With Republicans just one vote away from having veto-proof control of the legislature, one of the biggest powers that North ...

They’re grasping for straws. Devout paper straw enthusiasts are speaking out as public opinion about the environmentally ...

The inaugural UFC Strawweight Champion was Carla Esparza, who defeated Rose Namajunas in 2014 in the tournament finale for The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned. At UFC 185, Joanna ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide ...

But plastic never was and never will be disposable, and neither are the people it poisons. Over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen the current U.S. administration grasping at straws, mocking ...

New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. In experiments, method recovered 94% of monomers ...

Microplastics are now a ubiquitous part of our daily physical reality. These minuscule fragments of degrading plastic now suffuse our air, our soil, the food we eat and the water we drink.

The US government has scrapped paper straws to go back to plastic. So why are the plastic variety restricted in many countries around the world in the first place? When US President Donald Trump ...

The order rolled back a previous policy aiming to phase out single-use plastic items, including straws, in federal operations like food service, and directed the government to stop buying paper ...

Paper straws in the US served as a daily reminder of the need for eco-friendly behaviour, but Trump has made plastic great again and turned a hard-won environmental gain into a loss. This will ...

On average, the total amount of plastics found in the brain in each of the 2024 samples is about the same amount found in a disposable plastic spoon, say the researchers. What's perhaps even more ...

The order rolled back a previous policy aiming to phase out single-use plastic items, including straws, in federal operations like food service, and directed the government to stop buying paper ...