New research shows that the concentration of microplastics in our bodies has grown as global plastic production has increased The study looked at brain, liver and kidney tissue from cadavers The ...

Plastic production key issue My thanks to Earthbeat reporter Brian Roewe for his informative, concise account of the as of yet failed worldwide negotiations on our plastics problem (Earthbeat ...

Recycling technologies already struggle to cope with today’s waste, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expects 1 plastic-waste production to balloon to more ...

(These workers extract the raw materials that create plastic.) The plastic production workers who have an increased risk of leukemia, lymphoma, and brain and breast cancer. The plastic recycling ...

Determining the best mix of renewable carbon (biomass and CO2) for sustainable plastic production is challenging. Not every renewable carbon application is automatically the most sustainable, but ...

U.S. October oil production increased by 259 kb/d to 13,457 kb/d. The largest increases came from the GOM, 191 kb/d and Texas, 55 kb/d. The dark blue graph, taken from the December 2024 STEO ...

The government must adopt an ambitious new innovation agenda to ramp up UK food production by 30pc by 2050, says a committee led by a Norfolk MP. Meanwhile farmland is coming under increasing ...

aligning with the global surge in plastic production and pollution. Published in Nature Medicine, the study investigated how microplastics enter the body, with researchers suspecting food ...