For 40 years, The News has saluted a group of Michigan’s best and brightest high school students in the spring of their senior year. Partnering with CATCH — Sparky Anderson’s Charity for Children — we ...

Researchers have identified more than 600,000 microbial proteins capable of breaking down natural and synthetic plastics, revealing a far broader biodegradation potential across microbes than ...

TURKU, FINLAND, April 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Researchers have identified more than 600,000 microbial proteins capable of breaking down natural and synthetic ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Every Mardi Gras season, thousands of pounds of brightly-colored beads rain down from floats onto the crowds—but when the music stops and the streets clear, many of those beads ...

Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer. He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. Polylactic acid (PLA), a plastic substitute made from fermented plant ...

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Each year, over 496 million tons of plastic enter our world, from consumer-facing packaging and products to industrial machinery and commercial parts. But when that plastic — much of which is only ...

Bhopal: The widespread industrial growth and urbanisation have led to greater use of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides, fertilisers, and various plastics (PE, PET, PU, PVC).Poor waste ...

The billionaire funded an XPrize for carbon removal. But he won’t be at the ceremony announcing the winner Wednesday. Time magazine selected Elon Musk as its “person of the year” in 2021 after the ...

Using directed evolution, scientists have created the first enzyme known to break a silicon-carbon bond. The finding could be a preliminary step toward biodegrading volatile methyl siloxanes—chemicals ...

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