10+ hour, 37+ min ago  (1097+ words) Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, food packaging and transport. But it's also created one of the defining environmental problems we have faced. Hundreds of millions…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (660+ words) Residents are campaigning against plans for a major "28.6m de-carbonisation project in the Peak District. The proposed Peak Cluster project will capture harmful carbon dioxide from three cement and lime plants and transfer it by pipeline to a storage facility under…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (682+ words) Disposable sanitary products can take 500 years to decompose, but a research team at the University of Waterloo is on a mission to cut that down to just a few months. Tiz Mekonnen, an associate professor in the department of chemical…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (985+ words) The UK is to increase testing for so-called "forever chemicals" as part of a national plan to tackle the substances, which have prompted environmental and health concerns. The chemicals, also known as PFAS, are used in many everyday products because…...

7+ mon, 6+ day ago  (871+ words) Paula Jongerden says she and her'neighbours have been living'a nightmare for the last decade. On days when the wind doesn't co-operate, a thick'rotten egg-like stench'wafts up the valley bordering their Norfolk'County properties'a putrid'reminder of the inactive and unfiltered wells that…...