Plastic pollution is more than just trash on the beach. Marine plastic waste releases PFAS and heavy metals into the water of small freshwater lakes and ponds, at levels exceeding the threshold limits ...
A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...
A new solar-driven method transforms plastic waste and microplastics into acetic acid, turning pollution into a valuable chemical.
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How worried should you be about microplastics?
Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...
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Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every ...
Algae is a 'little vacuum' for microplastics. Midwest scientists think it could clean up the problem
Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics are all over the environment and even inside human bodies. Researchers have found a type of bioengineered algae that can clean up these pesky particles.
The GB Row Challenge is a 2,000-mile rowing challenge around Great Britain. Two rowing teams, Coastal Odyssey and Sea Change, collected crucial water samples for University of Portsmouth researchers.
Microplastics have become pervasive contaminants in aquatic environments, raising major concerns within environmental science and materials engineering ...
Plastics are ever-present in our society. And they don't decompose, but become tiny particles called microplastics. And those have been found everywhere. Now, they're being found in some unexpected ...
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