The radar signal’s ability to penetrate snow and ice reveals subsurface structures and fracture patterns that are invisible to optical cameras, providing scientists with a new window into how Antarctic glaciers respond to topographic obstacles. Photo Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NISAR Satellite Spots a ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica

A mountain poking through Antarctic ice doesn’t normally make headlines. But when a $1.5 billion radar satellite looked down at a remote corner of East Antarctica and sent back an image shaped unmistakably like a hummingbird in flight, scientists took a second look — not just at the shape, but at what it tells them about how ice moves. The image was produced using data from NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), a

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A disposable polypropylene-style plastic cup with a lid and straw, representing one of the packaging formats that often escapes waste systems and enters waterways. As recycling technologies expand the range of plastics that can return to food-contact applications, the challenge increasingly shifts from collection to scale—how much material can be recovered before it becomes pollution? (Photo: George E. Koronaios / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Just 1 Percent of This Plastic Ever Got Recycled — Until a 90-Job Indonesian Plant Changed That

European First · September 2025 The Plastic Nobody Could Recycle for 50 Years Just Passed Europe’s Toughest Food Safety Test 500MPP cups/year the initiative aims to keep out of the ocean 1%Post-consumer PP recycling rate — before this process 2.5B+Plastic bottles diverted from ocean pathways since 2020 90Local jobs created at the East Kalimantan collection

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