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Category: Pollution

Posted on January 18, 2020February 3, 2020

IIT Bombay team removes heavy metals from water with greater efficiency

IIT Bombay researchers have fabricated a carbon-based nanostructure that is capable of simultaneously adsorbing with very high efficiency four heavy metals — arsenic, chromium, cadmium and mercury — from wastewater.…

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Posted on October 19, 2019October 19, 2019

IIT Jodhpur fabricates a highly sensitive device for lead detection

Researchers at IIT Jodhpur have fabricated a portable sensor for detecting lead in water. It can detect lead even when present at extremely low concentration of 0.018 ppb, much lower…

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Posted on October 5, 2019

IISER Pune synthesises a photocatalyst to degrade organic pollutants

IISER Pune researchers have converted the highly unstable perovskite into a ultra-stable photocatalyst that can decompose toxic organic pollutants commonly present in water. The photocatalyst was synthesised by encapsulating nanocrystals…

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Posted on September 14, 2019September 14, 2019

IIT Madras finds an eco-friendly way to degrade plastics

IIT Madras researchers have demonstrated an eco-friendly way to degrade a few types of plastics. All that is required to degrade the plastics into molecules is continuous stirring of the…

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Posted on September 7, 2019September 7, 2019

CLRI’s biocatalyst cuts effluent discharge during leather processing

A novel biocatalyst developed by researchers at CLRI, Chennai speeds up the leather processing time at the pre-tanning stage, cuts chromium usage, and achieves three-fold reduction in water usage thus…

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Posted on August 7, 2019August 8, 2019

Toxic mercury in fish increases with ocean warming, overfishing

Based on data and modelling, researchers from Harvard University have found that the amount of toxic mercury (methylmercury) in fish higher in the food chain can change due to two…

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Posted on July 27, 2019July 29, 2019

IISER Mohali finds zebrafish use landmarks for navigation

IISER Mohali researchers have found that zebrafish did overcome the challenges posed by reduced visibility in turbid waters after a month of acclimatisation. They show zebrafish use visual cues to…

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Posted on May 12, 2019

Cutting down tailpipe emissions with e-vehicles

At nearly 55%, electricity generation in India is primarily through coal. So like in the case of the U.S and China, net reduction in carbon emission will not be much even…

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