"Dirty" or "extremely dirty": these are the classifications of 46% of the world's aquatic environments. This conclusion comes ...

A recent study published in the academic journal Sustainable Food Technology reported that films made from grapevine canes are both transparent and mechanically strong. When placed in soil, they fully ...

Toxic waste, by definition, is harmful to living things, but there are actually a bunch of plants, animals, fungi, and ...

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed. "Parkinson's ...

Doris Lin is an animal rights attorney and the Director of Legal and Government Affairs for the Animal Protection League of New Jersey. Her focuses as an expert writer include animal rights and ...

“The Role of Synthetic Biology in the Realization of the Bioeconomy” is the title of the talk that Carrie Eckert, leader of the Synthetic Biology Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will present ...

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) production could be revolutionized by the discovery that a common bacterium can turn everyday plastic waste into the painkiller. The new method leaves virtually no carbon ...

Biologist Federica Bertocchini discovered that wax worms can perforate plastic. And break it down - thanks to special enzymes. Ukraine strikes again: Russian military suffers another expensive loss ...

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has ruled in favour of waste pickers wrongfully labelled as recyclers. The definition of the terms proved critical for the court when ruling on an eviction appeal ...

The bill is unlikely to become law as it has to be selected at random from a ballot and then garner majority support in parliament. New Zealand's populist party has introduced a bill to parliament to ...

A new ruling by the Supreme Court in the UK says the legal definition of a woman is rooted in biological sex, rather than what gender a person identifies as, when it comes to the Equality Act 2010. It ...

London — In a potential landmark decision, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that in a 2010 civil rights law called the Equality Act, the word "woman" refers to someone's biological sex. The five ...