A new study released Tuesday found microplastics deep inside samples from 9 out of 10 patients with prostate cancer, with more microplastic levels inside tumors than in regular healthy tissue ...

More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics ...

NASA’s EMIT sensor advances space technology to track ocean debris by applying imaging spectroscopy to identify material specific spectral signatures from orbit. Although EMIT was launched in 2022 to ...

Plastic pollution is one of those problems everyone can see, yet few know how to tackle it effectively. I grew up walking the beaches around Tramore in County Waterford, Ireland, where plastic debris ...

Gerard Dooly works for the University of Limerick, Ireland. He receives funding under the BLUEPOINT project (EAPA_0035/2022), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg ...

A deluge of research has painted a picture of our world being drowned in tiny, inescapable microplastics. Our guilt over plastic particles being found in even the most remote regions on Earth turned ...

Earnings announcements are one of the few scheduled events that consistently move markets. Prices react not just to the reported numbers, but to how those numbers compare with expectations. A small ...

Chinese scientists have detected plastic particle clouds hovering in the air over two large cities indicating that these potentially toxic particles are far more abundant than previously thought. Over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Beachgoers have been dealing with plastic particles that washed up on the sands along an English coastline.

Marine plastic pollution is a pressing environmental threat, making reliable automation for underwater debris detection essential. However, vision systems trained on one dataset often degrade on new ...

According to Kent Online, a damaged filter screen at a water treatment plant in Eastbourne, England, resulted in around 11 tons of plastic beads washing up on over 40 miles of shore. Volunteers, along ...