Tag: Plastic
Grand Canyon’s Dragon Bravo megafire shows the growing wildfire threat to...
Faith Kearns, Arizona State University
As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim...
What’s that microplastic? Advances in machine learning are making identifying plastics...
Ambuj Tewari, University of Michigan
Microplastics – the tiny particles of plastic shed when litter breaks down – are...
Can you trust companies that say their plastic products are recyclable?...
Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School
Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most...
Real or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the...
Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees, and many more pull an artificial tree out of...
Real or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the...
Curtis VanderSchaaf, Mississippi State University
Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees,...
New class of recyclable polymer materials could one day help reduce...
Katherine Harry, Colorado State University and Emma Rettner, Colorado State University
Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic...
Lego’s ESG dilemma: Why an abandoned plan to use recycled plastic...
Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University; Christopher S. Tang, University of California, Los Angeles, and Hau L. Lee, Stanford University
Researchers turned superglue into a recyclable, cheap, oil-free plastic alternative
Allison Christy, Boise State University and Scott Phillips, Boise State University
The Research Brief is a short take about...
EXPLORING NATURE
Pregnant women face tough choices about medication use due to lack...
Almut Winterstein, University of Florida and Sonja Rasmussen, Johns Hopkins University
A panel convened in July 2025 by the...
