All environment articles
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Research
Car exhaust fumes could be used to clean up the recovery of metals
Process could make carbon capture cheaper by providing a use for trapped CO2
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Opinion
Learning through citizen science
Partnerships between scientists, social scientists and schools prove educational for all
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Business
From philanthropy to sustainability
Corporate Social Responsibility in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries is changing
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Opinion
Breaking the carbon cycle
Focusing on new technologies to tackle climate change could allow policymakers to dodge their own responsibilities
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News
Third of US science and environment advisory committees to be slashed
President Trump’s latest order has science advocates worried
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Research
Hippo dung drives savannah silicon cycle
Eating silicon-rich grass on land and spreading dung in rivers provides vital nutrients for microscopic diatoms
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News
Asthmatics encouraged to switch to lower carbon footprint inhalers
The majority of inhalers prescribed in UK contain a potent greenhouse gas
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News
Window of opportunity to deal with harmful chemicals closing, UN warns
Innovative solutions needed as report acknowledges governments and businesses won’t hit 2020 targets
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News
‘No deal’ Brexit would leave UK without environmental watchdog for two years
Environment, energy and health among areas where nation could be caught short, thinktank warns
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News
US chemical safety office finally gets a new director
Senate approves new head for Environmental Protection Agency’s office of chemical safety and pollution prevention after year long wait
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Review
Film: The Devil We Know
The story of an industrial waste dumping scandal, the effects of which have persisted for decades
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News
Hawaii bans sunscreens containing chemicals thought to harm coral
Oxybenzone and octinoxate will be outlawed in January 2021
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News
£20 million UK fund to clean up plastics production
Money will help tackle environmental problems caused by plastics
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News
Harvard and Google team up to take on harmful construction chemicals
New centre is working with Google and others to reduce the use of chemicals linked to health and environmental problems
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Research
Nanofertilisers have huge potential but studies suffer from severe shortcomings
Nanosize agrochemicals promise to boost crop yields but experiments are often inconsistent and unrealistic, analysis reveals
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News
UK urged to crack down on F-gas emissions
Global phase-out of HFCs could reduce global warming by 0.5°C over the next century
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News
UN’s non-toxic targets unlikely to be achieved
The United Nations’ goal of achieving a ‘poison-free environment’ by 2020 won’t be met, Sweden’s chemicals agency warns
