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09/04/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Methanol now being created from AIR

Methanol is one of the most widely used chemicals today, but producing it is no simple feat. Scientists at Cardiff University reported having found a simpler, cheaper, and cleaner method of creating the chemical, opening opportunities to reduce waste from natural gas production. Methanol is a flammable chemical that’s used in many modern applications. It’s […]

07/12/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Gases from a car air freshener caused a car to explode

Just recently, an automobile blew up without warning in the U.K. – but it wasn’t because of a terrorist plot. An article in Natural Health 365 states that the car exploded due to a build-up of toxic gases from the air freshener. The vehicle was in the parking lot of a B&Q home improvement retail store […]

05/21/2018 / By David Williams

Chemists have just found a new and relatively unknown flame retardant in the environment

Flame retardants are known to cause plenty of problems despite their apparent usefulness in everyday items. Now, there is new evidence that suggests the flame retardant problem may be a lot bigger than earlier thought. Chemists working at Indiana University have discovered an entirely new flame retardant, and they found it out in the environment. […]

02/19/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Tracking wastewater is difficult: Artificial sweeteners turn out to be reliable chemical markers

No one really thinks twice about the wastewater generated by sinks and toilets, but a team of Canadian scientists has recently discovered an unusual way to track the water “to ensure it doesn’t end up in unwanted places.” John Spoelstra, a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, says that artificial sweeteners “are very specific […]

02/19/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Technical solutions for pulling pollution out of the air are distractions that allow both government and industry to keep polluting

The global air pollution situation has peaked, causing millions to succumb respiratory issues and other health problems. Various countries have attempted to tackle this worldwide epidemic through all kinds of creative means. In Xi’an, China, a tower the size of a small high-rise is said to purify the air around it. In London, a group […]

02/15/2018 / By David Williams

California’s Central Valley food production found responsible for shocking amount of air pollution

A new study that was conducted by researchers from the University of California, Davis recently concluded that a large part of the nitrogen oxide pollution found in California comes from a rather unexpected source: Heavy fertilizer use in the California Central Valley region, which is said to be the source of more than half of […]

02/06/2018 / By David Williams

Removing heavy metals from water: Activated charcoal from palm kernel cake is a low cost biosorbent

Contaminated water contains all sorts of harmful toxins that can result in dangerous diseases in humans. This has led scientists to devise various ways to decontaminate water —-so much so that decontamination has become an industry of its own. One of the primary objectives of decontamination is to remove heavy metals in water, which can cause […]

01/26/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Millions of documents about chemical toxicity have been compiled into database, ToxicDocs, now available online

There is no doubt that toxic products are everywhere you look these days. For every headline about a product recall, there are countless other items that are either ignored or given a free pass, slowly poisoning us and our planet. Public health historians David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz have been documenting the history of toxic […]

01/25/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Man-made meteor: New estimates put China’s doomed space station, with toxic chemicals on board, crash landing back to Earth in about 3 months — with many toxins surviving re-entry

In 2016, the Chinese Space Agency conceded that it had lost contact and control of the Tiagong-1, China’s first prototype space station. Officials hypothesized that reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere would occur sometime in 2017. Now, it has been estimated that the Tiagong-1 — which means “Heavenly Place — will finally crash into the earth […]

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