All Environmental science articles – Page 4
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ResourceFuture Climates - activity page
Provoking activities to stimulate thinking about our climate in the future.
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Looking at the data - The Earth is getting warmer
Data analysis worksheet looking at air temperature.
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News
Air pollution: a sinister synergy
New insight into the mechanisms by which nitrogen dioxide and ozone damage the human respiratory tract
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News
Google Science Fair: shortlist announced
Final 15 entries in student science competition highlight chemistry
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Feature
Panels for pupils
Installing solar panels in a school − or at least building your own mock-ups − isn’t as difficult as you might think, finds Josh Howgego
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Feature
Terpenes: not just for Christmas
The chemicals that give Christmas trees their pine fresh smell could be at the centre of a chemical revolution, as Josh Howgego explains
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The Great Recovery
The Great Recovery is an RSA project launched in September 2012 supported by Technology Strategy Board and key industrial players.
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Ri Christmas Lectures® 2012: Climate Change
A resource on Climate Change and the Hydrogen Economy, supported by video clips from the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures ® 2012. Video: The Hydrogen Economy - Energy from Water? video Video: The Hydrogen Economy - Splitting Water with a ...
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Green plastics
Introducing students to the role of chemistry in creating a more sustainable society.
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Sunlight to electricity
Visible light from the sun can be converted directly to electricity by the use of solar cells. In this activity students make their own dye sensitised solar cells, measuring the current produced and use them to power a calculator.
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Challenging Plants: Fertilisers
Nutrients essential for plant growth are obtained naturally from soil or other growing media. However, supplies become depleted and fertilisers are needed to increase the availability of nutrients to plants. An understanding of chemical changes is used to making fertilisers, often designed to meet specific requirements such as particular nutrient ...
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The duck pond problem
In Search of Solutions: Rescue wildlife from a pollution disaster, reversing the effects of acidic waste. Linking to topics on neutralisation and acid/base chemistry.
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Exhibition chemistry
Ethanol rockets
Putting the energy from the 'methanol whoosh bottle experiment' to good use
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Challenging Plants: Phytomanagement
As well as improving the appearance of our environment, plants have much to offer in terms of phytoremediation (in its many forms), phytoextraction and the potential of using plants to mine metals. This resource is designed to help students realise this potential knowledge and understand the key underpinning scientific ...
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Feature
It's not all about fuel
Biofineries produce heat, power and a plethora of useful 'platform chemicals'. Are they part of the solution to our renewable energy woes? Josh Howgego finds out
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The Mole
Shining light on artificial photosynthesis
Mimicking plant life could be our way out of the energy crisis. Anna Lewcock talks to Tony Harriman to find out more
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Feature
Molybdenum and evolution
Recent discoveries indicate that our atmosphere was not always oxygen rich - molybdenum could have been the limiting factor in the evolution of life on earth
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The Mole
Water for life
Tom Westgate investigates the chemistry and chemists helping more people to access clean water
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Feature
The evolution of catalytic converters
From early smog problems to modern concerns about air pollution, catalysts pave the way in controlling the emissions from combustion engines
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Iron ocean seeding
Carbon sequestration - the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - is an active area of research
