Crater Lake newt. Photo Source: Center for Biological DiversityDigital Assets Database (National Park Service)

Crater Lake Newt Drops to 13 as Crayfish Take 95% Shoreline, Lawsuit Targets ESA Delay

The Center for Biological Diversity has announced legal action against the Trump administration over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s failure to protect the Crater Lake newt under the Endangered Species Act. This rare amphibian, found only in Oregon’s Crater Lake, faces a dire threat from invasive signal crayfish and warming waters caused by climate change. Chelsea Stewart-Fusek, an endangered species attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, emphasized that Crater Lake

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Plastic Recycling. Photo Source: Fraunhofer.

German Scientists Convert 5.6M Tons Plastic Waste Into 99.8% Pure 3D Printing Filaments

In German laboratories, plastic bottle caps that once held your morning milk are being reborn as precision-engineered components through an innovative recycling process that converts post-consumer packaging waste into high-purity 3D printing filaments. Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in Germany after being used just once.

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