Online News Archive 2001:
Science
December
December 28, 2001
Dust storm provides clues to aerosol mixing
December 21, 2001
New strategy for biotransforming TNT
December 21, 2001
GM plants transform TNT
December 21, 2001
High perchlorate levels in fish puzzle researchers
December 21, 2001
EU limits dioxins in food and animal feed
December 19, 2001
Foam spill study suggests perfluorinated surfactants' fate
December 17, 2001
Urban development threatens southern forests
December 12, 2001
Arsenic: The missing link?
December 12, 2001
In-lab, low-dose atrazine frog study suggests similar field effects
December 12, 2001
Air pollution may hamper water cycle
December 7, 2001
Rapidly rising PBDE levels in North America
December 5, 2001
Nutrient trading advocated to improve water quality
December 4, 2001
Global warming triggers gene change
November
November 21, 2001
Alkylphenols in sewage sludge applied to land
November 15, 2001
Joining forces in environmental research
November 12, 2001
An ice sheet–climate change connection?
November 12, 2001
Cave detectives ferret out climate change clues
November 9, 2001
Centers study environmental effects
November 2, 2001
U.S. fish sets new contamination record
November 1, 2001
Climate change? You bet!
November 1, 2001
Chesapeake Bay's suffering health
October
October 25, 2001
Save the rats
October 25, 2001
Deciphering PCB degradation
October 25, 2001
Tropical cloud forests at risk
October 24, 2001
Engineered genes contaminate birthplace of corn
October 24, 2001
Soil ecosystems adapt to warming temperatures
October 24, 2001
Global circulation patterns mask deforestation's impacts
October 16, 2001
Global warming's evolutionary downside
October 16, 2001
Atmosphere carries most heat to poles
October 11, 2001
Lakes feel effects of climate change
October 11, 2001
Prairies in trouble
October 9, 2001
Increased plant density in northern latitudes
October 9, 2001
Nitrogen fixation inhibited by endocrine disrupters
October 1, 2001
Coral reef estimates shrink
October 1, 2001
Mercury goes up in wildfire smoke
October 1, 2001
High indoor mercury concentrations
September
September 24, 2001
Evolutionary consequences of human activities
September 17, 2001
Beneficial GM tomatoes
September 10, 2001
Peatlands release more carbon as temperatures rise
September 5, 2001
Auto exhaust blamed for deaths
September 5, 2001
Designer metal-accumulating plants
September 3, 2001
Arctic may be naturally generating reactive gaseous mercury
August
August 31, 2001
Time-released fertilizer
August 31, 2001
Surfactants speed up bacteria
August 30, 2001
Environmental health tracking network
August 30, 2001
Wind energy’s competitive edge
August 30, 2001
Remediating pollution in an oxygen-poor environment
August 30, 2001
Rainfall + runoff = disease
August 24, 2001
Bioremediation in an alpine glacier ski resort
August 24, 2001
Tomato plants tolerate high salt
August 22, 2001
Tracking down an ozone depleter
August 16, 2001
Fragrance kinetics made easy
August 15, 2001
Marine methane consumed by consortia of bacteria
August 7, 2001
Femto-level atmospheric tracers
August 7, 2001
Hatchery fish contribute to frog and toad declines
August 7, 2001
A kink in the oceanic iron cycle
July
July 26, 2001
Perchlorate report draws attention to developmental risk
July 24, 2001
Climate change boosts tick-borne illness
July 24, 2001
Spirochetes fix nitrogen for termites' dinner
July 24, 2001
Erosion studied with rare earth elements
July 23, 2001
Tracking mercury in landfill gas
July 19, 2001
Panning for missing TFA emissions
July 17, 2001
Bugs hungry for benzene and perchlorates
July 17, 2001
Oil for the taking
July 17, 2001
Bacterial discovery reveals carbon cycle complexity
July 16, 2001
Estrogenic seafood
July 13, 2001
Glaze honored internationally for water work
July 13, 2001
