New technology could remotely identify various types of plastics, offering a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution. A new hyperspectral Raman imaging lidar ...
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in January has been used for a media wave of scaremongering about plastic residue in bottled water. Its results are ...
Researchers found thousands of plastic fragments in a liter of bottled water. Drinking more water every day is a healthy habit, but a new study has raised concerns about the container you should sip ...
In recent years, microplastics have emerged as a significant concern for environmental health and safety, with their long-term impacts still not fully understood. Defined as plastic particles smaller ...
Among the chemicals raising the greatest alarm are PFAS compounds, often called “forever chemicals” because they persist in ...
The prototype hyperspectral Raman imaging lidar system included a pulsed 532- nm green laser and a 2D imaging spectrometer with a gated ICCD. WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a new ...