Under the right conditions, 1g of oyster shells can capture and lock away up to around 1.5g of the rare earth elements ...

The smell of rotten eggs permeates Steve Egger’s Southern California home, especially at night as the nearby Tijuana River ...

The world’s first commercial-ready deep borehole nuclear waste disposal solution is inching closer to ...

Researchers have identified more than 600,000 microbial proteins capable of breaking down natural and synthetic plastics, ...

Human and animal waste can replace many fertilizers if managed better and used closer to farms, improving farming systems.

The University of Chicago Press awarded the 2026 Gordon J. Laing Award to Assoc. Prof. Sarah Newman for her book Unmaking ...

Years of chemical dumping have tainted wells with cancer-causing toxins. Affected residents worry about their future as the ...

The global occurrence of emerging contaminants (ECs)—including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides, microplastics, and per- and ...

WATERLOO — Black Hawk County’s landfill is moving to in-house operations, with its commission hoping to create more programs and have more control.