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The widening expansion of electric vehicles and renewable energy is helping curb CO2 emissions from fossil fuels around the world, researchers say.

Cambridge University researchers have found bacteria that prefer to eat plastics over organic matter to consume carbon compounds.

The first 100,000 kilograms of plastic waste have been removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) by The Ocean Cleanup.

NASA researchers used its many satellites to identify an 'atmospheric blueprint' of emissions associated with Covid-19 lockdowns.

Researchers have detected microplastic particles from samples of fresh snow taken from nineteen sites tested across Antarctica.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has estimated up to $9.9 billion can be reclaimed from plastic waste in landfills.

Researchers have found over a dozen kinds of microplastics at least 3μm in size in lung tissue samples taken from living humans.

The World Health Organization is now saying that 99% of the global population is at increased risk of disease from air pollution.

Microplastic particles have been detected in human blood samples for the first time, including PET, polystyrene, and polyethylene.

Almost two hundred nations at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi have agreed to create a plastic treaty.

Surgical masks adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic pollute the ocean by the billions, releasing millions of microplastics each.

Of the nine planetary boundaries defined in 2009, four had been breached by 2015, with the fifth for novel entities now breached.

New research has identified new enzymes with the potential to degrade plastic, and their numbers correlate with pollutant count.

Humans are polluting and destroying Earth in the mining industry, but what if that could all be solved by mining in space?

Pollution free energy might not even be that far away with this new scientific discovery.

Global warming isn't just man-made, but extends out into the solar system.