The Harris County criminal courthouse was evacuated Tuesday after a fire broke out during an early Thanksgiving celebration on the 18th floor. Judges and the inmates of the cases they just heard ...

Tablecloths made of plastics, vinyl, or disposable materials are mostly wipe-clean only. Even hand washing can damage or tear ...

A baby without a father. A mother who carries her son in an urn. Two teens behind bars. Nearly two years after the shooting ...

Plastic littered across the world’s beaches can now be detected from space. Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia developed a new satellite imaging ...

Eco-friendly and biodegradable plastic using bacteria has been developed at the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños, according to the report of Martin Javier for Game Changer on "24 Oras" on ...

If you're in the plastic production business, you might just be praying for a Trump victory on Nov. 5. As countries prepare to jet off to Busan, South Korea, later this month to negotiate a binding ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Ten states on Friday called on the U.S. government to go beyond backing production caps in a global plastic treaty, and support a pact that rejects "false" solutions ...

On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When they're done, 14 squares of trash — each exactly 2 square metres ...

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

Microplastics have been steadily increasing in freshwater environments for decades and are directly tied to rising global plastic production since the 1950s, according to a new study by an ...

Sony has finally confirmed what it should have disclosed months ago: PS5 Pro console covers will be sold separately. Players have been scrambling to figure out whether PS5 Slim plates would fit ...