These scientists have bioengineered a version of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria that can break down polyethylene ...
We can learn from nature to engineer sustainable solutions," says Ludmilla Aristilde, who led a scientific team identifying ...
Plastic-eating microbes, used as a food source, could help tackle two of the world’s biggest problems — plastic pollution and ...
The official playlist for the fifth round of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, or INC5, is now out. OK, to ...
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A way to select a suite of mangrove bacteria that can transform plastic has been developed that potentially offers a new strategy in the global toolkit of plastic waste cleanup. Researchers have ...
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Scientists from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology have uncovered a promising solution to the growing ...
There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by. But a new study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology ...
Growing up in Haiti, Ludmilla Aristilde saw environmental catastrophes all around her. Dirty water led to a devastating cholera epidemic. Deforestation left soil open to erosion, flooding and ...