Los Angeles County announced a lawsuit against Coca-Cola and Pepsi this week, arguing the soda giants misled the public on ...
By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked. In clouds. On Mount Everest. In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — A study shedding new light on how arsenic can be made less dangerous to humans has the potential to dramatically improve water and food safety, especially in the Global ...
By combining this amplified sticking force with an enzyme that breaks down harmful plastics, their discovery offers a potential new tool for tackling plastic pollution. The research, published in ...
The suit is the latest in a series of high-profile legal actions California officials have taken against petrochemical ...
testosteroni’s ability to break down plastic. Though the bacteria are promising tools for combating pollution, they are not quite ready to be thrown into wastewater treatment plants and ...
Two weeks after birth, two newborn rats—one male and one female—were tested for micro- and nanoplastic exposure. In both cases, the same type of plastic that the mothers inhaled during ...
Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately spot pollution against a sandy background. Dr Guffogg's algorithm – called the Beached Plastic ...
For the study, the scientists targeted polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, in particular, Interesting Engineering reported. PET represents just under two-thirds of our plastic waste and is ...
Final negotiations for the first-ever United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are due to take place at the end of November. The latest treaty draft states two major objectives: to end plastic ...
More than 400 million tons of plastic waste are produced globally every year, with less than 10% being recycled, according to ...
( NewsNation ) — A lawsuit was filed Wednesday by Los Angeles County counsel against Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. for ...