The U.S. will receive about 19.2 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from 41 countries over 13 years
July 12, 2001
The use of mitigation banks to compensate for permitted wetland impacts has grown rapidly
July 12, 2001
Quantifying carbon sinks in China
July 12, 2001
CO2 sequestration off the coast of Norway
July 12, 2001
Bad air increases heart attack risk
July 12, 2001
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is failing to require compliance with the Clean Water Act
July 12, 2001
Flame retardants fire concern over sewage sludge
July 12, 2001
Fertilizers not a source of perchlorate
July 12, 2001
Soil respiration and CO2
July 12, 2001
Sensitive determination of endocrine disrupters
July 11, 2001
Quantifying fluoroquinolones in urban wastewater
July 11, 2001
Efforts to manually pull invasive zebra mussels out of Lake George appear to be paying off
July 11, 2001
Testing VOCs in soil
July 11, 2001
Mapping aquifers with radar
July 11, 2001
Hydrogen nanotubes
July 11, 2001
Crypto on a chip
July 9, 2001
Intensive olive farming causing soil erosion, water shortages, desertification, and habitat loss
July 9, 2001
Greener propylene oxide production
July 5, 2001
Although
concerned about the nation's waterways, Americans don't know the facts about rivers
July 3, 2001
PCBs impair memory of adults
July 2, 2001
Trees may scavenge mercury from atmosphere
July 2, 2001
Arsenic strikes again
June
June 26, 2001
Discord over snowmobiles
June 26, 2001
Isolating butyltins from marine sediment
June 26, 2001
Coral reef biodiversity depends on habitat size
June 26, 2001
Australian vaccine blocks ruminant burps
June 18, 2001
Proper
disposal of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste requires international collaboration
June 15, 2001
California salt marsh contaminates swimming beach
June 15, 2001
Climate prediction uncertainties greater than realized
June 14, 2001
Estrogenic compounds in wood pulp mill effluents
June 14, 2001
No link between organochlorines and breast cancer
June 14, 2001
Forests are not good carbon storage sinks
June 14, 2001
Rock-eating microorganisms affect Earth's climate
June 14, 2001
Disposal of polyurethane foams accelerates CFC buildup
June 8, 2001
Microbes show promise for bioremediating plutonium
June 7, 2001
OH takes a radical plunge—or not
June 1, 2001
Mounting concern over brominated flame retardants
May
May 31, 2001
Odorless paint smells good to the Pentagon
May 31, 2001
Nitrates linked to bladder cancer
May 31, 2001
Assessing the risk of estrogenic chemical mixtures
May 31, 2001
Do Roundup Ready soybeans require more herbicide?
May 24, 2001
ES&T paper earns SETAC award
May 18, 2001
A fern with an affinity for arsenic
May 18, 2001
Swine farms contribute to antibiotic resistance
May 15, 2001
Pollution laws working
April
April 20, 2001
Platinum group metals increasing in airborne particulates
April 19, 2001
Analysis of perfluorinated water samples
April 19, 2001
Phthalates abundant in the house
April 19, 2001
Mad deer disease in Western Canada
April 17, 2001
Radioactive iodine in central Sweden and beyond
April 6, 2001
Carbon cycle surprises
April 6, 2001
Mercury pollution on the rise in Greenland
April 5, 2001
Ag biotech says...
March
March 31, 2001
Increase in greenhouse effect
March 31, 2001
Recycling plant risks noted
March 30, 2001
Joint Global Change Research Institute
March 30, 2001
Waste counts
March 30, 2001
Acid lakes remain impaired
March 27, 2001
Immunoassay for cadmium ions
March 27, 2001
Fires not sole cause of high tropospheric ozone
March 26, 2001
Automated measurement of hexavalent chromium
March 22, 2001
Tropical clouds could reduce global warming
March 19, 2001
Highest levels of PAHs and phthalates
March 16, 2001
Ambient nitric oxide detector
March 12, 2001
Burning sludge increases health risks
