Archive for July 2019

Bananas for sale along the roadside. I took this picture near Aracataca, Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez’s hometown and the town which is considered the inspiration for Macondo. On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed eleven people and broke open the BP-owned oil well it had been drawing from in…

Environmental chemists talk a lot about “chemical fate.” In fact, understanding chemical fate is pretty much the point of the whole field. But what does it mean? Chemical fate describes where a chemical goes when it gets out into the environment and how it might be chemically transformed in the process. Some chemicals have a…