Research at body farms—research facilities dedicated to studying what happens to human bodies after death—supplies law enforcement with valuable information about the process of decomposition in ...

Increases in nitrogen (N) availability reduce decay rates of highly lignified plant litter. Although microbial responses to N addition are well documented, the chemical mechanisms that may give rise ...

Carbon tetrachloride (CCl₄) is a type of volatile organic compound (VOC) that was once widely used as a refrigerant and ...

Credit: Grainger Films Bodies decompose differently in mass graves than in individual graves. To understand these differences ...

Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Saskia Grootemaat, Lieneke M. Verheijen, William K. Cornwell, Peter M. van Bodegom, René van der Wal and Rien Aerts Summary Biological decomposition and wildfire are ...

A team of University of Maine chemists has reported that exposing pesticide-contaminated water to natural light and a mineral known as a zeolite can dramatically speed up the break down of the ...

Within the last several years the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) market has mushroomed and many utilities have purchased and are erecting wet FGD systems. Critical to proper operation of these systems ...