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A promising, environmentally friendly replacement for plastics derived from petroleum has been made more biodegradable by researchers from Michigan State University’s renowned School of Packaging.

El Niño, as the strongest indicator of interannual climate variability, has a substantial impact on climate in the Antarctic, particularly in the West Antarctic.

The selective extraction of particular gas molecules from gaseous mixtures is a challenging chemical problem with significant environmental and economic benefits for success.

Moving to an area with higher levels of air pollution is linked to weight gain in young children, according to a major natural experiment conducted in Catalonia.

Rivers carry trace metals and essential nutrients into the ocean. Such elements include characteristic isotopic signatures that can be used by geologists to find where the water in the ocean comes from.

Childhood is a window of opportunity to tackle obesity before the damage it causes is irreversible, according to a scientific statement by experts on heart disease and childhood obesity published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1

In the largest study of its kind, researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) used electronic health record (EHR) data from more than 200,000 pediatric patients to describe patterns of pediatric allergies across the United States, validating a population-level pattern of allergy development known as the "allergic march," in which allergies first present as eczema, followed by food allergies, asthma, and environmental allergies.

High energy density to power devices and stability to be recharged thousands of times safely and reliably are two qualities that make a good battery.

The rainforest canopy, where the majority of the world’s species reside is least researched compared to the surface of Mars or the bottom of the ocean. GEDI, a NASA space laser that provided the first-ever detailed structure of the world’s rainforests, is about to change that.

Climate-neutral hydrogen will be a crucial fuel and raw resource in the future. Water is electrolyzed to produce hydrogen, either indirectly (using a solar panel or wind turbine to provide voltage to the electrolysis cell) or directly (using a photoelectrochemical cell, or PEC cell), where the photoelectrode itself provides the electrical energy for electrolysis.