Can a Single Lesson Make Kids Recycle Their Old Phones? A Huge Hungarian Study Says Maybe
A large Hungarian study of over 8,000 student responses found that e-waste lessons in primary schools were associated with slightly ...
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Greeks Know the Environment Is at Risk, But Their Actions Tell Another Story
A national survey of 1,410 Greek adults quantifies a persistent gap between high environmental awareness and weaker pro-environmental behavior, with ...
Lightweight Transformer Brings Real-Time Road Garbage Detection to Edge Devices
Researchers in China have developed a lightweight transformer model with a novel cross-axis attention module and a feature memory component ...
Buried Beneath the Oil Fields: Iraq’s Drilling Waste Crisis May Be Degrading Its Land
A new study estimates that Iraq's oil industry generates 70,000 to 140,000 tons of drilling waste annually, and that conventional ...
Landfill Leachate Poses a Growing Global Threat to Groundwater, Major Review Finds
A global synthesis of 422 studies across 78 countries shows that landfill leachate, laden with heavy metals, PFASs, and microplastics, ...
Kitchen Composters Put to the Test: Electric Units Lose Their Edge in Head-to-Head Trial
A replicated trial of four household composting devices found that electric units offered convenience but no faster compost stabilization, with ...
Labs Throw Away Millions of Tonnes of Plastic. A Simple Sorting Scheme Could Recycle It
Researchers have shown that separately collecting polystyrene and polypropylene from laboratory waste before autoclaving can recover high-quality recyclable polymers and ...
Microplastics Are Flooding Malaysian Cities, and the Laws Are Not Ready
A comparative policy analysis finds Malaysian cities heavily contaminated with microplastics yet governed by legislation that never explicitly addresses them, ...
Why the Circular Economy Became Sustainability’s Most Powerful Buzzword
A new analysis argues that the circular economy's dominance in policy and business stems from its status as a 'magic ...
Hidden metals in rubble: construction waste quietly poisons Ghana’s soils
Researchers in Kumasi, Ghana, have mapped how heavy metals leach from construction and demolition waste into underlying soils, finding that ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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