CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT chemical engineers create a zwitterionic hydrogel system for single-step water treatment with minimal environmental footprint. * * * By Carolyn Blais, Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab "Zwitterionic" might not be a word you come across every day, but for Professor Patrick Doyle of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, it's a word that's cent  more

MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 10 -- The Australian Conservation Foundation issued the following news release: A migratory bird species that visits the wetlands at Hastings, on Victoria's Western Port Bay, is among eight bird species added to Australia's threatened species list for the first time. The Australian Conservation Foundation said the new listings underscore the importance of protecting wetlands at Western Port in Victoria and Moreton Bay in Queensland. "Environment Minister Tanya Plibe  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Insight white paper (No. IN11897) on Jan. 9, 2024, by European affairs specialist Kristin Archick: * * * Russia's War Against Ukraine: European Union Responses and U.S.-EU Relations The 27-member European Union (EU) has implemented a range of policy responses to Russia's war against Ukraine. EU actions and coordination with the United States are of interest to Congress given the EU's role as an important U.S. partn  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on Jan. 10, 2024: * * * Funding Supports Science and Engineering Students from Underserved Communities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Other Minority Serving Institutions * * * The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced the selection of 19 projects to receive $17.4 million to support novel, e  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 -- Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, a journal that reports industrial and academic research in the fields of applied chemistry and chemical engineering with special focus on fundamentals, processes and products from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 10, 2024, edition (Vol. 63, Issue 1): Reviews: * Characterizing Flow and Transport in Biological Vascular Systems: A Review from Physiological and Chemi  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment issued the following news: The Vengosh Lab, led by Avner Vengosh, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality, studies how natural and anthropogenic activities affect soil and water quality. Research areas include lead in soils and home dust, searching for alternative resources, fossil fuels (unconventional shale gas and oil; coal ash), renewables, environmental impacts of lithium mini  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement issued the following news release on Jan. 10, 2024: The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement today announced nearly $9.7 million in fiscal year 2023 funding from President Biden's Investing in America agenda to create good-paying jobs and catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands in Wyoming. Millions of Americans nationwide live less than a mi  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 -- Simpson Thacher and Bartlett, a law firm, issued the following news: Simpson Thacher represented Cinven in connection with the formation and raising of the Eighth Cinven Fund ("Fund 8"), which raised $14.5 billion and reached its hard cap. Fund 8 is nearly 30% larger than its 2019 predecessor fund, the Seventh Cinven Fund. Originally founded as the private investment arm of the British Coal pension scheme in 1977, Cinven became independent in 1995 and raised its first Fu  more