It’s an encouraging first step, experts say, but more action and stricter limits are neededBy Kevin LoriaUpdate Jan. 6, 2025: ...

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Dec. 17, 2024 — New technology could remotely identify various types of plastics, offering a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution. A new hyperspectral ...

UN Member States recognize the need to substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination by 2030, as well as to ...

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The discovery of radioactivity in 1896 by Henri Becquerel from a uranium sample, and subsequent research by Enrico Fermi and others from 1934 on, eventually showed that 235 U can undergo a chain ...