International Women and Girls in Science Day, Feb. 11, promotes full and equal access to and participation in STEM fields for ...

NASA’s EMIT sensor advances space technology to track ocean debris by applying imaging spectroscopy to identify material specific spectral signatures from orbit. Although EMIT was launched in 2022 to ...

Gerard Dooly works for the University of Limerick, Ireland. He receives funding under the BLUEPOINT project (EAPA_0035/2022), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg ...

A deluge of research has painted a picture of our world being drowned in tiny, inescapable microplastics. Our guilt over plastic particles being found in even the most remote regions on Earth turned ...

Chinese scientists have detected plastic particle clouds hovering in the air over two large cities indicating that these potentially toxic particles are far more abundant than previously thought. Over ...

Over the past two decades, microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) have been recognized as emerging pollutants, detected across every environmental compartment of Earth's system—the atmosphere, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Beachgoers have been dealing with plastic particles that washed up on the sands along an English coastline.

Marine plastic pollution is a pressing environmental threat, making reliable automation for underwater debris detection essential. However, vision systems trained on one dataset often degrade on new ...

According to Kent Online, a damaged filter screen at a water treatment plant in Eastbourne, England, resulted in around 11 tons of plastic beads washing up on over 40 miles of shore. Volunteers, along ...

How do you figure out where sufficient vegetation cover is on a piece of land? How do you create a detailed map of topographic details? Or show the scourge of erosion in a region? Well, prior to today ...