Kenyan lesser mealworm’s ability to consume polystyrene suggests that it play a role in natural waste reduction.

A satellite imagery tool from RMIT University now allows for the effective detection of beach plastics, aiding cleanup ...

Experiments show that the acoustic signature of plastic and prey is similar. That may confuse whales that use echolocation to hunt.

Prince William walked the longest green carpet in Earthshot Prize Awards history on Nov. 6, without wife Kate Middleton by his side. The awards ceremony is in Cape Town, South Africa this year for its ...

Happy Halloween, everybody! I wonder how many trick-or-treaters tonight will be dressed as hurricanes, or maybe as debris ...

Growing up in Haiti, Ludmilla Aristilde saw environmental catastrophes all around her. Dirty water led to a devastating cholera epidemic. Deforestation left soil open to erosion, flooding and ...

LAS VEGAS — The San Jose Sharks are setting the wrong kind of history…again. The 0-7-2 Sharks lost their ninth-straight to start this season, a 7-3 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights. They’re the first ...

Might not be one for the holiday bucket list (Picture: Getty) Mutant sharks ... crabs eating coconuts containing caesium. A dome ‘coffin’ crammed with radioactive material in plastic bags.

The largest nuclear detonation was the hydrogen bomb Castle Bravo, fired on March 1, 1954, in Bikini. As the mushroom-shaped ...

So far, in a lab, the plastic has been converted into an oil-like compound using heat to deconstruct the polymer chains. This compound is then fed to oil-eating bacteria, which leave behind a ...

Can the bacteria that cling to plastic bottles in rivers eat up all of that plastic and help get rid of that pollutant? The answer, according to Aristilde’s team’s recently published research ...