Friday 20 September 2019 – Impressive leaps in technology and understanding of contamination and its remediation were awarded at the CleanUp 2019 conference last week. For the first time the CARE Award was jointly awarded to the two finalists: BeneTerra and ALS. This...
Wednesday 11 September 2019 – A global forum on chemical contamination has had its largest conference yet, showing the scope of innovative solutions out there to remediate the environment. Professor Ravi Naidu, Managing Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for...
Tuesday 10 September 2019 – The first Australia-wide historical land-use database for assessing site contamination has been developed from open-source and licensed historical artefacts. The new mapping system gives decision makers access to accurate data that allows...
Tuesday 10 September 2019 – Australian researchers have developed a technique to lock up PFAS in contaminated soil, reducing its ability to cause environmental harm. Fire-fighting foams have contaminated soils at fire-training and commercial sites across Australia and...
Tuesday 10 September 2019 – Some rice being imported into Australia contains higher than the recommended levels of arsenic, absorbed from contaminated groundwater. Arsenic poses serious health risks such as cancer. Dr Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, whose team in 2001...
Monday 9 September 2019 – Researchers from CRC CARE have developed a new method to detect microplastics in the ground using infrared light and powerful visualisation software. Dr Megharaj Mallavarapu says that this research fills an important knowledge gap as most...
