A new exhibit at the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo features 15 large sculptures made from flip-flops, bottle caps and other ...

The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind. They’re also inside us. Last October ...

But, one potentially damaging organic compound known as PAH, or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which Heal the Bay says is “related to fire-scorched debris,” is still being tested for and ...

A powerful explosion in Palm Springs damaged a fertility clinic and left at least one person believed dead, investigation ongoing.

Williams saw a large dark gray plume of smoke and covered his nose with his shirt as he smelled burning plastic and rubber. He said he saw a building had “blown out” into the street, with bricks and ...

On a remote Australian island renowned for its natural beauty, researchers have made a grisly discovery: Seabirds have ingested so much plastic they crunch when touched. The “harrowing ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They say the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. In Australia, it seems the price of democracy is tonnes of plastic rubbish that ...

outnumbering all other plastic debris items collected. The ministry takes plastic pollution "very seriously," says Wheeler, and has invested over $2.7 million into more than a dozen projects ...

May 14 is the final deadline for unincorporated Polk County residents to schedule hurricane debris pickup. Residents must call 863-535-2200 before May 14 to be added to the final pickup list.

British company Aquapak is offering a solution — literally. Its Hydropol polymer material is a plastic that can fully dissolve in water. “It’s like sugar in tea,” CEO Mark Lapping tells me.

So I removed them before eating each one. Is leaving a pile of debris offensive to the hosts or other diners? Does it imply that the cook was sloppy? GENTLE READER: Perhaps, but it is preferable ...

It's too early to know where the half-ton mass of metal might come down or how much of it will survive reentry, according to space debris-tracking experts. Dutch scientist Marco Langbroek ...