Concentrations of microplastic were greatest near coastal urban areas, the study showed Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned. Researchers traced the “microplastic” back to synthetic clothes, which released up to 1,900 tiny fibres per garment every time they were washed. Earlier... 

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extinct grizzled langur rediscovered A Miller’s grizzled langur pauses while drinking water from a mineral spring, or sepan, in 2011. Feared extinct, the monkey species has been “rediscovered” on the Indonesian island of Borneo, a new study says. Scientists stumbled onto several of the primates last year during a biodiversity survey of the Wehea Forest, a 98,000-acre (40,000-hectare)... 

Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier “has begun to flow more rapidly and discharge more ice into the ocean,” says director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Antarctic Sciences, Scott Borg, the group that coordinates all U.S. research in Antarctica Robert Bindschadler in Antarctica “This could have a significant impact on global sea-level rise over the coming... 

The same bacteria that cause traveler’s diarrhea has now been genetically engineered to digest switchgrass and synthesize its sugars into three transportation fuels. E coli bacteria Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered the first strains of Escherichia coli bacteria to produce fuel substitute or precursor molecules suitable for gasoline,... 

*Threatening 2 degree target Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49 per cent in the last two decades, according to the latest figures by an international team, including researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia Chimney stacks at coal power plant Published December 4 in the journal Nature Climate Change, the new... 

Several threatened species in the developing world are completely dependent on human agriculture for their survival, say scientists. white-shoulder ibis A study by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA), found at least 30 bird species that would be driven to extinction without farmland. The research is published in the journal Conservation Letters. This study focused on birds, but the team... 

Scientists have put forward their suggested names for the newest additions to the Periodic Table. The element plutonium If the names are accepted, element 114 will become Flerovium (Fl) in honour of the physicist Georgiy Flerov. While element 116 will become Livermorium (Lv), after the Californian laboratory where it was discovered. The table’s governing body will officially endorse the names... 

Thousands of demonstrators have marched through the South African city of Durban demanding faster action on climate change. The annual UN climate summit is being held at the city’s convention centre. Protesters were particularly angered by the stance of rich countries such as the US and Canada. In London former UK Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Prescott, said the approach of these nations was “appalling”. Halfway... 

As part of efforts to drive its message of good environmental sanitation in Ghanaian communities, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has rolled out a series of community-based environmental sanitation durbars aimed at bringing all stakeholders in the community together to brainstorm on how to push forward the “Clean Ghana” agenda together as a people from the community level. The programme which kicked-off...