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NGOs support earthquake victims in Indonesia and Colombia, innovations help women fishers cut post-harvest losses, California phases out a toxic weedkiller. The post Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Earthquake Recovery, Cutting Food Loss, Phasing Out Paraquat appeared first on Food Tank .

In a matter of days, a dirt pit the size of five football fields appeared next to the weathered headstones of Center Cemetery in Castana, Iowa. The excavation site sits on the edge of the Loess Hills, a 200-mile corridor of craggy bluffs and ridges bordering the Mississippi River valley in western Iowa. The hills, […]

A landfill's worst enemy isn't foam or chemicals—it's the metal coils that jam the machinery, forcing workers to cut them free by hand.

In the sun-scorched fields of arid regions, where every drop of water counts, farmers have long relied on plastic mulching to stretch their resources further. The thin sheets of polyethylene spread across the soil have become a staple in modern agric

A $500 million Biden-era grant to decarbonize steelmaking has been refashioned by the Trump administration to upgrade a coal-fueled blast furnace in southern Ohio. On Friday, Cleveland-Cliffs confirmed that the U.S. Department of Energy had changed the scope of the previously awarded funding for Cliffs’ Middletown…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-67703-7 Activated carbon production from apple orchard woody waste using a fluidized bed reactor with freezing pretreatment to establish a local circular economy system

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02038-6 During renewable energy droughts, emissions from fossil-fuel power plants may increase; combined with the stagnant weather typical of such periods, the result is an increased risk of extreme air pollution — as is shown to be the case in China by 2050. However, strategically over-deploying clean energy can cost-eff…

Dominic Muren, UW teaching professor of design, and Adrienne Russell, UW professor of communication, examine environmental problems from a perspective beyond the hard sciences. They spoke to UW News about what today’s energy crises reveal about contemporary societies’ dependence on fossil fuels and how we can create a “solar-powered system.”

One of the most important global phenomena that are currently threatening the ecosystem is land degradation and is mainly caused by the climatic changes and human influence. Land degradation is the reduction in the capability of the land to produce benefits from a particular land use under a specified form of land management. Land degradation is the consequence of important processes, which is ac…

Researchers at the Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, have published two linked studies on PFAS exposure in companion animals.

Atmospheric pollution associated with carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) represents an important environmental and public health concern in Andean regions influenced by urban growth, transportation, agricultural burning, mining-related activities, and complex topography. This study analyzed the spatiotemporal variability of CO, NO2, and SO2 in the Apurimac regi…

In a recent study published in Analytica Chimica Acta , researchers used new methods for detecting diverse endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in drinking water to test multiple bottled water brands from Belgium. In short: In total, 17 EDCs were found in the 37 bottled waters tested, including chemicals used in plastic packaging, pharmaceutical drugs, and cosmetics. Water in plastic bottles con…

For decades we've known that the cleaning solvent chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) is associated with a...

Every year, billions of pairs of shoes reach the end of their useful life and most end up in landfills. Footwear is among the most difficult consumer goods to recycle — a single shoe can contain up to 60 different materials bonded, stitched, and molded together. Growing awareness of this problem, combined with tightening regulation and mounting pressure on brands to account for their products' fu…

Intense fires are already burning in Indonesia, and there could be much worse to come as the Super El Niño ramps up

A new analytical laboratory at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been officially opened by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its contractor Isotek Systems. The state-of-the-art lab, located in Building 2026, is being used to speed up the high-priority cleanup of ORNL’s uranium-233 inventory and accelerate the delivery of actinium-225 to facilities that us…

Overpumping of groundwater during a severe drought caused parts of aquifers beneath the Sacramento Valley to collapse. Credit: Lance Cheung, USDA/Flickr , Public Domain

Anjali Bharti, LL.B., LLM. (Criminal Law), The ICFAI University ABSTRACT Jharkhand is one of the most mineralized producing states of India, but the environmental damage of its mining sector in the state continues to raise a serious concern. Illegal mining has become a frequent problem which leads to pollution, deforestation, land degradation, abandoned mines and depletion of natural resources. T…