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Pollution: is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light. Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants.
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JUN 27, 2017Videos
In northern China's Hebei Province, the largest freshwater area is known as the Baiyangdian Wetlands. It's popular with ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 17, 2017Earth & The Environment
The Amazon River Basin, which contains 20% of the world’s freshwater and covers more than 6.1 million square kilom ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 13, 2017Earth & The Environment
It seems that the sea bed off the coast of southern California has been hiding a lost ecosystem which had previously spo ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 07, 2017Videos
Iran's village of Nashtifan in the northeast part of the country boasts a technological marvel: ancient windmills that h ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 07, 2017Videos
In terms of wine and flowers, it can be said that "the nose knows." Now there's another area in which the sense of smell ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 04, 2017Microbiology
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Erin Baker of Pacific Northwest National Library is featured in this video discussing her research. She wants to learn m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 02, 2017Microbiology
Bacteria have huge potential as specialized factories that can synthesize precious molecules.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 01, 2017Plants & Animals
Scientists exploring the deep sea off of Australia’s Eastern seaboard have discovered a bevy of interesting new se ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 27, 2017Videos
If you are the average person living in the United States, according to the EPA you generate about 1600 pounds of waste ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 26, 2017Earth & The Environment
In mid-April, there was a devastating spill of two million gallons of drilling fluid from the Rover pipeline in an Ohio ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 25, 2017Videos
The Ozone Layer refers to the O3 (three oxygen atoms bonded together) that is in the stratosphere, which ranges from 6-3 ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 24, 2017Videos
It's raining acid? Acid rain refers to precipitation that is more acidic than normal rain (which itself has a pH of 6, s ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 24, 2017Earth & The Environment
We know that air pollution is bad, and that pollution from sulfur dioxide causes acid rain and cardiovascular and respir ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 15, 2017Microbiology
Researchers discover that a common marine sponge plays host to bacteria that generate toxic compounds that are very simi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 15, 2017Earth & The Environment
Did you buy your mother flowers yesterday? While those sweet-smelling roses may bring a smile to your mother’s fac ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 11, 2017Earth & The Environment
When I first walked off the plane onto the red earth of Baltra Island, I immediately got the feeling that I was in anoth ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 09, 2017Earth & The Environment
The future for the environment is looking even grimmer as news that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided not to renew ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 08, 2017Earth & The Environment
The goal in eco-minded technology this day in age is to make something we want by utilizing something we don’t wan ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 05, 2017Earth & The Environment
Wild spaces are important for many reasons. For us humans, they give us peace and energy, provide places for recreation ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 03, 2017Earth & The Environment
In order to determine pollution levels in roadside soils where mostly diesel vehicles are driven, scientists from the Un ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 24, 2017Earth & The Environment
Marine biologists James Hollibaugh and Sylvia Schaefer from the University of Georgia have determined a correlation betw ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 21, 2017Microbiology
Geobacter is a remarkable genus of bacteria. They were the first organisms found to be able to oxidize organic compounds ...Written By: Kerry EvansAPR 20, 2017Earth & The Environment
As I learned during an ecology lab in college, biodiversity assessment is currently the most effective and accepted meth ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 27, 2017
Videos
In northern China's Hebei Province, the largest freshwater area is known as the Baiyangdian Wetlands. It's popular with
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 17, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The Amazon River Basin, which contains 20% of the world’s freshwater and covers more than 6.1 million square kilom
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 13, 2017
Earth & The Environment
It seems that the sea bed off the coast of southern California has been hiding a lost ecosystem which had previously spo
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 07, 2017
Videos
Iran's village of Nashtifan in the northeast part of the country boasts a technological marvel: ancient windmills that h
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 07, 2017
Videos
In terms of wine and flowers, it can be said that "the nose knows." Now there's another area in which the sense of smell
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 04, 2017
Microbiology
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 03, 2017
Videos
Erin Baker of Pacific Northwest National Library is featured in this video discussing her research. She wants to learn m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 02, 2017
Microbiology
Bacteria have huge potential as specialized factories that can synthesize precious molecules.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 01, 2017
Plants & Animals
Scientists exploring the deep sea off of Australia’s Eastern seaboard have discovered a bevy of interesting new se
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 27, 2017
Videos
If you are the average person living in the United States, according to the EPA you generate about 1600 pounds of waste
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 26, 2017
Earth & The Environment
In mid-April, there was a devastating spill of two million gallons of drilling fluid from the Rover pipeline in an Ohio
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 25, 2017
Videos
The Ozone Layer refers to the O3 (three oxygen atoms bonded together) that is in the stratosphere, which ranges from 6-3
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 24, 2017
Videos
It's raining acid? Acid rain refers to precipitation that is more acidic than normal rain (which itself has a pH of 6, s
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 24, 2017
Earth & The Environment
We know that air pollution is bad, and that pollution from sulfur dioxide causes acid rain and cardiovascular and respir
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 15, 2017
Microbiology
Researchers discover that a common marine sponge plays host to bacteria that generate toxic compounds that are very simi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 15, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Did you buy your mother flowers yesterday? While those sweet-smelling roses may bring a smile to your mother’s fac
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 11, 2017
Earth & The Environment
When I first walked off the plane onto the red earth of Baltra Island, I immediately got the feeling that I was in anoth
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 09, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The future for the environment is looking even grimmer as news that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided not to renew
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 08, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The goal in eco-minded technology this day in age is to make something we want by utilizing something we don’t wan
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 05, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Wild spaces are important for many reasons. For us humans, they give us peace and energy, provide places for recreation
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 03, 2017
Earth & The Environment
In order to determine pollution levels in roadside soils where mostly diesel vehicles are driven, scientists from the Un
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 24, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Marine biologists James Hollibaugh and Sylvia Schaefer from the University of Georgia have determined a correlation betw
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 21, 2017
Microbiology
Geobacter is a remarkable genus of bacteria. They were the first organisms found to be able to oxidize organic compounds
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
APR 20, 2017
Earth & The Environment
As I learned during an ecology lab in college, biodiversity assessment is currently the most effective and accepted meth
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan