Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough ... Now that the mussel-inspired nanomaterial has shown promising results in the lab, Nashef is ...

A new study tracked the ability of natural, synthetic, and blended fabrics to biodegrade directly in the ocean ... Synthetic textiles also create plastic pollution from microfibers shedding ...

Fashion production makes up 10% of humanity's carbon emissions, dries up water ... textiles like polyester. Overall, microplastics are estimated to compose up to 31% of plastic pollution in ...

In 2013, a team of Cambridge University scientists were in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, developing a device to measure pollution ... their water supply, and learned that waste from textile ...

It’s hard to say how much microplastics from textiles contributes to the overall plastic pollution problem in the ocean. Because microplastics are so tiny — and many of them end up deep in the ...

"We were inspired by how this snail collects food particles at the [water and air] interface to engineer a device that could possibly collect microplastics in the ocean or at a water body's ...

But they also wanted to know how animals in that environment were interacting with the pollution that surrounds them. So they sent underwater robots down into trenches across the Pacific Ocean to ...

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.