Environmental News Network

Natural Contaminant Threat to Drinking Water From Groundwater

More than half of the world’s population faces a looming threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water because climate change and urbanisation are expected to cause an increase in groundwater organic carbon, a new UNSW study has found.

Palm Oil Must Be Made More Sustainable While Replacements Are Made Scalable, Bath Engineers Warn

Efforts to create synthetic replacements for palm oil are still likely to take several years, so immediate attention should be focused on making the existing production process more sustainable, researchers at the University of Bath’s Centre for Integrated Bioprocessing Research (CIBR) and Centre for Sustainable Circular Technologies (CSCT) have found.

New Study Suggests Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them

Wearing clothes can release even greater quantities of microfibres to the environment than washing them, new research shows.

Research Shows Mangrove Conservation Can Pay for Itself in Flood Protection

The natural coastal defenses provided by mangrove forests reduce annual flooding significantly in critical hotspots around the world.

Report Provides Road Map to Improve Response to Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreaks and Conserve Water

A new policy report, Electronic Registration Systems for Cooling Towers – Improving Public Health and Sustainability Outcomes, published by the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) proposes a standardized yet flexible template for cooling tower registries that are designed to improve health outcomes, address disparity in affected populations, and increase water and energy efficiency.