How well are the most important climate models able to predict the weather conditions for the coming year or even the next decade?
How Reliable Are Climate Models?
Identifying Degradation of Polychlorinated Phenols
Use of compound-specific chlorine and carbon isotope analysis to assess chlorinated phenol biotransformation
Influence of Climate Change on Chemicals
How Will Global Climate Change Influence the Way We Assess and Manage Chemicals in the Environment?
Inspired by a Breakwater
Highly efficient electrocatalyst for the reduction of oxygen in fuel cells and batteries
Simultaneous Production of Methanol and Ethylene Glycol
Readily available Ru catalyst can be used for production of methanol and ethylene glycol from ethylene carbonate, formed from carbon dioxide and ethylene oxide
ECHA Increases Transparency
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) starts to publish comments during Harmonised Classification and Labelling (CLH) public consultations
Sensitive and Selective Mercury Detection
Zinc(II) porphyrin–octadeoxythymidine is a highly sensitive and selective fluorescence and absorption sensor for mercury ions in water
Dipeptide Ligands for Hydrogen-Production Catalysts
A peptide-based outer-coordination sphere of hydrogenases increases efficiency for hydrogen production
Mordecai Rubin (1926 – 2012)
Mordecai Rubin, one of the founding fathers of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Technion, Israel, has passed away
Shale Oil Worldwide
US and Canada seem to remain the main countries to take economic advantage of shale development for some time