Microplastics in soils
A Research Front on Microplastics in soils has been published in the journal Environmental Chemistry Read More …
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Solution chemistry of TCEs
An Advanced Workshop on the Solution Chemistry of TCEs took place in Bialystok, Poland on 22-23 January 2019. Read More …
Micropearls in marine and freshwaters
Unicellular algae play important roles in the biogeochemical cycles of numerous elements, particularly through the biomineralization capacity of certain species (e.g., coccolithophores greatly contributing to the “organic carbon pump” of the oceans), and unidentified actors of these cycles are still being discovered. Read More …
Microplastics review now Open Access
The review Questions of size and numbers in environmental research on microplastics: methodological and conceptual aspects is now accessible to the scientific community after being made Open Access. Read More …
Hazardous chemical elements found in plastics in Lake Geneva
The first ever chemical analysis of plastic collected from beaches around Lake Geneva has detected cadmium, mercury and lead – sometimes in very high concentrations that exceed the maximum permitted under EU law.
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Goodbye S2-
Scientists in Australia argue that S2- should be stricken from the literature, potentially invalidating some older work Read More …
Ge faulty results in a wide European survey
The role of germanium in technology is steadily growing in importance, bringing in its wake an increased attention to its concentration and behaviour in the environment. Read More …
Ta in the environment: new review
In our modern economy, tantalum has become a ‘technology-critical element’ which is increasingly used in new technologies
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BUKI is alive
A BUKI is a collaborative approach based on the combination of a web-based platform and the elaboration of systematic reviews Read More …
Intracellular amorphous carbonates uncover a new biomineralization process in eukaryotes
Until now, descriptions of intracellular biomineralization of amorphous inclusions involving alkaline‐earth metal (AEM) carbonates other than calcium have been confined exclusively to cyanobacteria Read More …