Heavy Metals

From Brownfields to Data Centers: Congress Eyes Industrial Sites as Key to AI Future

Keatinga@bnpmedia.com (Austin Keating) — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:52:04 -0400

Congress explores how America's 450,000 brownfield sites could become the critical infrastructure foundation for the nation's AI and technological future, revealing a bipartisan strategy to transform contaminated industrial lands.

New Mexico Launches Environmental Cleanup Training Program, Targeting Uranium Mine Remediation

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:23:20 -0500

New Mexico is advancing its uranium cleanup efforts with a new training program that offers participants a $2,000 monthly stipend.

CEP Renewables begins construction on 19 MW Brownfield solar project in New Jersey

Keatinga@bnpmedia.com (Austin Keating) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:10:59 -0400

CEP Renewables has started construction on its 19 MW dc grid supply Foul Rift solar project in White Township, Warren County, New Jersey.

Researchers study effects of solvation and ion valency on metallopolymers

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:05:25 -0400

Su said that their findings will guide the development of better systems that involve ion separations such as materials recycling and metal recovery.

Global insect populations dropping, air pollution particles may be a contributor

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:25:23 -0500

Continuing research in bushfire-affected areas in rural Victoria has shown that the antennae of diverse insects, including bees, wasps, moths, and species of flies, are contaminated by smoke particles.

How to treat wastewater generated from anaerobic digestion

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:01:50 -0400

It is crucial to develop new uses for fly ash. Due to high alkalinity and high metal content, it may be used for the chemical precipitation of LFD, but there are few reports on this aspect.

Pollutants play important role in the spread of diseases in wildlife

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:24:09 -0400

In the field of disease ecology, the outcomes of disease outbreaks in wildlife communities with varying biodiversity is the subject of intense debate.

Magnetic Microorganisms are adept at collecting dangerous heavy metals from wastewater

Fri, 12 May 2023 07:31:00 -0400

A research team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has managed to purify water containing uranium using a special kind of bacteria known as magnetotactic bacteria.

Northwestern University researchers develop sponges to remove lead from water

Thu, 11 May 2023 16:52:49 -0400

"This work may be pertinent to water quality issues both locally and globally," says Benjamin Shindel, a Ph.D. student in Germany. "We want to see this out in the world, where it can make a real impact."

How fine underground braids could remedy heavy metal contamination

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:51:40 -0500

Researchers in Germany use their work to shed light on the behavior of radionuclides in our environment with fungus.

Researchers develop eco-friendly adsorbents to remove heavy metal ions

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:22:15 -0400

“Our work demonstrates unique capabilities of green and sustainable materials to be additively manufactured and designed so that they have the ability to capture and remove toxic contaminants," says Professor Andreescu.