Plastic pollution remains one of the most persistent environmental crises, with polystyrene (PS) among the hardest polymers to break down due to its ...

Plastic pollution remains one of the most persistent environmental crises, with polystyrene (PS) among the hardest polymers ...

By converting plastic waste into a microbe-friendly food source, scientists have built an upcycling pipeline that turns the waste into a variety of useful products. The findings are detailed in the ...

Plastic production has grown rapidly due to its unique properties, increasing 20-fold since 1964 and reaching 460 million tons worldwide in 2024 (Urbanek et al., 2018). Approximately 91% of plastic ...

Biodegradation is the biologically mediated transformation and mineralization of organic or inorganic substances by microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and archaea, often via extracellular and ...

Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment performance, and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. A new study shows ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

Enzyme Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005, India ...

A Japanese research team has demonstrated that a novel microbial polyester called poly(D‑lactate‑co‑3‑hydroxybutyrate), or LAHB, can biodegrade on the deep‑sea floor while conventional bio‑based ...

ABSTRACT: Heavy metal pollutants have become a key research topic in the field of environmental science and engineering due to their strong ecotoxicity, significant bioconcentration and difficult ...