The best speculative fiction gives us the distance to see our own world more clearly. Take Scott Guild’s debut novel Plastic. Most of its characters are just that, figurines, although others are ...

See the thousands of plastic chemicals in what we eat. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. When Americans eat ...

Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage ...

For decades, scientists have assumed no matter how strong or dense any plastic is, gas molecules will eventually slip through. A new “molecularly impermeable” plastic invented by a team of researchers ...

Chemical additions to plastic that mimic natural polymers like DNA can create materials that break down in days, months or years rather than littering the environment for centuries. Researchers hope ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

Two brothers are dead and a third is charged with their killings after he opened fire Sunday at a hunting cabin in Allen, Allegany County, State Police said. Mark B. Thompson, 70, of Canterbury, Conn.

Every year, around 20 million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean, rivers, and lakes — disrupting ecosystems and livelihoods. NUclear TEChnology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics), ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Scot Mundt covered what the moisture trend has been going into the cooler months, but will the moisture continue in central and northern KELOLAND or will the recent dry ...

“Paper or plastic?” Your days are numbered. The question that millions of shoppers have heard for years when they roll up to the checkout aisle at grocery stores will soon be a thing of the past. On ...

Scot Pollard was hard to miss. The 6-foot-11 former Sacramento Kings center stepped out of a luxury bus in bright blue and red plaid pants. His black Kansas Jayhawks quarter-zip shirt, repping his ...