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Environmental Science: New life for the Dead Sea?
A conduit from the Red Sea could restore the disappearing Dead Sea and slake the region's thirst. But such a massive engineering project could have untold effects, reports Josie Glausiusz.
- Josie Glausiusz
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Grazing and nitrous oxide
Most emissions of nitrous oxide from semi-arid, temperate grasslands usually occur during the spring thaw. The effects that grazing has on plant litter and snow cover dramatically reduce these seasonal emissions.
- Stephen J. Del Grosso
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A frosty finding
The asteroid belt is classically considered the domain of rocky bodies, being too close to the Sun for ice to survive. Or so we thought — not only is ice present, but at least one asteroid is covered in it.
- Henry H. Hsieh
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A molecular molybdenum-oxo catalyst for generating hydrogen from water
A major pursuit in the chemical community involves the search for efficient and inexpensive catalysts that can produce large quantities of hydrogen gas from water. Here, a molybdenum-oxo complex has been identified that can catalytically generate hydrogen gas either from pure water at neutral pH, or from sea water. The work has implications for the design of 'green' chemistry cycles.
- Hemamala I. Karunadasa
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Cheaper catalyst cleans diesel-car fumes
Platinum-free material means fuel-efficient engines at lower cost.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Worries over electronic waste from the developing world
Millions of computers heading for unregulated recyclers could poison water and soil.
- Richard A. Lovett
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Purifying the sea one drop at a time
Microfluidic channels offer promise of cheap, portable desalination.
- Katharine Sanderson
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50 & 100 years ago
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Wider role for airborne chlorine
Unexpected chlorine chemistry in the lowest part of the atmosphere can affect the cycling of nitrogen oxides and the production of ozone, and reduce the lifetime of the greenhouse gas methane.
- Roland von Glasow
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Energy: Carbon from the mountains
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Sediment reactions defy dogma
Redox reactions in widely spatially separated layers of marine sediments are coupled to each other. This suggests that bacteria mediate the flow of electrons between the layers — an idea that would previously have been dismissed.
- Kenneth H. Nealson
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Bacteria buzzing in the seabed
Nanowires growing from bacteria might link up distant chemical reactions in sediments.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Carbon sequestration: Buried trouble
Protesters saying "no to CO2" are just one roadblock facing carbon sequestration — a strategy that could help prevent dangerous climate change. Richard Van Noorden investigates.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Acid soil threatens Chinese farms
Overuse of fertilizers is imperilling food supply.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Biogeochemistry: DDT in the ocean
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No crystal ball for natural disasters
Floods and fires aside, the tricky science of prediction is explained in a book that treads a careful line between analysis and anecdotes of awful events, says Andrew Robinson.
- Andrew Robinson
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Driveways could spread toxins into the home
Carcinogens in coal tar–sealed pavements cause worry.
- Nicola Jones
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2020 visions
For the first issue of the new decade, Nature asked a selection of leading researchers and policy-makers where their fields will be ten years from now. We invited them to identify the key questions their disciplines face, the major roadblocks and the pressing next steps.