Multinationals’ Interest Grows in Sustainable Bioplastics

Eight major multinational consumer products companies and conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF), have come together to investigate whether it is possible to produce a sustainable form of “bioplastic”, made from plants rather than petroleum products.
Birth of An Island, Japan

A volcanic eruption has raised an island in the Pacific Oceans about 620 miles (1,000 km) south of Tokyo, the Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts said.