Reasons to be Cheerful reports on new methods that are turning mountains of old clothes into rack-ready garments amid growing ...

(And why are microplastics in our cleaning products anyway?) ...

"We need a variety of solutions to the problem, and this could be the basis for one." Scientists develop ultra-futuristic ...

Why replace your rusted metal outdoor furniture? Using an inexpensive tool and few other supplies, you can scrape away rust ...

By 2034, the Paris-based "materials regeneration" firm plans to be a $2 billion business with an estimated 20 "megafactories" ...

Nanoplastics -- plastic particles smaller than 1 m -- are widely dispersed because of their low weight. A research team now shows the extent to which glaciers at an altitude of more than 3,000 m in ...

A budget-friendly and easy to roll hard case for a fantastic bike protection but a bit more fiddly to pack down ...

For example, climbers were to use new clothing and new ropes ... quantifies the gases released during heating. Because each polymer produces a kind of fingerprint of gases, the identity and ...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences–Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich worked together with the company Novonesis to develop a bacterium that "eats" individual ...

Scientists found microplastics in all 52 examined human brains. Newer brain samples had more plastic than older ones.

A growing awareness of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the pervasiveness of microplastics have led to an uptick in ...