This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Satyam Tripathi, a 27-year-old seafarer from Uttar Pradesh, India, leans against the railing of the MT Pablo, the oil ...

In 2015, a viral image of a sea turtle with a plastic straw up its nose made the single-use plastic item environmental public enemy number one, ushering in the era of the polarizing paper straw. Now, some new research found ...

This article was originally published on Knowable Magazine. Jesus Campanero Jr. was a teenager when he noticed there was something in the water. He once found a rash all over his body after a swim in nearby Clear Lake, the ...

It’s relatively easy to collect water via harvesting fog—in fact, only a few square meters of meshing can collect upwards of several hundred liters of liquid per day. In many cities, however, these reservoirs of water are often contaminated by ...

This article is republished from The Conversation. People returning to what remains of the beachside town of Lahaina, Hawaii, and other Maui communities after one of the nation’s deadliest wildfire disasters face more dangers, beyond the 2,200 buildings destroyed or ...

Gary Flook served in the Air Force for 37 years, as a firefighter at the now-closed Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois and the former Grissom Air Force Base in Indiana, where he regularly trained with aqueous film forming foam, ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It might be time to throw your preconceptions about recycling in the garbage. A decades-long effort to educate people about recycling has mostly backfired, according to ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story is part of the Grist arts and culture series Remember When, a weeklong exploration of what happened to the climate solutions that once clogged ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. After years of criticism for its outsize use of plastic, the world’s largest retailer appears to be making progress to reduce its plastic footprint. Amazon announced ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here.  Incorporating plastic waste into asphalt pavement and other types of infrastructure ...