PROFILE of Lt. Joseph Theodore Hallock. Two years ago he was an undergraduate of the U. of Oregon; today he is a veteran bombardier who has completed thirty missions in a B-17 over Germany and ...

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Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Scientists have new evidence to explain why plastic is dangerous to sea turtles: the animals mistake the scent of plastic for food. Thus, a plastic bag floating in the sea not only looks like a ...

Apple today discontinued its ill-received FineWoven material, introducing no new cases that use the leather replacement. The ...

August 23, 2024 • A proposed lithium mine in Serbia is spurring protests over its potential impact on the environment. The mineral is in high demand because it’s crucial for the batteries that ...

An industry organization is pushing back after the U.S. reportedly announced that it will support a global treaty calling for a reduction in how much new plastic is produced. In a statement ...

tiny plastic bits it contains, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said on January 8, 2024. In our modern world, plastic has become an inescapable part of daily life ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

It’s no secret that we have a serious plastic problem, with microplastics overwhelming our everyday environment (like our food, our drinking water, and even the clouds in the sky).This ...

Plastic waste is piling up at a daunting pace around the world. The World Bank estimates that every person on the planet generates an average of 1.6 pounds (0.74 kilograms) of plastic waste daily.

Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected ... The human brain is about 60% fat by weight, far more than any other organ.