A survey of 26 countries found that 16% of respondents admit to burning plastic inside their own homes to manage waste or heat food.

By Sean Mowbray Burning plastic waste for household fuel, or to manage household waste, may be far more prevalent in poor urban areas in developing countries than previously thought, raising serious ...

A UT chemist says it is now time to develop tests for microplastics, similar to tests for other toxic threats.

IDUKKI: When a group of students was honoured at the 64th Kerala School Kalolsavam in Thrissur for finishing every grain of food served to them without wasting it, the applause meant something deeper ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as "one ...

New research has found that a staggering 220 million tonnes of plastic waste is set to be generated in 2024, marking a 7.11% increase since 2021. The latest study, by charity EA Earth Action, and ...

To make an accurate diagnosis and initiate the correct treatment, geographic atrophy (GA) must be differentiated from similar diseases. The presence of well-defined lesions is the most distinct ...

Google is updating NotebookLM, its AI note-taking and research assistant, with a new tool to help users simplify complex research, along with support for additional file types. The service is rolling ...

For this report, Reddit posts and comments were classified using the following prompts to GPT-4.1 mini. The prompts were designed to mirror the codebooks that our research team used to create the ...

You've probably never seen a back-scratcher like the one at the Las Vegas Farm. Goats, horses, and "Billy" — probably the biggest steer you've ever seen — need something a little more industrial to ...