Congressional efforts to investigate and even cease federal funding of some overseas labs have increased since White Coat Waste Project (WCW) disclosed several Freedom of Information Act ...

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This story is co-published with The Guardian and supported by The Heinrich Böll Foundation. Andrée Nieuwjaer, a 67-year-old resident of Roubaix, France, is what one might call a frugal shopper. In ...

Food waste is a growing global challenge. Every year, about 1 billion tonnes of edible food, nearly one-fifth of what reaches consumers, is wasted. This has significant impacts on both people and the ...

Mumbai, September 29, 2026: In March 2018, scientists spread about 30 dump truck loads of coffee pulp over an abandoned pasture in southern Costa Rica. Two years later, more than 80% of the treated ...

A plastic-degrading enzyme and an engineered bacterial strain have just been launched into space with an important mission: to convert waste plastics to upcycled materials during spaceflight.