Boeing will be laying off “roughly” 10 percent of its workforce, president and CEO Kelly Ortberg announced in an email to staff on Friday. That number equates to 17,000 jobs, Reuters reports ...

Additionally, the new EPA rule does not specify what materials must be used to replace the lead pipes. The cheapest alternative is plastic, yet a growing body of concerning research shows that popular ...

The new Points-Based System for Work Visas combats corruption and inefficiency by cutting red tape and introducing a transparent points scale to objectively determine who qualifies for a Critical ...

Nanqing Zhou, a lead author on the study and postdoctoral researcher, compared the bacteria’s consumption of plastic to how people eat cows. “If you want to eat beef, you need to cut [it] into ...

Microplastics, tiny pieces of plastic that pollute the air, water, and food supply, are harmful to humans and wildlife. It’s estimated that the average person consumes between 78,000 and 211,000 ...

We just need them to go further, and make sure the treaty includes an ambitious, legally binding global target to cut plastic production. Has your MP signed up? If not, ask them to email ...

A new study finds a bacterium in this family can break down the plastic for food. Researchers also identified the enzyme the bacterium use to degrade plastic. The discovery opens new possibilities ...

A string of new global policy interventions targeting every stage of the plastics lifecycle could reduce pollution by 96 per cent by 2040, a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

Now, Northwestern University-led researchers have discovered how cells of a Comamonas bacterium are breaking down plastic for food. First, they chew the plastic into small pieces, called nanoplastics.