As countries across the world experience a resurgence in nuclear energy projects, the questions of where and how to dispose of nuclear waste remain as politically fraught as ever. The United States, ...

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new mathematical model that could improve the evaluation of potential storage sites for nuclear waste and carbon dioxide. The approach provides a ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...