• ECOS - Towards a Sustainable Future
Ecos Issue 152 - Table of Contents

 

Spotlight on CSIRO

When forgetfulness becomes a disease

New leader of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Sciences division

 

Enticing mat cleans up - fast

Bodies of groundwater are vulnerable to contamination by fertilisers, pesticides, industrial waste and other pollutants. Cleaning them up is usually a very complex and costly business. But Bradley Patterson and Allan McKinley have developed a polymer-mat system which, when immersed in the groundwater, can be used to deliver oxygen, ethanol or other reagents to beneficial microbes which will quickly decontaminate polluted water free of charge.




    
 
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