What Does ‘Recyclable’ Really Mean?
Most of the products in the typical kitchen use plastics that are virtually impossible to recycle. The film that acts as a lid on Dole…
Most of the products in the typical kitchen use plastics that are virtually impossible to recycle. The film that acts as a lid on Dole…
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Martha Spiess, a retired veterinarian, began testing streams and ponds in Brunswick, Maine, after hearing that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs, had contaminated farms…
On the southern edge of Mexico City, on a patch of land surrounded by water, a farmer and a scientist recently inspected rows of small…
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For Andrew Maidment, the chief of physics for the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, it was one of the oddest phone calls…
On a scorching July morning at a testing facility outside of Paris, a cadre of scientists, engineers, and architects wearing hard hats and safety goggles…