Plastic Pollution

Plastic pollution is getting under our skin. Literally. As plastics have become ubiquitous in modern society, so too has plastic pollution, including that of tiny plastic particles. These microplastics have been detected in the air, water and even in some foo…

Plastic pollution is getting under our skin. Literally. As plastics have become ubiquitous in modern society, so too has plastic pollution, including that of tiny plastic particles. These microplastics have been detected in the air, water and even in some foo…

Scientists have developed a new method to investigate links between top predator diets and the amount of microplastic they consume through their prey. The new research from Abertay University in collaboration with Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), the Univer…

This article was produced by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Our story begins in the 1950s. The classic promotional film shows the good American housewife, just likeJune Cleaver, dropping a large bowl on the kitchen floor. …

About 90,000 people visited a sand sculpture made by well-known sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on Puri beach even as lakhs thronged the Lord Jagannath temple a few km away in the coastal Odisha town on the occasion of New Years Day on Wednesday. Mr. Patnaik c…

The Aeroschup technology created by TSU biologists to clean petroleum products from the bottom of reservoirs will be used to solve the problem of plastic contamination. The project team has already completed laboratory tests that confirmed the ability of the …

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are one of the most iconic elasmobranchs out there, easily identifiable by their blue skin that is peppered with constellations across their whole body. Like a fingerprint, each of these patterns of stars are unique to an indivi…

Chef Dyllan Armenta prepares a vegan oat and chickpeas hamburger at Tasty Beet Juicy and Healthy Food restaurant in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE From cockroach milk to beer made from waste water, a raft of eco-friendly food trends hit menus an…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A frequent Target customer is asking the Minneapolis-based retail giant to stop using plastic bags. Protest organizer Theresa Carter and other Target shoppers plan to deliver pages containing more than 455,000 signatures to the corporation…

innovations with 3D printingreally never seem to slow down. 2018 saw the technology being integrated in a wide variety of fields, from manufacturing to medicine and more. although this is still the case in 2019, 3D printing projects have become even larger in…