Sanyal also advised universities to update curriculum and teaching methods along with the changing technology and times. He ...

Figure 1: Quantity of municipal solid waste disposed of in US landfills. In the near term, landfilling is expected to be the dominant method to manage municipal waste in the US. We found that the ...

More than 2 billion people, about a third of the world’s population, face food insecurity. At the same time, a recent UN report estimated that more than 1 billion metric tons of food went to waste in ...

Steam rises from the top of towering piles of compost at a landfill in western Placer County, California. The jaws of an excavator rake up and churn the heaps, unleashing a stench of decomposing food.

At my local supermarket here in Hong Kong, plastic is king. Avocados and oranges are individually swaddled in plastic wrap. Apples come in hard plastic clamshells. Bananas, despite having their own ...

When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation's capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of ...

Every day in the United States, consumers throw out nearly a pound of food each, according to new research. In a surprising finding, the report also showed a link between quality of diet and food ...

Elementary school students in Florida are now guaranteed 20 minutes of recess each day — something many kids lacked before a new state law took effect during the summer. Florida’s law and similar ...

High-level nuclear waste consists largely of spent fuel from nuclear reactors. Though it makes up a small proportion of overall waste volumes, it accounts for the majority of radioactivity. This most ...

Avoid wasting money at Dollar Tree. Learn which items -- like batteries, tools, and USB cables -- aren’t worth the $1.25 ...