Plastic pollution goes far beyond visible waste, affecting wildlife, human health, ecosystems, and the climate in complex ...

More than 40 million depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Yet plastic pollution in the lake water isn’t regulated, ...

Indian fisherfolk in Kodungallur face severe financial distress as invasive seaweed, plastic waste and illegal night fishing devastate fish stocks and damage nets, threatening their traditional ...

Researchers have long observed that a common family of environmental bacteria, Comamonadacae, grow on plastics littered throughout urban rivers and wastewater systems. But exactly what these Comamonas ...

On Kenya’s Pate Island, communities are turning plastic waste into new livelihoods while tackling marine pollution and ...

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Comamonadacae is a family of bacteria often found growing on plastics in water. A new study finds a bacterium in this family can break down the plastic for food. Researchers also identified the enzyme ...

TPU researchers, as part of an international collaboration, have proposed a method to produce porous metal-organic ...

SALEM: Plastic waste is becoming a growing environmental concern in Yercaud, with residents and forest department officials ...

Wastewater is a huge reservoir of microplastics and nanoplastics and many nanoplastics can be formed during wastewater treatment through microbial activity. This increases pollution. However, one ...