Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is an important technology to produce large-scale green hydrogen. Platinum ...

With intensifying global warming and climate change, drought has become a major threat to global agriculture, impacting crop ...

NOx pollution occurs when nitrogen oxides are released as a gas into the atmosphere during the high-temperature combustion of fossil fuels. These nitrogen oxides consist mainly of two molecules ...

As pollution and sulfuric acid choked North American skies in the 1970s and 80s, a bipartisan, transnational agreement spearheaded by the Environmental Protection Agency combatted acid rain, which ...

Plastic pollution and forever chemicals are so widespread they’re even in the rain, putting public health and natural ecosystems at risk.

Acid rain is one of the most destructive environmental threats to forests and their inhabitants. From weakening trees to harming wildlife, this invisible danger is reshaping entire ecosystems ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

Miller is optimistic about these new polymers and thinks more efficient stirring in sophisticated reactors should increase their molecular weight and further improve their mechanical properties: ‘I ...

With DDT, lead paint, and power plant emissions causing acid rain, growing public outcry eventually led to policy changes, despite pushback from industry.

If the water molecules attach to corrosive gases, such as sulfur dioxide, the gas will dissolve in the water and form an acid solution that can damage health and property. Water vapour content of air ...

Life from a drop of rain: New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls A Nobel-winning biologist, two engineering schools, and a vial of Houston rainwater cast new light ...

What is Acid Rain? Acid rain is any form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that is possesses high levels of hydrogen ions. It can have harmful effects on aquatic animals, plants, and ...