Tagged With Pollution

McDonald's is scrapping plastic straws in one of its biggest markets -- and the US could be next

Tom Murray

The best and worst countries in the world when it comes to air pollution and electricity use

Dave Mosher, Skye Gould

A whale died after swallowing 80 plastic bags in Thailand

Rosie Perper

An artist created these terrifying travel posters of national parks in the US after they've been destroyed

Rafi Letzter

This reusable straw collapses to fit on your keyring and 'will last a lifetime'

Charlie Floyd

The 14 most polluted cities in the world are all in one country

Mark Abadi

Earth just hit a terrifying milestone for the first time in more than 800,000 years -- and it could be bad news for cities

Leanna Garfield

Why you should never release your pet goldfish into the wild

David Anderson, Shira Polan

Scientists accidentally discovered a mutant enzyme that could help the world eliminate plastic waste

Alexandra Ma

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is bigger than we thought

Chris Pash

Vaping instead of smoking still exposes you to toxic metals like lead -- here's how worried you should be

Erin Brodwin

Scientists have found that shampoo is a source of the same dangerous form of air pollution made by cars

Lindsay Dodgson

Noise pollution is a bigger threat to your health than you may think, and Americans aren't taking it seriously

Nathaniel Lee, David Anderson, Jessica Orwig

These inventions will help save the earth

Alexandra Appolonia

An app that tries to make picking up trash fun just got a $225,000 cash injection from the US government

Rob Price

Here's how the traffic fumes in cities can wipe out the benefits of exercise

Lindsay Dodgson

These two Australian companies are working on a way to end the environmental scourge of plastic bags

Rachel Williamson, Stockhead

Neighbourhoods exposed to pollution and toxic chemicals could be breeding grounds for diabetes

Hilary Brueck

One of the EPA's newest science experts thinks 'modern air' is too clean to breathe

Hilary Brueck

Pollution is killing more people than wars, obesity, smoking, and malnutrition

Hilary Brueck