt from nymph to adult. For centuries, this discarded exoskeleton has been prescribed for sore…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (96+ words) Rice paddies are among the most productive agricultural ecosystems on Earth, feeding billions of people across Asia and beyond. Yet beneath the flooded fields lies a complex microbial world whose balance determines whether the soil stays fertile or degrades over…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (773+ words) When Tropical Cyclone Ana swept across eastern Zimbabwe in January 2022, it was far less devastating than Cyclone Idai, which had killed 347 people and caused more than a billion dollars in losses three years earlier....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (674+ words) Beneath every harvest in the United States lies an intricate microscopic economy, one that most consumers never see but every farmer depends upon. Andi Jilling, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School…...