April 22nd will mark the fifty-fifth anniversary of Earth Day. The power of those 20 million voices that came out on the streets that first Earth Day led the U.S. to create the EPA and the first ...

"The size of the faucet highlights the magnitude of the problem. It makes the problem impossible to ignore. We're used to throwing things 'away'--but when we're confronted with what happens when 'away ...

Ban on liquid mercury usage has meant that US is sitting on a diminishing stockpile of lithium-6 since the 1960s.

Several airlines are tightening rules on carrying lithium batteries on planes following a series of overheating and fire incidents on board.

Nurdles are balls of plastic ... held in containers on board, were released because of the crash. On Monday HM Coastguard said some were beginning to wash up around The Wash – a large inlet ...

Just 12% of plastic in Britain is actually recycled, according to the Big Plastic Count, with Britons throwing away 100 billion items of plastic waste each year. Much of what remains ends up in ...

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Thursday announced steps to open up more acreage for oil and gas leasing ... winning reporting plastic pollution and the ...

And improvements in our ability to design proteins have allowed us to make new enzymes that can ... to large-scale industrial production. So, it's not quite ready to take over global plastic ...

This improves the viability of sustainable energy sources and makes it possible to ditch polluting dirty fuel generation ... when electricity demand goes up but the sun isn't out. While large ...

Seemingly dropping like flies, the warehouses on Washington Street can’t stop lighting ... of plastic wrap that is in very large bundles inside,” said Freeborn. “That plastic material burns more or ...