New public consultation on thirteen potential Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) launched by ECHA (European Chemicals Agency)

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2012

Only a limited number of studies examined the environmental impacts of small-scale wastewater treatment alternatives

Rainfall can mobilize hormones from biosolids-amended agricultural fields directly to surface waters or redistribute them to terrestrial sites

Synchroton-based characterization techniques to illuminate properties of compound semiconductor thin-film solar cell absorbers reviewed

Biotechnologically relevant class of enzymes synthesized

How efficient is the production of biofuels from biomass and how should biomass be best utilized?

Bioethanol distillery wastewater treated by using thermophilic microbial fuel cells (MFCs)

Providing sustainable energy to world's the seven billion inhabitants is not a small task, but chemistry has a lot to offer says Javier Garcia Martinez

European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) launches the 'Classification and Labelling Inventory' of chemicals on the EU market