Each year, Canada generates roughly $58 billion in avoidable food waste, much of which is from spoilage that goes undetected ...

January brings sticker shock on your credit cards, and maybe that bathroom scale, from all that holiday splurging on gifts and entertainment, nice meals and parties, now that we can go out again after ...

Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That’s how much plastic ...

An international research group has examined the structural barriers to addressing the solar e-waste problem in the Global South. They argue that the focus should be on repairing devices, rather than ...

Food waste and food security are intertwined. As climate change, the pandemic, and global insecurity destabilize supplies of agricultural staples like wheat and rice, it’s no surprise concerns about ...

In “Our Mutual Friend”, Charles Dickens’s last complete novel, stray paper “hangs on every bush, flutters in every tree, is caught flying by the electric wires, haunts every enclosure”. Since those ...

Four hundred million tons of toxic waste are produced each year. Just imagine that for a moment — that’s 70 Great Pyramids of Giza combined. It’s not something most of us take into account when ...

One bad apple may not spoil the whole bunch, but when it comes to distributing food, a lot of good goes out with the bad. Now, researchers from Princeton University and Microsoft Research have ...

As pollution continues to strain Bali’s environment, organisations are exposing limits of clean-ups. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

There’s one thing every planned permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel has in common: They’re all underground mines. Like any mine, a mined repository for nuclear waste is a complex feat of ...