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Scientists are turning to milk proteins, starch, and nanoclay to create biodegradable plastics that break down quickly in soil. As concerns grow about damage to the environment and potential risks to ...
Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics ...
Scientists now estimate that around 8M tons of plastic waste pour into the ocean every year, forming swirling gyres of debris ...
Panaji: Paediatricians and experts are warning that the air pollution in places like Porvorim and Panaji is likely to have an adverse impact on children, with the poor air quality not just disrupting ...
With little being done to clean the skies over New Delhi, the huge city struggles with toxic air. By Mujib Mashal Pragati K.B. and Hari Kumar Visuals by Anindito Mukherjee The reporters spent a day on ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – In 2014, Sherri Mason ventured out onto Lake Erie aboard the U.S. EPA’s Lake Guardian research vessel and came back with remarkable evidence of plastic floating in the water. She ...
Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...
The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...
Of the numerous anthropogenic pressures that are being exerted on ecosystems globally, plastic pollution and climate change are potentially the most pressing. This is particularly true when they ...
Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...
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