Zoe CorbynTechnology Reporter, San FranciscoGetty ImagesE. coli has been used in many discoveries in genetics and molecular biologyEarlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste plastic made ...

Esme Stallard and Mark PoyntingBBC News Climate and ScienceJames Wakibia/Getty ImagesGlobal talks to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution have once again failed.The UN negotiations, the sixth ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending a US government effort to replace plastic straws with paper. The order, which takes effect immediately, reverses a measure ...

Kevin KeaneBBC Scotland's environment correspondentBBCThe banks of Loch Long at Arrochar are strewn with plastics from the River ClydeAt the head of beautiful Loch Long in Argyll sits one ...

57 minutes agoBy Eleanor Lawson, BBC News, West Midlands • PA Media, News AgencyGetty ImagesBefore its website closed down, SK:N said it had "the largest network of specialist skin care clinics in the UK"One ...

Mark Miodownik, who is professor of materials and society at University College London told the BBC that there was a lesson for humans in these images. "Just like the ...

Mars trials environmentally friendly paper wrappers for some of its chocolate bars. Source link

The wet wipes ban is part of a broader strategy, called Plan for Water, which the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) wants to improve England's water ...

A process that turns waste plastic and CO2 into fuel has been developed at Cambridge University. Source link

The problem is caused by too many nutrients entering the water, typically nitrogen and phosphorus from artificial fertilisers. These are carried into the sea by the rivers of the ...

In 1971, marine biologist Edward Carpenter made a shocking discovery, finding small bits of plastics floating thousands of miles off the east coast of America, in the Atlantic Ocean.More ...

More details emerge of a ban that businesses say could make takeaways more costly. Source link