Environmental Solutions

Archeologists studying a forested area in northern Michigan say they’ve uncovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient Native American agricultural site in the eastern half of the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has completed an investigation into whether air pollution in Sauget is harming people, with a particular focus on the emissions from a hazardous waste incinerator there.

A recent research study conducted by the Konecky Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis used advanced climate models to assess the deadly storms that occurred in July 2022.

A team of chemical and materials engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated a method to tune chemical functional groups inside nanoporous materials, enabling precise control over local ion concentrations and pH levels.

In this episode, “Recycling Demystified”, we find out how recycling helps our environment, the dos and don’ts of single-stream recycling, and learn about creative ways to reuse materials.

A WashU research team spent 45 days traveling to different wildfire locations in the western United States where they sampled gaseous smoke and aerosol species and analyzed their chemical and optical properties.

To improve detection and monitoring, Rajan Chakrabarty and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis have created a capacitive biosensor capable of continuously detecting H5N1 in the air.

Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.

Dr. Diana Parra Perez is an Assistant Professor at WashU’s Prevention Research Center, from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

After one of the longest avian flu outbreaks in recent history, researchers at Washington University have created a microwave-sized biosensor that can detect bird flu in dairy farms from a single breath.