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Warming Climate Could Increase Bacterial Impacts on Chesapeake Bay Shellfish, Recreation

Researchers have found that three common species of Vibrio bacteria in Chesapeake Bay could increase with changing climate conditions by the end of this century, resulting in significant economic and healthcare costs from illnesses caused by exposure to contaminated water and consumption of contaminated shellfish.

Warm Northwest waters draw spawning fish north

Unusually warm ocean conditions off the Pacific Northwest in the last few years led anchovies, sardines and hake to begin spawning in Northwest waters much earlier in the year and, for anchovy, longer than biologists have ever recorded before, new research has found.

Un filtro que puede funcionar para el agua de fracking

Un nuevo filtro producido por científicos de la Universidad de Rice ha demostrado ser capaz de eliminar más del 90 por ciento de hidrocarburos, bacterias y partículas del agua contaminada usada para operaciones de fractura hidráulica (fracking) en pozos de petróleo y gas de esquisto.

Penguin-mounted video captures gastronomic close encounters of the gelatinous kind

Penguins caught on camera eating jellyfish

Sustainable Engineering Solutions for Water and Energy

Onita Basu still vividly remembers the exact moment she decided to devote her career to sustainable water solutions and practices.

“I was in a second-year Chemical Engineering lab working with a solution of water that looked relatively clean,” she recalls. “When I passed the water through a treatment process I was shocked to see an incredible amount of dissolved copper emerge from the solution and begin coating onto various surfaces. It was an eye-opening experience to realize that we cannot always tell what is in our water.”