Plastic! It’s everywhere: cups, bottles, jars, bags, eating utensils, and packaging material. Oh, and don’t forget micro-fiber plastic from which clothing and other fabric is made. The list is ...

However, being exposed to both microplastics and flooding together—a threat likely to increase as a result of climate change ...

Researchers estimated that each bag of IV fluid could deliver about 7,500 microplastics directly into the bloodstream. That would rise to about 25,000 particles to treat dehydration or 52,500 for ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Floating in what is normally the Turfmutt Great Lawn of Waterfront Park are tons of plastic bottles, an appliance, tires, and other trash after flooding occurred earlier in the ...

In the years after World War II, plastic flooded the marketplace as a cheap alternative to otherwise scarce and finite materials. It was hailed as a democratic harbinger of a new, utopian age of ...

In fact, the so-called global plastic flood has reached the Arctic, as warned by scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, who have just confirmed that microplastic pollution in the ...

Floods from Hurricane Helene filled the plant, temporarily halting operations and pipe supply to the company's U.S. markets.

Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is common in many parts of the world.

Klinzing says the barriers along the northwest portion of the Santa Barbara airfield are the second short-term phase in the airport's new flood prevention plan. "This plastic sheeting that’s ...

Fri, February 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM UTC Entergy’s stock is surging after a $10 billion Meta deal — the CEO says mega AI data centers are changing the utility business ...