Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.

Metal-filtering sponge removes lead from water

Reusable sponge can capture and recover critical metals and heavy-metal pollutants. Northwestern University engineers have developed a new sponge that can remove metals — including toxic heavy metals like lead…

Jellyfish-like robots could one day clean up the world’s oceans

Roboticists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a jellyfish-inspired underwater robot with which they hope one day to collect waste from the bottom of…

Ocean ecosystem: Mixotrophic microorganisms play key role

Previously unknown group of bacteria in the deep sea regulates energy balance. A team of international researchers led by Federico Baltar of the University of Vienna and José M González…

Arctic ice algae heavily contaminated with microplastics

The alga Melosira arctica, which grows under Arctic sea ice, contains ten times as many microplastic particles as the surrounding seawater. This concentration at the base of the food web…

Clean Earth Rovers prepares to ship improved product

UC Venture Lab-backed startup signs distribution deal. Partnering with companies in the United States and Australia, a University of Cincinnati Venture Lab-backed startup has improved its autonomous rovers that clear…

Scientists identify 2022 sea urchin killer

The mass die-off of the long-spined sea urchin – a loss that threatens the health of coral reefs from the Caribbean to Florida’s east coast — was caused by a…

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