The study focused on eight young adults from Austria, including five women. They were asked to drink only tap water and not consume liquids from plastic or glass bottles for one month. Their blood ...

Abstract: This letter presents a model-free deep reinforcement learning framework for informative path planning with heterogeneous fleets of autonomous surface vehicles to locate and collect plastic ...

Over half of UK shoppers see the effect of plastic breaking down to microplastics in the ocean and waterways as their biggest concern when it comes to the damage plastic causes to the environment, ...

A team from Japan has developed a solution: a plastic that dissolves in salt water. Plastic waste can be found everywhere on the planet. The oceans are also heavily polluted with it. Over time ...

Languages: English. As debates reignite over the safety of fluoride in drinking water, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading a push to revise national health guidance—one that ...

Recent studies reveal that bottled water often contains far more plastic contaminants than tap water, undermining its perceived superiority. The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying to find out its effects. By Nina Agrawal Nina Agrawal shadowed ...

Aquafade could be one — a fully water-soluble plastic that dissolves completely in about six hours when placed in a container of water. It could be used to encase electronics such as computers ...

A vast network of lakes and streams lies beneath the thick ice sheet. This water can lubricate the ice, allowing it to slide more rapidly toward the ocean. Our new research shows “subglacial ...

and sustainable drinking water — while fighting back against the dual crises of tap water contaminated with toxic chemicals and plastic pollution. The award winning Bluewater Kitchen Station and the ...

Plastic particles have been found on pretty much every surface of Earth, and now, researchers say that in many places it's actually raining microplastics, posing threats to our water supplies. As Vox ...