All Articles Tagged As: pollution

Green catalysts provide promise for cleaning toxins and pollutants (8/20/2008)

Small-molecule catalysts have the potential to be even more effective ...> Full Article

Using live fish, new tool a sentinel for environmental contamination (8/15/2008)

Researchers have harnessed the sensitivity of days-old fish embryos to create a tool capable of detecting a range of harmful chemicals. ...> Full Article

Strange molecule in the sky cleans acid rain, scientists discover (8/13/2008)

Researchers have discovered an unusual molecule that is essential to the atmosphere's ability to break down pollutants, especially the compounds that cause acid rain. ...> Full Article

Controlling nitrogen pollution will not stop toxic algae blooms, says research (7/27/2008)

Research has confirmed that algae blooms, which can poison lakes and kill fish, can be controlled by limiting phosphorus. ...> Full Article

Earthworms providing clues in soil pollution (6/22/2008)

Earthworms are proving to be great detectives when it comes to identifying pollutants present in soil ...> Full Article

Persistent Man-Made Chemicals (6/11/2008)

Contamination of the deep oceanic food web is occurring, new study reports ...> Full Article

Finding a needle in a haystack? No problem for the Montana Analytical Lab (4/4/2008)

Lab able to find contaminants at one part in a trillion ...> Full Article

Fire without smoke (4/3/2008)

Flameless turbo power ...> Full Article

Chemists Find Important Contributor to Smog (3/23/2008)

Chemists have discovered that a chemical reaction in the atmosphere above major cities long assumed to be unimportant in urban air pollution is in fact a significant contributor to urban ozone-the main component of smog. ...> Full Article

Studies show trace pharmaceuticals in water (3/14/2008)

Though multiple studies show trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in some Montana water, activated charcoal drinking water filters and reverse osmosis systems are able to remove most of them ...> Full Article

Scientists Estimate Mercury Emissions from U.S. Forest Fires (10/21/2007)

Forest fires and other blazes in the United States release about 30 percent as much mercury as the nation's industrial sources. ...> Full Article