People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

Nuclear power is on the rise around the world, but with it comes an extremely pressing question: where will all of the radioactive waste be stored? For Japan, one answer may lie in literally the most ...

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

This was for the first time that the “end-of-life fate” of plastic around the globe, which had ever been manufactured, had been calculated. The authors did so by collating data on production, use, and ...

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

Plastic waste is one of the biggest global problems right now, with more than 400 million tons generated each year and only 9 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Montgomery County's waste incinerator at Dickerson (white stack and building) also generate electricity. (Photo courtesy EPA Clean ...

“Our method doesn’t just destroy these hazardous chemicals; it turns waste into something of value,” said James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Rice University Chao Professor of Chemistry, in a groundbreaking ...

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related ...

Nuclear waste sits in temporary storage for 100,000 years, but Jefferson Lab’s particle accelerators slash that to just 300 years while generating electricity. This isn’t theoretical physics-it’s a $8 ...

A team of researchers has initiated a deep drilling project underneath a mountain in ...