People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic ...

The practice is ‘much more widespread’ than previously realised, researchers say, with serious environmental impact ...

Recent changes to the waste stream in Ames has some residents feeling unsettled. The Ames Climate Action Team has been ...

A new study is shedding light on households in developing countries burning plastic as an everyday energy source, causing ...

The world has a plastics problem. Never mind the horrifying pictures of a seahorse riding a cotton swab or a beached whale found with hundreds of plastic bags in its stomach. Plastic pollution has now ...

A new Curtin University-led study has shed new light on the widespread number of households in developing countries burning ...

A global study reveals the prevalent household burning of plastic waste in developing countries, raising serious health and ...

As the world desperately searches for a way out of its global climate change and plastic pollution crises, nations are increasingly turning to burning municipal waste to make fuel as a solution to ...

Australia is building waste-to-energy plants to reduce landfill and generate electricity, with 10 plants currently under development. While some see this as a solution to the country's waste problem, ...

Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy ...