Textile wastewater treatment generates alarmingly high levels of toxic compounds
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 3-Jun-2026 19:15 ET (3-Jun-2026 23:15 GMT/UTC)
AMHERST, Mass. — Textile wastewater treatment practices inadvertently produce toxic byproducts—including chloroform and bromoform—at alarming levels that pose a clear occupational health hazard and lead to unknown environmental effects downstream. University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have found.
iiCON: the Infection Innovation Consortium has successfully secured funding from COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) to establish a unique pan-European COST Action network with over 70 collaborators from 21 countries and international organisations to harmonise the European response to infectious disease threats.
Topics range from the exploration of extraterrestrial life to the paper applications of the future / Approximately €170 million in funding for the first funding period
Few among us appreciate being called cheap, yet this term has a useful application in bird world. A new study published in the Journal of Raptor Research, “Factors Influencing Nestling Sex Ratios of Suburban and Rural Red-Shouldered Hawks, 2004-2016,” finds that male Red-shouldered Hawks (Buteo lineatus) are the cheaper of the sexes, meaning hawk parents prioritize producing female offspring when conditions are optimal. This means that higher quality territories could result in more females, offering biologists clues about habitat health, which is important intel as the species adapts to urban environments with increasing frequency.
A new Cochrane review finds that while some commonly used breast cancer risk models perform reasonably well, none are highly accurate at identifying which women will go on to develop breast cancer.