Tag: plastic

In a groundbreaking development, scientists have genetically modified a marine microorganism with the capability to break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic in...

Paper cups, believed to be benign, harbour toxic chemicals that can inflict harm on ecosystems and living organisms much like their plastic counterparts, according to a latest study.

Humans might inhale about 16.2 bits of microplastic every hour, which is equivalent to a credit card over an entire week. A group of researchers point out that inhaled microplasticspose cause serious health risks and the understanding how it travels in the respiratory system is essential for prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases.

Plastic pollution could reduce by 80 per cent by 2040 if countries and companies make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies, according to a new report by UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

The discovery of synthetic plastic fibres in air, seawater, sediment and sea ice sampled in the Antarctic Weddell Sea has once again...

In a major development, a group of scientists have found that some naturally-occurring lake bacteria grow faster and more efficiently on the...

Plastics are a World menace and no one is spared from the Himalayas to the depth of the oceans. A new study...

Right from water to the seafloor, remote beaches to rivers and even in ice and snow, high concentrations of plastic can be...

The River Dolphin and Gharial (a crocodile species) in the Ganges river and the Mekong catfish, Irrawaddy dolphin and the Eastern Imperial Eagle in...

In contrast to earlier assumption that micro plastics never stay in rivers as the water is in continuous flow, a group of researchers now...