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.

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Confirmed: If sewage sludge is applied to fields, microplastics can …

… get into deeper soil layers and onto adjacent areas. The fact that sewage sludge from municipal waste water treatment plants contains a high proportion of microplastics has already been…

Ecological coating for Bananas

Empa and Lidl Switzerland have jointly developed a cellulose protective coating for fruit and vegetables. The novel coating is made from so-called pomace – squeezed fruit and vegetable peels. The…

Dishwasher components made from recycled plastic

Detergent bottles are frequently manufactured using recycled plastic; however, as far as higher value-added applications are concerned, these recyclates have yet to be deployed on a large scale. Researchers at…

Real-time, interactive monitoring of forest health

European forest condition monitor… The increasing frequency of extreme weather conditions due to climate change poses a threat to forests worldwide. Droughts, late frosts, water-logged soils after floods, heavy precipitation…

Harmful boomerang: PFAS pollution in ocean comes back to land

Many of the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that end up in the ocean boomerang back to shore after they are re-emitted into air with the crashing of waves, according…

Seagrass is not a miracle solution against climate change

New study shows: Tropical seagrass meadows absorb in some cases significantly less carbon dioxide than long thought. To avert the worst consequences of climate change, humanity needs to considerably reduce…

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