We have seen increasing concern about global warming during the last decade. The possibility of worldwide disasters has led many scientists to search for ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. A team of scientists seems to have found an effective way to eliminate carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere — by using industrially ...
The most frightening monsters are the ones that we create. And although plastic does not fit in with the typical image of a sharp-fanged, clawed, and horned creature, it truly is a nightmare humanity has created over the past half-century. Our careless use of plastic and the menace of plastic we have created has not ...
Several greenhouse gases are emitted as common plastics degrade in the environment, according to researchers from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology(SOEST). Mass production of plastics started nearly 70 years ago, and the production rate is expected to double over the next two decades. While serving many applications because of their ...
Jeans are again at the top of most people’s must-have in fashion. 2017 saw the largest annual growth rate in the sector since 2013, according to The Guardian, with over US$95 billion in sales worldwide. Sales of premium designer jeans have doubled, while designers from Tom Ford, MaxMara, and Versus Versace accentuated deep indigo denim ...
The size of China’s farms is a key contributor to the overuse of agricultural chemicals, and as a result, they may be too small to be environmentally sustainable, a new study has found. The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, found agricultural chemicals are often ...
It has been over seven years since Pennsylvania officials requested that the dumping of radium-laden fracking wastewater into surface waters be restricted. However, a new study has found high levels of radioactivity persist in stream sediments at three disposal sites. But the contamination is coming from the disposal of conventional oil and gas wastewater, and ...