Articles

Here you can browse our articles that have been first published in the bulletin.  They are also listed by date in the site index.

SIte index

Interview with Environment Agency Former Chief Executive, Sir James Bevan

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PFAS – an overview of an emerging chemical of concern and the UK’s approach to monitoring and managing the risks

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Porous liquids: An interview with Professor Stuart James

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The circular carbon economy and the future of carbon dioxide utilisation

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Revision of furniture flammability regulations

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SCMS: Insights into xenobiotic uptake  

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​Energy efficiency vs indoor air quality conundrum and possible solutions

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Paper-origami devices for COVID-19

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From the 1970s to today: A view on environmental progress ​

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Air pollution in the time of Covid-19

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Biochar for soil remediation

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An increasing role for iodine in the
atmosphere

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Global plastic pollution: the impact of ‘nurdles’

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RSC careers events and opportunities

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Antibiotic resistance - antibiotic release into the environment

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Neonicotinoids
updated

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From environment to outreach

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The role of ‘Big Society’ in monitoring the state of the natural environment 

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​Arie Jan Haagen-Smit and the history of smog

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​The life and work of Frederick Challenger

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​Environmental monitoring using voltammetric trace metal analysis

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150th anniversary of the establishment of the Alkali Inspectorate

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PCB analysis, risk assessment and forensic techniques in UK contaminated land assessments

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Organic waste recycling  – an  opportunity (and a challenge) for the chemical industry

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​Veterinary antibiotics in the terrestrial environment

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​Non-exhaust emission sources

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​Arsenic pollution in groundwater: another piece of the puzzle falls into place

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​Ozone hole paradigm is challenged by a new laboratory measurement of the chlorine peroxide spectrum

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​Pollution: from city streets to global atmosphere

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​The measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide

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​January 2006: Arsenic speciation in the environment.

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​Fenceline monitoring: perils and pitfalls

The textile industry and the environment

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Rivers of Life?

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Transforming CO2 into construction CO2 to constructionproducts

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Glyphosate – An effective but controversial weedkiller

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The effects of climate change on land contamination and selected contaminants

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​Sorption of metals onto microplastics

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Natural analogues for nuclear waste; a window into the future?

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Accessing powerful nanostructures of exfoliated biochar using green solvents

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Mine wastes: Environmental impacts and resource potential

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Efficacy of treatments for Varroa infestation, and their side effects on honeybees

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Multimedia modelling of organic
pollutants

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The last straw

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RSC journal highlights

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Passive sampling for polar organic contaminants

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Results of our CPD survey

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A farewell to departing members of the ECG Committee

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Chlorine-based water disinfection

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Rare earth elements - chemistry, fate & environmental impact

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Non-targeted methods for identifying new and emerging persistent organic pollutants of environmental concern​

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​Anthropogenic carbon dioxide and climate change – a historical perspective

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​Robert Angus Smith and the pressure for wider and tighter pollution regulation

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​Health concerns of metals and metalloids

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Veterinary agents and poisons threaten avian scavengers in Africa and Europe

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Raising air quality awareness among school children and the public

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 Can mineral carbonation be used for industrial carbon dioxide sequestration?

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One-hundred years of toxicological risk assessment

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Galligu: An environmental legacy of the Leblanc alkali industry, 1814-1920

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​The legacy of chlorinated solvents in groundwater: an overlooked 1940s contribution

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​Iodine chemistry in the coastal marine atmosphere

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​A geophysiologist’s thoughts on geoengineering

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​Biophysical remediation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soil in Yorkshire

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​Greener chemical manufacturing

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​Is the teaching of the science of global warming and climate change flawed?

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​Free radicals at high latitudes

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​Climate change, methane and ozone

How to: Gardening: repelling pests and fertilising garden plants with minimal environmental harm

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Microplastic and natural fibres

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Monitoring pollution and its impact on water quality using innovative tools

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Materials recovery: The precious prospects within e-waste

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​Constructed wetlands, micropollutants and climate change  

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​Mercury: history, facts and concerns

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Synthesis of spherical titanium dioxide microspheres to degrade rifampicin

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25 years of Bulletins, 200 committee meetings

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Porous boron nitride: an  effective
adsorbent for carbon dioxide capture

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Elements of construction – Minecraft
and the Periodic Table

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The fate, occurrence and extraction of
antibiotics in solid matrices

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Oxford Green Week

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Arsenic contaminated groundwater - a problem in India and the UK

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Small enterprise in environmental chemistry

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Emerging organic contaminants

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In the bin - applied & environmental sciences at school

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Criegee Intermediates: New atmospheric oxidants from old chemistry? 

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John Tyndall’s discovery of the ‘greenhouse effect’

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​FASTA and environmental monitoring in Kenya

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​How sea level and ancient soils control the distribution of arsenic pollution in groundwater

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Environmental chemistry: a twenty year perspective

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Environmental chemistry degrees – then and now

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Minamata Convention on Mercury

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Turning science into policy

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​Synchrotron-based studies of green rust formation

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​Pharmaceuticals and sewage treatment

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​First mercury reference laboratory in Southern Africa

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​‘Is Goatfell higher when it rains?’ and other interesting questions from the NCAS Summer School 2008

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​Sediment records of environmental change in Antarctica

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​Air quality and climate: Polluted Troposphere Programme

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​Monitoring arsenic contamination in Latin America

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​Global warming: the physical chemistry​