Green chemistry, the design of chemical products that reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous substances, is an essential component of efforts to enhance pollution prevention and sustainable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Wu demonstrates a way to tackle plastic pollution while simultaneously producing valuable chemicals. (CREDIT: University of ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In their study of global chemical pollution, the researchers provide an overview of particularly problematic chemical groups, such as ...

The agency released its latest Toxics Release Inventory analysis, showing self-reported chemical releases rose 2 percent between 2022 and 2023. The amount of pollutants released into the environment ...

The Ocean Recovery Alliance, headquartered in Hong Kong, has released “Towards Circular Plastics: Assessing the Impact of Recycling Technologies in Tackling Plastic Pollution,” a report that assesses ...

Rachel Carson wrote the mainstream scientific book Silent Spring in 1962. It outlined the devastation that certain chemicals had on local ecosystems. The book served as a wake-up call for the public ...

The tools meant to detect microplastics—lab gloves—might be quietly skewing the results. A new University of Michigan study ...

“I identify first and foremost as an inventor of green-chemistry technologies,” John Warner often says to describe himself. Warner began his career in chemistry at Polaroid Corporation, where he ...

A worryingly wide range of chemical pollutants has been found by researchers studying two of the U.K.'s south-coast harbors, raising concerns about the impact on wildlife and the human activities ...

The practice of reporting on the environment starts with a working knowledge of a range of scientific disciplines. One of them is chemistry. To wit: since the 1960s, when Americans and visionary ...