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Electric Bugs Used To Detect Water Pollution

2014-08-18 08:08:43| pollutiononline News Articles

Scientists from our Department of Chemical Engineering have developed a low-cost device that could be used in developing countries to monitor the quality of drinking water in real time without costly lab equipment

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Nose woes: air pollutants thwart flower-seeking bugs

2014-06-27 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: You think your nose likes flowers? Well, certainly not as much as the tobacco hornworn moth. In fact, its life depends on it. These moths, whose olfactory abilities are as good as a bloodhound's and vastly better than a human's, can fly up to 80 miles (130 km) a night searching for their favorite flowers such as the Sacred Datura. The nectar of these fragrant white, trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom only once at night is an important food source for the moths, which pollinate the flowers. Females...

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Volunteers needed to count bugs, monitor Paw Paw River health

2014-06-26 20:59:11| Waste Management - Topix.net

Two Rivers Coalition and Van Buren Conservation District have been awarded a start-up grant from the Department of Environmental Quality and Great Lakes Commission to establish a volunteer stream monitoring program for the Paw Paw River.

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