A class at a Utah high school is doing something about growing concern about microplastic pollution and turning it into something: something innovative. Their invention, a mobile tool for cleaning ...

Born in Alabama, educated in the U.S. and in Europe, Martin lives in Alabama and in Prague. Fluent in German, he is at work on a history of the East German secret police for Alfred A. Knopf publishers ...

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...

If Mother Nature could smile, she’d be beaming right now. After five long years, Atlanta native Julian Brown has launched an innovation as powerful as it is sustainable. Declaring a war on waste, this ...

Plastic pollution is one of the top global environmental problems, leading to an estimated 19 to 23 million tons of plastic waste polluting lakes, rivers, seas and oceans across the world, according ...

With conventional waste management systems falling short, many scientists are turning to nature for innovative solutions to the issue of plastic waste. One promising avenue is microbial degradation: ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — A dirty diaper may be gross to you, but one Texas company believes it could be the secret ingredient to helping answer an environmental question: How do we clean up all of our ...

Researchers are working on manipulating the digestive systems of wax worms to create a scalable way of disposing of plastic. In 2017, European researchers discovered a potential solution. The larvae ...