We followed the trail of grease from the kitchens of Le Diplomate and other D.C. restaurants to the commercial planes using ...

Recently, researchers from Yale University may have made a dent in that inefficiency. They successfully tested a novel way to ...

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Now, a team of scientists in Japan may start turning the tide. They’ve hijacked the metabolism of a common bacterium, ...

It wasn’t intended to indicate plastics’ recyclability. But consumers misinterpreted it, and the industry encouraged them. This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic.

Readers respond to a guest essay about throwaway plastic. Also: President Trump the divider; stealth legislation.

Squirrels can be a real pest around garbage cans, and there's no one-stop solution. But combining these exclusion and ...

Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year. The vast majority of these materials end up in landfills, but what if we ...

When President Donald Trump took office, he promised to “unleash American energy” — and quickly left no doubt that he meant fossil fuel energy in particular. Help us unlock a $15,000 match by ...

According to Interesting Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation has granted a research and development group $7 ...

Although cooking poultry from scratch would be a better alternative to buying the ready-made chook, dietitian Tania Mathewson said a rotisserie chicken did have its benefits, being a great source of ...