"Genius." Woman shares brilliant hack using old Parmesan cheese shakers: 'Did y'all know?' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Every year, we throw 300 million tons of plastic waste, which ends up in rivers and oceans, and then enters into our bodies. Plastic kills fish, birds and animals, both in water and on land. Human ...

As healthcare workers, we also have work to do with respect to our own plastic pollution. Anyone who's spent time in a hospital knows it's teaming with plastics -- aprons, IV tubes and bags, syringes, ...

Police say they have charged three men who bought white mice from area pet stores, then killed them by duct-taping them to ...

Microplastics are found in unexpected places within the human body, sparking new concerns about their potential effects on ...

If your recycling bin is overflowing with plastic milk jugs, free up some space by repurposing them in the yard as ...

When we think about morality, we usually focus on actions: is this act morally right or wrong? But increasingly, these kinds ...

It’s a perfectly sunny day at WVU, and you’re walking through campus with just enough time to make it to class. At this ...

COURTESY NOAA A close-up reveals the plastic jug tethered to a thick line. A young Hawaiian monk seal named Moana is dead after an apparent entanglement in fishing gear, according to the Hawaii ...

We’ve all heard the cliché about a glass being half full or half empty. At the Texas Capitol, though, Republicans and Democrats aren’t even looking at the same glass. One side swears it’s a soup can, ...

Police in Higashine City, Yamagata Prefecture, have arrested a 43-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting a woman in her 40s by grabbing her arm and pulling her down to the ground as she walked along ...

The ocean is not evenly risky for wildlife. Plastic can do outsized damage in places that do not look choked with trash at the surface. A new global assessment shows that danger spikes where plastic ...