Scientists say a failure of national management means excessive amounts of harmful chemicals—many now banned in other countries such as the EU, USA and Canada—are damaging the nation’s waterways and the Great Barrier Reef.
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Minimizing Post-Harvest Food Losses
The crops have been harvested. Now it is important to store the various crops well and to preserve them as long and as carefully as possible.
Go With the Flow: Scientists Design Better Batteries for a Renewable Energy Grid
How do you store renewable energy so it’s there when you need it, even when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing?
Melting Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Emergence of Deadly Virus in Marine Mammals
Scientists have linked the decline in Arctic sea ice to the emergence of a deadly virus that could threaten marine mammals in the North Pacific, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.
Study Reveals How 98 Percent of Plastics at Sea Go Missing Each Year
Trillions of plastic fragments are afloat at sea, which cause large “garbage patches” to form in rotating ocean currents called subtropical gyres.
University of Oklahoma Geoscientist Hopes to Make Induced Earthquakes Predictable
University of Oklahoma Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy assistant professor Xiaowei Chen and a group of geoscientists from Arizona State University and the University of California, Berkeley, have created a model to forecast induced earthquake activity from the disposal of wastewater after oil and gas production.


